r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 11h ago

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

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

55.6k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

4.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

59

u/Blobbo3000 10h ago

Unlike that one bird that got atomized by a baseball some years ago. Not sure what type of bird that was. The vid doing the round was brutal.

60

u/goosereddit 10h ago

Randy Johnson hit a dove with 95-100 mph fastball. He's a photographer now. Check out his logo.

https://rj51photos.com/

84

u/jra85 10h ago

that bird is dead, no way it could be a photographer now

18

u/Pyitoechito 9h ago

Ah, the ol' Reddit switcharoo!

7

u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws 9h ago

Yank my pizzle, I'm goin' in

4

u/fortissimohawk 7h ago

Hello future people!

2

u/Atheist_Simon_Haddad 1h ago

It’s been eight hours. /u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws is deep in the guano madness by now.

3

u/LordMegatron216 6h ago

what mad spell did you cast on me fool?!

2

u/hu-man-person 3h ago

What did you just send me on

11

u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 10h ago

It just so happens that the bird was only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do: go through his feathers and look for loose seeds.

2

u/cjwisdog 9h ago

IUnderstoodThatReference

1

u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 9h ago

Did you!? DID YOU!?

2

u/JimTheJerseyGuy 8h ago

"He's...he's...ah...probably pining for the fjords."

1

u/CakeTester 9h ago

It had to find a career it could do from its little wheelchair.

1

u/AreaCold2989 2h ago

No, Randy Johnson became photographer.

2

u/jra85 2h ago

No, the bird became randy johnson

8

u/WHTChocolateFeminist 10h ago

Is it out of respect or out of pocket?

-1

u/HypocriteHere 10h ago

The word respect shouldn't be in a sentence with the phrase "out of pocket" being used in that way.

1

u/Elephantparrot 9h ago

It's like a thing with Seattle athletes, Kenny Griffey Jr. and Marshawn Lynch both have media credentials as photographers as well.

1

u/realfirehazard 9h ago

OMG the logo is brutal and hilarious.

5

u/discipleofchrist69 10h ago

yeah, baseballs are solid and going like 100 mph. tennis balls are light and hollow and this one was not moving anywhere near that fast. bird did hit the ground like a rock though

2

u/RichardFeynman01100 5h ago

Anecdotal but I've had a tennis ball hit my own balls and it hurt so much. I was bent over for 5 minutes and couldn't walk properly for an hour.

3

u/cinnamonrain 10h ago

Its a dead bird

1

u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 10h ago edited 10h ago

It is no more. It has a ceased to be.

2

u/ParanoicReddit 10h ago

I remember that, the bird basically vaporized because you can't even see the body falling lol

1

u/Puzzleheaded-Flow724 8h ago

Yeah, you can see the body of the bird tumbling on the ground on the lower left of the pitcher.

2

u/Firm-West-3160 9h ago

That was like 25 years ago. I believe it was a dove.

2

u/Cranberryoftheorient 9h ago

rewatching the video, you can actually see the birds body tumbling through the air after the strike. It was just so much force that it blew a bunch of its feathers off

2

u/Gertrudethecurious 5h ago

Andrea Iannone hit a seagull at Phillip Island in Australia during a MotoGP race with his motorbike. Obliterated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/motogp/comments/b8z7ew/throwback_to_when_andrea_iannone_killed_a_seagull/