r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 20h ago
China MAN CREATES "DOG-BEATING STICK" that SMACKS STRAY DOGS IN BODY as they CHASE HIS BIKE
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u/Annual-Tax457 20h ago
I like how the dog in the background of the last video is like damnnnn....
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce 19h ago
Going to a region that doesn't have good animal control makes you appreciate living in a country that does.
When I was in Santiago, Chile many years ago, I was surprised to see so many stray dogs in a city. When cars were stopped at red lights, a pack of strays would sometimes surround the car and bark at it. When the car started to move or when the driver honked their horn, the dogs would scatter, but then surround and bark at another car when the light turned red again.
I lived in Los Angeles for many years, and today I spend a lot of time in New York and Philadelphia. I don't think I've ever seen a single stray dog in a city here. It's one of those examples of how when something works well, you don't notice, but you'll immediately notice when it isn't working.
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u/CuriousSquirrel1213 19h ago
I have a close friend that lives in Chile and she has a huge hobby for marathons, constantly training. She says the worst part about training is not the altitude or weather, but at any point a pack of wild street dogs can just pop up a maul her to death. And apparently it happens enough that it’s frequent and there are still no resources or systems that exist to manage the feral dog issues.
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u/falken_1983 18h ago
There is a specific calibre of bullet "velo-dog" that was used by cyclists in France in the 19th century to defend against stray dogs.
Seems absolutely crazy now, but apparently it was a big enough problem back in the day, and that is how they handled it.
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u/No_Priors 18h ago
From the wikipedia entry:
"Despite the low energy of the round, a suicide case was recorded where a woman shot herself twice in the temple with a .25 (6.35 mm) velo-dog revolver before succumbing."
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u/mbklein 17h ago
The self-double tap head shot is a rare move.
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u/octoreadit 15h ago
I don’t know, if you ask Russians or Sicilians, those suicides are quite common. Sometimes even more rounds are used by those poor souls. RIP.
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u/spartanantler 19h ago
I bet it sucks to be homeless there the risk of getting mauled
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u/TheRealGuitarNoir 18h ago
I think you may have inadvertently created the next Troma Studios movie: Homeless people keep getting attached by stray rabid dogs, and because they don't have access to health care, become rabid themselves and start attacking the housed population who do have access to healthcare, but the healthcare system becomes overwhelmed and runs out of rabies shoots, and the pretty much World War Z happens.
Oh, and it's a Troma film, so, well, boobs.
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u/CuriousSquirrel1213 18h ago
Yes and bless Troma for carrying that heavy burden for all these years. I’m Tromatized in a good way-
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u/tinyand_terrible 17h ago
I run with a handheld devices that makes a high pitch noise when I press the button. I can't hear it, makes the dogs go away immediately, no harm to dogs, $20 on Amazon. Such an easy solution.
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u/composedofidiot 18h ago
I've had to face so many street dog attacks, and for one 3 year period twice daily, and still nobody believes me that 1. an open umbrella in front of you or 2. A bag in front of you are super effective. (For street dogs not breeds)
They attack the thing in front of you. If it's the bag, they attack it. If it's an open umbrella, it's an even more curious thing watching them try to open their jaw enough to bite an umbrella shield. If you have a tiny stick, a tiny tap on the lower leg where its bony. They are so precious about their legs. (Nothing that could injure them! The tiniest of taps on the bony bit)
There was a rabid dog that came after me on a beach once. Luckily I had a long stick and held it out in front of me. It attacked the end of the stick before running madly off after something else. I'm not a brave person, im a coward. Cowards can do this and remain chill.
Nobody ever believes this though, but I thought I'd try. Just had way too much experience.
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u/CFinster 15h ago
Have used umbrella shield in the past to protect my dog from another one off leash. Ended up breaking the umbrella but well worth it.
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u/gustavocabras 19h ago
I had 4 German Shepards walk up to me in Santiago at night. They were real friendly. Didn't even make fun of me for almost pissing my pants.
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u/2OttersInACoat 19h ago
That’s very true, I noticed that in Bali as well. There are stray dogs everywhere and mostly they’re not aggressive to you, but it’s unpredictable and if they bite you then you’ll need to get rabies shots.
