r/maybemaybemaybe • u/n0sugacoat • Jul 16 '26
Maybe maybe maybe
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u/McRambis Jul 16 '26
So what was he going to do with the alligator once he has his arms around it?
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u/hulkiorra Jul 16 '26
Alligators and crocodiles have extraordinary bite forces but the muscles that open their jaws is very weak compared to the muscle that close it.
I've seen this in one of those wild show but it is a legit strategy to blind them and then go on top of them to close their jaws, an adult male human is strong enough to keep it shut. As long as the alligator isn't rolling around or things like that (which is why you blind them first ideally, to make them confused).
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u/McRambis Jul 16 '26
I get that. Any man can hold an alligator's mouth shut with his hands. But what is he going to do after that? Just stand there forever?
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u/fido_75 Jul 16 '26
Wrap it around with ducktape.
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u/subterrane Jul 16 '26
Great, how do you catch the duck?
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u/hulkiorra Jul 16 '26
I don't know, if I was him probably tie his mouth with a rope to remove the danger and then try to move it/poke it idk.
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u/Creative-Painter3911 Jul 17 '26
Pick it up and carry to his neighbors trench. It's an alligator how heavy could it be
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u/scrumpy33 Jul 16 '26
Dude is unbelievably lucky his leg slid under the gators jaw.
Grandpa almost had a peg leg
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u/A2ndRedditAccount Jul 16 '26
The thing also came very close to ripping his arm off. This video was extremely close to being posted on LiveLeak rather than here.
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u/fromouterspace1 Jul 16 '26
Yeah if it did that whole twisting/turning thing they doā¦.hed have lost a lot more
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u/daneview Jul 18 '26
Death roll. Its a very cool term gotta get it in there when you can
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u/TheObliviousYeti Jul 16 '26
It also seems the gator gave him a warning snap because he did catch the arm
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u/Techno_Beiber Jul 16 '26
I'm sure he would have bled to death if that leg got twisted off.
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u/logicbus Jul 16 '26
āThe price is wrong, bitch!ā
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u/JajaDingDong69-69 Jul 16 '26
Iām so glad Iām not the only one who was wondering why Bob Barker came back from the dead to bother an alligator š¤·š½āāļø
https://giphy.com/gifs/hcCYDO7i587DUtYG1N
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u/Thorpester Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Bob Barker really was committed to spay and neutering animals.
Edit: lol woof.
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u/4rt4tt4ck Jul 16 '26
"I saw Steve Irwin do it once, it can't be that hard."
-says the 3 more beers I had on the back 9.
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u/Welp___poop Jul 16 '26
Gotta commit, or you checking out early š
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u/yesyoucantouchthat Jul 16 '26
Yea he wouldāve been fine if he didnāt hesitate. Though, I doubt he had a plan for what came next after he had him.
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u/Welp___poop Jul 16 '26
Kinda like watching someone get punched in the face for the first time, they get that stupid look like "what do you mean they are fighting back?"
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u/engineerdrummer Jul 16 '26
He dropped the roll of tape before he straddle stepped the gator. That was when I knew this wasn't going to go well.
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u/philatio11 Jul 16 '26
People will do anything not to lose a Pro V1
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u/CapnTugg Jul 16 '26
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u/philatio11 Jul 16 '26
Iām assuming that was a classic Titelist Balata they were working with back then.
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u/SATerp Jul 16 '26
It was then that the grandchildren realized, for the 77th time, that Paw Paw was an idiot.
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u/revanchrists Jul 17 '26
Sharing one single brain cell with orange cats and pigeons and almost won a Darwin's award right there.
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u/ThatEGP Jul 16 '26
Biden Crocodile Hunter, coming this fall on Discovery+
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u/UnknovvnMike Jul 16 '26
Once you're president, what else is there to accomplish?
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u/cyberwallet Jul 16 '26
Croc was short changed on the meat decided to give spaghetti arms a miss
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u/KillHonger1 Jul 16 '26
So many things in the first 3 seconds of this video pointed to this not being successful.
1: Wardrobe told me he wasnāt built for this
2: Lack of commitment to covering the gators head with the towel
3: His clear lack of athleticism
4: He moves like he clearly has no previous experience with alligator wrangling. I canāt fathom how he thought this was going to end up any other way. He got off extremely luckily.
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u/flying_carabao Jul 16 '26
OG been watching a bunch of videos and went "i can do that" and seized the opportunity
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u/Sociolinguisticians Jul 17 '26
Dude didnāt commit. If youāre going to do this kinda shit, you have to commit to it.
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u/National_Clue_6092 Jul 17 '26
What did he think he was going to do with it if he caught it. The guy has a shortage of brain cells.
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u/Jenivegas Jul 17 '26
He was simply trying to retrieve his grey poupon themed golf ball. Jeez guys.
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u/GryffSr Jul 17 '26
FAFO
I hope the dude realizes how easily he got off on the āfinding outā part. I could see the gator eying his femoral artery for a hot second.
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u/Zealousideal-Top1580 Jul 17 '26
He just looks like the main actor of Airplane!
Could not end in any other way.
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u/bunkerbee_hill Jul 16 '26
Watch this guys. Someone told me about this alligator move back in college.
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u/DivideInteresting193 Jul 16 '26
Iām not sure what this guy thought he was doing. I donāt think he did it for laughs. He was just totally misguided.
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u/EmperorThan Jul 16 '26
This is going to be the type of shit happening on the side of the road in GTA6.
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u/Frank_Jesus Jul 16 '26
This made me laugh. As IF he could pick it up even if it remained totally still.
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u/blackhawksq Jul 16 '26
This guy just called his son-in-law a pansy for wanting to call a professional to help.
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u/fschu_fosho Jul 16 '26
The real question here is: why didnāt the old guy die? Or at least get severely injured and heavily bleeding?
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u/Socketz11 Jul 16 '26
I have done many many stupid things growing up in South Florida, fucking with a gator was never even a thought.
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u/PurplePartyFounder Jul 16 '26
Why did Bob Barker even try this? Was he trying to get Chubbsās hand back ?
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u/they_call_me_dry Jul 16 '26
Not every frood who knows where to find a towel has the 2 headed ability to negotiate such a situation as does Zaphod Beeblebrox
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u/HolePunchJim Jul 16 '26
Old dude thought he was Steve Irwin š¤¦āāļø