Heli-Cat

[roo_ster]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html?ICO=most_read_module

Many animal lovers find it hard to part with their pets when they die.

So when cat Orville, named after the famous aviator Orville Wright, was run over by a car, his artist owner decided to turn him into a permanent piece of artwork as the ultimate tribute by transforming him into a flying helicopter.

Rowr!

[Perd Hapley]

OK, surr-iously. I thought 101 Uses For a Dead Cat was an amusing book.

But this is just sick.

If it's real.

[AJ Dual]

Looking at this, did anyone else hear Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" in their head. 

[TommyGunn]

 

[Sindawe]

OK, surr-iously. I thought 101 Uses For a Dead Cat was an amusing book.

But this is just sick.

If it's real.

Yes, it is real.  Not something I'd do with a pet that joined the host invisible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNdcdNm9fY

For this next art piece I suggest that the guy make another like work from the [censored] that posted video of himself drowning kittens or feeding them to his pet snake.  The subject is even handy, having just been arrested in Berlin.

http://www.examiner.com/article/luka-magnotta-the-canadian-killer-has-been-arrested-berlin

[just Warren]

Why this is purrrfect for the Helivets!

[Fly320s]

Is this what Prince really meant in his song, "Pussy Contol?"

[seeker_two]

I have dogs who would just LOVE this....when will it be available on Amazon?.... 

[Hutch]

 I just KNEW they had to be good for something...

[BlueStarLizzard]

I told my dad, we should record Pharoh's meow and when he dies, have his head mounted and use anamatronics to make it like the big mouth billy bass, so he meows when you walk by.

Dad said no. 

Oddly enough, I really would do it. It would suit pharoh to torment us forever.

Point is, while I'm not so sure I would do helicat, people react to death in very diffrent ways and sometimes stuff that is bizarre can be a fitting tribute to someone (or some cat) lost.

[LadySmith]

Wait...wut? 

This is wrong, just pain wrong! 

Why couldn't they just put the cat in the fridge like normal people? 

Just kidding about the fridge part.

I prefer plain ol' cremation and burial for my pets.

I'd rather honor them than make toys out of them. 

[MechAg94]

This got me remember a shareware game I got back in the 90's which was a skeet shooting game with cats being launched with decent sound effects.  Kind of sick maybe but funny as hell. 

[Ned Hamford]

I think that is how a certain cat I know would like to be honored.  By terrorizing the neighborhood children from the skies!

[Perd Hapley]

People react to death in very diffrent ways...

Is River laying on the coffin again?

[lee n. field]

Why couldn't they just put the cat in the fridge like normal people?  

Don't laugh.  The wife did just that 4 or 5 years ago, with a cat that died mid winter.  Put him in a bag and put him in the freezer in the garage, until I could bury him.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Don't laugh.  The wife did just that 4 or 5 years ago, with a cat that did mid winter.  Put him in a bag and put him in the freezer in the garage, until I could bury him.

I'm so used to putting dead animals in the freezer, it doesn't even phase me. I try to warn dad when a rat end ups in our freezer. My bosses had one deep freezer full of dogs at one point. Dring there move, they had run out of burial space at the old place and had a couple dogs too big for the animal creamation oven at the SPCA. So, put 'em in the freezer till they could be buried.

[AJ Dual]

My Great-grandmother had siblings who hung all winter in the meat shed up near Sault St. Marie, in the UP of Michigan, until spring when the ground thawed and they could bury them.

Kind of amazing, just three generations from hanging your dead kids in the shed in winter, to (modest) space travel, and the Internet, RC helicopter cats etc...

[Regolith]

My grandpa did taxidermy as a hobby. After he died, we had to get rid of an entire deep freezer of various critters that he was going to try and mount.

All I can say is it was a good thing his tractor had a front loader on it. In a few hundred years some poor, confused archeologist is going to be digging on the farm some day and wonder why there's a mass animal grave.

[seeker_two]

I'm so used to putting dead animals in the freezer, it doesn't even phase me. I try to warn dad when a rat end ups in our freezer. My bosses had one deep freezer full of dogs at one point. Dring there move, they had run out of burial space at the old place and had a couple dogs too big for the animal creamation oven at the SPCA. So, put 'em in the freezer till they could be buried.

Remind me never to have dinner at your place....

[AJ Dual]

I just realized, he went from hello Kitty to helo-kitty...

[230RN]

^
Win.


I was too embarrassed to mention that I've had to freezer pets for while before I could bury them, but then I realized from this thread that it's not that uncommon.  One does what one's gotta do.

But "chopperizing" one?  I dunno... Based on the rest of the guy's art (shown in the background of several pics), I did not watch the video.

Art for the sake of outrageousness. He's got his fifteen minutes of fame, but I hope it's only 15 minutes and that's that.

Terry, 230RN

[RoadKingLarry]

I can think of a few people that would be right for that sort of thing.

[HankB]

That's the best use for a cat I've seen yet. 

The mouth should have been open in a snarl, and he should have had the taxidermist put LEDs behind the eyes . . . and maybe a small speaker for sound effects?

[RevDisk]

That's the best use for a cat I've seen yet.  

The mouth should have been open in a snarl, and he should have had the taxidermist put LEDs behind the eyes . . . and maybe a small speaker for sound effects?

I was on the fence on this being kinda cool or kinda pretty sick. Hank has the right idea. Add a snarl, LEDs, etc and have it chase birds into THEIR domain? Possibly Flight of Valkyries? Cat would likely have approved.

"I am reanimated Fluffy! For years, you escaped my wraith by cowardly fleeing from battle into the sky. But now, I swear by my pretty rotors, I will end you."

[AmbulanceDriver]

Between this:

I just realized, he went from hello Kitty to helo-kitty...

And this:

I was on the fence on this being kinda cool or kinda pretty sick. Hank has the right idea. Add a snarl, LEDs, etc and have it chase birds into THEIR domain? Possibly Flight of Valkyries? Cat would likely have approved.

"I am reanimated Fluffy! For years, you escaped my wraith by cowardly fleeing from battle into the sky. But now, I swear by my pretty rotors, I will end you."

My coworkers now think I've completely lost my marbles because I'm laughing too hard. 

And you both owe my boss a new keyboard....