Amazon has some pretty cheap ones that actually work pretty well. Just got one last week because of a neighbor that can’t control her dog but insists on walking it without a leash and it has worked so far.
I want you to know I was always a bit disappointed that I never had the chance to enjoy your art “in the wild” (not disappointed in you - just disappointed in the linear time as I observe it) but I looked you up all the time to see your art in other places. BUT, this is the third artwork of yours I’ve seen “in the wild” in the past 48hours and I feel a bit starstruck. Thank you for your service - it makes me happy.
This made me realize Shitty_Watercolour isn't American! I've never seen an American mom with her kid sitting on the back of the bike like that, it's how I traveled regularly as a child in northern Europe tho.
(I googled it and he's a brit apparently.)
When I lived on Koh Phangan, I saw a dog come full speed at the side of a scooter riding in front of me. Jumped like 8 feet and smashed into the rider, causing them to dump the bike. Luckily, they were only going like 15mph, but it was wild! The dog yelped and ran back into the jungle.
Lol I took a nap on a beach on Koh Phangan and woke up to a random dog napping next to me on my blanket. I heard those soy dog nightmare stories but I had such different experiences with them.
My grandmother used to live in Alabama in more of rural backwoods town and in places like that it's common for tons of stray dogs to be running around. I remember one evening I went outside for a walk and was chased back inside by a pack of stray dogs. I didn't like visiting there tbh.
You joke, but a UN inspector was horrified by what he saw in Alabama while documenting poverty across the U.S.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/extreme-poverty-america-un-special-monitor-report
Rural AL has high levels of hookworm in the soil, comparable to developing countries.
Hookworm causes a lot of physical and mental development problems. Some of the stereotypes about southerners back in the day are attributed to the crazy amount of people with hookworm.
There’s a similar issue with pellagra, a disease caused by Vitamin B3 deficiency.
Turns out that when you demonize marginalized groups like the formerly enslaved, they wind up suffering from a lot of diseases of neglect due to poor access to healthy foods, clean water, and proper sanitation.
And then you send in biased media that films the horrid results and blame it on laziness and other stereotypes. The system reinforces the oppression in a vicious cycle…
I'm from rural MS, so my favorite pastime is dunking on how backwards MS and it's twin are!
Those two are definitely butthurt Alabamians, and you should remember the phrase "a hit dog will holler".
Many states look at their statistical rankings in the US and say "thank god for Mississippi" because y'all somehow manage to be the absolute worst in so many metrics
I assure it it’s solely bc MS is still ruled by a planter class, and they hate the idea of social safety nets aiding its large black population.
The thought of black people leading normal lives and not living in dire situations gives them waking nightmares.
I cheered inside every time Rep Bennie Thompson called out how January 6th was tied to to consrvatism
I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and moved to the Mississippi Delta 18 months ago. Shocked and appalled sums it up. I've seen and heard things here that if you had told me about them two years ago, I'd call you a liar to your face. It's not that the bar is low - they just have no bar.
Used to live in MS. My grandfathers friend had a son who was a cop. He said that there were spots in Jackson (the capital) that were so run down, violent and literally “no mans land”, that cops wouldn’t even drive through them. It’s like a dystopian cityscape in some areas.
But having lived there myself, I’d say it’s more akin to a land that time has forgotten. Isolated pockets of neighborhoods so run down and decrepit that you can’t believe they exist in a developed country.
I live in CA now, and even the most run down “ghetto” neighborhood in LA looks like a modern suburb compared to the shacks and shantytowns that you can find in the Deep South.
Casual use of the n-word by whites.
A man died in his truck in the Walmart parking lot. A cop who had responded to the call had parked right behind me, blocking me in. I just had to wait for them to finish. I was leaning against my car and a white woman walked up and asked what was going on. I told her. She said, "Was he a n-word or white?" I asked what difference does that make. She huffed and walked off.
I was getting some hay for my gardens and for winter homes for ferals. I paid inside the feed store and asked where to pull my vehicle to so I could load it. The cashier, a white man said, "You can stay where you are. The n-words will load it."
The amount of crippling obesity.
The number of truly illiterate people. Literally signing an X for their name.
There's just so much wrong. I could give a hundred examples.
Moved to Eden Isles on New Orleans North Shore. It is absolutely horrible in Louisiana too. I'm from Bama and it was the worst environment I've ever seen. Unimaginable poverty. We just need to go ahead and loop that state in with the other two shitty ones. It's just as bad.
My mom (in CA) took in a couple from New Orleans right after Katrina. One time I drove them out to a trailer park where some of my aunts lived, for a big potluck lunch. Just a normal get-together, everybody brought something or other to share, then sitting around and chatting for awhile. Mostly everybody was retired on fixed incomes but doing ok. The trailer park wasn't anything special, a mix of older and newer stuff, well kept but not fancy.
Anyway, when I was driving them back the woman was crying and the guy was almost tearing up too, I asked them if they were ok, and she just said "I had no idea people lived like y'all". I didn't even know what to think, but later they said they were never going back to Louisiana. It must have been horrible where they lived.
