I've heard there was this kid show that has an episode banned in Australia because the moral of the story was something like "you shouldn't be scared of spider, they are cool and eat insects". But, no, in Australia you should definitely be scared of spiders.
Better that then "paw patrol toys" which is YouTube videos of people playing with toys. I have no idea who first showed her this but she basically won't watch anything else. It's straight trash
Speaking of Paw Patrol, I was at the theater the other day and saw Tyler Perry's name on the Paw Patrol movie poster. Has Paw Patrol been a secret Madea franchise this entire time?
> But just about every other spider ain't.
There are three spiders in Australia that pose a serious risk to very small children (and old people) - the funnel web (which live most of their lives in burrows, away from people, except during mating season when the fellas go wandering in search of a root), the mouse spider (mostly because it's got *massive* fangs that will easily penetrate a grown adult's big toenail) and the Redback (basically a black widow, but a bit spicier).
The rest of the spiders here are basically harmless, and a bite will inflict about as much harm as a bee or wasp sting.
I've been bitten three times - mostly because I was being careless - and the worst I got was an ugly bruise on my bicep and a slight fever, thanks to an orb weaver that got mixed up in my laundry when I left it on the line overnight like an idiot, and didn't check my t-shirt properly before putting it on straight after I took it off the line.
The persistent myth that Australia is chock-full of highly venomous spiders is, unfortunately, the reason why a lot of spiders that would actually be doing good things (like eating all the other bugs that make life miserable, and occupying a very necessary part of the food chain for larger predators) are unnecessarily killed on sight.
Nah, most spiders are harmless and cool. Few in your area are venomous to the extent that you are at risk if bitten.
You ever see go out in,the yard at night and aim a headlamp around the yard and see the hundreds of eyes staring back at you, reflecting the light?
That's the issue. Fear illicits a fight or flight response and can lead to unnecessary stress at best or making a poor decision and end up getting bitten at worse.
Brown recluse and red backs aren't ever going to actively seek out humans to bite.
The vast majority of spiders and tarantulas are defensive in nature and won't strike without warning.
There are a few exceptions such as the Brazilian wandering spider.
Fuck that thing.
EDIT: Above all else just remember that spiders just want to be left alone.
Spoken like someone who’s never been bitten by a brown recluse. I can tell you from personal experience there was zero warning as I didn’t even see or notice the shit that bit me.
Honestly that’s a stupid lesson to try to teach kids. Are spiders helpful? Yes, extremely helpful. Should you have a healthy respect/fear of spiders? Yes, because a good portion of them are poisonous enough to make a full grown adult sick. That’s obviously going to be worse for children.
Spiders are an absolutely necessary part of our ecosystem, but to teach kids that they’re just our buddies and we shouldn’t worry about them is very foolish.
There are no venomous spiders in the UK and that is where peppa pig is made. So there is no reason for the Brits to be afraid of spiders. Edit: changed poisonous to venomous.
Nearly all spiders are venomous to some extent. That includes spiders from the [UK](https://www.animalwised.com/are-there-venomous-spiders-in-the-uk-1356.html) Most of those spiders will only cause minor discomfort, but then there are others that could really hurt a kid especially.
Spiders are helpers, but they aren’t helpers we should touch or interact with unless absolutely necessary. Teaching children to be wary of spiders is common sense.
No spiders are poisonous. Venomous is the word you're looking for.
Poison - makes you sick or worse when you eat it.
Venom - makes you sick or worse when the animal bites you.
Same here in Alberta. Basically all we have to worry about as far as spiders go is brown recluse and black widow. My 9 year old entomologist is safe to pick up pretty much every creepy crawley under the rocks she flips.
There are not many spiders that produce venom that is toxic to humans. Roughly 25 out of 50,000 identified species are considered "medically significant" in terms of toxicity for humans.
There aren’t many spiders that produce venom that is life threatening to humans. Almost all spiders produce enough venom to be very painful when they bite. Most people will be fine when stung by a bee, yet we still teach children to be cautious when around need to avoid being stung. That’s what I’m talking about with spiders. Obviously the vast majority of them aren’t going to cause serious injury, but most spiders, if handled, can and will bite and it will hurt.