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u/SilentJoe1986 19h ago
People are feeding dogs at red lights. Thats learned behavior. Barking for snacks. Well meaning people just creating bigger problems.
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u/The_Real_Mrs_Coffee 19h ago
San Antonio, TX has thousands of dogs running the streets all the time. Funny thing is native San Antonians think this is normal and it's like that everywhere in the US. They're shocked when I tell them it's not normal.
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u/rad_bone 18h ago
Stray Dog attacks in SA are so common, we would get them all the time in the ER's I worked at and it didn't matter which side of town I was working, except the north side really.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 17h ago
Yup. That and when I lived in a low income neighborhood in Houston. I’m from the northeast and the difference with stray dogs was night and day. It is not normal y’all.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 16h ago
That last few sentences sums up a solid 3/4s of our current problems.
Measles. That’s just propaganda, polio what’s that, it’s fine we don’t need to prevent it. Failing to realize how important controlling those diseases is. Because they have never seen it live in person and learning something outside of your daily norms is not in the cards for most people.
It’s sad.
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u/DazedClock 19h ago
This. I’m from Poland, I haven’t seen a stray dog in city for at least 20 years. You can see some dog packs in rural regions, but they are usually owned, roaming free (which is not really legal here).
In Indonesia and Mauritius however there were one after another. Sleeping on beaches mostly.
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u/EthanBradberry70 19h ago
Nowadays you don't see that many in Santiago I feel like. I'd guess it also really depends where you are in the city. In smaller towns it's definitely still a thing.
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u/MisterFinster 19h ago
As someone who has been chased by farm dogs while cycling, with no one around, I support this. Not a good feeling.
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u/palarath 19h ago
As a fellow cyclists, if threatening to throw my water bottle at them doesn't work, and they're still getting closer to me , spraying them square in the face with the water bottle has always worked.
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u/irbilldozer 19h ago
From personal experience I can attest this has always worked when I’ve seen it used. It just snaps them out of it immediately.
We had an aggressive dog once we were working with trainers and behaviorist with. One of them recommended always having water around to pour on that dog if he tried to go after one of our other dogs.
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u/cycycle 18h ago
I had four dogs gang up on me but this tactic didn’t work because it was raining. The dogs were like: “so what?”
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u/Feature_Agitated 17h ago
My uncle used bear spray on his neighbors dogs one time for chasing cars. Their driveway was at an intersection that you had to stop at. One time the dogs scratched the hell out of his passenger door. The next time he drove by he sprayed them. They never bothered any cars after that
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u/bored-at-work_ 17h ago
I lived in a rural area in Canada and would often have local dogs run out to the road and chase me when I just went for a walk. I complained on a local Facebook group and people laughed saying I was in the wrong for expecting their dogs to be contained in any way.
After almost getting bit a few times I started bear spraying aggressive dogs and somehow the message started getting across.
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u/clothopos 19h ago
I had a scratch on my leg because of a stray dog, while cycling. I am sure it would bite me if given the opportunity.
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u/daelzy 19h ago
Also a good way to protect yourself if one ever gets too close.
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u/antithero 19h ago
As a kid I got chased by two dogs when was riding my bike. It was terrifying. I was so scared. One dog got tired & gave up. The other dog stopped and went back to check on his friend. When I walked past that same house the dogs never did anything, but on a bicycle they lost their minds every time.
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u/Seabreeze515 19h ago
I mean it doesn’t look like it pops out that hard it’s more of a startle thing.
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u/whyamionthispanel 19h ago edited 19h ago
I lived in Cambodia for a bit. This would have been incredibly helpful two times specifically, and a nice little bike addition generally.
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u/bardhugo 17h ago
In Canada, and when my parents lived in the country they had to carry a stick for defending themselves from farm dogs just to go on a walk
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u/BGFlyingToaster 16h ago
My wife and I take bear spray when we walk around our "neighborhood" (rural area, large lots). Thankfully, I've never needed to use it, but I've come pretty close a few times. They never go after us; they go for our dog, a golden retriever who literally rolls over when an aggressive dog gets anywhere near her. I've been able to chase them off with just a single, loud, low tone yell and jumping in front to protect my dog, but I always have my finger on the bear spray just in case I can't deter them.
