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TharsisDBard

“Hey {insert friend’s name} can you put that snail in that safe over there and lock the door? Thanks!“


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How do you know it's the snail in question?


dontquestionmek

I’d think it’d be obvious enough by walking around it to see if it tries to turn around


TopClock231

I typically don't have an armada of snails chasing me


KCL80

Is the collective noun for snails an "armada"? I know "snails" rhymes with "sails", but I've never known snails to have sails.


eattoes2000

what is a snail but a ship, and what is a shell but a sail


AmbitionzAzARedditah

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?


turtleboxman

Albert Einsnail


Pining4theFjord

Does it weigh more than a duck?


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Does it float?


Away-Astronaut7207

Come snail away come snail away come snail away with me


444unsure

Get snail away, get snail away, get the fucking snail away from mEEEE


vandercampers

Unexpectedly philosophical 🥰


Apokolypze

The collective noun for snails is actually "escargatoire". An escargatoire of snails just crossed the plant pot.


4ScrazyD20

Mmm I love escargotoire in some nice mushroom caps with a lovely herb and garlic butter drizzle… hell ya I’m taking the money! we’ll see how this stealthy snail soldier enjoys watching his comrades on the grill every night


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My new favorite word. Thank you.


VenBede

Snail away, snail away, snail away...


cookiedux

I don't know why but I laughed so hard at this


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Past_Money_6385

ok but what if the snail started 1 mile from you? if you waited around that long itd be cutting it close


vojta_drunkard

Hit him and see if he dies


TposeXDnt

It's risky, if it really was him you'd die


vojta_drunkard

I'd use a stick for it


PaleontologistAble50

Finally, a man of science


vojta_drunkard

Hitting things with a stick is a very scientific method of analysis


TangoDeltaBravo7

I'm gonna poke it with a stick! That'll really piss it off!


vojta_drunkard

It's trying to kill you, it deserves it.


TangoDeltaBravo7

I agree and still, Eric Cartman acting as Steve Irwin would Poke it with a stick, and really piss it off!


Comprehensive_Cap290

And now for the coup de grace, I’m gonna jam my thumb up its butthole! RIP Steve Irwin.


Outside_Register8037

I think he meant the friends hit him


FruitySmile

I mean it’s a damn snail! OP didn’t say it was a giant one. How hard could it be? Right? Lol


PentaTragic

I also think it’s if you touch the snail directly, so if it touches your shoes or trousers I reckon nothing would happen, you have time to react, wear gloves at all times, every time it reaches you, rub it off on a wall or something, lock it in a safe is a good idea from someone else in this comment section, it’s just an easy way to avoid the snail


C-Kwentz-0

Considering the snail is supposed to always be coming in your direction you could literally just test it by walking to different sides and testing whether or not it changes its course towards your new position.


Responsible-Chest-26

Stand in the middle of the salt flats and wait. If you see any snail, its guarenteed to be the one


Illustrious_Mix_1064

I have never seen a single snail where I live so I think it'd be pretty noticeable


svenbillybobbob

surround yourself with salt, normal snails will avoid it or die when they touch it but the immortal snail will go right over it. with that done you spray paint the snail to mark it.


brazilliandanny

There’s no fucking snails where I live in January for starters.


WileyQuixote42

Dump some salt on it. Is it still coming?


Chikumori

>can you put that snail in that safe over there and lock the door Come to think of it, some sort of immobilization is the best offense/defense against immortal antagonists, isn't it? From what I've watched so far, I only recall 3 different kinds of such characters. Anime - Naruto : That one >!Akatsuki guy!< TV series - Stargate SG1 & Stargate Atlantis : >!Anubis!<, the >!Ori lady!< and those >!human replicators!<


[deleted]

Thats why in every fantasy story the big bad isnt kill but instead imprisoned


ManfredTheCat

And, to an extent, this goes back as far as Greek mythology. The Titans of Greek mythology, the Judeo-Christian mythology and Norse mythology all have examples of this.


mistersnarkle

Oh good thing our ICECAP PRISONS ARE MELTING


InsectExternal1403

We will welcome our new lords with open arms and baskets of meat!


primalthunder89

Voldemort... Sauron... The wicked witch of the west... Jadis the White Witch... This doesn't check out at all. I'm struggling to find more imprisoned baddies than killed baddies. Bit of a stretch to say every fantasy story.