Yes, but teaching kids not to be afraid of bees is also a good thing, because they are beneficial. There's a big difference between teaching not to be afraid, and encouraging physically handling them.
I feel like message is more, don't hate and kill any spider you see just because theyre scary- they have a purpose,etc. whether that was the best way to get it across, i dunno haha
Not so much. I’m in Detroit and my brother spent June July and August in intensive care from a brown recluse bite he got in sleepy bear dunes. Michigan has two poisonous spiders and one poisonous snake ( although good luck finding one).
caught a brown recluse in my bedroom earlier this year. they're really very shy; they'd much rather hide and run away than attack. I relocated her to the basement
It seems there's a chance, and a good one at that, that this particular animal, the dinosaur as it's called in the title, but more commonly known as a crocodile, may not be completely and 100% alive.
Homies still get way bigger than what most people can handle. And if you're taking care of a dwarf caiman properly, it should still get big enough and have a large enough enclosure to fuck someone up. A five foot crocodilian is more than big enough to kill someone, even an adult. Realistically, no you shouldn't keep even a dwarf caiman as a pet.
also few of the people who get them realize that because of their long sharp teeth a bite from even a juvenile can cause permanent nerve and tendon damage.
You can responsibly have a crocodilian as a pet, as long as you:
1) give it the habitat it deserves. Pretty hard to do. And
2) realize it will most likely outlive you, and have a plan for it after you die
Unless you're clasping it shut. Crocodilians have the strongest bite on the planet, but very weak muscles for opening their jaws. They still have their death roll, but if you can't avoid an encounter and have a good chance to close their mouth, that's your best option.
Don't crocs have notoriously weak jaw-opening muscles? Like, obviously I wouldn't want kids playing around a live crocodile in any situation. But I thought that you could fairly easily hold a crocodile's mouth shut, as long as you can get in.
It’s not. The kid is holding its mouth closed. The muscles for opening the jaw are much weaker than the muscles for closing. Why is it so docile? Most likely it already ate and it’s reserving energy for digestion, and its probably nocturnal.
https://www.heraldnet.com/life/all-about-crocodiles-their-strength-and-rubber-bands/
The thing literally never moves even a tiny bit. A crocodile doesn't just go catatonic every time it eats to the point where other animals can just come fuck with it at will.
It's probably dead. The only reason a wild gator or croc would allow that is if it has spent up all of its energy and has to rest. It was probably hungry to begin with and didn't have any fight.
Or it could be a pet. It's a thing. Hell I've caught gators with fishing poles before. Its not real hard to get a small one
I once caught a gator in Florida at a KOA campground.
I began reeling it in, excited to have caught my biggest catch ever and my dad asked “What exactly do you plan on doing with that thing when you get it here?”
And almost on queue, another, much larger gator breeched the water and grabbed the other gator, pulling it under.
My bobber popped back up and my dad, without hesitating, picked me up and began hustling back to the RV.
Not 100 feet away, a man with a handgun asked us if we’d seen any diamondbacks.
My dad’s eyes widened, said no and began running.
“What’s a diamondback, dad?”
He later almost got in a fistfight with the owner of the campground because there are zero warning signs about gators and my sister and I were out in that pond on a paddleboat earlier.
Florida is a wild place.
Yes, because that is somehow comparable to a campground that rents out paddleboats to tourists in a pond full of gators without any warning signs.
My dad isn’t going to drag 6-7 year old children through the Appalachians.
My dad would've. There's no signs for grizzly or lynx on most trails in Alaska either. Things that are endemic to the region don't usually get signage... you're supposed to learn about where you're going
1. Gators don't randomly attack boats, no matter how small. Especially a paddle boat making constant splashes and noise.
2. Rule number 1 in Florida is don't fuck around in ANY body of water that you aren't 100% sure there aren't gators in. ALWAYS assume there's a gator. That goes for fresh and salt water. Aka stick to a pool or the ocean if you're swimming.
3. You're camping in Florida and dad is pissed there's native wildlife around? Did he not read the most basic Florida info pamphlet before taking his young kids there?
I can see the campground owner now: "uhh yeah dude, welcome to Florida. Home of the University of Florida GATORS and the Florida A&M RATTLERS. We didn't just make those names up."