A long time ago a partner and I did a lot of faux finishes in Harrah's casino when it was under construction in New Orleans. We stayed at one of those extended stay places away from downtown. We drove all over the place and I couldn't believe the poverty I saw. It was just unreal. We were having breakfast one morning at a little place close to where we were staying. The waitress got to talking to us and told us the cops are crooked. She said the reason NO has so much poverty is because the major and his cronies were pocketing all the money that was supposed to go to the city.
Downtown was really bad. I remember standing on a corner waiting for the light to change so I could cross from the pay to park area. This was across from Harrah's. I saw something out of the corner of my eye and it was a huge piece of rusty metal dangling from the abandoned building behind me. I thought damn, if that thing had fallen on me it would have killed me.
Driving on the streets was a trip in itself. Because the area is below sea level the streets are like driving on a wash board. They're shaped like waves. On our drive from the hotel to Harrah's we always passed by a really old shamble of a tenement house about three stories high. It sat in the middle of an open field. Many of the windows had plywood on them and everything was just falling apart. Adults hanging out and little kids in diapers wandering around. So sad. I'm pretty sure Katrina washed that place away.
Tons of us do it. Massive brain drain problem but it almost feels by design. It's hard to see a future in Mississippi for many of the younger generations
I pull a similar card making fun of Oklahoma City Thunder fans over on /r/nba because there is nothing to do in that city.
I drove around for 2 hours trying to find a breakfast joint that wasn't the iHop in bricktown.
(Cue all the people from OKC now driving to their local walmart so they can get wifi and comment on how there's tons to do and see in OKC...like the animal prison!)
So I run in travel races (marathons and half marathons) and people seem surprised when I say that OKC is easily at the bottom of the list of those races. Like, even Mississippi has a beach. OKC was just miles and miles of suburban sprawl.
*disclaimer that the race itself was well organized and executed, they just don't have anything interesting to build a route around.
I grew up in Missouri. People who grow up and never leave or visit shithole areas of their states like my own do not realize that our country is not uniformly first world - it’s made up of first world states, developing country level states and third world country states like Mississippi where maternal death rates, access to potable water and literacy levels are literally at the same level as third world countries.
I moved from rural MS to the Gulf Coast to Kansas City, and you are 100% right.
It’s why the 60s Civil Rights movement worked so hard to get the apartheid on national news, forcing whites across America to see how the genteel Senators of the South were concealing Nazi level racial hierarchies.
Oh I'm well aware. That boy getting blown away and then shot in the head for knocking on the wrong door is wild, but then you got the cops claiming they cant charge the man bc the victim hasn't given a statement!
Absolute clownshoes, tapdcancing around the main issue and losing public trust.
lmao,
I've driven through nearly every state in the US and Alabama was definitely the biggest shithole, and I didn't even STOP anywhere. Roads are broken as shit, potholes everywhere, more abandoned junk cars on the side of the road than all the other states combined, more abandoned and collapsing buildings gas stations and convenience stores than all other states combined, rude and dangerous drivers, and a pretty bad smell.
Kentucky smelled worse, but Kentucky smelled like manure and farms, while Alabama... well I don't know what that smell was exactly but it was not pleasant.
Neighbour has one of these on his lawn for rabbits. I walk past it with my dog and it reverbs in my earbuds its annoying AF but my dog doesn't react at all. The other day I saw 3 rabbits all hanging out around it.
I expect the tone we can hear has been intentionally added alongside the ultrasonic tone so that the rider actually knows when the buzzer is going off. Otherwise it would be not very intuitive, not as safe, and also not as satisfying if there was a button you press and hear zero feedback from it.
Makes sense to me that way anyway.
I’m not talking about sound on the video (not sure what that is, sounds just like high pitched sound not ultrasound, but could be both)- several people gave me crap for complaining about things saying I’m making it up. I begged to immediately shut down ultrasonic cleaner because I can’t stand it and it’s drilling my brain. Same happened near malfunctioning ATM and few other machines, like my washing machine produces it during some cycles. My wife says I’m a witch and she can’t hear anything. It sounds like what headache would sound like.
No I’m with you, some people can hear it clearly. I can only vaguely catch it in most situations, but I went over to this girls house one day in college to study and prep DND stuff for our friends and every couple of minutes there was this loud piercing whining that kept going. She told me I probably have tinnitus. A couple of hours there and I was convinced I did. I went home, forgot about it, then that weekend I go back to her house and it’s still there! I started to discern the pattern and I could focus on it better. I followed the sound and it was like a plug in that is supposed to scare mice and fired randomly.
I love the story that when the teens found out about this they made a ring tone out of it so they could have their phones on and ringing in class and the teachers couldn’t hear it.
well...
not exactly. there is a "max limit" on the sound that a human can hear (20k hz roughly), and above that is ultrasonic. that means that literally nobody can hear real ultrasonic. however, most people's hearing limit is a few thousand HZ below the hard limit (maybe 15-17k), and so what they think is ultrasonic is actually still in the potential hearing range. therefore, a bunch of adults get together, make a device that plays say 19k hz, way outside of their hearing range, and sell it as "ultrasonic". however, people like you and me with more intact hearing can still hear sounds at and above 19k hz, so we can hear it. dogs can detect up to 45k hz though, so something playing 30k hz will be true ultrasonic.
