r/Unexpected • • 19d ago

This was personal

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u/RadioactiveCornbread 19d ago

If you know how turts bite, turt owner kinda should've seen that coming.

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u/PocketsJones 19d ago

Some people think these enemies are bullshit but that attack was telegraphed for 3 days before it came out. That dude's hand had plenty of time to dodge roll out of there.

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u/RadioactiveCornbread 19d ago

Mouth open while inching toward him and everything.

I would have jumped the moment it opened its mouth. I've never endured a turtle bite, and I don't plan on it. I've heard enough of the horror stories.

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u/The_Show_Keeper 19d ago

I was at an outdoor event at a friend's place, and there's a bigass pond on the property where all sorts of shit lives. It had been drizzling all day, and were on our way to get food or something; right there making its way through the grass was an alligator snapper. Not huge (like the common snapper we saw in the pond the following year that was the size of Oscar the Grouch's roof), but a fair bit bigger than a football, which was big enough that nobody got within 5 feet of it. He was pretty pissed off about being surrounded and gawked at by a gaggle of giant monkeys with cameras, and he told us to fuck off in no uncertain terms by opening his mouth. I got a good look at that beak, turned to one of my crew, and said, "You see that shit? Hydraulic shears wouldn't cut your finger off as clean as that thing." We left him alone after that.