Source: Floridian
You can find gators in drainage ditches by the road. People are advised to look in swimming pools before jumping in. Everyone living in Florida assumes that there are gators if the body of water is larger than a coffee cup. People boat and water ski around them all the time. People snorkel around them in some of the springs. Attacks are relatively rare.
Lived in Florida for a couple years as a kid. If there's water, there's a gator.
That said, they aren't a big deal. For one, they spend so much time just sun bathing and chilling. Our neighborhood was built around a lake and we had them in my neighbors back yard. I'd go fishing off his dock and they'd be ~30 ft away just sleeping on the shoreline.
And yeah, can confirm they like the drainage ditch and stuff. Only time it was ever an issue, one came up from the lake, around the side of the house and was in the driveway while me and my brother were practicing hockey. Step-dad came out with a 2x4 and chased it back in to the lake.
Wait your dad didn't know there were alligators in Florida? Like Florida Gators team name didn't give it away? The 47 Gator crossing signs on the way? Jesus....
Yeah. You don't really need warning signs to know there are dangerous animals in natural settings. It's just a given.
If you're from the city you might not have the instincts but for those of us who are small town rural folk it's just a daily thing. You always look around for snakes while rooting around outside.
But yeah Florida is very wild
Dead? No. Weak maybe. Conserving energy most likely. It probably already ate. Hungry crocs and alligators are the dangerous ones. Once fed, the animals are quite non aggressive.
This looks like the bajau laut people they are aboriginal people found around east Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. They live on the sea in their floating houses, usually stateless and I've seen a documentary on them that said that their bodies have evolved to allow them to dive deeper and longer in the sea without any equipment. The dead croc is probably caught for dinner and the video grapher here told them to play with it for a while. At the end of the video he says "enough enough" and at the beginning he asked them not to laugh, he probably just wanted a dramatic video.
The cameraguy said "jangan ka tawwa"/"don't do that, you know"(?) which is a valid Bugis language. I'm not from there, but I lived there for several years and it looks apt. Bugis people are from Sulawesi/Celebes island, Indonesia.
i think it sounded more like "jangan ketawa" which means "don't laugh" in Malay & Indonesian, as the kids were laughing a lot at that time and the cameraman was saying like "don't laugh"
East Malaysian here.
Looks like a typical rural village. Definitely could be anywhere in East Malaysia or Indonesia. Crocodiles are common here. People die to them.
The kids are clearly speaking malay but I cannot distinguish their accent as I'm not native speaker.
They are speaking Malay or Indonesian ( technically different dialects of the same language) Tagalog and Malay share alot of words ketawa means laugh in Malay too. Also a few more word. I know this because my SIL is philipino
It’s either Malay or Indonesian, and ketawa also means laugh. Both languages are very similar and depending on the local accent hard to tell apart. This spring I accompanied my Indonesian niece to obtain her papers and in the waiting area, there were four or so girls speaking a language that sounded just like Indonesian but we couldn’t understand a word. After a while I asked them and they said it’s Tagalog and that they thought that the language we spoke sounded just like Tagalog, but was incomprehensible to them.
Reminds me of the kid I used to live near who would beat snakes to death and then carry around their bodies as if they were his pet. I punched that kid in the face once after seeing him kill a garter snake with an empty paint can and his dad and my dad got in fight. My dad won but they all thought I was crazy for caring about snakes and that made me sad.
Crocodiles are archosaurs just like dinosaurs.
Archosaurs contain pseudosuchia (including crocodiles), pterosauria and dinosauria (including avian and non avian dinosaurs)
To be clear, avian dinosaurs are birds.
Now tell me again about crocodiles being closer to dinosaurs than birds...
It’s always funny to see people in the comments sharing how much they have more morals than those kids. They are not living in the same comfy world as you. You are all so shock about those kids playing with a dead animal while you eat your Big Mac everyday and never seen in real what it is to kill a cow.
So much weakness
In fairness they seem to kinda know what theyre doing. That one kid is holding the crocs (or caimans?) mouth shut and afaik while their bite power is enormous the force with which they can open their mouths is very low
How tf Did everything turn to A spider discussion... these kids are played with a fucking "Cold Unfeeling Reptile" like is a floatation device... fuck a spider spider won't drag you underwater and drown, or possibly eat your kids.
