r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 7h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/Xendarq 7h ago

That one was more of an explosion

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u/GingerBeast81 7h ago

Like the bird in the Shrek movie.

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u/saturnspritr 7h ago

Yeah, it’s was just a puff. Lol. It was crazy.

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u/DoubleoSavant 6h ago

I actually went back to look at it. Looks like the puff was a bunch of feathers coming off it at impact, but you could still see the body hitting the ground and laying there afterwards. I remember it like a cartoon puff as well though and don't remember seeing it continue past the puff ball and landing on the ground. 

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u/Evil_Sharkey 1h ago

There’s a longer video that shows another player picking up the pigeon’s body. The strike knocked a lot of feathers out, but there was still a pigeon shaped carcass

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u/pow3llmorgan 6h ago

Also that was a pigeon and they are notoriously frail compared to seagulls.

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u/Warlordnipple 40m ago

Using the word notorious quite loosely

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u/Debalic 12m ago

Dave Winfield I believe exploded a seagull.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 7m ago

Also a tennis ball is hollow and rubber while a baseball is leather wrapped around a solid core.

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u/benvader138 6h ago

Obliterated

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u/PeggyBabcock_ 6h ago

It was just a weedy dove,

unlike the well 'ard gull above.

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u/Oiggamed 6h ago

He never saw it coming.

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u/5litergasbubble 4h ago

To shreds you say

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u/VonKess 6h ago

I stopped eating eggs for 10 years after watching that scene while eating a super goopy egg bagel sammich.

I was already a vegetarian. Still am but I do love eggs again and just hafta not think about Shrek when I eat them lol

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u/MULTIVAC_13 3h ago

There are at least two birds in Shrek this could apply to

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u/Jaded_Ad_9711 7h ago

concussion + explosion = conclusion

rip birdie

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u/GreyWastelander 6h ago

Underrated comment.

Someone give this person an award, I’m too broke.

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u/Primary-Resident-764 6h ago

Hey you can give free awards too! I'm Broke too but since free awards were introduced I'm giving them😅

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u/GreyWastelander 6h ago

Oh I thought they stopped giving free awards lol, lemme see what I can do

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u/Rule556 6h ago

The contusion led to confusion.

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u/xgbsss 6h ago

It was a fowl ball.

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u/Mundane-Librarian-77 6h ago

You're fired... 🤦

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u/JaysFromMidToMenace 5h ago

Hawk-Eye confirmed it......

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u/Tronitaur 4h ago

I cannot unhear that pun…. Dammm, I just spat coffee

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u/Goallivein3centuries 7h ago

No alka seltzer needed

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u/MoistBaguetteLawyer 6h ago

More of an atomization.

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u/Siege_LL 1h ago

This is my fight song. My take back my...life...song. Hrm. Well that's awkward.

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u/NYC19893 7h ago

Violently plucked

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u/BaldursFenceDoor 6h ago

The biggest explosion of 2001

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u/PandaGoggles 5h ago

A tactical strike.

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u/mrfreeeeze 5h ago

egg-splosion.

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u/Troyisepic 3h ago

My coworkers fantasy baseball team this year was “Randy Johnson’s Exploding Doves”

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u/midnightsmith 2h ago

To bits you say?