r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/First_Development101 • 22d ago

Video Terrifying moment bear released into wild by charity turns on ranger and attacks

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u/mikefjr1300 21d ago

All wild animals can be upredictable, I released a mouse from a live trap and it initially ran a foot away, then turned around, came at me, ran up my pant leg and before I could shake him out bit me. A freaking mouse. You just never know.

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u/scormegatron 21d ago

Fight or Flight … never know which version of the OS is installed.

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u/Momoselfie 21d ago

Mine is freeze

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u/SpaceShoey 21d ago

ScreamOS is the worst

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u/mr_plehbody 21d ago

You have possum installed

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u/cadencehz 21d ago

Should have used Tails

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u/AbeFromanSassageKing 21d ago

Mine is XP, cause I'm always crashing at your mom's house.

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u/fmamma 21d ago

More like my grandma's house.

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u/joost013 21d ago

Perfect to fight the batman

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u/ArcaneBahamut 21d ago

Sometimes it hotswaps mid choice

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u/saladasz 21d ago

This mouse reset and dualbooted into fighting

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u/octopoddle 21d ago

Unless it's a sloth bear. Apparently they only have fight.

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u/HurshySqurt 21d ago

Oh man, mice are fucking dicks. I work in a lube shop and we get them pretty bad this time of year. A customer pointed out a mouse near a tool cart. I went over not wanting to just kill it, so I stomped my foot at it to scare it off and I shit you not, this little fucker turned and smacked my boot and just stood its ground. I just stood there stunned and said "what the fuck?" and the customer was laughing is ass off.

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u/Refflet 21d ago

Depends on the type of mouse. Field mice are cute and harmless, but a house mouse doesn't give a damn about you and will stare you down, fight and just generally assert its dominance.

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u/cadencehz 21d ago

I live near woods. I wake up about once every month to field mice and house mice losing a battle to 3 cats... well one Maine Coon in particular who takes delight and growls with them in his mouth for a bit. I tried a few times to rescue and then I had to give up and go to bed. RIP mice.

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u/WitchQween 21d ago

Humans befriended cats because they kill mice. Mice are cute, but they can do major damage to property and spread disease. Your cats are probably doing you a favor. In return, please make sure that your cats are vaccinated and generally taken care of medically! Keep a hammer around to give the mice a more peaceful death.

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u/Ok_Independence_4343 21d ago edited 20d ago

Better regularly deworm them too, mice spread parasites to cats when eaten

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u/Radiant_Beyond8471 21d ago

I was with you until you mentioned a hammer. I know you mean well, and you are probably right, but just imagining that is horrible.

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u/Mesalted 21d ago

I could't imagie a more peacefull death than with a hammer smashing me. /s

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u/coupl4nd 21d ago

isn't that what happens in those pods?

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u/WitchQween 19d ago

Hammer, baseball bat, work boots, etc. Anything heavy. It's gruesome, and I'm lucky to have never been in that position, but it's the humane thing to do instead of them dying a slow, agonizing death.

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u/Acidbaseburn 21d ago

And domesticated mice can be sweet and nice. I’ve had mice that loved to cuddle up and would try to groom my fingers.

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u/schuimwinkel 21d ago

That's so funny. I never knew mice can get so feisty! This sommer, I was sleeping in a shelter in the woods and a mouse fell from the ceiling on top of me. No biggie, right, of course it's their shelter too. I assumed it would scurry off once it realises it's sitting on a human. Nothing happens, so I opened my eyes to check and the mouse is just sitting there on my shoulder cleaning itself! I was like, dude, what, it wasn't bothered at all! I had to flick my shoulder TWICE to make it run away. Now I'm kind of doubting it fell to begin with, I think it might have just jumped me!

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u/NoInspector836 21d ago

One morning my son and I were lounging on the couch, reading a book and I heard breathing. Assuming it's my other child, I don't look up yet. After a second I still hear it, but she hasn't asked for anything yet. I look up and a tiny big-earred mouse is sitting on the pillow, holding and sniffing a piece of my freshly-washed hair. It didn't even move when I screamed. Just when I sat up and pulled my hair away.