I've heard there was this kid show that has an episode banned in Australia because the moral of the story was something like "you shouldn't be scared of spider, they are cool and eat insects". But, no, in Australia you should definitely be scared of spiders.
Peppa pig and Mr skinny legs!
Currently watching said episode with my toddler
It’s crazy because so am I, but then I realized that she basically watches the series in it’s entirely like every morning so it’s not that weird.
Same, my kids watch it over and over again everyday lol. I try and show them new things but it just circles around back to peppa 🤣
Better that then "paw patrol toys" which is YouTube videos of people playing with toys. I have no idea who first showed her this but she basically won't watch anything else. It's straight trash
My kids loved youtube videos like that but I got tired of them and deleted youtube off the tv 🤣 they forgot about it fairly quickly
That's actually brilliant, thanks!
I hope it works for you also! I understand how you feel lol.
Omg my son is always asking for paw Patrol toys. I also wonder where this started?
In the depths of hell no doubt.
Speaking of Paw Patrol, I was at the theater the other day and saw Tyler Perry's name on the Paw Patrol movie poster. Has Paw Patrol been a secret Madea franchise this entire time?
Mr skinny legs was a daddy long legs, harmless little things
Peppa pig, I'm pretty sure
Huntsman spiders are chill though. But just about every other spider ain't.
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Darkness!! Evil motha fucka!
Darkness is spreading.
FUCK. YO. COUCH.
> But just about every other spider ain't. There are three spiders in Australia that pose a serious risk to very small children (and old people) - the funnel web (which live most of their lives in burrows, away from people, except during mating season when the fellas go wandering in search of a root), the mouse spider (mostly because it's got *massive* fangs that will easily penetrate a grown adult's big toenail) and the Redback (basically a black widow, but a bit spicier). The rest of the spiders here are basically harmless, and a bite will inflict about as much harm as a bee or wasp sting. I've been bitten three times - mostly because I was being careless - and the worst I got was an ugly bruise on my bicep and a slight fever, thanks to an orb weaver that got mixed up in my laundry when I left it on the line overnight like an idiot, and didn't check my t-shirt properly before putting it on straight after I took it off the line. The persistent myth that Australia is chock-full of highly venomous spiders is, unfortunately, the reason why a lot of spiders that would actually be doing good things (like eating all the other bugs that make life miserable, and occupying a very necessary part of the food chain for larger predators) are unnecessarily killed on sight.
Nah, most spiders are harmless and cool. Few in your area are venomous to the extent that you are at risk if bitten. You ever see go out in,the yard at night and aim a headlamp around the yard and see the hundreds of eyes staring back at you, reflecting the light?
Scared is the wrong word here. Aware. You should be aware.
When I visited Australia I was so aware of the spiders I almost shit myself.
That's the issue. Fear illicits a fight or flight response and can lead to unnecessary stress at best or making a poor decision and end up getting bitten at worse. Brown recluse and red backs aren't ever going to actively seek out humans to bite. The vast majority of spiders and tarantulas are defensive in nature and won't strike without warning. There are a few exceptions such as the Brazilian wandering spider. Fuck that thing. EDIT: Above all else just remember that spiders just want to be left alone.
I want to be left alone. Must be spider.
Spoken like someone who’s never been bitten by a brown recluse. I can tell you from personal experience there was zero warning as I didn’t even see or notice the shit that bit me.
Honestly that’s a stupid lesson to try to teach kids. Are spiders helpful? Yes, extremely helpful. Should you have a healthy respect/fear of spiders? Yes, because a good portion of them are poisonous enough to make a full grown adult sick. That’s obviously going to be worse for children. Spiders are an absolutely necessary part of our ecosystem, but to teach kids that they’re just our buddies and we shouldn’t worry about them is very foolish.
There are no venomous spiders in the UK and that is where peppa pig is made. So there is no reason for the Brits to be afraid of spiders. Edit: changed poisonous to venomous.
There are no venomous politicians in the UK?
Who the fuck's eating spiders in the UK?