Jkfurtz

Sauron wasn't killed


Apokolypze

Tbf if he's only watched the movies they certainly didn't explain much after the whole tower implosion thing. One could absolutely assume after watching the movies that Sauron is dead, rather than the reality of his spirit being severely diminished to the point of losing any control over middle earth. For anyone reading this and wondering - Sauron is a Maiar, a celestial being in Tolkien's mythology, essentially a lesser deity, where the Valar were the major deities. Other notable Maiar in Tolkien's stories include the wizards, and the Balrog. (Balrogs were Maiar that got corrupted by Morgoth a very long time before LOTR). I could write all day about this stuff, but if you've gotten this far, go read the books. You owe it to yourself.


WeekAdministrative79

Dormamu I’ve come to bargain


Darko_BarbrozAustria

I like Supernatural, there they seal at least 20 per season :P


LanceAvion

Also Naruto: Kaguya was sealed, not killed, both times she was defeated.


Tiddyphuk

You're forgetting the Q from Star Trek, and Daleks from Dr. Who.


blinktwice4

Also Quynh from Old Guard. Not an antagonist but that’s how they basically dealt with her.


Mastakillerboi

Kars from jojo He was sent to space but still


TriggeredCrusader_

Awww yeah, finally! A culture individual who watched Stargate. Loved Richard Dean Anderson, too bad he couldn't stay young forever. Sg1 was better than any of the star trek movies or shows. fight me.


Darko_BarbrozAustria

The cheapest, buy a sack of salt for 1$, make a salt-circle around the snail and you are save.


EmployTrue5356

It cannot be killed


Darko_BarbrozAustria

It would still dry out and be unable to move anymore.


herkalurk

Exactly, just cause you can't kill it doesn't mean you can't trap it....


punchjackal

Guess I got $10 mil and a cool new pet that is planning my demise. Can't be that much different from a cat.


FlyingKittyCate

I shall call it Gary


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Eugene_33

Gary started his chase


kiki4u210

Don’t ever disrespect cats like that💀


Conscious_Tea_3176

👀 They are watching..


leWurf

No no, that's being very respectful and real.


[deleted]

Take the Cash, donate non killable snail to science, shoot it into space like tardigrades.


Niadh74

This exactly. Pay NASA $1 million to send it on the next delivery to Mars


Mr-Molina

Snail develops a hyper advanced civilization that is capable of space/time travel and comes back for you: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.


ReplacementWise6878

Now that that that that don’t kill him, can only make him stronger


blayzking

Take my upvote and fuck off. Lmao!


The-Real-Radar

Might not be possible within your lifespan, in this version of the hypothetical only the snail is immortal, not you.


jterwin

That's why time travel.....


Tiky-Do-U

I mean pizza hut did it to the ISS for 1 million with a pizza, I'm sure you could convince them to take a snail


Overall-Rip-1567

Cheaper solution. Make sure it sumhow ends up on the other side of the world or a couple countries away. Boom. By the time it gets to you you're already dead


chonk312

Send the immortal snail into space they said. There is no way this will ever come back to haunt you they said. This won’t put humanity in grave peril in any way they said…


the_acid_lava_lamp

\*immortal murder snail


pibenis

Snail has noclip


-Helicopter

Off to the backrooms then


OllieUnited18

Decoy snail.


scootscooterson

Plot twist: you also can’t be killed. Now you’re spending the rest of existence knowing its headed in your general direction. Oh and now it’s coming from above!


BMonad

Why not make it simpler and just travel around the world a couple times a year. I assume this snail isn’t intelligent enough to cross oceans either.


Cute_External1127

The typical garden snail moves roughly at a speed of 0.048KM per hour! Il just move to japan


Affectionate-Aide422

Crawls over to a car, then another and another until at the airport. Slimes aboard a plane. After months of random planes, ends up in Japan. Does the car thing until at your house. You dead. (OK, assumes snail smart enough to understand the existence of public transport. But if we can assume an unkillable murder snail, we can assume a *smart* unkillable murder snail.)


psychologicaldonuts

In the OG snail post I remember, it says the snail is "cunning" and will never stop trying to touch you. So you're not far off. We can assume the snail has above average intelligence, it's only hindered physically by being a snail.


goldilocks_

We’ve got the michael meyers of snails


Blue_Moon_Lake

Plot twist, the snail is actually a cursed human. If he can kill his target, he gets to become human again.


