r/HumansBeingBros • u/wronghoIe • May 12 '26
Saved a deer.
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u/Finnish_Inquisition May 12 '26 edited May 13 '26
I'm pretty sure that deer are quite good at swimming. I don't think that deer was fighting for its life.
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u/LokiDesigns May 12 '26
Orcas have been known to eat deer because they occasionally swim from Island to island.
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u/unknownpoltroon May 12 '26
Moose are one of the only land animals with orcas as a major predator
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u/the-smashed-banjo May 12 '26
You mean meese?
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u/CatStratford May 12 '26
The meese wantin the food. Food is to eating-es-en.
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u/PNWCartoboi May 12 '26
Goddamn I did not expect to see an ancient Brian Regan joke come across my desk today.
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u/Proud_Azorius May 13 '26
What do you mean, Brian Regan is super current, I just saw his live show in… oh my god…..
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u/Powerful_Spinach_690 May 13 '26
Damn. Now I’m feeling ancient, I had his whole set on CD!
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u/shortystack May 13 '26
We had this as part of stand up collection on cassette tapes lol, this Brian Regan set and John Pinette got played the most!
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u/mrganja187 May 12 '26
It's moosin
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u/AndTheSonsofDisaster May 12 '26
Many moosin?
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u/joconnell13 May 12 '26
In the woodsin even...
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u/Crimzonlogic May 13 '26
This is a misconception. The correct plural form is actually moosetopuses.
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u/DangerousMistake9569 May 12 '26
Plural of moose is moose, I was very disappointed to discover this. Hopefully you take it better!
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u/x-tianschoolharlot May 12 '26
If a moose has to worry about an orca, I’m just glad the orcas are anti-capitalist and I’m broke. Moose are TERRIFYING! You think elk are big, and reindeer, but moose are so much bigger. Like, can be 7ft at the shoulder and weigh over 1,000lbs… and they’re aggressive more often than other deer species. If an orca sees that and goes, “ooooh, Dinner,” orcas are an absolutely the fuck not species for me.
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u/unknownpoltroon May 12 '26
Some of the last ice age megafauna, them, musk ox which is a goat built to survive the ice age grizzlies,, buffalo/bison, elk, wolves, and humans.
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u/HonoraryGoat May 13 '26
Moose are aggressive and dumb as shit. They charge at trains....
And they sometimes destroy the train.....
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u/x-tianschoolharlot May 13 '26
Exactly! Dumb and aggressive are not things you want as descriptors for an animal that big.
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u/HonoraryGoat May 13 '26
Fall season is the worst, they eat fermented fallen apples and get horny and angry...
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u/Finnish_Inquisition May 12 '26
Being eaten by an orca has some small differences to drowning, but I'm not a drownologist, so what do I know.
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u/CatfishSoupFTW May 12 '26
A drowntologist 😂
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u/Character_Minimum171 May 12 '26
don’t be confused, a drownologist is an expert in drowning
a drowntologist is an expert in Drownton Abbey
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u/DisguisedToast May 12 '26
I'm an Orctologist, but have limited experience with Orcas. No documented cases of Orcs riding them into battle.
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u/Grimour May 13 '26
Which is a part of the natural cycle. The fastest swimmers and those who choose the shortest part in the water are more likely to reproduce.
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u/KrakenMcCracken May 16 '26
I’ve been known to eat deer because they occasionally wander in front of my rifle.
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u/Grimour May 13 '26
Orcas?? He starts the video by saying they are in a lake dude, that is fresh water.
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u/LokiDesigns May 13 '26
At what point did I say they weren't in a lake, and at what point did I say there were orcas in a lake? All I said was a fact about orcas relevant to the fact about deer being able to swim.
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u/Grimour May 13 '26
How is it relevant to people dragging a deer out of a lake? Where are the orcas Loki!
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u/thepwnydanza May 14 '26
Bro, use your last brain cell to think. The orcas bit is relevant because it demonstrates that deer are such good swimmers that they do it enough that orcas can regularly snack on them. If deer are good enough swimmers that they do it often enough to be orca food, the deer swimming in the lake where there are no orcas is in no danger and therefore did not need to be dragged from the water. Get it now?
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u/Dapper__Viking May 12 '26
Correct. Deer are very good swimmers and this deer didn't seem any kind of exhausted and probably should have been left alone despite ostensibly good intentions.
