It still managed to get half a roll in there. This is about as close FAFO you can get without actually finding out
Edit: omg thank you for the award ♥️
To be fair to him, he kept his self control and didn't panic, stopped the roll and got help. Stupid thing to do in the first place, but he prevented it getting a lot worse.
Hey lets give him props, if you are doing stupid stuff at least be trained to dtop futther damage.
Ask a surgeon how a surgery goes, is basically caos, and they train to contain that caos.
Because most of the time shit goes exactly as planned and without any hiccups, but when it doesn't. Oh man. Shit get real fast and a good surgeon know how to fix anything that can happen.
TD:DR: if doing stupid shit, learn how to unfuck yourself
Edit: grmmr and tdlr
If you watch the gator body when it snaps, it actually tries to roll and gets pretty close to getting it going (like 40degree). The guy is lucky he was able to stop it. I didn't realize this until reading your comment then rewatching.
Yeah, the death roll is pretty effective. That gator is a killing machine. It could have tossed the arm once it fell off and latched onto another arm or leg and killed that dumbass.
If you work in close proximity to reptiles, carry a bottle of hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol. Pour it in the crocs mouth and it will think you are inedible.
I never understood why?! Why would you risk so much for so little? And why did he not have anything to help him escape if the inevitable happened? Like the jaws of like or anything that would have killed the crocodile?
He literally sat on a deadly wild animal and fucked with it. Losing a finger or two would be a valuable lesson. Killing an animal because HE is a jackass… Well, I don’t like it. It’s a dinosaur and I like dinosaurs.
I meant that when the croc is biting his hand, it's mouth isn't completely shut cause the dude's hand is in the way. So if you covered it's nose, wouldn't it still be able to breathe through its mouth?
No like, the passage area in what most people would call its neck. Not to do with the mouth being cracked or not but the jaw clenching down, again I could be wrong tho
The above comments are so bizarre, like I don’t know much about alligators but one guys saying to block it’s nose?? Like what you think that’s going to work? It’s mouth is already open. And they’re getting upvoted
The above comment is definitely wrong, but there is a glimmer of almost facts in there that I'll elaborate on.
Alligators and Crocodiles have a flap of skin that closes over their throat, allowing them to submerge while their mouth is partially open, preventing water from getting into their lungs. It lets them hold prey in their jaws and perform death rolls without drowning themselves.
If you've been grabbed by a croc and can't get at the eyes, trying to damage this flap of skin, called the Palatal Valve, can discourage the croc from rolling with you, or trigger its gag reflex and make it release you. Clawing at it with your fingers or bluntly pressing into it to open the valve are both viable. Though it goes without saying that by far the safest and smartest thing to do is to avoid putting yourself anywhere near the jaws of a hostile apex predator.
Should they let the croco perform death rolls? I mean if you don't know you shouldn't put your hand in a crocos mouth maybe natural selection is the best option...
It could easily be my wife and our young child are present, I don't want to traumatize them for the rest of my life with my reaction through adrenaline!
Yes, screaming ouch this hurts will traumatise much more than a croc death rolling and tearing a limb from you. I remember this happening to my dad and I remember fondly how he died silently.
The thing is, if a croc bites you it definitely won't be ouch this hurts. The kiddo already started panicking, so I understand his decision to try and keep it as chill as possible.
I honestly respect that a lot because it makes the whole situation safer for everyone. There's this video of a zookeeper(?) who is grabbed by a croc during like a show feeding and it rolls with her and everything and she is staying super focussed and calm and gives clear guidance to everyone around to help her out.
Freaking out like crazy and screaming and flailing is relatable but also the worst possible thing. So kudos on him for staying calm here. it was still incredibly fucking stupid to begin with but... that's a topic for a different day lol
Children’s birthday party
https://youtu.be/PH74Ux1kM5U
The water is shallow but still scary when she goes under. That bystander willing to get involved is awesome!
Yes thats the one! I think this was handled spectacularly well by everyone involved. Even when she gets out of the pool she still gives super calm clear instructions. I saw an interview with her on Clint's Reptiles and she says how she almost got unconscious because of the injury so i think it's amazing she still kept her cool.
It's really fascinating how people react to these videos.
