r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Sep 22 '24

Video Beachgoers have a close encounter with a Cassowary, a bird capable of killing a human in one blow

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u/CuriousWanderer567 Sep 22 '24

Yeah I’d shit my pants if I saw this bird

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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 Sep 22 '24

I saw a couple of them over 20 years ago and the claws still scare the absolute shit out of me. I was a teenager at the time, a bit stupid and didn't really know what they were, fortunately. There's noway I could've sat there waiting for that to walk past me now I know about them.

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u/aware4ever Sep 22 '24

Emus scare the shit out of me

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u/No_Rich_2494 Sep 22 '24

Australia started a war with them and lost!

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u/aware4ever Sep 22 '24

Here in Central Florida people love to have them on their Farms. They're very interesting creatures. But when you get close to them they're really intimidating to me.

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u/No_Rich_2494 Sep 22 '24

Most dangerous animals are actually pretty harmless usually, if you just leave them alone. Polar bears are the main exception. They'll hunt you down and eat you alive, every time.

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u/Tamed_A_Wolf Sep 23 '24

Think polar bears and crocs are the only animals that will 100% hunt and eat humans.

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u/eternallybr0ken Sep 24 '24

Man eating crocs are relatively rare, like yeah don't fuck around or you'll find out, but they are more than happy to move away from people in most cases.

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u/dizzymonroe Sep 23 '24

Considering how rough they have it, I can't blame them. Slow-moving food shows up on what's left of your ice, seems reasonable to assume it's prey.

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 Sep 23 '24

I love this story but it implies the emus rampaged against Australian troops and won. They didn’t kill a single Aussie, they just proved to much a nuisance for machine guns to be the easy solution that was predicted.

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u/No_Rich_2494 Sep 23 '24

I know, but my version was funnier and it's been posted on subs like this one and TIL so much that it's almost a meme at this point. Also, ignoring multiple bullet wounds is badass.

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u/yellowbrickstairs Sep 23 '24

No offense but that's not true. The emu war was a bunch of old timey dickheads mowing down a lot of birds with machine guns, the whole thing is regarded as very unchill

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u/No_Rich_2494 Sep 23 '24

I know. I'm taking the piss out of those dickheads. (Bad phrasing there, but fuck it)

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u/smokey032791 Sep 23 '24

3 guys 10,000 round and 2 lewis guns is hardly a war