Jojo
4201
That is wonderfully stupid.
kerzain
4202
Stupid enough so that I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar video was floating around involving a guys penis instead of his hand.
Griddle
4203
Just watch enough Jackass and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. They already had a penis bitten by a snake, nect move is aligator I suppose.
I recall reading or hearing that crocodiles’ mouths, lacking salivary glands, dry out if outside of the water for too long. In this state, because they’ve unable to swallow anything, they supposedly won’t even bite down on anything that enters their mouth.
This may be completely wrong, and somebody with actual knowledge of this please correct me if so, but the person in the video could have believed that and acted accordingly.
I don’t care what the state may have been, putting your hand in a crocodile’s mouth is stupid, no matter what.
Agreed. Stupid, but not necessarily recklessly stupid.
No, it’s definitely recklessly stupid.
WarrenM
4209
Well, it’s an animal that can take your arm off in seconds. Seems pretty reckless to get your arm anywhere near it’s mouth.
Any kind of exhibition of trained non-domesticated animals is inherently somewhat stupid in a Darwinian context, but in the video I linked that guy was doing something he had done hundreds of times previously without incident because the croc was trained to allow him to do it.
Presumably the same is true of the GIF animation Warren linked (though harder to get any context on that one). I suspect the hand tap on the nose is some kind of thing they do when they know what they are doing.
So, yeah, it is kind of stupid in a cosmic sense, but it isn’t necessarily Jackass stuff though. This stuff periodicallyhappens to perfectly competent animal handlers who just happened to have been dealing with an animal who just snaps back to a pre-trained mindset for even a fraction of a second.
Lorini
4211
I have an African Grey parrot that for years gave me a kiss every morning. One morning he just decided to bite me through my entire (large) lip. Last kiss he ever gave me in the morning…
Lessons of the day. Don’t put your hand in a croc’s mouth. Don’t make out with a parrot. Got it.
I had my 17 year old cat Pooter euthanized today. She had developed a few issues over the last couple of years (not surprising, given her age) but was still remarkably feisty. A few days ago she basically stopped eating. I really hated to make the decision but I think (hope) I did the humane thing after having the vet look at her and offer a diagnosis.
Yes, Pooter is a dumb name but it fit her so very well.
The pic of her from last summer that I posted in the pet thread below. Rest in peace, Pooter, 1992-2010.
Raife
4214
Sorry to hear that, Ned. Losing a pet, especially after 17 years with one, is really tough.
I’m really sorry to hear that too, Ned. Hang in there.
When a cat stops eating you have to act quickly or you could have a disaster on your hands. It sounds like to me you did the right thing.
BTW…Pooter is an adorable name.
RIP Pooter.
-xtien
nlanza
4217
Oof. Sorry to hear it, Ned. Losing pets is miserable, especially when you have to make the call like that.
Sorry to hear it Ned.
In more happy cat news, I gave my wife a catflap for christmas. Before you call me the most unromantic guy in the universe, just let me note that the cats meowing to get out at 4-5 a.m. woke her up, but never me. So I bought this fancy catflap, sawed a hole right through the wall of my house and hat the cat chipped.
This week - while I was in Vegas - he finally learned that humans were no longer in any way needed for him to leave or enter our house and the wife is very very happy (I brought home Jewellery from Vegas, so I’m not completely unromantic).
And the trip to Vegas was a success (apart from the 29 hour delay at Heathrow). I was in a poker tournament that turned out to be the friendliest and most fun game in my life, even though I was playing complete strangers. I won money playing Blackjack with The Hells Belles (and lost again the next day) and I tried firing a Thompson, an AK47 and some .45 pistol, which was fun but expensive.
The game I was working on at the company that hired me just back in September was cancelled yesterday. Out of a job AGAIN. It cost me almost $10,000 to move my ass all the way out here from Florida too and they only had enough to comp $1,500 of it. Sigh. So unbelievably fucked. Didn’t even have enough time working at the company to save money in the event something like this happened. Homelessness here I come?
Don’t know what specifically you do but I highly suggest getting out of the industry. I left about a year ago and couldn’t be fucking happier. 60%+ increase in pay, normal 40 hour work weeks, the whole deal.
Ironically the game I left is coming out tomorrow and so far it’s sitting around a 60% on metacritic.