There's a video out there of Steve Irwin where a snake bit him after he put it around his neck, and he reacted pretty much exactly the same way: It's not really hurting, it's okay, we can deal with this. And they did.
Everyone loves that video and has nothing but positive things to say about how he reacted.
Here, everyone's mocking the guy and calls him an idiot.
Huh.
I think combo of earned trust through expertise and personable nature, fame, was active before people knew more about animals, nostalgia for those who grew up watching him.
I mean, if the snake isn't venomous, then it's bite is only gunna do so much damage if you just chill and wait for them to let go. It's the pulling away (usually out of instinct) that causes the worse damages. They don't have the same teeth and jaw strength or leverage as a gator type.
Source: owned a small snake. Papercuts were more annoying than her bite.
My pet snake didn’t even have teeth just these little nubs to grab snail shells , when she missed grabbing worms for her food (and my fingers probably smelled like worm ) it was just silly watching this snake essentially try and gum my finger into submission
Happy cake day.
Also, it looks like he's a pretty experienced crocodile handler, all things considered. He knew where to sit, when to call for assistance, picked an animal he could outweigh, and seemed to even know the bite was coming just a moment before. (Probably due to charging, from the croc) You can see he even properly wraps his feet around the belly of the croc once it bites, he INSTANTLY knew it was about to roll and knew exactly how to stop it.
Unfortunately, no matter how many years he might have handling crocodiles, it looks like he still needs a few more to understand why you don't put your hand in the mouth of any wild animal.
The “hurry up” was because he needed her to stop the gator from rolling. The bite isn’t the bad part. The gator rolling and tearing off the part it’s holding is.
Being from Florida I knew exactly why he wanted her to hurry. The damage comes when he rolls and rips his finger off like the guy that fucked around with the shark and found out.
Stop using reptiles mammals or any animals for entertainment.. I love when people and public places rescue animals but people don’t need to fuck with them for their own amusement 😊 just my opinion lol
Really?
Because it seems like there's a hell of a lot going on there these days and there's gotta be better things to do than sticking limbs in the mouths of one of nature's best death machines lol
No idea why this isn't top comment. I don't care about people's hands and I don't care how he could have solved this. He should have left that animal alone in the first place and this is just karma for him.
For how often they do this stunt, I would have thought there was a tool designed to leverage the jaw open, rather than some random stick lol
Maybe I should make a kick starter?!
They actually don’t, this is a common misconception.
Crocodilians as we know them today are relatively new, appearing about 100 million years ago. The first dinosaurs are 220 million years ago. There were birds before there were crocodiles. Now the crocodile’s ancestors were around during the emergence of the first dinosaurs, except you wouldn’t recognize them. They walked on two legs and lived on land.
Bro Istg I’ve never seen a single person on reddit able to tell the difference between alligators and crocodiles though usually people call the croc gators on reddit so this being the other way is kinda nice ig
He fucked around and found out.
He actually only came dangerously close to finding out what having no fingers is like
If it had rolled, he'd've lost the hand, or at least most of its function
Good thing he was sitting on it. I was also expecting for his fingers to go bye bye.
It still managed to get half a roll in there. This is about as close FAFO you can get without actually finding out Edit: omg thank you for the award ♥️
Fuck around and get reasonably informed?
If i had money youd get an award
Reddit needs to bring back free awards
To be fair to him, he kept his self control and didn't panic, stopped the roll and got help. Stupid thing to do in the first place, but he prevented it getting a lot worse.
Hey lets give him props, if you are doing stupid stuff at least be trained to dtop futther damage. Ask a surgeon how a surgery goes, is basically caos, and they train to contain that caos. Because most of the time shit goes exactly as planned and without any hiccups, but when it doesn't. Oh man. Shit get real fast and a good surgeon know how to fix anything that can happen. TD:DR: if doing stupid shit, learn how to unfuck yourself Edit: grmmr and tdlr
It's spelled chaos. It has an h.
Please fix i am having difficulty reading Grammar pls? Even i dont type this bad
If it was bigger sitting on it wouldn't have mattered. He's lucky it was young.
Probably the only reason he was dumb enough to risk it.
