Mass. students protest Call of Duty: World at War dog violence

by Randy Nelson { Mar 20th 2009 at 4:40PM }

Breanna Lucci, a student at Massachusetts' Academy of Notre Dame high school, has a bone to pick with Activision. (Which, we imagine, she'll later give to her two Pomeranians, "Fluffy" and "Winnie The Pooh.") Lucci, the president of her school's Animal Rights Club, is upset by the need to shoot Nazi attack dogs in Call of Duty: World at War. So, she's started a petition.

"Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment," Lucci told the local Lowell Sun. She was first introduced to the game's canine genocide while watching her college aged brother playing. "My little 12-pound Pomeranian, Winnie the Pooh, is sitting next to him, and I'm thinking, 'This looks horrible!'" Although she's sure her brother "won't be killing dogs after playing," she believes "some people might."

Lucci plans to forward her petition, which has been signed by more than 100 of her fellow students, to Activision. Contrary to some petitions aimed at game publishers, hers is simply a show of disgust, and does not call for any executives to be fired, boiled alive or hung by their feet until dead. You go, girl.

[Via GamePolitics]

Tags: activision, animal-rights, call-of-duty, call-of-duty-world-at-war, dogs, petition

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

Otis Whitaker @ Mar 20th 2009 4:43PM

"My little 12-pound Pomeranian"

Uhg.

Of course it's one of those kind of people.

Dirty @ Mar 20th 2009 5:04PM

Whatever fool, Ive got a pomeranian and she is a 5 pound vicious beast. She loves when I slaughter other dogs for her enjoyment. Dont bundle me together with that bitch, who must be damn hot to get all those fools to signed her petition. She puts the tit is petition.

BananaBoat @ Mar 20th 2009 5:11PM

I have a 5 pound miniature wiener dog, and I still know the damn difference between a dog and a MILITARY ATTACK DOG.

Uggggg.

At least world at war doesn't feature the Hitler Youth as enemies. I wonder how that would have went over.

Neuromancer @ Mar 20th 2009 5:16PM

Dirty, she's not all that hot.

http://www.lowellsun.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=2359014

In fact she kind of has these creepy, dead eyes.

Markez @ Mar 20th 2009 5:17PM

GAH!

Dirty @ Mar 20th 2009 5:19PM

She's a Nazi Zombie!

offday @ Mar 20th 2009 5:33PM

Yeah. This whole thing shows how immature she really is. I wonder how her petition to save the unicorns is going? And of course, she makes it clear that this won't make her brother violent towards animals, but it might make others. Not that I agree with any of this crap, but she's still a hypocrite.

Rhamsey @ Mar 20th 2009 5:35PM

@dirty
+1

aristokrat @ Mar 20th 2009 5:38PM

Wide set eyes = fetal cocaine/alcohol syndrome

If only her parents had laid off the partying...

Levi (God Hand Defense Force) @ Mar 20th 2009 6:01PM

@ Bannana Boat: I'm waiting for a WWII game where they have joy divisions in it, and I'm not talking about the band.

As for zombie Fightin' Irish girl, I'd hit it. I have low standards (At least she's not fat).

Judd @ Mar 20th 2009 6:01PM

I think outside of her eyes she's pretty hot. I imagine that if she wasn't wearing too much eye makeup it wouldn't look too bad. If a girl like that tried to get petitions, I bet she could easily get a bunch of nerdy guys to sign it without even looking at what they're doing.

On the actual subject though, this is what pisses me off about these vegetarians and animal rights people. A lot, not all, but a lot of them only care about the animals. This girl probably cares more about fake dogs dying in a game then real people getting killed in Africa.

aristokrat @ Mar 20th 2009 6:09PM

Reminds me an episode of Bullshit where they interview a psychologist who talks about how so many people have nothing to complain about or rally against, so they take up with these pseudo-activist groups, yet they really know nothing about what they are protesting against. They really just want a group of people with whom to play hacky sack or form drum circles.