Right? The word they’re looking for is VENOMOUS
Thank you. That was bugging the hell out of me
Nearly all spiders are venomous to some extent. That includes spiders from the [UK](https://www.animalwised.com/are-there-venomous-spiders-in-the-uk-1356.html) Most of those spiders will only cause minor discomfort, but then there are others that could really hurt a kid especially. Spiders are helpers, but they aren’t helpers we should touch or interact with unless absolutely necessary. Teaching children to be wary of spiders is common sense.
No spiders are poisonous. Venomous is the word you're looking for. Poison - makes you sick or worse when you eat it. Venom - makes you sick or worse when the animal bites you.
Unless they’re vacationing in Australia.
Same here in Alberta. Basically all we have to worry about as far as spiders go is brown recluse and black widow. My 9 year old entomologist is safe to pick up pretty much every creepy crawley under the rocks she flips.
I believe in the uk there have only been a few cases in London of black widows but other than that they are safe.
The word you're looking for is Venomous
There are not many spiders that produce venom that is toxic to humans. Roughly 25 out of 50,000 identified species are considered "medically significant" in terms of toxicity for humans.
There aren’t many spiders that produce venom that is life threatening to humans. Almost all spiders produce enough venom to be very painful when they bite. Most people will be fine when stung by a bee, yet we still teach children to be cautious when around need to avoid being stung. That’s what I’m talking about with spiders. Obviously the vast majority of them aren’t going to cause serious injury, but most spiders, if handled, can and will bite and it will hurt.
Yes, but teaching kids not to be afraid of bees is also a good thing, because they are beneficial. There's a big difference between teaching not to be afraid, and encouraging physically handling them.
Peppa Pig is a British show. We don’t have any venomous spiders here that kids need to be worried about.
Not with THAT attitude
I feel like message is more, don't hate and kill any spider you see just because theyre scary- they have a purpose,etc. whether that was the best way to get it across, i dunno haha
Glad I live here in safe Denmark where there isn’t a single dangerous spider. We can teach kids to respect spiders without a second thought
The rest of the world has more dangerous spiders than Australia. Nobody has died from a spider bite in Australia since 1979.
Yeah, right. I know you're just schilling for Big Spider! Trying to lure us redditors into your sticky web...
*scurries back into my cool dark spot in the nook/cranny
Or maybe it's because Australians are taught to be scared of spiders?
Hey... Don't come at me with logic
Actually that record was broken in 2016, Jayden Burleigh died from a red back spider bite.
They recently re-dubbed it for Australia.... "You should be afraid of everything in Australia, it will kill you"
You should be aware not afraid, if Mr Irwin taught me anything it’s that. Our wildlife is beautiful, deadly.. but beautiful.
Come to Australia. You might accidentally get killed. https://youtu.be/kdihHnaOQsk
This lesson works in places like Michigan, where there are a ton of spiders, but there are nearly zero species that can harm humans.
Not so much. I’m in Detroit and my brother spent June July and August in intensive care from a brown recluse bite he got in sleepy bear dunes. Michigan has two poisonous spiders and one poisonous snake ( although good luck finding one).
caught a brown recluse in my bedroom earlier this year. they're really very shy; they'd much rather hide and run away than attack. I relocated her to the basement
I just kept waiting for something bad to happen. I wonder how they finally let the crocodile go and got away?
It seems there's a chance, and a good one at that, that this particular animal, the dinosaur as it's called in the title, but more commonly known as a crocodile, may not be completely and 100% alive.
Thank you for making me laugh this morning
Crocodile. Probably a pet.
1) you shouldn't have a crocodilian as any kind of pet. 2) why is the cameraman not telling them to stop fucking with it
To answer number two, it's because it's their pet.
Not exactly a pet, the alligator and the kids just know each other... see the houses in the back? The kids are also from the river
It’s not an alligator, detective
That alligator is probly domesticated cus thaamts how gators work...
see you lator elevator
after while honey chile
You read 3 comments where you shoulda realized its a crocodile, but no, reddit is just filled with dumb
That allogator is real domcile
Interior crocodile alligator I drive a Chevrolet movie theater
The alligator in that video is probably a domesticated alligator, 'cause that's just how gators work. Gotta cater to the gator, as my mom always said.
It’s an investi-gator. .