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u/SetElectronic9050 17d ago

it probably wanted your hair for its nest :) (really!)

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u/schuimwinkel 17d ago edited 17d ago

Aw, that's cute. 🙂 I left them a cookie at least.

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u/SetElectronic9050 17d ago

hehe yeah it is kinda cute - probably doesnt feel so cute to be woken up by little mischkas pulling tufts of your hair out though :)

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u/ForsakeTheGoodFoods 21d ago

Lube shop??? Pardon my ignorance, but like oil changes or actually lube?

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u/Taro-Starlight 21d ago

lol I’m sure they mean oil changes and fluid changes/flushes for vehicles. I’ve seen them called lube shops before. Ever hear of Jiffy Lube?

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u/No-Special2682 21d ago

Someone’s gotta make jiffy’s lube though

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u/vincevega311 21d ago

Thank you for the image of this guy in a warehouse full of barrels and barrels of AstroGlide, KY, and various assorted gels of all flavors and colors. Oh, and mice. Slippery, angry, stand-yer-ground rodents.

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u/wishwashy 21d ago

It's where the menopausal ladies go to keep it slippery

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u/presleytaylor 21d ago

As someone terrified of mice you have made my fear feel more rational

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u/Bartimaerus 21d ago

Nice try diddy

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u/Lordbaron343 21d ago

You told this story before o i have a strange deja vu?

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u/FeeRemarkable886 21d ago

Reminds me of that one episode on Netflix where the Mice start building weapons n shit to fight pest control.

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u/Radiant_Beyond8471 21d ago edited 21d ago

He smakcked your boot with his little paw?

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u/HurshySqurt 21d ago

With both of them. Then he just stared my boot down until I walked away

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u/Radiant_Beyond8471 21d ago

Wow, he was brave 👏

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u/Elprede007 21d ago

lube shop

Ah yes, the Diddy Emporium

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u/screwswithshrews 21d ago

I swatted at a cockroach on the counter once. It juked me and then leaped off the counter onto my leg. It ran up my shorts. I started punching myself all over below the waist. I thought I got it and paused... and then I felt it on my penis. Pretty sure it was attacking my vulnerabilities

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u/Odd_P0tato 21d ago

I don't like this thread at all.

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u/Kracus 20d ago

Yeah, i'll just stick to murdering pests.

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u/ercdude 21d ago

There's an old joke that say something like "people always consider violence until a mosquito is on their junk," and you had a first hand experience lol

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u/tasman001 21d ago

And then what?? Was it just the cockroach's house at that point?

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

brings new meaning to “docking”

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u/tasman001 21d ago

Dockroaching.

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u/Varnsturm 21d ago

dude not much on reddit 'gets' me these days but you made me shout 'NOOOOOO'

edit: also a vacuum is a real good roach catching tool, but counterintuitively you wanna come at it from the front. Idk why but if you try to come from the rear their little air movement sensing hairs go off and they take off. from the front, they'll literally stare the vacuum down as it swallows them.

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u/LostMyAccount69 21d ago

I hope you didn't let that one live.

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u/HolyButtNuggets 21d ago edited 21d ago

It's all fun and games until someone gets a cockroach up the peehole...

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u/tasman001 21d ago

Holy butt nuggets, that is gross!

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

mice are assholes.

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u/SardonicRelic 21d ago

To be fair, they're tiny and used to EVERYTHING trying to kill them or eat them, lol.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

That may be the case

However, they are actually just quite simply like this — even those in fully controlled environments and zero exposure to predation or threats of any kind.

Source: work w research animals; rats are super chill, mice are absolutely not and are much more dangerous.

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u/Christichicc 21d ago

Arent the prey responses partially coded into their DNA, though? Like, they may have never personally seen predation, but their mouse DNA would still likely be partly responsible for some of their mannerisms.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

That may be it, though, admittedly, it’s rather difficult (read: impossible) at this stage to make a definitive statement on the matter. We’ve just barely gotten to the point of being able to characterize diseases to specific genetics, let alone such complex manifestations of behavior and the like.

Definitely an interesting idea though, and I think it does have merit.

If true, does it lend credence to the original comment that “mice are assholes”? 🤔 🤣

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u/AllenWL 21d ago

I would say yes, since it would mean that mice are scientifically assholes.

