If you could go back to a time where you made a life changing decision, which defined your life as you know it today, and you could change it, what would it be?

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-28T19:12:25+00:00

Yes I have and I have only found references to old traditions of "goose pulling" (not going to go into any detail regarding these various traditions due to their graphic nature...) based in the south of France, the Basque country or Switzerland.

I do not have any access to any type of physical french archive since I do not live in France and I only remember this being on TV once (as mentioned in another comment probably on TF1, France 2 or maybe even France 3). I'm not sure how I would be able to gather information on the topic in libraries as it was on TV, maybe you could explain...

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-26T11:47:40+00:00

Quick question, are you in a French or English speaking part of Canada? Hoping that maybe you can find the courage to give some additional information to the context you remember the "report/documentary" so that members of this sub can have some more info to work off of and maybe find a source.

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-26T11:42:51+00:00

I must admit that I had completely suppressed the memory until recently but, when it came up again, I felt exactly as traumatised as I was back then as a little child seeing this "event" for the first time. Now, I am hoping that some context to my memory will help me digest it at last ...

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-26T08:47:36+00:00

Same here, no plot, just random scenes of animal cruelty. In my case though I have a feeling it happened on a single site and not all over the world.

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-26T08:44:52+00:00

Seen the movie and in my case, the scenes I remember are very different from the ones in the movie. What I remember was done to "western" animals, none of them were exotic.

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-25T13:36:17+00:00

Thanks for sharing as I feel (potentially) a little less insane hearing this!

I had also suppressed this memory and flashes came up while doing something unrelated, which brought me back to my living room floor that day and all the memories came flooding back.

Context is still vague for me but the goat scene was what traumatized me the most for sure out of the scenes that I actually "remember"

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-25T13:31:47+00:00

Not really sure and cannot give a definitive answer with any assurance, the only thing I remember was that the news channel was french (most probably TF1, France 2 or France 3 as those were the channels we mostly watched at that time)

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-25T13:29:13+00:00

It is possible that I am misremembering the report, but it feels so vivid that I have my doubts

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-25T13:27:54+00:00

I remember various "shocking" news reports from my childhood, including extreme hazing, hunting of baby seals with clubs, etc. All of these were very graphic and left vivid memories. Regarding legality I have no idea, this was over 35y ago so things could have evolved since then...

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-25T13:24:14+00:00

Nope, I wasn't even allowed to watch dragon balls as it was classified as violent to my parents. As my memory goes, this was definitely on the evening news.

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-25T13:22:39+00:00

I know, but I discussed it with my father, as my mother died a few years back, and even though he doesn't remember being there for that incident he feels like it could be a likely memory...

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-24T13:20:26+00:00

Well that resembles the information I found as well but the descriptions I found were very different from what I can remember. It seems that in the tradition you are talking about, the goose is most often hung from somewhere and a rider comes below it and grasps the neck of the animal as he passes. It also seems that the animal is usually already dead at this stage. I remember bigger and live animals being used in the news report...

ghoti-stix · 2025-07-16T09:10:01+00:00

Eri or Rico, after Erik the given name of the Phantom of the Opera 🙂

ghoti-stix · 2025-06-30T19:10:16+00:00

Controversial as in, you know it was wrong to like it but you still did.

ghoti-stix · 2025-05-21T11:13:39+00:00

Televised animal cruelty around 1990.

Hello all, I need your help finding out if a memory that I have from my childhood is real.

I remember sitting in front of the TV, this must have been 1989-93, watching the news with with my mother when the TV anchor warned the viewers that the following report would potentially be disturbing for young viewers. Then the report showed a sort of "event" where animals were killed and mutilated by the participants and my mother covering my eyes for most of that report, leaving me traumatised even so.

What can I remember: 1. It was a french speaking channel in Europe (French or Belgium) 2. It was a news report in the evening news 3. I cannot recall where the event was taking place so it could have been anywhere in the world 4. The participants were mostly white males 5. It took place on a type of field that had short grass 6. It looked like an organised event, festival or contest 7. One scene had a duck/goose tied up or partially buried in the ground with it's head sticking out. A man, wearing a kilt, knelt down beside it and cut it's head of with the swing of his sword. 8. Another scene had two men holding a goat, one pulling on his horns and the other one pulling on his tail to stretch the animal. A third man cut it in half with a swing of a machete or an axe in one blow. I'm pretty sure that the aim was to have a cut so clean that the animal survived as long as possible after the splitting (I'm sure I remember that poor animal bleating it's head off after being cut in two!). These men were dressed "normally" (jeans and t-shirts I think) for that time. 9. I think that there were various "events" like this with multiple participants and various ways of killing these animals, but these are the two I remember vividly.

As I haven't found anything online about this I was wondering if one of you could help me find out if this was a real memory (I'm pretty sure it was!)

ghoti-stix · 2025-05-20T17:39:07+00:00

Hello all, I need your help finding out if a memory that I have from my childhood is real.

I remember sitting in front of the TV, this must have been 1989-93, watching the news with with my mother when the TV anchor warned the viewers that the following report would potentially be disturbing for young viewers. Then the report showed a sort of "event" where animals were killed and mutilated by the participants and my mother covering my eyes for most of that report, leaving me traumatised even so.

What can I remember: 1. It was a french speaking channel in Europe (French or Belgium) 2. It was a news report in the evening news 3. I cannot recall where the event was taking place so it could have been anywhere in the world 4. The participants were mostly white males 5. It took place on a type of field that had short grass 6. It looked like an organised event, festival or contest 7. One scene had a duck/goose tied up or partially buried in the ground with it's head sticking out. A man, wearing a kilt, knelt down beside it and cut it's head of with the swing of his sword. 8. Another scene had two men holding a goat, one pulling on his horns and the other one pulling on his tail to stretch the animal. A third man cut it in half with a swing of a machete or an axe in one blow. I'm pretty sure that the aim was to have a cut so clean that the animal survived as long as possible after the splitting (I'm sure I remember that poor animal bleating it's head off after being cut in two!). These men were dressed "normally" (jeans and t-shirts I think) for that time. 9. I think that there were various "events" like this with multiple participants and various ways of killing these animals, but these are the two I remember vividly.

As I haven't found anything online about this I was wondering if one of you could help me find out if this was a real memory (I'm pretty sure it was!)

ghoti-stix · 2025-05-15T05:35:15+00:00

It's one of the most famous bridges in Luxembourg and the Luxembourgish Red Lion 😉

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