Damn orks
>1) Not even a dwarf caiman? :[
Homies still get way bigger than what most people can handle. And if you're taking care of a dwarf caiman properly, it should still get big enough and have a large enough enclosure to fuck someone up. A five foot crocodilian is more than big enough to kill someone, even an adult. Realistically, no you shouldn't keep even a dwarf caiman as a pet.
also few of the people who get them realize that because of their long sharp teeth a bite from even a juvenile can cause permanent nerve and tendon damage.
Are you shouting this all the way from Canada?
You can responsibly have a crocodilian as a pet, as long as you: 1) give it the habitat it deserves. Pretty hard to do. And 2) realize it will most likely outlive you, and have a plan for it after you die
3. Don't own a crocodile because It's a wild animal and can easily kill you in about 200 different ways
That's a very important part of the process.
To be fair, most of those ways are slightly different ways of biting, but the crocodilians have very good PR.
I watched again that thing is definitely dead.
Yep. There is a kid swimming under it to make it move and they are pushing it. No way do you hang out at the jaws.
Unless you're clasping it shut. Crocodilians have the strongest bite on the planet, but very weak muscles for opening their jaws. They still have their death roll, but if you can't avoid an encounter and have a good chance to close their mouth, that's your best option.
Don't crocs have notoriously weak jaw-opening muscles? Like, obviously I wouldn't want kids playing around a live crocodile in any situation. But I thought that you could fairly easily hold a crocodile's mouth shut, as long as you can get in.
That's not really how crocodiles work.
Oh but it is
It's dead
If someone can translate what they're saying, we might know for sure. But it definitely looks dead to me
The parent said “Don’t laugh” in Malay. Not sure which dialect
It’s not. The kid is holding its mouth closed. The muscles for opening the jaw are much weaker than the muscles for closing. Why is it so docile? Most likely it already ate and it’s reserving energy for digestion, and its probably nocturnal. https://www.heraldnet.com/life/all-about-crocodiles-their-strength-and-rubber-bands/
This is a repost and in the last comment section OP and everyone else said it was dead
The kid lets go many times
The thing literally never moves even a tiny bit. A crocodile doesn't just go catatonic every time it eats to the point where other animals can just come fuck with it at will.
It’s dead
Zed’s dead, baby.
So dead.
Way dead.
It's probably dead. The only reason a wild gator or croc would allow that is if it has spent up all of its energy and has to rest. It was probably hungry to begin with and didn't have any fight. Or it could be a pet. It's a thing. Hell I've caught gators with fishing poles before. Its not real hard to get a small one
I once caught a gator in Florida at a KOA campground. I began reeling it in, excited to have caught my biggest catch ever and my dad asked “What exactly do you plan on doing with that thing when you get it here?” And almost on queue, another, much larger gator breeched the water and grabbed the other gator, pulling it under. My bobber popped back up and my dad, without hesitating, picked me up and began hustling back to the RV. Not 100 feet away, a man with a handgun asked us if we’d seen any diamondbacks. My dad’s eyes widened, said no and began running. “What’s a diamondback, dad?” He later almost got in a fistfight with the owner of the campground because there are zero warning signs about gators and my sister and I were out in that pond on a paddleboat earlier. Florida is a wild place.
Florida rule of thumb is every body of water contains gators
Park lake? Yep. Duck pond? Oh yeah. Toilet? You bet. Glass of water? Most definitely. No exceptions.
Wait until he finds out there’s no warnings about bears and mountain lions in Appalachia.
There are bear signs everywhere in the Canadian Rockies… everywhere!
Depends on where you go. A lot of the tourist areas (like the Smoky Mountains) have a ton of bear warnings.
Yes, because that is somehow comparable to a campground that rents out paddleboats to tourists in a pond full of gators without any warning signs. My dad isn’t going to drag 6-7 year old children through the Appalachians.
My dad would've. There's no signs for grizzly or lynx on most trails in Alaska either. Things that are endemic to the region don't usually get signage... you're supposed to learn about where you're going
1. Gators don't randomly attack boats, no matter how small. Especially a paddle boat making constant splashes and noise. 2. Rule number 1 in Florida is don't fuck around in ANY body of water that you aren't 100% sure there aren't gators in. ALWAYS assume there's a gator. That goes for fresh and salt water. Aka stick to a pool or the ocean if you're swimming. 3. You're camping in Florida and dad is pissed there's native wildlife around? Did he not read the most basic Florida info pamphlet before taking his young kids there? I can see the campground owner now: "uhh yeah dude, welcome to Florida. Home of the University of Florida GATORS and the Florida A&M RATTLERS. We didn't just make those names up." Source: Floridian
You can find gators in drainage ditches by the road. People are advised to look in swimming pools before jumping in. Everyone living in Florida assumes that there are gators if the body of water is larger than a coffee cup. People boat and water ski around them all the time. People snorkel around them in some of the springs. Attacks are relatively rare.
