r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/misterxx1958 • 9h ago
Video This guy helps this turtle out of a dangerous situation to go back to the sea.
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u/Mike9797 9h ago
Not much grace to that rescue but he helped nonetheless.
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 9h ago
Actually, a few days later the turtle came to the man's front door with a check for $100,000, gave it to the man as a token of his gratitude, then requested to be dragged back into the ocean again.
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u/Evening-Platypus-958 8h ago
The rescuer then attended a job interview a few weeks later and the turtle was the head of recruitment and he shared the story on LinkedIn.
Valuable lesson to be learnt by all.
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 7h ago
The turtle wasn't actually beached, he just got too drunk at the board members annual retreat one night and woke up there.
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u/mystictroll 1h ago
Please stop with this kind of inspirational stories. I'll end up becoming a CEO at this rate.
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u/MyPigWhistles 9h ago
The turtles name: Albert Einstein. Everyone clapped.
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u/greenqueenthree 1h ago
And who do you think that turtle was? Emilio Estevez, Mighty Ducks man. I was like "Emilioooooo"
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u/CarbonReflections 9h ago
True story I was there.
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u/ChocolateThunderPie 2h ago
And i was the turtle. Now quickly, someone dragged me back to the ocean.
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u/BNZaya 5h ago
Actually it was a 100k lawsuit for being flipped on his back, leg hyper extended, and dragged into the ocean again. I saw the same thing on the Incredibles.
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u/ToTheTop24 3h ago
The most likely scenario. People would definitely sue afterwards when the ambulance chasers tell them they have a case against their rescuer.
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u/scarybirdman 8h ago edited 5h ago
The turtles were actually stuck upside down. They weren't clapping 😔
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u/KeenObserver_OT 8h ago
He was working for Publishers Clearing House and it was just a coincidence the guy won.
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u/talltime 9h ago
Just some wild fucking decisions made there… yeah let’s faceplant her poor ass… yeah I’ll drag her by a flipper…
Just pull the damn root away
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u/TonyzTone 7h ago
I’m going to assume the root was lodged in a very difficult way under lots of tension that they couldn’t just pull it out of the shell/neck area.
And these turtles weigh a lot. Looks like a Green Sea Turtle, and those suckers are 240-400 lbs. not easy to move around that much weight.
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u/timidwildone 25m ago
Yep I was wondering why he didn’t just flip her instead of dragging by the flipper, but remembered how damned heavy they are and thought of my own bad back…
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u/bulldogsm 8h ago
I dont think this guy has ever seen a turtle before
he doesnt understand top or bottom
he acts like its gonna rip his leg off
he tries to hack at something he ends up pulling around
but yeah well done AI NPC
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u/NameLips 9h ago
Do you think the turtle understood it was being rescued, or maybe it thinks humans are just really shitty predators?
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u/wd26 9h ago
It’s probably better anyways if the turtle has a healthy fear of humans.
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u/NewSomethingUnlocked 7h ago
I'm a human and I approve this
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u/UmbranAssassin 6h ago
Sounds like something an alien would say. I'm gonna need to see some proof.
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u/NewSomethingUnlocked 5h ago
I can send you my diploma in Xenolinguistics but I have to wait for approval from
the Great Queen of the Colonymy wife.4
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u/ChiknDiner 1m ago
This. No matter how much I love animals or want to pet them, I always wish they have an active fear of humans and should always try to stay the fuck away from us humans. Because only 1 out of 1000 will be a good person who does care about them. Rest 999 will either don't give a fuck or would harm it and leave it.
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u/porn_sub_lurker 6h ago
I know there are videos of turtles flipping other turtles back over, which suggests to me that they have some understanding of what helping is, since they do it. Unless maybe it's just hardwired into their turtle brain to flip over things which look like upside down turtles. And there are also videos of turtles ramming their heads into sneakers with black tape at the bottom for seemingly no reason. Maybe that's what they're doing? Who knows? I think that we shouldn't dismiss any of those possibilities unless we can definitively disprove them though. At some point in the evolution of animal brains they developed that ability.
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u/Randyaccredit 52m ago
I believe all animals have an understanding, that those things yes hurt is from time to time but when we have no one to turn to some of them will help us.