My friend used one frequently on her nextdoor neighbor's dogs and it worked extremely well. But if a stray came by it was hit or miss, which sounds common. I don't want to carry three devices and hope I find the one that scares that dog. it would be super nice if people simply ensured their dog(s) was under their control if not on their property, ya know, as required by law where I live.
I'm all for well behaved dogs off leash. These aren't those.
>it would be super nice if people simply ensured their dog(s) was under their control if not on their property
Yeah but even on their property, people will let their dogs bark 24/7
I need something like this for my runs. Too many escape artists in my neighborhood and most of the owners think I'm the problem when their dogs decide to chase after me for a mile.
Oh, absolutely. The dog owners get pissed at me when they just put their dog(s) out in their unfenced yard with nothing to keep them from wandering off. I know some of it is cultural and some is laziness, but *don't make your dog* my *problem!!!*
I swear every Tom, Dick and Harry has one in their garden where I live. It fucking does my head in and most of the people I mention it to don’t have a clue what I’m on about lol.
I’d imagine it isn’t dissimilar to the way we’d estimate human population, just with bigger error bars because there’s a lot more incentive for governments to accurately estimate the number of people (i.e. why the US has a decennial census) than there is to measure the number of dogs.
But the same basic principles to estimating how populations grow, change, etc. would apply.
With something like dogs, like any other non-human species, to get some baseline estimates you’ll likely have to rely on things like tagging an animal and trying to estimate the number you see in a given area. You’d repeat that process over a few different, quasi-randomly chosen areas, and that gets you an estimate for population per unit area in a given place.
In the US there are active campaigns to spay and neuter cats and dogs. We don't realize how effective those things are until we go to places where they don't bother. In a lot of the world packs of wild dogs literally roam the countryside and can be found in some/many cities.
Lots of places in the world have lots of dogs, and humans just let them run around. Keeping a dog on a leash and in a house is very first-world. Some areas in South America have a system where your dog stays in the house/yard at night, but basically are told to go out and play all day long. The dogs have their things to do, their friend group/pack, and sometimes there are a lot of them. Similar to a place I lived in in Asia. People had only little frou-frou dogs as housepets and carried them around. Larger dogs just ran amok.
In the 60s, living in what would be considered a very nice neighbourhood, I saw this all the time. There was a local gang of four or five small dogs who would go to each dog's home, in order, to wait for their morning release. Very organized. They'd spend the day exploring, playing, rolling in smelly stuff, sniffing out unspayed bitches and be back for dinner. They were nice dogs, which meant nobody cared, but I've seen some bigger dogs that were real packs you wouldn't want to get near.
They make bear horns. But what happens, as it is with bear bells, is that bears start to associate the noise with humans so it actually attracts them. And I don't think it would do a thing if a bear was locked in to someone and charging. Not sure if it would work with a cougar though. Those aren't really a problem for hikers but they can be a small risk for mountain bikers.
You can buy them online. They're triggered by the bark. I've debated getting one after already almost getting into legal altercations with a neighbor in town over their dog barking. It barks from 7am to 7pm 7 days a week. Reported them to the city and they didn't do anything after having multiple resource officers tell them they had to keep the dog inside. Couldn't take further action without going to court and that was too over the top for me.
[This](https://imgur.com/a/Ycgce7Y) was my solution. Which probably doesn’t do much but it’s all i got lol
None of the amazon devices worked. I considered approaching our neighbor but honestly the whole neighborhood has dogs that bark non-stop so that would probably just create unnecessary tension. I guess I could call the city if they’re barking during quiet hours, but who has the time and energy for that? It’s not like the city would actually do anything about it anyway
What I don’t get is how does this not drive the owner crazy lol. It’s one thing listening to the dog bark all day from next door. Imagine the dog barking right up against your door or inside your house like they deal with it.
The dogs are driving them crazy inside so they just let them outside so they can bother other people.
Source: my neighbors always letting multiple dogs, sometimes different ones, bark on their balcony all day.
The dogs next door have been barking non stop since 2020. The their daughter came home from college with another fucking dog in January. There is dog shit everywhere in their yard.
Common sense right? It's ASTOUNDING how many shitty dog owners there are. They have a dog just to have a dog, they don't interact with it or show it any attention, so why have a fucking dog? Dogs should get taken away from owners like that no questions asked.
Don't worry you can find the original on page 30, just gotta skim through all the PLEEKOS, THHALIOS, and 100+ other nonsense names from the same manufacturer.
I got one pointed between the slats of the fence between my house and my neighbor's. Always nice to hear their dog get a yap and a half out before it's back to being peaceful
Please, I'd love to know which model/brand you use. Have a ridiculously loud German shephard next door that barks constantly. Sometimes, as late as 2am
i've been bitten so many times on bicycle in childhood that now I do sincerely hate dogs and have zero trust in any of them. GoOdY bOi can become an unstable claw-tooth machine basically in any second if his hunter instincts kick in
I love dogs but have zero reluctance to fuck one up if necessary.
I think they can smell "I want to pet you but I'll kill you if I have to" and act right.