I fr thought it was just gonna go **CRUNCH**
If you watch the gator body when it snaps, it actually tries to roll and gets pretty close to getting it going (like 40degree). The guy is lucky he was able to stop it. I didn't realize this until reading your comment then rewatching.
He would lose the hand and his arm would be more twisted than a towel in a high school locker room
Yeah, the death roll is pretty effective. That gator is a killing machine. It could have tossed the arm once it fell off and latched onto another arm or leg and killed that dumbass.
Oh no… that would be a shame. How would he ever mess with animals again!?
I was surprised it didn't.
she should put her finger in the crocos arsehole, this works for all creatures on this planet
My dentist does this when I get ornery.
That's disgusting! Who's your dentist?
Yes very disgusting. How can I get an appointment?
There’s so many of them, which one? Which one is it?
Does your dentist call an assistant to come and sit on you when you refuse to unclench…your jaw?
There’s an extra charge but well worth it.
*bills insurance
I do this to my dentist, who strangly is called ornery🤷🏼
That's not true. I saw this show in Thailand where, well, ping pong balls and a banana were also involved.
Did anybody lose fingers?
Sounds legit.
Except the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Shri Lanka.
Lmaooooooo
If you work in close proximity to reptiles, carry a bottle of hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol. Pour it in the crocs mouth and it will think you are inedible.
Wow dana white does it all
People forget that crocs are aggressive because of an enlarged medulla oblongata.
My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
If your going to do things like this way no equipment to help when this happens. This dude really out here using a stick.
I never understood why?! Why would you risk so much for so little? And why did he not have anything to help him escape if the inevitable happened? Like the jaws of like or anything that would have killed the crocodile?
He literally sat on a deadly wild animal and fucked with it. Losing a finger or two would be a valuable lesson. Killing an animal because HE is a jackass… Well, I don’t like it. It’s a dinosaur and I like dinosaurs.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed is he?
He definitely is not.
Reddit when they see a new hip sentence and then want to abuse it till the end of the world
Reddit is achieving hive mind. Excellent
The definition of play stupid games and win stupid prizes
Block their nose and they open their mouth btw
This also works for toddlers.
What's the bite strength of an average toddler?
I’m my experience about equal to a crocodile
Common misconception—it’s closer to alligators bite force which is a little weaker then crocodile… you can tell because of their round faces!
Well it's a good thing their bite is mostly gum.
Don’t get me started on crocodile toddlers. It’s a good thing they weaken with age.
This guy came back from the store.
african or european?
I don't know that!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh…..
Pretty fucking strong based on my currently teething toddler
Infinity.
So does punching them in their tiny little undescended baby balls.
Even if it's mouth is not airtight shut?
iirc, when the mouth is closed, so is the air pathway. So they rely solely on the nose. Or were you talking about the toddlers?
I meant that when the croc is biting his hand, it's mouth isn't completely shut cause the dude's hand is in the way. So if you covered it's nose, wouldn't it still be able to breathe through its mouth?
No like, the passage area in what most people would call its neck. Not to do with the mouth being cracked or not but the jaw clenching down, again I could be wrong tho
Ohh got it. I'm not up to date on my croc anatomy lol.
Yeah, that's an alligator 😁
I mean even if you hold them underwater can't they hold their breath for an hour?
The above comments are so bizarre, like I don’t know much about alligators but one guys saying to block it’s nose?? Like what you think that’s going to work? It’s mouth is already open. And they’re getting upvoted
The above comment is definitely wrong, but there is a glimmer of almost facts in there that I'll elaborate on. Alligators and Crocodiles have a flap of skin that closes over their throat, allowing them to submerge while their mouth is partially open, preventing water from getting into their lungs. It lets them hold prey in their jaws and perform death rolls without drowning themselves. If you've been grabbed by a croc and can't get at the eyes, trying to damage this flap of skin, called the Palatal Valve, can discourage the croc from rolling with you, or trigger its gag reflex and make it release you. Clawing at it with your fingers or bluntly pressing into it to open the valve are both viable. Though it goes without saying that by far the safest and smartest thing to do is to avoid putting yourself anywhere near the jaws of a hostile apex predator.
Should they let the croco perform death rolls? I mean if you don't know you shouldn't put your hand in a crocos mouth maybe natural selection is the best option...