I'm not sure if it was a tiger or what kind of animal that was in the ocean and it knew to just let humans rescue it because it was screwed. Might have been fake and a couple months ago by now.
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u/RobZagnut2 9h ago
With all these turtle rescue videos I’m surprised there’s any turtles left.
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u/Justout133 9h ago
Turtles are a rare example of a species that, due to human intervention (... In the human intervention) has made leaps and bounds from being endangered. Green sea turtles recently were moved to 'species of least concern'
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u/psychonaut_gospel 9h ago
The fact we have so many to rescue is a good thing, and a sign they are doing better.
Side note: we catch turtles all the time fishing. Its frustrating and never happened 20 years ago. While the task itself is time consuming and we lose tackle sometimes. Its nice to see so many turtles. And it also makes catching big fish harder, becasue we use barbless hooks so they dont get stuck in "by-catch" like turtles and tourists.
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u/Initial_Row_6400 6h ago
They’re my favorite animal to come across on a dive. So cool. During my AOW class, found one at 120 feet in ambergris caye Belize. Instructor went over by him and we followed, was about 4-5 feet away from him. Big guy just chilling with his head up in the water.
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u/Powerful-Substance33 9h ago
Why did you yank him by the arm 😳
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 9h ago
I think the turtle thought the guy was messing with him at first. Probably thought to himself, "Ah, you're just pullin' my leg".
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u/Justout133 9h ago
That and why hack the tree root apart instead of sawing it
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u/notSherrif_realLife 9h ago
Saw it with what?
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u/Justout133 9h ago
The same cutting implement? Unless that's a straight machete or something, chopping at it like that carried the risk of hitting the turtle's leg
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u/qwibbian 9h ago
It almost certainly is. Chopping things don't saw and vice versa.
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u/Justout133 9h ago
Clear view of it at 0:22, looks like a big ass kitchen knife to me so it's probably not suited for either
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u/Exp5000 9h ago
Need a knife that cuts anything? A CutCo knife will do just that! Watch this bread knife cut through rope! We had so many CutCo salesmen coming to our home back then. Kinda crazy to think about now.
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u/TonyzTone 7h ago
If you ever want to cut pennies for some reason, just call up a CutCo salesperson and ask them about their scissors.
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u/CrackaZach05 3h ago
Thats not true lol it may not be as efficient but you can hack plenty with a saw blade
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u/RectalSpawn 8h ago
Chopping things don't saw
You have never used a sharp object in your life, apparently...
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u/qwibbian 8h ago
You have never used a sharp object in your life, apparently...
and you've apparently never been one.
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u/cans-of-swine 6h ago
He had a knife, not a saw.
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u/forlornhope22 4h ago
would still have been more effective than pretending it was an ax.
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u/cans-of-swine 4h ago
Go saw on a piece of wood with a knife and see how effective it is.
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u/forlornhope22 4h ago
more effective than whacking at it.
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u/cans-of-swine 4h ago
Go try it, your answer will change.
Do you see people sawing or whacking with a machete?
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u/lucid808 3h ago
A machete has a lot more weight and better leverage for hitting branches than that chef's knife that guy was using.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad37 8h ago
Sea turtles can weigh hundreds or thousands of pounds. How else do you propose he attempt to move something that heavy?
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u/Powerful-Substance33 8h ago
The shell
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad37 8h ago edited 8h ago
So lean down low, get real close, put both hands on either side of the (slippery) shell, and then pull a giant struggling creature whose giant limbs are flailing everywhere?
It takes considerably less strength to pull from near the end of one flipper versus trying to drag the shell backwards gripping from both sides up close.
His method doesn't look the most elegant but it also doesn't seem like it hurt the turtle.
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u/TripleFreeErr 1h ago
the shell of a turtle is their spine and way more sensitive that people realize
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u/im2high4thisritenow 4h ago
This guy is my new hero. May he never get stuck behind a slow driver and then always hit green lights.
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u/Shaboingboing17 9h ago
Damn, can't a dude just save a turtle without the comments complaining?
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u/Competitive_Classic9 9h ago
Its always the people that do the least that complain the most. Such miserable, bitter beings. They just wallow in it.