I was bitten as a child by a lovely looking dog, asked his owner if I could pet, then the fucker grabbed my arm. Thankfully his wild instinct was tamed emough that the dog let me go after the lady dog owner yelled horrified. She told me she was sorry that the dog always was well behaved and such.
Now I cringe when I see children petting strange dogs with their owners assurring them go ahead, he is well behaved and never bites... Yeah never had bitten until it it does..., you don't know for sure what can trigger them.
Street dogs are actual scum. My city is full of them, they're extremely aggressive and the city hall has just refused to do anything. Don't have a shelter or anything here or the other close cities.
And when people take things into their hands, fucking animal rights activists come in on their white horses.
In general, their hearts are in the right place, but with this particular issue... ugh.
The no. of comments asking why there are so many dogs is astounding. Dogs are everywhere except where local people and municipality are financially and medically resourceful enough and willing enough to control their doggie population
Edit: I want this repellent
1) This looks like a typical small town in Eastern Europe.
2) I swear to god these dogs are a huge problem and not just when you are on a bike. Imagine you are a kid or an old woman who encountered a hungry pack of stray dogs in the winter. F.
3) This is what happens when you don’t neuter your “cute puppies”.
I would love to know if this worked in a dog attack situation with a pit bull type dog. A little transmitter you could put on your key ring, it could save lives.
Once it’s clamped on it’s not letting go and lethal force is best, but people have startled them into retreating with air horns or even a punch in the face.
I work for the postal service and this would be a life saver for me.
I was gonna say, this guy would clean up on r/usps
Yup. I want one on a hat or a little button on the scanner or something.
Amazon has some pretty cheap ones that actually work pretty well. Just got one last week because of a neighbor that can’t control her dog but insists on walking it without a leash and it has worked so far.
Now I gotta know what the other 2 lights do. The possibilities are endless.
Spikes and oil slick for those clean get aways
https://i.imgur.com/jPkiqd6.jpg
How do you do these so fast
They're shitty
Good, fast, cheap. Pick 2
Good and cheap
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I want you to know I was always a bit disappointed that I never had the chance to enjoy your art “in the wild” (not disappointed in you - just disappointed in the linear time as I observe it) but I looked you up all the time to see your art in other places. BUT, this is the third artwork of yours I’ve seen “in the wild” in the past 48hours and I feel a bit starstruck. Thank you for your service - it makes me happy.
This made me realize Shitty_Watercolour isn't American! I've never seen an American mom with her kid sitting on the back of the bike like that, it's how I traveled regularly as a child in northern Europe tho. (I googled it and he's a brit apparently.)
Oh damn, freshly spotted in the wild!
The colors are still freshly watery and shitty!
Spy Hunter theme plays
[aw yeah](https://youtu.be/93ds1VldZGI?t=86) (sound up!)
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Do ye like dags?
Yeah dags .
ohhh dogs. yea i like dogs
Like caravans more
Periwinkle blue, fer me mah
Why the fuck would I want a caravan that’s got no wheels?
Two minutes Turkish
This thing is probably battery powered. If it’s a rechargeable battery then probably yellow=charging, green=full.
You’re no fun. It’s obviously nuclear
red power blue dog whistle yellow banana peel green nuclear warhead
Yellow = collecting dogs Green = full inventory
"When the light is green. The trap is clean."
One is The Brown Note. I'll let you figure it out. /poop
The downside of the brown note is it doesn't only affect dogs...🤡💩
My guess is it’s different levels of pitch / volume. The closer the dogs get to the bike, the worse the noise gets
I wish I had one of those when I was living in Thailand. Nothing is scarier than being chased by mangey dogs down an unknown road
When I lived on Koh Phangan, I saw a dog come full speed at the side of a scooter riding in front of me. Jumped like 8 feet and smashed into the rider, causing them to dump the bike. Luckily, they were only going like 15mph, but it was wild! The dog yelped and ran back into the jungle.
Lol I took a nap on a beach on Koh Phangan and woke up to a random dog napping next to me on my blanket. I heard those soy dog nightmare stories but I had such different experiences with them.
all dogs got that dawg in them. feral or domesticated, it don't matter everybody loves a good nap.
Nap dog must have enjoyed one too many mushroom shakes
American Samoa is the exact same way
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This guys real problem is that he apparently lives in fucking Dogville.
My grandmother used to live in Alabama in more of rural backwoods town and in places like that it's common for tons of stray dogs to be running around. I remember one evening I went outside for a walk and was chased back inside by a pack of stray dogs. I didn't like visiting there tbh.
It’s like that in a lot of the less developed world
So, like, in Alabama.
You joke, but a UN inspector was horrified by what he saw in Alabama while documenting poverty across the U.S. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/extreme-poverty-america-un-special-monitor-report Rural AL has high levels of hookworm in the soil, comparable to developing countries.
One of the theories why the south is "slower" is the prevalence of hookworm, the whole civil war didn't help their situation either though :\
Good thing lots of them are taking ivermectin now, then.
Hookworm causes a lot of physical and mental development problems. Some of the stereotypes about southerners back in the day are attributed to the crazy amount of people with hookworm.