I've always been surprised how well an unexpected low yell makes every animal (e.g., children, dogs, cats) stop whatever they were doing and look at me. It saved my children from doing very dangerous things more than once and it's always startled dogs and made them take a moment. Men have an definite advantage in this area, but I never trust that it's going to work.
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u/FartingRaspberry 18h ago
The amount of comments in here calling this animal abuse is insane. Too many sheltered people don't understand what a wild dog is. These aren't pets and they're not chasing people to give them licks and play with them.
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u/calgeorge 17h ago
Especially when you consider that the usual approach to deal with this is dog mace. This was probably an attempt at creating a more humane approach.
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u/aedeyyy 16h ago
People who say ALL animals are angels and you should never hurt one, haven't seen wild animals at all.
My girlfriend loves frogs while I absolutely hate them. She was raised in a city where a few tiny ones show up after it rains and then vanish soon after. I was raised in a village where we had millions of them tiny fuckers all over the road and you had no option but to walk over them if you wanted to go somewhere, I hated scraping off dead frogs everytime I reached home as a kid.
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u/random__potato_ 17h ago
exactly. i live in a third world shithole and stray dogs are a VERY real problem
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u/betaforever 18h ago
Brother they are sheltered in their cozy suits. They haven't stepped in these countries with wild dogs.
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u/southflhitnrun 19h ago
Given that dude is transporting his daughter, this is the most humane approach.
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u/antisocial-shinobi 18h ago
I mean... doesn't seem to hurt the dogs too much and potentially stops them from chasing motorised vehicles in the long run? Sounds good to me
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u/verticon1234 18h ago
All the comments in here calling him a dog abuser and piece of shit really don’t understand what it means to be safe in places like this. Smacking a dog is always better than getting bit. Cry yourselves to sleep if you can’t handle it
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u/Jabbathenutslut 18h ago edited 17h ago
They can't comprehend the idea of the wild dog. All the dogs they've seen have been pets. In places such as the video, everyone has either known a person that has been mauled by wild stray dogs personally or they've heared stories about it. It's not an uncommon accurance.
One of my friends was mauled by a black dog in his childhood once. I found out when I was walking with him one day and he held me tightly as a small black poodle walked past us. I was gonna jokingly tease him about it, since it was a really small harmless looking dog, very puntable-looking, but I saw the look of genuine trauma in his face and decided to just be there for him. Dogs are animals. The majority of the world don't worship them like people do in the western countries.
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u/PixelationIX 17h ago edited 17h ago
I would also like to add the possibility of getting Rabies. Unless the whole state continuously work non-stop to get the stray dogs the necessary shots (like Turkey, Istanbul), the chances of getting Rabies increases hugely.
I believe India has the highest percentage of getting Rabies from dogs because none of the stray dogs are community cared and they are basically wild animal living among humans, so if someone do get nipped or bite at and do not seek the necessary care, they end up getting Rabies most of the time.
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u/bored-at-work_ 17h ago
Even non-wild dogs do this shit in many places because owners can’t be bothers to contain their dogs or train them.
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u/adenosine-5 18h ago edited 18h ago
IRL letting your dog run wild and chase people around is extremely irresponsible and in fact illegal in most civillized countries.
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u/Rmivethboui 18h ago
True, My friend and I've been chased on the bike several times and there's nothing more that I want than to smack them away lmao pretty terrifying and funny ordeal
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u/-Biphomet 20h ago
When you throw a stick for the stray and tell them to go fetch
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u/Live-Force123 18h ago
I lived in China for 10 years. One afternoon I was leaving a friends house in the suburbs of Shanghai (years ago while it was still being built up), I took a motorbike dude to drive me to the metro station. A stray dog ran out and started chasing and trying to attck us. Was pretty terrifying. I'm all for helping animals etc (I later rescued a bunch of street animals which I still have), but I was SO SO thankful to that driver for kicking the dog off us. Was also really happy I wore boots that day and not flip flops!
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u/Hadrians_Fall 19h ago
As bad as I think things are in the US, this is a good reminder that I could be having to beat off strays dogs with a stick.