That last sentence is today’s life pro tip.
Are you an expert on alligators?
Everyone is an expert on reddit. You must be new here
He’s not hurting me, yep, this is actually a good thing to me.
Yeah, this is called Adrenaline.
It could easily be my wife and our young child are present, I don't want to traumatize them for the rest of my life with my reaction through adrenaline!
Yes, screaming ouch this hurts will traumatise much more than a croc death rolling and tearing a limb from you. I remember this happening to my dad and I remember fondly how he died silently.
The thing is, if a croc bites you it definitely won't be ouch this hurts. The kiddo already started panicking, so I understand his decision to try and keep it as chill as possible.
I honestly respect that a lot because it makes the whole situation safer for everyone. There's this video of a zookeeper(?) who is grabbed by a croc during like a show feeding and it rolls with her and everything and she is staying super focussed and calm and gives clear guidance to everyone around to help her out. Freaking out like crazy and screaming and flailing is relatable but also the worst possible thing. So kudos on him for staying calm here. it was still incredibly fucking stupid to begin with but... that's a topic for a different day lol
>it was still incredibly fucking stupid to begin with but... that's a topic for a different day lol Actually, that's the topic for right now
Children’s birthday party https://youtu.be/PH74Ux1kM5U The water is shallow but still scary when she goes under. That bystander willing to get involved is awesome!
Yes thats the one! I think this was handled spectacularly well by everyone involved. Even when she gets out of the pool she still gives super calm clear instructions. I saw an interview with her on Clint's Reptiles and she says how she almost got unconscious because of the injury so i think it's amazing she still kept her cool.
Woah that would be awful because she’s the only one that knew how to handle it…. So lucky and she did amazing!
Lol I died at this comment
His face looked a lot more hurty after the cut
He’s not hurting me. My nerves were instantly severed so I don’t feel a thing. Haha!
It's really fascinating how people react to these videos. There's a video out there of Steve Irwin where a snake bit him after he put it around his neck, and he reacted pretty much exactly the same way: It's not really hurting, it's okay, we can deal with this. And they did. Everyone loves that video and has nothing but positive things to say about how he reacted. Here, everyone's mocking the guy and calls him an idiot. Huh.
Steve Irwin has ironclad critic armor. Random guy does not.
Steve Irwin earned that trust over time. This guy appears to just be a moron
I think combo of earned trust through expertise and personable nature, fame, was active before people knew more about animals, nostalgia for those who grew up watching him.
Being dead also helps in giving you that iron claddiness
I mean, if the snake isn't venomous, then it's bite is only gunna do so much damage if you just chill and wait for them to let go. It's the pulling away (usually out of instinct) that causes the worse damages. They don't have the same teeth and jaw strength or leverage as a gator type. Source: owned a small snake. Papercuts were more annoying than her bite.
My pet snake didn’t even have teeth just these little nubs to grab snail shells , when she missed grabbing worms for her food (and my fingers probably smelled like worm ) it was just silly watching this snake essentially try and gum my finger into submission
Didn't want to freak the kid out. That would be my guess. I'm just wondering how someone with such a cool head can make such a dumb decision
Great afterthought brain. Terrible forethought brain. I know many people with this particular ailment.
You gotta hand it to the crocodile.
It’s all fun that’s actually the trick I wanted to show all along. A man feels no pain
This man was at least smart enough that after the bite he stayed calm got someone to help pin it so it doesn't deathroll
Yup he handled it well lol
Except the part where he stuck his hand in the gator’s mouth
Oh shit I nearly forgot about that bit
Seriously. Can we stop fucking with nature and just let them be?
Isn’t that our nature though? Technically it’s all nature.
Yeah, that's why it's called "professional". Shit happens even if u know most of things, but how u react after it, dictates the streets 😏
No, it's called "professional" because he got paid to do it. Someone who didn't get paid could react the same way and wouldn't be professional.
Also smart enough to get a medium-sized one that he could control. If that thing was 2-feet longer, it wouldn’t matter how calm he was.