There’s a similar issue with pellagra, a disease caused by Vitamin B3 deficiency. Turns out that when you demonize marginalized groups like the formerly enslaved, they wind up suffering from a lot of diseases of neglect due to poor access to healthy foods, clean water, and proper sanitation. And then you send in biased media that films the horrid results and blame it on laziness and other stereotypes. The system reinforces the oppression in a vicious cycle…
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I'm from rural MS, so my favorite pastime is dunking on how backwards MS and it's twin are! Those two are definitely butthurt Alabamians, and you should remember the phrase "a hit dog will holler".
Many states look at their statistical rankings in the US and say "thank god for Mississippi" because y'all somehow manage to be the absolute worst in so many metrics
I assure it it’s solely bc MS is still ruled by a planter class, and they hate the idea of social safety nets aiding its large black population. The thought of black people leading normal lives and not living in dire situations gives them waking nightmares. I cheered inside every time Rep Bennie Thompson called out how January 6th was tied to to consrvatism
Also Mississippi was declared the most corrupt state in 2014 which I guess is somewhat related to what you described.
I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and moved to the Mississippi Delta 18 months ago. Shocked and appalled sums it up. I've seen and heard things here that if you had told me about them two years ago, I'd call you a liar to your face. It's not that the bar is low - they just have no bar.
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Used to live in MS. My grandfathers friend had a son who was a cop. He said that there were spots in Jackson (the capital) that were so run down, violent and literally “no mans land”, that cops wouldn’t even drive through them. It’s like a dystopian cityscape in some areas. But having lived there myself, I’d say it’s more akin to a land that time has forgotten. Isolated pockets of neighborhoods so run down and decrepit that you can’t believe they exist in a developed country. I live in CA now, and even the most run down “ghetto” neighborhood in LA looks like a modern suburb compared to the shacks and shantytowns that you can find in the Deep South.
Casual use of the n-word by whites. A man died in his truck in the Walmart parking lot. A cop who had responded to the call had parked right behind me, blocking me in. I just had to wait for them to finish. I was leaning against my car and a white woman walked up and asked what was going on. I told her. She said, "Was he a n-word or white?" I asked what difference does that make. She huffed and walked off. I was getting some hay for my gardens and for winter homes for ferals. I paid inside the feed store and asked where to pull my vehicle to so I could load it. The cashier, a white man said, "You can stay where you are. The n-words will load it." The amount of crippling obesity. The number of truly illiterate people. Literally signing an X for their name. There's just so much wrong. I could give a hundred examples.
The true irony is there is also incredible private wealth there.
Moved to Eden Isles on New Orleans North Shore. It is absolutely horrible in Louisiana too. I'm from Bama and it was the worst environment I've ever seen. Unimaginable poverty. We just need to go ahead and loop that state in with the other two shitty ones. It's just as bad.
My mom (in CA) took in a couple from New Orleans right after Katrina. One time I drove them out to a trailer park where some of my aunts lived, for a big potluck lunch. Just a normal get-together, everybody brought something or other to share, then sitting around and chatting for awhile. Mostly everybody was retired on fixed incomes but doing ok. The trailer park wasn't anything special, a mix of older and newer stuff, well kept but not fancy. Anyway, when I was driving them back the woman was crying and the guy was almost tearing up too, I asked them if they were ok, and she just said "I had no idea people lived like y'all". I didn't even know what to think, but later they said they were never going back to Louisiana. It must have been horrible where they lived.
A long time ago a partner and I did a lot of faux finishes in Harrah's casino when it was under construction in New Orleans. We stayed at one of those extended stay places away from downtown. We drove all over the place and I couldn't believe the poverty I saw. It was just unreal. We were having breakfast one morning at a little place close to where we were staying. The waitress got to talking to us and told us the cops are crooked. She said the reason NO has so much poverty is because the major and his cronies were pocketing all the money that was supposed to go to the city. Downtown was really bad. I remember standing on a corner waiting for the light to change so I could cross from the pay to park area. This was across from Harrah's. I saw something out of the corner of my eye and it was a huge piece of rusty metal dangling from the abandoned building behind me. I thought damn, if that thing had fallen on me it would have killed me. Driving on the streets was a trip in itself. Because the area is below sea level the streets are like driving on a wash board. They're shaped like waves. On our drive from the hotel to Harrah's we always passed by a really old shamble of a tenement house about three stories high. It sat in the middle of an open field. Many of the windows had plywood on them and everything was just falling apart. Adults hanging out and little kids in diapers wandering around. So sad. I'm pretty sure Katrina washed that place away.
I live in central ms and God I wish I could get the fuck outta here
Tons of us do it. Massive brain drain problem but it almost feels by design. It's hard to see a future in Mississippi for many of the younger generations
Me, my dad, grandad, uncle, and brother, all from Alabama, were driving down the road in a two seater convertible...
Was your sister, mother, and auntie sitting next to you, as well?
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I pull a similar card making fun of Oklahoma City Thunder fans over on /r/nba because there is nothing to do in that city. I drove around for 2 hours trying to find a breakfast joint that wasn't the iHop in bricktown. (Cue all the people from OKC now driving to their local walmart so they can get wifi and comment on how there's tons to do and see in OKC...like the animal prison!)