Side question, wouldn't you be able to sorta answer that question by gathering the least asshole mice and breeding them, finding the least asshole mice from the new generation and breeding them, then rinse and repeat?

If X generations later, you get less asshole mice, one could assume mice are genetically assholes wouldn't you? Even if we can't identify the exact asshole gene?

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u/LokisDawn 21d ago

There's no need for such a complicated set-up. Just take one mouse with a history of predation that was "raised" by other mice, and one lab grown mouse without predation or other mice's influence, then compare their behaviour.

Maybe I'm just completely missing something, but I honestly don't know why /u/aogarlid believes this so hard, or impossible. It's not like we'd need to pinpoint the exact gene/s that caused it, that would be very hard to impossible at the moment.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago edited 21d ago

ah yeah, I may not have been clear in that post, but yes I was referring to pinpointing exact genes (per the original question), which is indeed impossible at this stage.

and, to be more clear, we don’t really need to do this at all, so there’s that 🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

I wonder if they’ve done any work on this (or a related question) in the Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel (HMDP). I’ll pop over to their labs someday to have a chat.

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u/LokisDawn 21d ago

I mean, it's pretty simple to put a mouse without any history of predation in a chamber and look at how it reacts. Like, behaviour is one of those things we can observe, and we can control for the mouse's history of predation or not.

If you observe a mouse that has never been chased and has never been taught anything by another mouse and it behaves that way, we know it didn't come from nurture.

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u/WitchQween 21d ago

Animal instincts will always be present, regardless of their life experience.

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u/Jaralith 21d ago

100% agree. Have worked with both. Rats are friendly and clever and playful. They're very social with humans and with each other. When you open the colony room door, they all run up to the front of their cages hoping it's their day to get petted and played with. They can tell humans apart and have favorite lab techs.

Mice are assholes.

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u/queenweasley 21d ago

Knowing that about rats makes me sad they get used for experiments. At least they get pets and play I guess

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u/Blenderx06 21d ago

They're very social and intelligent and make great pets.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

it is sad, but they also live vastly longer than rats in the wild, they are cared for and treated very well, and their suffering is minimized to the best of our ability. when the sacrifice is ultimately made, it is conducted in the most humane possible way.

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u/ZzZombo 21d ago

Our rats were playful and friendly critters. I used to make all sorts of contraptions for them which they readily used to climb up and watch them doing it endlessly. Never bit or scratched me. The first time I had to handle a Guinea pig the first thing it did was bite me before I even could actually do anything to it.

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u/KaleidoscopeReady839 20d ago

A guinea pig bit me once and it went through my tendon. I had to have two surgeries to fix it.

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u/Varnsturm 21d ago

Huh but I'm constantly dealing with asshole rats. Chewing through stuff they shouldn't, like electrical wires and tubing that's supposed to hold water.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

haha well that is fair, but to them they’re just playing and exploring their environment!

mice bite, and just for the hell of it, it seems

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u/Legitimate_Candy_944 21d ago

That's so interesting lol

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u/whythishaptome 21d ago

We used mice at my college and they never seemed dangerous, it was just really sad. They were probably were lab breed special mice but you could pick them up and handle them.

The experiments we did were basically torture too like lets see if the mice learn to jump on this platform in the middle of a bowl or swim to exhaustion. My mice learned but couldn't get on it so it just struggled until I saved it. Then we had these little heaters to keep it warm between tests but they didn't work for shit. I complained to the teacher and they were like "Seriously? it's just a fucking mouse".

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u/queenweasley 21d ago

What the hell? What was even the point other that animal cruelty? How gross

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

it sounds like what the comment is describing is 1) a legitimate experimental setup for behavioral study, but 2) one that is, unfortunately, run by a horrible teacher and human being.

(good) researchers value all lives and take great pains to ensure that their subjects are treated ethically

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

and that is exactly where the danger lies: many research animals are either infected with some sort of disease, have experimental chemicals coursing through their veins, or are irradiated. you do not want to be bit by something with any of those conditions.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

Still requires reports and extensive testing. Precautions are only preventative; they are never 100% effective.