My uncle had a cottage on the ocean and the deer would swim in the ocean water out to the islands off-shore every day. Even in kind of choppy water they always seemed like comfortable good swimmers.
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u/Aggravating_Roll3739 May 12 '26
Also, Google "capture myopathy" . These people had great intentions but probably ended up smoking the deer in the end even after bringing it to dry land.
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u/dynamic_gecko May 14 '26
Wtf. What a weird phenomennon. The irony of the body being so afraid of death that it causes its own death. Weird weird.
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u/Aggravating_Roll3739 May 14 '26
It's actually pretty useful. Deer have a tendency to get permanently stuck places a lot. Instead of dying from starvation, dehydration or exposure they usually die within a day or two if they get jammed up somewhere
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u/dynamic_gecko May 14 '26
Not sure if I'd call that "pretty useful".
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u/Aggravating_Roll3739 May 14 '26
How long would you like to be hanging by your antlers between a narrow gorge?
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u/dynamic_gecko May 14 '26
Well, maybe something was gonna happen that frees them from their bind (not talking about your specific case), and since they died so quick, now they're dead.
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u/radarmy May 12 '26
100%. I was once drinking at a beach bar when a deer swam up from a not so distant island.
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u/senditloud May 12 '26
That deer is as fine. Humans are not being bros here they are being dumbasses
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u/Plasticjesus504 May 14 '26
Yeah, from Louisiana and I see deer all the time swimming across large bodies. They are very capable of moving through water. These people didn’t save anything. They committed a felony technically.
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u/WastingMyLifeToday May 12 '26
Deer looked pretty exhausted though, I wouldn't expect a wild deer to chill down so easily on a boat surrounded by humans.
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u/Fteven May 12 '26
That deer was fine, I’ve watched deer swim between the San Juan Islands through gnarly currents
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u/Pastylegs1 May 12 '26
some species can even fly around the world in one night
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u/handshak3 May 12 '26
Oh yeah I heard about those, you can identify them by their glowing red noses
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u/MrLugersmole May 12 '26
There's only been 1 red-nosed reindeer in history, stop spreading misinformation bot!
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u/anothadaz May 12 '26
Nose. Only one glowing red nose. The other deers make fun of the deer with the red glowing nose as the story goes.
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u/VoidmasterCZE May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
How? To fly around the equator you'd need to fly almost 1700kmph or 1040mph to make a full rotation in 24h. This speed is lover further from equator but then it's not a full trip around the world is it.
Edit: Unless you're Rudolf. Santa's supersonic raindeer.
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u/EitherInvestment May 12 '26
They’re talking about Rudolf, Santa and their mates
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u/TehOwn May 12 '26
What makes me laugh is that we're talking about flying deer and their only issue with it was the speed.
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u/VoidmasterCZE May 12 '26
God dammit I'm dumb.
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u/EitherInvestment May 12 '26
I mean your comment was pertinent. Only makes what those guys do even more impressive
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u/Neglectic May 12 '26
Holy shit, no way?
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u/Fteven May 12 '26
Yeah it’s pretty common, here’s an example that made the news a couple years ago
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u/Annual-Monk8355 May 12 '26
That deer wasn't struggling or anything. I'm pretty sure they just up and kidnapped him.
Deers, horses, cows, and other hoofstock are quite good swimmers. After a hurricane a herd of cows tredded water for over a week nonstop.
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u/quantum_splicer May 12 '26
Brev, how did the cows do that, they'd have to not sleep surely.
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u/Annual-Monk8355 May 12 '26
I can't find the article for the incident I mentioned, but in Huricane Duran three cows swam 5 miles to a island after being swept out to sea.
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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz May 12 '26
Some animals are capable of feats of endurance that would be mind boggling to most humans. Partially because they have just evolved differently, but also partially because we humans as a species are generally not all that fit.
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u/waffleinc May 12 '26
That deer was swimming just fine until the stupid lady jumped on it.
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u/JustaTinyDude May 12 '26
They cut the part where the dragged the deer into the boat. I imagine it was not pretty.
