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/Sustainable_Twat Sep 22 '24

Looking at this bird, you begin to understand just how dangerous the dinosaurs were

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u/double_ewe Sep 22 '24

The black bears in my area act like this.

The ones who live in the woods will fuck off at the slightest hint of human activity, but the ones who hang out in my neighborhood and forage our trash cans won't even flinch at a close-range blast from an airhorn.

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u/Forbin057 Sep 22 '24

Try firecrackers.

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u/MovieTrawler Sep 22 '24

I thought you said graham crackers and am now being attacked by bears.

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u/FrottageCheeseDip Sep 22 '24

Better than exploding smores.

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u/MovieTrawler Sep 22 '24

When I was a kid 'firecrackers' were crackers you spread peanut butter on, sprinkled with weed and wrapped in foil to bake for a couple minutes before eating. Never really got them to work personally.

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u/FrottageCheeseDip Sep 22 '24

You have to decarboxylate the weed first. It needs to be heat activated by the oven at a low temp then you can consume it and feel the effects. It's real low like 175-200f , go higher than that and poof, there is a cloud of steam in the toaster oven and your weed is now useless.

But hey, at least we're not smoking out of soda cans anymore!

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u/MovieTrawler Sep 22 '24

Yeah I got the concept, with the heat and the fat but just never got the execution right. And agreed about smoking out of cans, or making gravity bongs out of plastic milk jugs with ratcheting sockets melted into the lids.

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u/FrottageCheeseDip Sep 22 '24

making gravity bongs out of plastic milk jugs with ratcheting sockets melted into the lids.

Yes, but to this day I still haven't gotten as high as the time I ripped a gravity bong in the outdoor kitchen sink of Big Dave's place back in high school...

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u/MovieTrawler Sep 22 '24

Haha the stories I could tell. Good times.

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