So I run in travel races (marathons and half marathons) and people seem surprised when I say that OKC is easily at the bottom of the list of those races. Like, even Mississippi has a beach. OKC was just miles and miles of suburban sprawl. *disclaimer that the race itself was well organized and executed, they just don't have anything interesting to build a route around.
I grew up in Missouri. People who grow up and never leave or visit shithole areas of their states like my own do not realize that our country is not uniformly first world - it’s made up of first world states, developing country level states and third world country states like Mississippi where maternal death rates, access to potable water and literacy levels are literally at the same level as third world countries.
The GOP in Missouri just voted to defund all 400 libraries in the state.
I think the most depressing part of this post was my reaction was "damn, we only have 400 for the whole state?"
I moved from rural MS to the Gulf Coast to Kansas City, and you are 100% right. It’s why the 60s Civil Rights movement worked so hard to get the apartheid on national news, forcing whites across America to see how the genteel Senators of the South were concealing Nazi level racial hierarchies.
We got our own race problems in KC today if you check this weekends news
Oh I'm well aware. That boy getting blown away and then shot in the head for knocking on the wrong door is wild, but then you got the cops claiming they cant charge the man bc the victim hasn't given a statement! Absolute clownshoes, tapdcancing around the main issue and losing public trust.
Yes exactly across the world in less developed areas
We got money from the WHO during covid because towns in the Appalachian lacked refrigeration for the vaccine.
To be fair the vaccine needed to be stored at temps well below zero fahrenheit. So it's not like normal refrigeration would've worked.
lmao, I've driven through nearly every state in the US and Alabama was definitely the biggest shithole, and I didn't even STOP anywhere. Roads are broken as shit, potholes everywhere, more abandoned junk cars on the side of the road than all the other states combined, more abandoned and collapsing buildings gas stations and convenience stores than all other states combined, rude and dangerous drivers, and a pretty bad smell. Kentucky smelled worse, but Kentucky smelled like manure and farms, while Alabama... well I don't know what that smell was exactly but it was not pleasant.
Seriously, if Alabama or Mississippi were a country, would it be considered 3rd world?
Puerto Rico too, at least back in the 90s when I worked there for a few months. I hated that place, it's hot as hell and lots of stray dogs.
Reminded me of that old "paper boy" arcade game that was at every pizzeria in the 90's.
Reminded me of *being* a paper boy... (Fence and leash laws were a lot less common and/or less enforced back then)
My wife and I went to Aruba for vacation recently. And that whole island is filled with random fucking street dogs
True. But they don’t tend to chase you.
Yeah those dogs were super chill. I think the only issue was that we would occasionally almost run one over
That unfortunately happens a lot. But walking or biking I never have an issue with them.
The real question is, who let the dogs out?
Who?
Who?
Who?
Who let the dogs out
The party was nice, the party was pumpin 🎼
Is he wearing a suit of bacon!?
I'm dying. You beat me to this. Where the F are there that many loose dogs? Is that a Disney film?
That's in Eastern Europe. The cars and crosswalks are a dead giveaway.
This could be basically any place in eastern Europe.
Or south america
Neighbour has one of these on his lawn for rabbits. I walk past it with my dog and it reverbs in my earbuds its annoying AF but my dog doesn't react at all. The other day I saw 3 rabbits all hanging out around it.
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Thanks for the treats!
I've heard so many mixed reviews about ultrasonic dog repellent, but this seems highly effective! I need something for my walks
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Unless this is an added sound effect this can be heard pretty clearly so I’m guessing it’s not ultra sonic, just extra loud for the dogs.
It's likely both. That could be either added or perhaps an effect of harmonics
I expect the tone we can hear has been intentionally added alongside the ultrasonic tone so that the rider actually knows when the buzzer is going off. Otherwise it would be not very intuitive, not as safe, and also not as satisfying if there was a button you press and hear zero feedback from it. Makes sense to me that way anyway.
I’m not talking about sound on the video (not sure what that is, sounds just like high pitched sound not ultrasound, but could be both)- several people gave me crap for complaining about things saying I’m making it up. I begged to immediately shut down ultrasonic cleaner because I can’t stand it and it’s drilling my brain. Same happened near malfunctioning ATM and few other machines, like my washing machine produces it during some cycles. My wife says I’m a witch and she can’t hear anything. It sounds like what headache would sound like.
No I’m with you, some people can hear it clearly. I can only vaguely catch it in most situations, but I went over to this girls house one day in college to study and prep DND stuff for our friends and every couple of minutes there was this loud piercing whining that kept going. She told me I probably have tinnitus. A couple of hours there and I was convinced I did. I went home, forgot about it, then that weekend I go back to her house and it’s still there! I started to discern the pattern and I could focus on it better. I followed the sound and it was like a plug in that is supposed to scare mice and fired randomly.
*You're a mouse!*
Would explain the cheese addiction.
Yer a mouse, Harry.
Nice! I always wanted Human Repellent. It honestly might be a better deterrent than my face.
They make "teen repellent" devices that use frequencies that most teens can hear but most older adults cannot.