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u/Head-Ad9893 6h ago
Deadass. Complaining about this dude saving a turtle and knowing they struggle to wrap their fat fingers around a fork to feed themself 🤣
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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 9h ago edited 9h ago
Is this not a comment section, where people can comment on the guy? He’s a nice guy but his decision making ability is a little lacking.
I’m sorry but he flipped the fuckin turtle upside down then yanked & dragged it by a flipper. And none of it was necessary.
It’s great he helped it back to the water but every decision he made in doing it is more than questionable.
Why did he flip it? There was no reason for that.
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u/Primary-Ask-1710 3h ago edited 3h ago
Because it was stuck, bud. And it weighs hundreds of pounds.
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u/MagicWishMonkey 14m ago
A lot of people on reddit wake up each morning looking for things to be mad about. Just ignore them, they are miserable people living miserable lives and don't let their bullshit drag you down.
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u/petit_cochon 1h ago
I mean he saved it but a lot of the things he did looked very painful or dangerous for the turtle lol.
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u/DatAssPaPow 8h ago
I don’t know what he’s cutting but it seems like a sawing motion may have helped?
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u/cans-of-swine 6h ago
A sawing motion only works on wood if the blade is serrated. With a straight blade chopping is the only way to get through it.
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u/TripleFreeErr 1h ago
or he could have just bent the root from its other end that was clearly handing in the air… the way he did once he gave up trying to cut it
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u/DoggoneitHavok 6h ago
now the kid took this all in, and will do the same again someday when he is grown. Good job, dad.
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u/Competitive_Classic9 9h ago
Thank god (or whomever/whatever you want) for this man. What a horrible way to die that wouldve been, and hearing it wheeze for air was heartbreaking. May this man and his family only ever know peace, safety and abundance for whatever they need.
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u/BluebirdFlashy3681 9h ago
Landed on the head...got flipped on back...pulled by ingured fin... that turtle we be back for revenge 💀
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u/PreperationOuch 9h ago
Surely he could have approached this differently
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u/yeahdude_88 9h ago
There’s a video before this explaining the back story - the turtle and the guy have a bit of a love/hate relationship. The turtle is the main instigator and is quite mean with some of the heckling he does, (“hey no shell - how does it feel to have such a soft back you fucking two leg walker” - that kinda thing) so this is the guy kinda getting his own back in a way.
I mean otherwise it’s a guy almost drowning a turtle before flipping it over onto its fucking shell and then dragging it by its arms - which I’m sure we can all agree would be wack.
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u/Will_Knot_Respond 2h ago
Hack at a vine with a chefs knife, flip the turtle on it's head, then flip it on it's back, then drag it by one flipper into the water while upside down. Rescue effort and execution score: 0.5/10. But hey it got done at least
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u/Kazureigh_Black 9h ago
Sure did spend a lot of time thwacking that bit just to pull it free from the other side.
Good on him for helping, though.
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u/Accidental_Ballyhoo 7h ago
…in the worst possible way.
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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 4h ago
I guess I wasn't the only one shouting "It's gonna drown! It's gonna drown!" as its face slowly lowered into the water before he flipped it and its head totally upside-down submerged then? ...maybe?
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u/Primary-Ask-1710 3h ago
They can hold their breath for hours
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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 1h ago
Even when panicking or upside down?
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u/Primary-Ask-1710 1h ago
They can hold their breath upside down yep
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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 1h ago
Solid.
Ideally also when panicking.
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u/Primary-Ask-1710 1h ago
For sure. Oxygen reserves dont deplete from hours to seconds due to adrenaline. In general animals are quite resilient, turtles have been around for 200 million years - theyre amazing. This is just a video of a brave guy saving an animal in a way that worked out pretty well all considered (hundreds of pounds entangled in an incredibly hard tree structure)
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u/MightObvious 11m ago
We as non aquatic mammals can hold our breath for seconds to minutes underwater while panicking so to me its sort of obvious a turtle would be able to handle it.
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u/InfernalPrick 6h ago
I’ve been using absorbent pasty straws when it turns out I should have been chopping down trees this whole time.
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u/booperdooper56 18m ago
I need someone to reverse the footage. Dendrokinetic wizard uses magic knife to imprison turtle for eternity
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u/Ctowncreek 0m ago
Looks like AI.
Inconsistencies.
No i will not explain further and help the AI improve.