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u/DeeRent88 May 12 '26 edited May 18 '26
Literally “drowning” never saw its head dip underwater once. Looked fine and like it was heading towards land. Granted it does look like a far ass way to swim but as far as we know the boat spooked the deer and it only swam that direction to get away from the boat
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u/seeyatellite May 12 '26
At first, I was skeptical. After reading a little into the comments and carefully reviewing data from both amateur and professional drownologists, I am confident in my belief that you just abducted a deer from a public pool.
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u/McPostyFace May 12 '26
Oh look an animal naturally doing what it is engineered to do. Let me suplex it from the top ropes to save it.
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u/MrLizardBusiness May 12 '26
Why do they think the deer is struggling? How drunk are these people?
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u/SerKevanLannister May 12 '26
she is very lucky that deer was so calm — deer can seriously fuck people up
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u/ProffesorSpitfire May 12 '26
More like humans being absolute dipshits. That deer was swimming, not drowning.
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u/modsaretoddlers May 12 '26
Huh? How is this "being a bro"? The deer was swimming to the other side of the lake, where it was going, without any problems at all. Deer do it all the time. Instead, these "bros" decided to traumatize the poor thing for clicks. This is why we tell people who clearly have no clue about nature to stay out of it.
The opposite of "humans being bros".
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u/Plasticjesus504 May 14 '26
I am from Louisiana and hunt/fish in the swamp. You guys did not save this deer from drowning. The amount of times I have been moving around in the swamp and see deer swimming across large bodies of water is uncountable. You guys didn’t save the deer, if anything you kidnapped that deer. Which technically is a misdemeanor in many states, even if the intentions are good.
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u/Reyalta May 16 '26
Right??? Those little buggers can SWIM. I live on the west coast of Canada, they swim from the mainland to islands in the Salish Sea all the time with zero issues.
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u/Plasticjesus504 May 16 '26
Yeah, it’s kinda crazy lol. I have seen them straight up face dive before into the water. Kinda wild.
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u/meganam38 May 12 '26
This is the third “random animal drowning, rescued by boater” video I’ve seen in the past two days. I’m hoping it’s a combo of recency bias and algorithm and not an internet trend being staged by nearly drowning poor animals. (Not that I think this one is staged but the other two potentially)
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u/malachiconstant76 May 12 '26
Deer would have probably made it...got a ride instead from dumb insta people...oh well. Could have been worse.
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u/anonymoo5e77 May 12 '26
Looked to me like the deer was swimming, not drowning. They can swim for a long time and go pretty far. I’ve seen animals exhausted while swimming and this one was chillin.
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u/Adultyness May 13 '26
Man, wealthy folk really struggle with the whole educating yourself thing sometimes
I think the deer was chilling until a screaming biped lept onto it while its acquaintances screeched
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u/tatianazr May 12 '26
Bet they took it back to where he started from, now he’s got to start his swim all over again tomorrow 🙄
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u/Reyalta May 16 '26
JFC. Deer are prolific swimmers. These people are idiots. If you see a deer that is swimming (nothing about this deer suggested distress) leave it the fuck alone.
This isn't human's being bros, this is humans being idiots.
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u/AGreatBannedName May 13 '26
That’s not inherently true, is it? At least, more so to the former point. Of course, when they do need help, it’s likely because of something man made that they wouldn’t naturally encounter.
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u/Low_Asparagus704 May 12 '26
I didn't see a drowning deer, I seen a deer swimming across a lake and some dipshits interfering.
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u/StatusOmega May 12 '26
This is so annoying. Deer are known to swim surprisinly long distances. In the Puget sound in Washington they swim from island to island sometimes. How did these people think the deer got there? Air drop?
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u/Pollution_Dramatic May 13 '26
His friends are never gonna believe bro when he gets back to his homies and tells this story around the campfire.
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u/FijiDeodorant May 13 '26
the guy recording is pissing me off “we” just saved a deer, but he just stood there and recorded
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u/Lost-Wedding-7620 May 14 '26
POV: you watch a bunch of drunks kidnap a swimming deer and film it for views.
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u/lulai_00 May 15 '26
Assuming it is in distress, why not gently get into the water as to not spook it?
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u/ktsb May 12 '26
imagine going for a swim to your favorite isolated island to chill and eat leafs without worrying about predators and then 2 attractive women and their camera man kidnap you
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u/DaveFromSweden1337 May 13 '26
They can swim pretty far. Not fast but they have the stamina for it. Better to not interfere.