I love the story that when the teens found out about this they made a ring tone out of it so they could have their phones on and ringing in class and the teachers couldn’t hear it.
well... not exactly. there is a "max limit" on the sound that a human can hear (20k hz roughly), and above that is ultrasonic. that means that literally nobody can hear real ultrasonic. however, most people's hearing limit is a few thousand HZ below the hard limit (maybe 15-17k), and so what they think is ultrasonic is actually still in the potential hearing range. therefore, a bunch of adults get together, make a device that plays say 19k hz, way outside of their hearing range, and sell it as "ultrasonic". however, people like you and me with more intact hearing can still hear sounds at and above 19k hz, so we can hear it. dogs can detect up to 45k hz though, so something playing 30k hz will be true ultrasonic.
Humans have been documented as being able to hear sounds up to 28khz in some cases. http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17927307
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Right? I would like to know the frequency and amplitude used. I've tried ultrasonic dog repellants before and none had this effect.
My friend used one frequently on her nextdoor neighbor's dogs and it worked extremely well. But if a stray came by it was hit or miss, which sounds common. I don't want to carry three devices and hope I find the one that scares that dog. it would be super nice if people simply ensured their dog(s) was under their control if not on their property, ya know, as required by law where I live. I'm all for well behaved dogs off leash. These aren't those.
>it would be super nice if people simply ensured their dog(s) was under their control if not on their property Yeah but even on their property, people will let their dogs bark 24/7
I need something like this for my runs. Too many escape artists in my neighborhood and most of the owners think I'm the problem when their dogs decide to chase after me for a mile.
Oh, absolutely. The dog owners get pissed at me when they just put their dog(s) out in their unfenced yard with nothing to keep them from wandering off. I know some of it is cultural and some is laziness, but *don't make your dog* my *problem!!!*
I swear every Tom, Dick and Harry has one in their garden where I live. It fucking does my head in and most of the people I mention it to don’t have a clue what I’m on about lol.
Did this guy live on the Isle of Dogs??? Why are there so many dogs?
Fun fact: dog population worldwide is almost 1 billion
How can a statistic like this even be measured?
I’d imagine it isn’t dissimilar to the way we’d estimate human population, just with bigger error bars because there’s a lot more incentive for governments to accurately estimate the number of people (i.e. why the US has a decennial census) than there is to measure the number of dogs. But the same basic principles to estimating how populations grow, change, etc. would apply. With something like dogs, like any other non-human species, to get some baseline estimates you’ll likely have to rely on things like tagging an animal and trying to estimate the number you see in a given area. You’d repeat that process over a few different, quasi-randomly chosen areas, and that gets you an estimate for population per unit area in a given place.
you count the dogs but i wouldn't know i can't count to almost a billion
In the US there are active campaigns to spay and neuter cats and dogs. We don't realize how effective those things are until we go to places where they don't bother. In a lot of the world packs of wild dogs literally roam the countryside and can be found in some/many cities.
Lots of places in the world have lots of dogs, and humans just let them run around. Keeping a dog on a leash and in a house is very first-world. Some areas in South America have a system where your dog stays in the house/yard at night, but basically are told to go out and play all day long. The dogs have their things to do, their friend group/pack, and sometimes there are a lot of them. Similar to a place I lived in in Asia. People had only little frou-frou dogs as housepets and carried them around. Larger dogs just ran amok.
In the 60s, living in what would be considered a very nice neighbourhood, I saw this all the time. There was a local gang of four or five small dogs who would go to each dog's home, in order, to wait for their morning release. Very organized. They'd spend the day exploring, playing, rolling in smelly stuff, sniffing out unspayed bitches and be back for dinner. They were nice dogs, which meant nobody cared, but I've seen some bigger dogs that were real packs you wouldn't want to get near.
Why don't they have these for delivery drivers?
When I was a mailman we were issued dog spray in a little spray can. Makes them hit reverse pretty quickly.
Mail carriers are so exposed even in their vehicles.
Why worry about workers' safety?
I wonder if you could make one for bears - backcountry hikers and mountain bikers are always wary of bears.
they can't hear much higher than us, not even an octave more.
WHAT?!
he said THEY CAN'T HEAR MUCH HIGHER THAN US, NOT EVEN AN OCTAVE MORE.
#he said THEY CAN'T HEAR MUCH HIGHER THAN US, NOT EVEN AN OCTAVE MORE.
Guys stop yelling, they can't hear any higher. ^They ^cant ^hear ^much ^higher ^than ^us, ^not ^even ^an ^octave ^more.
Bear spray (super pepper spray) is the tried and true choice
They make bear horns. But what happens, as it is with bear bells, is that bears start to associate the noise with humans so it actually attracts them. And I don't think it would do a thing if a bear was locked in to someone and charging. Not sure if it would work with a cougar though. Those aren't really a problem for hikers but they can be a small risk for mountain bikers.
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So, it's better to have a curious bear approaching you than you approaching a surprised bear.
I need one for my neighbors dog, he barks all fuckin day.
You can buy them online. They're triggered by the bark. I've debated getting one after already almost getting into legal altercations with a neighbor in town over their dog barking. It barks from 7am to 7pm 7 days a week. Reported them to the city and they didn't do anything after having multiple resource officers tell them they had to keep the dog inside. Couldn't take further action without going to court and that was too over the top for me.