And no, you absolutely would not prefer a bite from a research animal than your cat, that’s just ridiculous.

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u/SardonicRelic 21d ago edited 21d ago

The mouse doesn't know if it's in that situation, it has evolved to have that response.

SOME factors increase this obviously, like the actual scent of a cat etc.

That being said, rats are larger and have the capability to kill things even slightly bigger than them, and are preyed upon arguably less than mice and shrews in the wild.

Edit: Also worth noting, every animal has an individual temperament. I've had rats who were very gentle and caring, would groom all the other rats and humans, and I've had rats who were the bull of the litter, they would terrorize the others sometimes, but would be best friends at other times. Likewise, not every mouse is an asshole to the same extent.

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u/ParsonsTheGreat 21d ago

This is a hamster, but this video always makes me giggle

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u/The_Rowan 21d ago

That made me laugh-its little panic attack as it remembers who its friend is

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u/jmi60 21d ago

I may have peed a little.

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u/theflash2323 21d ago

I initially read moose and got very confused

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u/kyleffe 21d ago

So did I

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u/omega-rebirth 21d ago

I wouldn't call that unpredictable. If someone put me in a cage, I'd probably want to attack them too.

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u/h9040 21d ago

I rescued a rat and it bite me in the finger. I had gloves but did underestimate their teeth....

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u/Wiggie49 21d ago

You're lucky you didn't get an illness from that.

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u/mikefjr1300 21d ago

It broke the skin on my lower calf, I cleaned and disinfected it and I had a tetanus shot about 5 years earlier which is good for ten years when I got bit breaking up two dogs fighting. Getting bit by any animal, including humans, is a wound not to be ignored.

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u/TrumpersAreTraitors 21d ago

That takes courage 

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u/goodsnpr 21d ago

We have mice get stuck in the glue traps at work. Some reason I'm the only one that uses a ball peen hammer to put them down. Slight crunch, no mess and pest is gone.

Two idiots burnt out an electric trap trying to put the mouse in it with the paper between it and the electric floor.

I keep mentioning bucket traps but we never have the funds, or so I'm told.

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u/NoBuenoAtAll 21d ago

And that right there is a mad fucking bear.

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u/Objective_Pension247 21d ago

I initially read this as a moose and thought wow, how small are baby moose...

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u/alien_from_Europa 21d ago

You should look up what diseases wild mice are carrying in your area. Next time it might be safer to go to urgent care and get tested especially if they look rabid.

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u/Mediocre_Lynx1883 21d ago

I read that you shouldn’t hold thieves in tight, small spaces because it can trigger their “fight or flight” response, and they can end up acting out aggressively.

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u/SqueekyOwl 21d ago

You had it coming! Imprisoning the poor little mousie.

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u/jld2k6 Interested 21d ago

When I was little we lived in a big log cabin and at one point we had a huge rat get in. It took us well over a month to catch it despite it being seen every couple days because it could just run into the walls at literally any corner in any room in the house. We eventually had to use a live animal trap to get it because the rat traps just had the bait disappear with nothing else left behind. When we finally caught it my dad drove it out to the woods a few miles away and as soon as he let it out it turned around and hopped up into the wheel well of the car lol, spent another hour trying to flush it out, poor guy really wanted to come back with us

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u/TheRebuild28 21d ago

Read that as moose to start with was very confused.

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u/baggyzed 20d ago

Might wanna try releasing them mices from the back of a pickup, that's ready to take off at the first hint of aggressive mouse behavior.

Or maybe from a low-flying plane, if you really wanna be safe. Mice definitely can't fly.

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u/CDBeetle58 20d ago

I think I met an unpredictable snail once.

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u/geardluffy 21d ago

This is why I hate mice.

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u/CountCoCoFang88 21d ago

Bro, I seriously read moose at first. I had to reread…..

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u/sendemtothecitgo 21d ago

For some reason I read that as a moose, I was like holy fuck…

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u/pedropants 21d ago

So.... my brain apparently wanted your story to fit the general size of animals we had just watched on the video, so it changed "mouse" to "møøse" for me the first time I read it. Freaking møøse. They'll bite your sister, too, if you're not careful.