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u/mog44net 7h ago
Man, hope this guy isn't responsible for my rescue anytime soon. Good on him for helping but think it through a little more next time
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u/Kneppl_1 7h ago
somtimes i wonder if these things are staged, why is that turtle hanging in the wall like that, and why is someon filming instead of helping
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u/Ok-Cancel-3114 9h ago
I mean, cutting the root further out would have worked also...but good job mister.
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u/Justout133 9h ago
Valid concern but in this instance how do you think they captured and ensnared a massive sea turtle like this...
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u/Dim-Me-As-New-User 9h ago
I always wonder whether the people who are very "don't interfere with nature!" (When there's videos of people e.g. feeding bears or whatever) feel the same way about things like this. Any of you on here, care to comment?
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u/qwibbian 9h ago
Feeding bears makes them lose their fear of humans and associate us with food, which leads to dead bears and dead humans. Freed turtles are unlikely to eat people.
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u/demonmonkeybex 9h ago edited 8h ago
Feeding bears is what kills them. Since we don't want them to be killed, we get angry when we see people feeding the bears. I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand. We love the bears and want them to live and thrive. Feeding them habituates them to people. So they keep seeking people; they end up breaking into people's garages and homes for food instead of finding it in the wild. Game and Fish then come to relocate and tag the bears. They do that ONCE. If they catch a tagged bear doing it again, they shoot it a the head. It's absolutely horrible. So that's why we get so fucking angry at people who feed bears.
Where I live, we sometimes see elk with antlers tangled in hammocks and holiday lights. We call Game and Fish to help. They will dart them and remove those items. We try to help out wildlife as much as possible. A group in town volunteers to keep tourists away from the elk cows when they're giving birth because tourists try to take photos and get too close. It's dangerous for the tourists, who can get stomped, and it interrupts birthing. Our elk herds are special because they don't migrate in winter. We are at a perfect elevation, so they stick around all year. If an elk gets hit by a car, people get very angry, and we report and shame speeders. We are a very wildlife-centric community.
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u/Rebelraid2020 8h ago
What state is this? That's interesting, your whole communities mind state
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u/demonmonkeybex 3h ago
Colorado. We try to preserve as much wildlife as possible here. There are those who enjoy observing wildlife and those who couldn't care less, I suppose. Most of the ones who don't care move into wildlife areas "for the views," then bitch about the wildlife making their lives difficult. That pisses off the locals. Then there are the hunters. Most hunters respect the land and conservation. Most. I suppose there are poachers in every bunch. However, the community/area where I live is known for its wildlife and beauty. People come here to experience it.
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u/watawataoui 8h ago
I think they meant more for situations where a lost baby gorilla is being attacked by an adult chimpanzee (or a croc), or a group of penguin lost their way in the Arctics. Feed the bear is a bad example.
In the sea turtle case, if sea turtle dies here, other animals get to eat it.
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u/exipheas 9h ago
I mean, compared to the example of feeding a bear...I have never heard of a turtle attack on people. Its not exactly a comparable situation.
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u/LadyGrey_oftheAbyss 8h ago
You don't feed wildlife because it teaches them that humans are a food souce and leads to higher chances of negative human interactions- it can also be damaging to the animal by food poisoning/ incapable food
also handling without knowing how can endanger the person and the animal
Here this is an endangered turtle who's death would actively negatively effect the population - and while he is risking getting hurt - the turtle will did there if nothing is done
aka always as exception to a generally rule
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u/DeadbeatGremlin 8h ago
If the animal is facing a slow, painful death that you can easily prevent - or if they are hurt by a human made item, I am always pro interfering
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u/LeftSky828 4h ago
If I ever get stuck somewhere, I want this guy to skip me.
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u/Difficult_Bad1064 1h ago
Ha! Me too!
He half drowned it, then incapacitated it by flipping it upside down, then dragged it by one flipper.
I'm sure he meant well, but it didn't exactly go well.
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u/Vivid-Childhood805 8h ago
Im ngl this genuinely looks like a super shitty attempt at hunting the turtle
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u/Curious_Option_5177 1h ago
Never seen a turtle move so fast. You can tell it was running for it’s life.
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u/rumneeded 9h ago
I live in Florida. They get stuck everywhere. They are like a drunk cat stuck in yarn sometimes. But they stop and say thank you before they swim off.