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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

News Michael Vick got a 'C-' in empathy

Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM

TMZ has the goods: an essay test called "Developing Empathy" that the former Falcons QB took for PETA shortly after pleading guilty to the 2007 federal dog fighting charges that landed him in Leavenworth. He didn't do very well, scoring just 73.5 out of 100.

Why would Vick have taken such a test? Because he wanted to be allowed to cut a public-service TV ad for the organization, presumably to help rehabilitate his image while he was in stir. Apparently, the nice folks at PETA agreed, on the condition that the test results show he had sufficient empathy to convince them he wasn't simply doing the ad as a crass PR move. As you must have guessed, they were unconvinced.

Still, as TMZ points out, Vick's answers did provide the rest of us with some amusement:

Vick explains "The Golden Rule" as doing "on to others as u want them to do on to u .... (as long the feeling is mutual)."

"People who abuse animals dont [sic] have a heart and find it amusing to see animals suffer."

"Chickens have an uncanny ability to think and are very agile. They are very athletic to me."

"My aunt Tina own a Rotti name Tico. Once my aunt and her boyfriend Wayne was having an intense fight ... [Tico] jump through a glass window & pinned my aunt boyfriend Wayne to the ground just growling ... Now that's loyalty."

You can download a PDF of Vick's hand-written answers here.

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News Michael Vick got a 'C-' in empathy

Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM

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