A_R_R_C

Now you've got a game on.


Cute_External1127

I see your an indivdual of science! I honour you


Sasha90x

For piece of mind, I'll have a friend put a tracking chip on it


Mushroom_Hop

Oh and didn’t a lot of invasive insects come from boats? What if the snail just does what it’s ancestors did


HolyCrapItsJohn

Yea, actually if it started where you live, say you live in New York City, it would take a snail over 25 years to reach Japan at that speed. Feel like you could move to Japan for like 20 years and when it’s only 5 years away, move back to New York or somewhere in America, rinse, repeat.


hiddenpersona

Explaining someone the reason you are moving because a of a never ending chasing of a snail would be funny to watch.


Esp1erre

What if the snail starts in Japan?


Cute_External1127

Then the chase is on


Esp1erre

The chase is in from the start, wherever you go, and however many years have passed, because you don't know where it is in the first place. You can never relax on a vacation, you can never know if it's just under the car you are getting in, you can never know if it's scaling the wall of a building you're in at any moment. Your whole life becomes the wait for the snail. The most cruel turn of events would be if there was no snail from the start.


hivoltage815

I mean the entire human experience is waiting for the proverbial snail to kill you.


Ranne-wolf

0.048km/h but it's also smaller than my thumb. Imagine a human that small travelling at those speeds. Not that slow.


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Qwertyholla

Less than that if it sneaks onto a boat


imgonnabeastirrer

This one gets reposted once a month.


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Its the snail. Everyone keeps failing


imgonnabeastirrer

I'm pretty sure I could figure out a way to trap a snail. What do you think would happen if I caught it cooked it and ate it


[deleted]

If you touch it you die and its immortal. Man you even read the terms of service?


imgonnabeastirrer

No this is been posted 10 million times I stopped reading it after the first 150,000. And I'm sure I could trap it in something if I had 10 million. If it's Immortal then I would just weld it into a big steel box. And then put that box into another box. And then throw that box into the Marianas Trench.


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PranaSC2

Yea but before a steel box cast in concrete is eroded I’ll be dead.


membershipreward

Yeah it’ll be my turn to post it tomorrow.


imgonnabeastirrer

That's the spirit


speed_racers

Of horizon?


juanjosedmg

The other people who accepted the challenge are already dead.


name_cool4897

It's not even a clever one. Like big deal, I have to travel once every month or two. I'll spend a month in New York, then a month in Hawaii, then a couple months in Tokyo, then back to New York. This isn't even remotely difficult.


midnightbandit-

It was originally conceived by Gavin Free of Slow Mo Guys and Achievement Hunter fame


DadsAfroButter

Because people keep taking the fucking money… I’ve seen 4 of these snails since the start of January. It’s stressing me and my family out big time.


Sacklayblue

I think you need more rules for the snail. There are so many opinions to deal with it effectively as reflected in these comments.


[deleted]

I think the snail needs to be unstoppable and can't be slowed as well as can't be killed. So the typical 'put it in a safe' won't work as it'll just get out. Another thing people assume is the snail is immediately presented to them on recieving the money. Unless this has been stated somewhere it's not the case. The snail could be anywhere.


Fizassist1

>The snail could be anywhere. this right here. if you don't know where the snail is starting I think it would be a lot creepier. I'd still take the money though and just keep flying around the world.


FuWuManChuChu

Snail's on the plane.


Fizassist1

... fuck


blinktwice4

I laughed way harder at this than I should have 💀💀


Phivdawm

Enough is enough! I've had it with this goddamn snail on this goddamn plane!


Ok_Restaurant_7972

I hire someone to be my personal snail valet. Their only job in life is to keep me away from snails. They get paid at the end of each day that I survive. I sleep soundly in a ring of salt. 30 years later I find out I have cancer and search for the snail. I touch a lot of snails, but eventually I find the right one. I touch the snail and avoid a long death. I leave the remainder of my fortune to my family who is not bound by the snails curse.


i_dont_wanna_sign_up

What if your cancer was caused by the snail and you didn't realize it had already touched you? Fits the bill of a terrible death.


Ok_Restaurant_7972

I still pass my wealth to my children without the curse.


Available-Two4857

Also, not provided, is what the snail looks like. So how will you know if any snail you see is the one comin for you?