UserDoesNotExist @ Mar 20th 2009 8:20PM

The funny thing is that Pomeranians are violent little things. Don't know what it is about the breed (probably poor breeding) but they tend to be snippy as hell.

You know this dumb bitch is the type of person that dresses her dog up in little costumes and takes him everywhere in a purse with her.

I hate people like this. I hate people like this so effing much, even more so than the anti-video game crowd. Dogs are animals. Dogs do act a lot like people (reason why we domesticated wolves, we and they can read each other's body languages incredibly well.) Dogs and humans are more similar than they are different, but there are still major differences. They are not little people. That little puppy in the picture up there is a wolf pup. Sure, he has had extensive behavior modification done through millenia of breeding, but he is still fundamentally a wolf.

She's probably a vegetarian too. God, I hope she doesn't have her dog follow a vegetarian diet. People like that who basically torture their dog just because they have some notion about cosmic balance are even worst than the dog-as-accessory people. Yes, I know that dogs can follow vegetarian diets, unlike cats. It's still not very good for them, and it will take years off their life just because your crazy moon/sun/fertility/feminine-ideal god demands that you violate basic nutrition.

hunter @ Mar 20th 2009 10:20PM

what UserDoesNotExist said is true, I have two Pomeranians and they are very funny and playfull. But when they get mad watch out, they bite very hard and run like a bullet so you can´t get them, it´s like yoda on drugs.
But it has to do with the fact that they where originally big dogs, and one day somebody (probably a paris hilton with lot of time to do) decided to make the breed small, so after a lot of breeding Pomeranians where born, but they kept the big dog instinct, anyway who wouldn´t be mad when you used to be a though dog but some stupid humans decided to transform you into a living purse???
To be honest i don´t like to shot dogs in games, guess is like riggs said in lethal weapon 3: We can't shoot a dog. People? Okay, but not dogs.

Reggie @ Mar 24th 2009 7:13PM

Stupid tree-hugging hippy, she doesn't think that shooting dogs should be entertainment? You're not just shooting dogs you idiot, get the peanut butter off your twat and actually play the game before the diahrrea flies out of your mouth.

SimbaDogg @ Mar 23rd 2009 10:08PM

gah'd tell this girl to STFU...
seriously, shooting a couple attack dogs in the game is horrible...but yeah, murdering hundreds upon hundreds of people is A-okay. i wish this girl went to my university, i'd send her an email asking to meet up w/ me, then tell her to shuttup her face.

LeadBoxx @ Mar 20th 2009 4:44PM

Running around and killing humans is fine but when you start killing dogs that are sent to kill humans then....well....

Geez doesn't this bitch have better and more important things to do.

c0bra95 @ Mar 20th 2009 5:02PM

Thank you. Saved me some typing time.

And it's called a GAME, as in NOT really happening. These idiots so need to get over themselves.

Anticrawl @ Mar 20th 2009 5:12PM

I guess the point they were trying to make is that it's wrong to kill dogs in this game because... well... because... it's just SO DAMN FUN. Personally I enjoyed the dog killing in COD4 more - what with the neck snapping and achievement logo.

Massmass @ Mar 20th 2009 5:34PM

Let's not forget that in the command and conquer series you can breed dogs, bears, ever so cute dolphins, etc. to kill and be killed, and they make adorable noises when killed.

But, oh yeah, that series is less popular so instead of doing research and being objective, she's just out to make a public fart.

Jose @ Mar 20th 2009 6:25PM

Agreed, except for the whole bitch part. Does it really help your argument?

Anyway, yeah, people are animals too, don't they count, even if they ARE Nazis.

Fact: Nazis, Russians, Americans, British, and the whole rest of the world got shot at in WWII. Dogs were shot too. It happened.

joshua @ Mar 20th 2009 6:40PM

Is WWII you dumb bitch!!! its war. is kill or be killed. If im at war and I see dogs coming at me to bite me or even kill me you expect me not to do anything? fuck that!! is not like everyone is enjoying killing the dogs in CoD WaW is just they are in the way to kill you.. lol.