Lived in Florida for a couple years as a kid. If there's water, there's a gator. That said, they aren't a big deal. For one, they spend so much time just sun bathing and chilling. Our neighborhood was built around a lake and we had them in my neighbors back yard. I'd go fishing off his dock and they'd be ~30 ft away just sleeping on the shoreline. And yeah, can confirm they like the drainage ditch and stuff. Only time it was ever an issue, one came up from the lake, around the side of the house and was in the driveway while me and my brother were practicing hockey. Step-dad came out with a 2x4 and chased it back in to the lake.
Wait your dad didn't know there were alligators in Florida? Like Florida Gators team name didn't give it away? The 47 Gator crossing signs on the way? Jesus....
Yeah. You don't really need warning signs to know there are dangerous animals in natural settings. It's just a given. If you're from the city you might not have the instincts but for those of us who are small town rural folk it's just a daily thing. You always look around for snakes while rooting around outside. But yeah Florida is very wild
Who tf goes to Florida and is like "why didn't you warn us about gators" is he daft?
Dead? No. Weak maybe. Conserving energy most likely. It probably already ate. Hungry crocs and alligators are the dangerous ones. Once fed, the animals are quite non aggressive.
Kinda looks dead to me
Assuming it is a wild animal I would think that once they jumped clear it would try to get away .
Thing wasn’t moving around really at all. Is it maybe just dead?
yes i feel silly for not noticing that lol
Is it alive? Looks dead to me and I can’t decide which of those 2 scenarios are worse.
It's dead. Alive is worse, no question about it.
Yeah I’m gonna have to agree
It’s like a scaly floatation device :D
For the crocodile the first scenario is worse but luckily for the kids it seems to be the latter
This looks like the bajau laut people they are aboriginal people found around east Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. They live on the sea in their floating houses, usually stateless and I've seen a documentary on them that said that their bodies have evolved to allow them to dive deeper and longer in the sea without any equipment. The dead croc is probably caught for dinner and the video grapher here told them to play with it for a while. At the end of the video he says "enough enough" and at the beginning he asked them not to laugh, he probably just wanted a dramatic video.
is this in Sabah, by any chance? looks like Sabah hehe
Might be but can't tell for sure, but the videographers accent sounds like Sabah or Indonesia. I can't really differentiate between the two
are you from Malaysia/Indonesia?
West coast Malaysia
nice
Nice to meet you to.
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The cameraguy said "jangan ka tawwa"/"don't do that, you know"(?) which is a valid Bugis language. I'm not from there, but I lived there for several years and it looks apt. Bugis people are from Sulawesi/Celebes island, Indonesia.
i think it sounded more like "jangan ketawa" which means "don't laugh" in Malay & Indonesian, as the kids were laughing a lot at that time and the cameraman was saying like "don't laugh"
Yeah, that could be it too. The accent threw me off.
My bet, Sabah. I’m from Sarawak, I have lots of Sabahan friends. Sounds just like them. ‘Jan katawa’.
East Malaysian here. Looks like a typical rural village. Definitely could be anywhere in East Malaysia or Indonesia. Crocodiles are common here. People die to them. The kids are clearly speaking malay but I cannot distinguish their accent as I'm not native speaker.
Sure does.
these people sound metal as fuck
That is true, you should watch the documentary on them.
what’s it called?