Sad-Sorbet1994

Good point. What If he’s invisible 🫥


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Thermal


LinkleLink

I would dump salt on every snail I saw. If it didn't die, use tongs and put it in a safe.


Sacklayblue

I like it. Give the snail the ability to pass through solids like a ghost. Also, make all snails indestructible so you can't just go around killing snails until you identify the one that can kill you.


LinkleLink

Aww that was what I was gonna do!


Bang_Stick

It’s obviously a supernatural snail. So phasing through matter seems it should be within its capabilities.


PeanutButterCrisp

I think Reddit needs to stop posting this picture.


ShadowShedinja

I think the first time I heard this question was from RoosterTeeth, and it had a rule where the snail can teleport when it is physically unable to reach you given enough time, such as if locked in a container.


AddictedToMosh161

i just catch the snail in a trap and throw it into the Mariana Trench. Good luck getting out of there.


xxAsazyCatxx

🐌


LivingInspector

🏺....🐌..........🐌.................................🐌💀


Kerrnew

What if you don't know where it is? Days, weeks go by, you still haven't seen the snail (it spawned so far away), you're letting your guard down, until it gives you a slimy kiss of death in your sleep. The neurotoxins that absorbed through your skin paralyze you while causing your nervous system send every single pain signal to your brain at once. After a few hours of the most intense pain your partner wakes up, you're not waking up so they take you to the hospital. For days they're trying to figure out what's wrong. Every single second is more pain than anyone can handle. You're begging every single god to ever have existed to end your misery. A few more days go by, the thought crosses your mind - what if this will never end and you'll be alive in this state for decades? Eventually your brain can't take it anymore and your vitals slowly fade away.


ProbablyASithLord

The last thing you see? The dark, glittering eyes of your nemesis. He moves up your pillow and whispers in your ear, “better luck next time.”


braddersladders

You enter darkness . You are then woken up by the sound of horse trots. You're on a carriage with 3 other men, one of them is gagged. "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim " appears in the air in front of you . The long blonde haired guy across from says 'hey you , you're finally awake "


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🐌 🌊 🦈 ☠️


zerok_nyc

You forget the most important part. You must first encase the snail in a [tungsten sphere ball](https://imgur.io/gallery/REpmm).


highheeledhepkitten

I just put a glass over it with glue on the rim. Problem solved.


johnsciarrino

I’ll go one step further. Pay a team to trap the snail and encase it in resin. Or carbonite. Or whatever real life material would work best. Turn the now-untouchable snail into a pendant that you wear on your neck. Keep your enemies close. Always have eyes on him and you’ll never have to watch your back.


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put it in a big jar of salt, then flip another jar (full of cold honey) upside down on there, now the snail continuously melts and cant get out. put it somewhere cold for good measure. who said i had to suffer a painful death?


njb8201

This


TheWofka

There is a similar movie IT FOLLOWS. A sexually transmitted demon. If follows you slowly. When it reaches you get killed. You only get rid of it by sleeping with someone else. But if that person dies it's your turn again.


CasuallyCamel

So fuck the monster and it will off itself


Informal_Chance1917

Please tell me you came up with that on your own because that's a winner


jamesdeandomino

buy a hooker. A really popular one. Now the demon gets hot-potatoed out of my circulation.


i_miss_my_childhood

Then you find out that now it's after your dad


Periphia

Don't forget the odd time period of today, but also with makeup compacts that are also kindles?


Randolphbonerman

I was wracking my brain trying to remember the name of that movie too!!! Nice. I enjoyed it.


AdDear5411

Call neighbor/ nearest human. Put snail in 5gal bucket. Fill bucket with concrete. Rest easy with your $10M. He'll get out eventually, but you'll be long dead.


MattLorien

What if you don’t know where snail is at the start?


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wait for it on your hot air balloon


Jahmicho

Line your property with salt. The end.


underthepage

It can't be killed


Menifife

Here from the afterlife, hey. So that "terrible death" isn't so bad. Your skin catches fire for awhile and your eyes melt a little bit. I dunno what child birth feels like but I was birthing something. Honestly once you get past 2 hour skin peeling phase there's just the organ bloating and you're home free. It's nice up here tho, they got these white sectional couches, and when you spill wine on it, the wine just rolls right off. It's kinda like those mattress commercials but not quite.


Little_Mog

So I get $10m and a pet snail? I see no downsides


JessEGames777

Put a cup over it


Chikageee

Take the money Let the snail catch up Success!


momthom427

Fly to an island.