CzAr @ Mar 20th 2009 8:20PM

I'd kill a dog.

If it was going to kill me.

With my bare hands.

Guns kill more people than video games. :'(

cloud858rk @ Mar 20th 2009 11:17PM

@LeadBoxx
That's exactly what I thought when I read the article.

"Sure killing humans is fine, but killing dogs, oh no that's so much worse!"

kal326 @ Mar 23rd 2009 1:27PM

"Killing dogs as a form of entertainment ... over and over again. That's one of the objects of the game. Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment..."

How about telling parents what the fu$%ing M on the front of the box is about instead. Regardless of what the game is about if its got a M on the front of it should probably shouldn't be buying it for your kids. Maybe that way I can get through a round of Halo3 with out some prepubescent kid screaming in my ear over and over about complete f'n gibberish

Crusty Magic @ Mar 20th 2009 4:44PM

But its okay to shoot people in the game though right?

WhiteShield @ Mar 20th 2009 4:46PM

ahh you beat me to the punch. it is interesting that they are protesting the DOG killing rather than the human killing

CantFlame (PSN MariusElijah) @ Mar 20th 2009 5:08PM

Of course its okay to shoot people, Humans start wars not dogs

Hyams @ Mar 20th 2009 5:32PM

Well, I don't know nothin' about no dogs, but I do believe that human and *fish* can coexist peacefully.

EGOvoruhk @ Mar 20th 2009 6:53PM

It's okay to shoot them, they're Nazis. The dogs didn't chose to be Nazis!

Shagittarius @ Mar 20th 2009 7:19PM

I understand where shes coming from. Humans make their own choices that could lead into being killed or executed, sometimes beacuse of personal choices sometimes just because of unlucky choices.

However, humans have made a contract with dogs, dogs trust us and only act on our desires. The killing of an innocent animal is a much bigger deal than the killing of a human who made their choice and knew what they were getting into. I fully support her in her endevors.

Now if I had stopped their I might have gotten laid, but lets not forget that these are not real animals, infact they are just bits of code and art, then we realize that shes a looney. I don't care what you do in a game.

Nothing is real. Everything is permitted.

Quattro @ Mar 21st 2009 7:12PM

I'm pretty sure Germans were drafted into the military during World War II, how is it any more right to kill them than dogs Shag? Not too mention that if a dog is attacking you for the kill, you aren't going to be thinking of animal rights, you're just going to kill the damned thing.

jav @ Mar 20th 2009 4:44PM

Mass students can just go F%$@ themselves.

so tell me....they are ok with soldiers blowing their legs off but god forbid the dogs get shot! hey at least Activision didnt depict any dogs getting blown to bits when they walk over a bouncing betty...

cut it out Mass students!

Erik Stroud @ Mar 20th 2009 4:54PM

They should come to Kinston, NC and see how the rednecks here treat dogs. They shoot their dogs if they don't hunt. Hell, some of the rednecks here shoot any animal for fun.

jav @ Mar 20th 2009 5:00PM

you know what i wouldnt behave in that manner.ever..

but if her Pomeranian went ape shit on me like that crazy monkey that ripped that lady's face off.... i'll drop the motherF@#$er

Kattleox @ Mar 20th 2009 5:16PM

I'll bet anything that she's just trying to get a scholarship or a grant. "What is your community involvement?" "I saved millions of helpless nazi attack dogs from an impending doom."

But just for her, I'm going to go play Metal Gear Solid 3, and STAB THOSE PESKY RUSSIAN ATTACK DOGS TO DEATH WITH A RUSTY FORK.

WhiteShield @ Mar 20th 2009 4:45PM

lets ignore that they did it in 4 simply because you didn't do it in multiplayer. killing the animals ISNT part of the entertainment it seems to me. its part of holy shit these things want to rip out my neck, i'm gonna kill you before you kill me. why not protest that you are mindlessly killing tons of soldiers? don't they have lives, doesn't that send a negative image?