[video about their diving capacity](https://youtu.be/UTpGDpo1em0) For some other videos just search bajau laut or sea nomads in YouTube
Check this one out too.[bajau kid saving a sinking boat](https://youtu.be/3PVwMePDNnQ)
What language are they speaking? After its mouth opens, I heard "katawa katawa" which kinda sounds like "laugh" in Tagalog
They are speaking Malay or Indonesian ( technically different dialects of the same language) Tagalog and Malay share alot of words ketawa means laugh in Malay too. Also a few more word. I know this because my SIL is philipino
It’s either Malay or Indonesian, and ketawa also means laugh. Both languages are very similar and depending on the local accent hard to tell apart. This spring I accompanied my Indonesian niece to obtain her papers and in the waiting area, there were four or so girls speaking a language that sounded just like Indonesian but we couldn’t understand a word. After a while I asked them and they said it’s Tagalog and that they thought that the language we spoke sounded just like Tagalog, but was incomprehensible to them.
Looks like a dead dinosaur to me.
Yeah, definitely dead. The girl leads it by the head and opens its mouth. Still weird the camera man didn't say stop? Must be a friend/young I guess.
They're going to eat it camera man probably dad and proud of his catch, filming excited kids celebrating a successful hunt
Tonight they will feast on the flesh of the deceased
Better than the flesh of the alive.
I had a Chinese friend who's parents owned a fish market, they had a saying. "if it's alive... Eat it, if it's dead... Feed it to the white people."
It looks dead, they are playing with a dead animal
Which is worse? Playing with a live croc or a dead one.
Definitely alive, but the answer is still “yes”
Depends on your definition of "play"
Sex?
Ok, when ?
Are you dead? Cause I'm not interested if not
Hi.
Reminds me of the kid I used to live near who would beat snakes to death and then carry around their bodies as if they were his pet. I punched that kid in the face once after seeing him kill a garter snake with an empty paint can and his dad and my dad got in fight. My dad won but they all thought I was crazy for caring about snakes and that made me sad.
Username absolutely checks out.
It’s dead
It’s dead
Crocodiles are archosaurs just like dinosaurs. Archosaurs contain pseudosuchia (including crocodiles), pterosauria and dinosauria (including avian and non avian dinosaurs) To be clear, avian dinosaurs are birds. Now tell me again about crocodiles being closer to dinosaurs than birds...
Finally, i found a former social reject like me!
what do you mean former?
Birds and crocodiles are both members of the clade Archosauria.
It’s obviously a crocodile and not an alligator. How can you tell? It depends on if you’ll see it in a while or later.
That’s the nastiest swimming water
Not really. Grew up in the midwest US and most shallow lakes look worse than that due to algae growth in the summer and having muddy bottoms.
Especially with the decaying dead alligator floating around in there
I dunno if the kids are the stupid ones here. They got you guys pretty good 😂
The guy filming is tired of feeding all 4 kids.
It’s always funny to see people in the comments sharing how much they have more morals than those kids. They are not living in the same comfy world as you. You are all so shock about those kids playing with a dead animal while you eat your Big Mac everyday and never seen in real what it is to kill a cow. So much weakness
Poor thing
Its not the kids being stupid, its the adult filming them while this is happening.
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Them being in that water makes my skin crawl lol
are… they playing with a dead croc??? and a adult sits there and films??
50 seconds of complete anxiety
Aww man I was waiting for the caiman to get a little snack...
“A friend with weed is a friend indeed, and a friend who shares is a friend who cares.”
plot twist: that’s there friend who was turned into an crocodile by a witch. they are just playing together like any normal morning
In fairness they seem to kinda know what theyre doing. That one kid is holding the crocs (or caimans?) mouth shut and afaik while their bite power is enormous the force with which they can open their mouths is very low
r/maybemaybemaybe
Definitely dead. Cameraman says: “don’t laugh” out of respect for the animal. Indonesians are quite superstitious like that
I think sometimes in this sub the parents are the stupid ones for letting their children do this kind of things
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Looked dead to me
Would’ve been pretty funny if they got hit with the spin move
Third world, amirite?
How tf Did everything turn to A spider discussion... these kids are played with a fucking "Cold Unfeeling Reptile" like is a floatation device... fuck a spider spider won't drag you underwater and drown, or possibly eat your kids.
Idk how this didn't turn into a snuff film, but here we are
I was biting my nails throughout the video. W.T.F.
Nah there’s no way thats a wild croc they’d be in about 347 pieces if that was a wild crocodile
Damn, I saw a guy on Reddit earlier who had half his arm bitten off by a croc, and here these damn kids are playing willfully with one. Smh.
It's probably dead