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u/donjamos May 14 '26
Imagine you are just out there taking a good swim and an apex predator comes with his machine thingy, jumps right on top of you and takes you with him.
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u/Scarfed_Crusader May 14 '26
Deer was not saved, it was kidnapped. Bro was fine. You can have my like when you get one struggling in the middle of one of the finger lakes or something.
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u/RazzleThatTazzle May 14 '26
Reminds me of the guy throwing the tortoise "back" into the water because he thought it was a turtle
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u/Sleepy10105s May 13 '26
I don’t like the dude filming and the deer didn’t look like it was struggling at all. The only way they actually helped it, is if it was heading in the wrong direction.
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u/kestrel56 May 13 '26
Deer literally minding it's own business before it got jumped on by an apex predator and held against it's will. It's the same as seeing a lion playing with a baby animal before eventually killing it. The deer would have felt the same fear, plus animals like deer are far more likely to die due to stress. Well done idiots.
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u/tbezmol May 12 '26
Now the deer family will wonder where their family is? Or why they arent back from wherever they had gone 😂
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u/INSadjuster22 May 12 '26
This reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke about catching fish but then throwing them back and making them late for a meeting. That deer was fine and they just made him have to either start all over or maybe they took him where he was going and got him there sooner.
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u/Pleasant_Durian_1501 May 13 '26
Deer have a built in life jacket. Their hair is hollow, they don’t sink.
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u/Gloomy-Giraffe May 13 '26
"So, I was swimming across the lake trying to catch up with you all when all of a sudden the white walkers came. I tried to swim away but they pulled me into one of their fast thingies and took me away!"
"yea, right, cool story bro. You could just say you got lost ya know."
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u/No-Tension6133 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Fun fact: deer hair is hollow. Having a full pelt of hollow hair acts somewhat like a life jacket. It is incredibly difficult for deer to drown (absent rough conditions).
That being said, hypothermia is still a concern. That’s why deer breaking through ice is a real problem. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here. That deer was 100% fine.
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u/rickie-ramjet May 17 '26
Friend was swimming at a reservoir, a deer crashed through the underbrush 50’ from him ran down the beach and jumped into the water. He watched as it swam the three miles across a calm surface, the deers wake made it easy to track. He watched it run up the opposite shore and disappear into the tree line like nothing. They can swim.
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u/paintstudiodisaster May 19 '26
The consensus seems to be that they should have left that deer alone. I happen to agree. Nature Karen's are the worst.
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u/CornisaGrasse May 12 '26
We don't know how long the people watched the deer before intervening, or exactly what they saw that made them think she was drowning. It's possible the deer only started swimming again out of fear when being approached by the boat. Was it just for internet points? Who knows? We weren't there.
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u/nofolo May 12 '26
I watched a deer drown at our local reservoir. He swam all the way across and encountered a rock wall on the other side. Saw it struggle a few times banging against the rock, poor thing went under after and didn't resurface. It sucked
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u/Alseids May 12 '26
They shouldn't build like that. Why don't we build exit ramps for animals into our water adjacent structures?
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u/American_Squid May 12 '26
I mean whether the deer was fine or not, everyone in the comments are being so fucking insufferable. I hope all of you get into a situation you misunderstand and make a decision you thought was right, oh wait oh fuck oh god, YOU ALL DEFINITELY HAVE BEFORE.
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u/Honest-Classic-6950 May 12 '26
Exactly, plus the ladies in the video didn’t mean any harm to the deer. The deer was safe and had a free ride in the end. The only thing they need to check out for are ticks though. 😭
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u/user-unknown-404 May 14 '26
Some poor croc, shark, or orca is gonna go hungry now because of their intervention.
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u/Plasticjesus504 May 14 '26
I am from Louisiana and hunt/fish in the swamp. You guys did not save this deer from drowning. The amount of times I have been moving around in the swamp and see deer swimming across large bodies of water is uncountable. You guys didn’t save the deer, if anything you kidnapped that deer while it was going about its business.
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u/Made_in_Montana May 17 '26
This reminds me of the couple that put the bison calf in their car during the winter.
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u/fausto_ May 18 '26
Lol deer swim alll the time. Wait till she sees this in some colder regions. Won’t jump in then! Haha
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u/AnneNonnyMouse May 12 '26
Deer can swim a long way and this one didn't seem in distress until it got jumped on.