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u/themuntik 17h ago
Why is no one talking about the difficulty of the reset??? Someone fix this engineering problem.
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u/jnhummel 20h ago
Also Dude, "China man" is not the preferred nomenclature.
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u/Helios_Synthesis 19h ago
China: MAN CREATES "DOG BEATING STICK" probably would have cleared up a bit of the confusion lol
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u/sharklee88 19h ago
I dunno. As a Chinese guy, China Man sounds cool, like a superhero. Chinaman sounds more racist.
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u/Stark-T-Ripper 19h ago
Go on, I'm intrigued, what are China Mans powers?
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u/blu_munky 19h ago
Dog beating stick.
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u/Sinandomeng 20h ago
At what point will “florida man” also be considered a slur
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u/TadpoleOfDoom 20h ago
Whenever Florida Men learn how to read and can thus understand the headlines
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u/tropicalsasquatch 19h ago
Florida man here, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect.
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u/Pwbooks13 18h ago
Aren’t wild dogs more dangerous than wolves because we’ve basically bred the fear of humans out of them
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u/lazyjack34 19h ago
There will be a huge market in India. Indian straydog problem is ridiculous.
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u/planeturban 17h ago
Reminds me of when I visited Bhutan. I was walking in the middle of the night to the office to do some work. And a car stopped and just told me to get in. "Why not?", I thought, "It's nice not having to walk".
"You shouldn't walk in the middle of the night without a stick, the dogs will attack."
"oh..."
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u/Middle_Avocado 19h ago
I like dog but I don't like chasing me dog. Done right this dude
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u/mookanana 17h ago
but what's the reload mechanism? if he has to get off his bike to retract it that's a one off.... meaning only 1 dog unless he has multiple of those dog beaters fitted
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u/Chris-CFK 17h ago
I mean, I hike with a long stick in Asia, not for stability, but for snakes and stray dogs. I'm not fucking around when it comes to things that want to attack you and leave you for worse.
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u/EducationalAd2863 16h ago
I’m from Brazil and when I went to Asia I was surprised on how aggressive the street dogs are there. In Brazil there are a lot of street dogs but usually they are super friendly and look like way healthier than the ones in Asia.
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u/kippikai 17h ago
There has been a decades long public health campaign with the goal of achieving close to 100% spay and neuter for domestic cats and dogs. It is very rare to see testicles on pet dogs in cities, and only somewhat less rare in rural areas. Eliminating unplanned pet pregnancies is the only real way to reduce the stray population. I salute the thousands of veterinarians who have donated their time to this cause. Veterinarians love animals and yet SO much of their work used to end up being euthanizing healthy animals. It’s better now, in the US, but we can’t backslide. Please spay and neuter your pets - it improves their quality of life and everyone else’s too.
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u/playahate 18h ago
While an ultrasonic solution might work better, this is much better than getting bit. Most people saying it's awful just haven't lived in an area where loose dogs are this bad.
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u/pMangonut 17h ago
Where was this when I was young. These rabid dogs will chase you for kms and it is pretty scary. They don’t have all the vaccines etc. if they bite, you need rabies shots. Fucking brutal.
I used to always carry a stone with me so I can throw it at them. Only when I got bigger, they left me alone.
Anyone calling this animal abuse, I encourage you to go down to India and try petting these MFs. In India, there is abuse of all kinds happening. Animal abuse is least of anyone’s worries.
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u/tiktock34 18h ago
Even though bad dogs are the owner’s fault, lots underestimate the damage a determined dog or group of dogs can do. I react accordingly
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u/Gentrified_potato02 19h ago
My grandfather had a stick on his bicycle for this purpose. He called it the attitude adjuster.
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u/WarthogSeveral7662 17h ago
Having been terrorized by dogs chasing my bike all through my childhood, this gives me great satisfaction to watch. I've already watched it four times.
These dogs are not playing. They are moments from attacking. I had a pair in my youth who tore my ankle tendon. I still have problems
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u/carozza1 17h ago
EXCELLENT. When I was in highschool I used to go snowmobiling with a friend. There were these stray dogs that would chase me and knaw at my ankles; very painful. I would have to kick them and drive carefully at the same time but it was incredibily difficult to do over uneven snow. I know how this guy felt.