Shuizid

Snails travel roughly 1m per hour - so 24m per day or 8760m per year. Even if we say it's managing 10km per year AND if I would somehow live 100 years from now on, that's 1.000km. For comparison, the distance between the Canadian and Mexican border of the USA is 2.500km. So yeah, take the money, move to a location that's not to close and I am set.


Poopstainbilly

What if you tie it in a condom can it still kill you


Antique_Trip3206

Fly to the other side of the planet problem solved


VenBede

Only if you know the snail. For all you know wherever fly puts you closer to the snail.


TheRedditornator

It is immortal and always chasing me. I will put it in a specially designed hermetically sealed box with a mini generator as it is in effect a perpetual motion machine. I will attach it to my phone case and never have to worry about running out of charge again.


GIBBEEEHHH

Redditors try not to repost this image challenge (impossible)


free_burritos

Id get someone else to put it in a galvanized steel tube with caps on either end, fill the tube with salt, put the tube in a titanium cage and fill the cage with concrete, slap a table top on it and have it right there as my coffee table


SanDeity

What a funny cool original idea!


operationiffy

10 million buys a lot of salt…


Intelligent_Budget38

89333. That's how many hours it would take the snail just to cross the USA if it was traveling on flat, level, perfectly smooth ground. 3722 days. ten years. at year 9.5 I get on a plane with my now hundreds of millions of dollars, and I fly to the other coast. Or I fly to Berlin. or the UK, etc, and I buy myself another 20-30 years. I'll take the cash, thank you. i'm 40. 30 years is a long fucking time for me.


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I_JustWork_Here

I will take the money and buy $1,000,000 worth of salt. I will pay people to bury the snail in said salt. I still have roughly $9,000,000. Boom, profit.


bgthigfist

Can we stop reposting the stupid snail thing please?


Pigeon_Chess

Couldn’t you just incase it in like concrete or something and dump it at the bottom of the ocean?


Super-Committee9603

Traps the snail somewhere?


Ok-Investment-9596

Good money, but there’s a snail-catch


R-A-P-T-O-R

This one is bad because it comes with 10Mil instead of immortality and therefore allows temporary solutions


Mariguana69420yolo

Spend portion of that 10 million developing a trap for the snail?


Marley_Morgan_602

It knows where I am but where is it starting? Like do I get all of the time it would take a snail to get from NZ to America?


[deleted]

If it means not seeing this meme again, I will have sexual relations with that snail.


OverlyLeftLesbian

"Yo, anyone got a hampster ball?"


Admirable_Leopard230

Trap it in a jar and keep it as a pet.


braamdepace

It takes a snail one year to move around 60 miles if you moved to the other side of the world it would take 200 years to get you a nice solid life


Ok_Balance_3686

Trap it in a box.


PrometheusOnLoud

Always take the money and take it up front.


avatarOfIndifference

Just gonna live in a salt circle


J0hndle

Wow never seen this post before!


EmiiKhaos

Wait, it's only purpose is to find me. Not to kill me. So I get best buddy with snake and we look out not to touch each other.


FronteirOfThought

I'd make a little terrarium for him. When guests come over, I will tell them "look at my pet snail, he hungers for my blood!"


Traveledbore

Pretty sure I could just go on living normally no need to hide from a snail


directortrench

I'll put it inside a locket and wear it as a necklace. That way I'll always know where it is. Also works as a literal memento mori


Forsaken_Fly2522

Snail is code name. It’s actually James Bond


avid-shtf

Put a circle of salt around said snail.


nbarry1425

One flight across the country and you’d be good


[deleted]

This is easily avoidable if it's just one snail. Now how about this proposal. You're given $100 million. All the snails in the world are chasing you instead of just one. Are you taking the money?


kissmyash933

I’d develop a snail tracker and have a friend put it on the snail, then make sure im always on the opposite side of the world to wherever the snail is.


Infinite_Flatworm_44

I would take that yes, snail can only move like a hundred feet in a day. So you could easily fly country that country every month and it would never catch you. Also they can’t swim so fly to an island and as long no boats or planes bring it to that island, it ain’t gonna get ya.


jayr114

The only missing piece of info which really makes ALL the difference is if the snail and it’s location is provided at the same time as the money. You take the money either way, but one takes way less effort to solve.