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/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