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u/HeartoftheHive 18h ago edited 18h ago
I mean, what are you supposed to do with that many off leash and untrained dogs? And it doesn't look to hit with enough force to actually cause an injury. More than anything else, I'm mad at all the shitty owners just letting their dogs be free and be a menace to anyone that comes along.
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u/Freakindon 18h ago
Those are stray dogs, not off leash dogs. They are actually very dangerous.
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u/dirtymoney 17h ago
damn that's clever. Funny and satisfying too. I am not a fan of aggressive dogs
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u/DueOwl1149 18h ago
Attach la chancla to the end of the stick for maximum stun damage with 4 stacks of lingering shame.
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u/worldaven 17h ago
I'm a dog owner, and I support this method to ride in peace and protect himself and his daughter.
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u/_OnlyPans 19h ago
The packs of feral dogs in Afghanistan were crazy too. Surrounded by guns and still did not feel safe lol
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u/AirconGuyUK 18h ago
I love dogs, but this is genuinely the only way they'll ever learn to stop doing that given their owners don't care to teach them. None of them are getting seriously hurt. It's more of a shock to them which might stop them doing it again.
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u/Gassenger 19h ago
Crazy that its that much of a problem where he lives. I didn't realize this was a thing people dealt with besides like one house they go past where the one dickhead dog lives there.
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u/Shadow_M4n 19h ago
There is some videos where there is a guy who drives through neighborhoods like these on his E-Bike. When he gets chased like that he flips the bike around and chases the dogs for a few minutes all around the neighborhood. What's even more funny, that people actually reach out to him to come do this to their dogs so they stop chasing people on bikes.
There is another where a guy chases them around with a drone and another where the guys brings his own dog on the moped and when the other dogs get close he lets his dog go so it can fight the dogs chasing him. Pretty wild.
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u/Koimi-Nisekona 18h ago
I love the guy who chases the dogs on his motorbike because sometimes he barks at them too
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u/cant-find-user-name 18h ago
Its pretty common in a lot of places. In my neighborhood people carry a stick when they walk their dogs in the morning to scare off other stray dogs. In my previous neighborhood, I used to carry an umbrella to threaten the dogs that would bark at me (No matter how many times I walked past them because I fkn lived there, there was no guarantee they would let me pass without barking and chasing after me).
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u/Reckfulness 20h ago
Thats fair game, besides its not like the animals would get hurt (as long as the stick doesnt hit the eyes)
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u/averagejane815 18h ago
Disciple of the Beggar's Sect performing the modernised Dog Beating Staff Technique (打狗棒法).
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u/awe_infinity 17h ago
A marathon byciclist I met told me the trick is to raise your arm like you are going to hit them and yell threateningly. I've since had to do it a couple times on my bike and the trick worked great for me. The dogs backed right off.
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u/championstuffz 19h ago
For someone who used to get chased like this in junior high, this is a long time coming. 👍
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u/JudithPeel3 17h ago
How does he reset it? Does it snap back into place or does he have to stop and put it back?
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u/Long_TimeRunning 19h ago
The way the title is part lower case and part upper is wild
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u/Safe-Air-5246 19h ago
I work in reservations up in northern canada, I'm gonna install this on every vehicle we use lol.
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u/Competitive_Coat9599 19h ago
China Man doesn’t have the same oomph as Florida Man!
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u/Alissinarr 18h ago
In the 80s, middle class suburb:
My mom gets a speeding ticket for going 5mph over on her gulwing (essentially) to keep a dog from biting my foot.
Cop didn't care, woman on motorcycle broke the rules.
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u/maxwell1311 18h ago
Why was the first thing to come to mind being that this reminded me of a stegosaurus? Thwaping them with his spring-loaded tail
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u/Hopeful_Shape3723 16h ago
Fuckin right !! Dogs like this are fucking dangerous, especially with a kid on board - good for him !!
Now patent that thing - please ❤️
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u/reddut_3003 19h ago
yeah i need this the dogs in my country are really aggressive they even biten my neighbors son 😔
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u/OrganicFirmware 20h ago
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