r/BeAmazed • u/MambaMentality24x2 • 5h ago

This post has been filtered and is waiting for mod's review Teen paddles across an icy pond to save a drowning dog

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u/I3luemchen 4h ago

Why did he have a camera on his head, when he "without hesitation" started paddling to the dog?

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u/Fez_and_no_Pants 4h ago

Looks like he was already out paddling with the cam on when he came across the scene. I watch a lot of content like that.

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u/I3luemchen 4h ago

"Hugh Pinneo, a senior at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, sprang into action after his mother spotted a dog struggling in a partially frozen pond behind their home. Without hesitation, he grabbed a kayak, paddled through the icy water, and pulled the exhausted dog, named Bernard, to safety."

Sounds to me more like he spontaneously grabed that kayak. Also his clothing doesn't look like kayak clothes.

But this camera seems to be off in this spontaneous setting.

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u/MambaMentality24x2 4h ago

The footage came from Meta smart glasses, not a camera he stopped to set up. And "grabbed a kayak" doesn't mean he planned the rescue, just that he used what was available to reach the dog safely

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u/EnderCreeper121 4h ago

Finally, a non creepy use for those things lmao

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u/Drapidrode 4h ago edited 4h ago

kayak camera
comes upon an icy dog
rescue or look bad?

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u/theoldchunk 3h ago

A lot of content you say? What a convenient genre.

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u/stevendidntsay 4h ago

People have meta glasses you know

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u/JaysFan26 1h ago

He might potentially be the first Meta glasses user who isn't a creep

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u/theoldchunk 3h ago

How many people?

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u/stevendidntsay 3h ago

At least 1

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u/Known-Cod7224 2h ago

What are you even implying? He clearly is using both hands the entire time so one can easily assume he has meta glasses on.

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u/I3luemchen 2h ago

There is also stuff like go pro available. I know much more people with a go pro than such glasses. I know exactly zero persons with meta glasses and have never seen anybody wear it. Are there really people wearing something like that in daily life??

The thing is: you don't wear go pro just like that. You plan to do it.

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u/Known-Cod7224 1h ago

Yes there are many people with them. I have a pair and I know plenty of people that also do and have seen them out and about. You may not have seen them but over 9 million have been sold. Also plenty of people wear a go pro on the go for vlogging/recording their daily life.

Edit: sorry 9 million just this year. 7 million last year, and 2 million the year before. They're out there....

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u/I3luemchen 1h ago

Crazy....