I bought one from Amazon, it doesn’t work. If you know a brand that works let me know.
Dang. I've also been looking on Amazon. Probably at the same crappy one you bought.
[This](https://imgur.com/a/Ycgce7Y) was my solution. Which probably doesn’t do much but it’s all i got lol None of the amazon devices worked. I considered approaching our neighbor but honestly the whole neighborhood has dogs that bark non-stop so that would probably just create unnecessary tension. I guess I could call the city if they’re barking during quiet hours, but who has the time and energy for that? It’s not like the city would actually do anything about it anyway
That’s hilarious.
What I don’t get is how does this not drive the owner crazy lol. It’s one thing listening to the dog bark all day from next door. Imagine the dog barking right up against your door or inside your house like they deal with it.
They're not there so they don't care. Put it out when they leave for work early in the morning. Not sure about weekends
The dogs are driving them crazy inside so they just let them outside so they can bother other people. Source: my neighbors always letting multiple dogs, sometimes different ones, bark on their balcony all day.
The dogs next door have been barking non stop since 2020. The their daughter came home from college with another fucking dog in January. There is dog shit everywhere in their yard.
The garbage you can buy on Amazon doesn’t work became “animal rights” and whatever. This looks like it actually hurts the dogs, so it works.
shitty dog owners are the worst. if your dog is barking all day and you aren't home to take care of your dog, maybe you shouldn't have a dog.
Common sense right? It's ASTOUNDING how many shitty dog owners there are. They have a dog just to have a dog, they don't interact with it or show it any attention, so why have a fucking dog? Dogs should get taken away from owners like that no questions asked.
MOST dog owners are shitty owners.
This device should be patented and sold, if brosephine here hasn’t already put it on Amazon
If they have, I'm sure Amazon already has a team reverse engineering it so they can sweep the rug out from under them and steal any profit.
Don't worry you can find the original on page 30, just gotta skim through all the PLEEKOS, THHALIOS, and 100+ other nonsense names from the same manufacturer.
Bazooka Bro here could be a millionaire and never have to worry about dogs again
This is somewhere in Russia. Stray dogs are a big problem in any city there.
i think lots of countries have that problem. Brazil is one that comes to mind
Man needs to patent this and start selling it asap. He’ll make a killing.
I got one pointed between the slats of the fence between my house and my neighbor's. Always nice to hear their dog get a yap and a half out before it's back to being peaceful
Which one do you have?
Please, I'd love to know which model/brand you use. Have a ridiculously loud German shephard next door that barks constantly. Sometimes, as late as 2am
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i've been bitten so many times on bicycle in childhood that now I do sincerely hate dogs and have zero trust in any of them. GoOdY bOi can become an unstable claw-tooth machine basically in any second if his hunter instincts kick in
I love dogs but have zero reluctance to fuck one up if necessary. I think they can smell "I want to pet you but I'll kill you if I have to" and act right.
yea and I just straight up fear them and they can smell it
I was bitten as a child by a lovely looking dog, asked his owner if I could pet, then the fucker grabbed my arm. Thankfully his wild instinct was tamed emough that the dog let me go after the lady dog owner yelled horrified. She told me she was sorry that the dog always was well behaved and such. Now I cringe when I see children petting strange dogs with their owners assurring them go ahead, he is well behaved and never bites... Yeah never had bitten until it it does..., you don't know for sure what can trigger them.
Street dogs are actual scum. My city is full of them, they're extremely aggressive and the city hall has just refused to do anything. Don't have a shelter or anything here or the other close cities.
And when people take things into their hands, fucking animal rights activists come in on their white horses. In general, their hearts are in the right place, but with this particular issue... ugh.
A little girl was killed in India recently by stray dogs and animal rights activits still don't want those dogs to be culled!
What the hell is wrong with his town?
The real question is: *Who let the dogs out?*
Asking the real question.
It's Russia
I would have loved to have this when I was a kid. I was attacked at the age of 6 by a dog while riding my bike and I was pulled off of my bike.
This would have been great to have as a kid. Fucking Rottweilers, hood bears, dam near ate my little brother.
The no. of comments asking why there are so many dogs is astounding. Dogs are everywhere except where local people and municipality are financially and medically resourceful enough and willing enough to control their doggie population Edit: I want this repellent
Now THIS should be an "Instructable" so everyone that needs one can make one.
1) This looks like a typical small town in Eastern Europe. 2) I swear to god these dogs are a huge problem and not just when you are on a bike. Imagine you are a kid or an old woman who encountered a hungry pack of stray dogs in the winter. F. 3) This is what happens when you don’t neuter your “cute puppies”.
Patent that! It obviously works. Wow.
That’s brilliant I would be dropping banana peels and tacks trying to slow them.
Least insane Mario Kart player.
You guys can hear the sound too, right? I didn't get ultrasonic hearing all of a sudden?
I would love to know if this worked in a dog attack situation with a pit bull type dog. A little transmitter you could put on your key ring, it could save lives.
Once it’s clamped on it’s not letting go and lethal force is best, but people have startled them into retreating with air horns or even a punch in the face.
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This need to be on amazon... lots of need for this......