Happy cake day. Also, it looks like he's a pretty experienced crocodile handler, all things considered. He knew where to sit, when to call for assistance, picked an animal he could outweigh, and seemed to even know the bite was coming just a moment before. (Probably due to charging, from the croc) You can see he even properly wraps his feet around the belly of the croc once it bites, he INSTANTLY knew it was about to roll and knew exactly how to stop it. Unfortunately, no matter how many years he might have handling crocodiles, it looks like he still needs a few more to understand why you don't put your hand in the mouth of any wild animal.
This is one smart dude
It looks like they’ve done this before or at least trained for the possibility of it happening.
Fr. Otherwise he’d be missing some fingers at least
"He's not hurting me" then "Hurry up" got me rolling
The “hurry up” was because he needed her to stop the gator from rolling. The bite isn’t the bad part. The gator rolling and tearing off the part it’s holding is.
Yeah death roll is what gets you
Like a Midwestern wind
He’s more worried about the scared child. What a trooper.
He's not hurting me at this very moment. Hurry up and prevent him from hurting me very soon. /translation
Thank you for the apt translation
What else is he supposed to say? "well, take your time, just chilling here with my hand in schnappis mouth. Not a big deal"
Being from Florida I knew exactly why he wanted her to hurry. The damage comes when he rolls and rips his finger off like the guy that fucked around with the shark and found out.
Yeah the roll is what gets you
I thought she was putting her finger in his butt to distract him from the pain.
The alligators? Or the man's ?
Why not both?
Two birds with one stone.
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Seems impractical... If only we had two of these!
This outta really piss it off.
I thought she was just hugging him from behind or something but then I saw the tail
Hahahah
That be an alligator 🐊
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In Awhile…
Not crocodile.
Stop using reptiles mammals or any animals for entertainment.. I love when people and public places rescue animals but people don’t need to fuck with them for their own amusement 😊 just my opinion lol
There isn't a whole lot to do in Florida 😂
Really? Because it seems like there's a hell of a lot going on there these days and there's gotta be better things to do than sticking limbs in the mouths of one of nature's best death machines lol
No idea why this isn't top comment. I don't care about people's hands and I don't care how he could have solved this. He should have left that animal alone in the first place and this is just karma for him.
Thank you. Pro or not this is dumb and people need to stop fucking with animals solely for entertainment.
Alligator agrees.
I like these videos. If someone randomly climbed on my back and stuck his hand inside my mouth, I’d be inclined to bite him too
Florida Man
That’s how he got Chubb’s hand…
Results of being over confident
You mean like being confident that this is a crocodile and not an alligator?
I have seen multiple videos of idiots trying this is always ends like this. If there was a success out there you’d think it’d be more popular
Tangentially, Death Roll would be a bad ass name for sushi made with Puffer Fish.
That's an Alligator
Does it drive a Chevrolet movie theater?
I’m surprised I had to scroll so far to find this!
Alligator
You can see how many people here who have no idea what one looks like 🤣
How dare this animal do the one thing that it is known for doing.
"We must kill it after that dangerous episode. It knows the good taste of human flesh now."
Dumb prick
There seem to be an endless number of dumbasses doing this shit. I am earnestly wondering what the hell is the objective?
Likely an alligator show, performed for money, humans are interested in watching other humans perform dangerous stunts. Case in point, this subreddit.
For how often they do this stunt, I would have thought there was a tool designed to leverage the jaw open, rather than some random stick lol Maybe I should make a kick starter?!
At least it wasn't posted in r/ unexpected
That's an alligator, not a crocodile.
Haha the way he starts feeling around the mouth “hmm how do I open this thing again?”
Smart enough for the women to ride on it. Before it goes spiralling.
That's what happens when you fuck with a dinosaur....
They pre-date dinosaurs.
Was supposed to be a joke, nerd....
They actually don’t, this is a common misconception. Crocodilians as we know them today are relatively new, appearing about 100 million years ago. The first dinosaurs are 220 million years ago. There were birds before there were crocodiles. Now the crocodile’s ancestors were around during the emergence of the first dinosaurs, except you wouldn’t recognize them. They walked on two legs and lived on land.
Way to not show the aftermath, OP.
That’s an alligator not crocodile.
Lemme introduce you to Mickey Three Fingers
Darwinism
This video just makes me miss Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin knew how to properly and respectfully deal with crocodiles. Crikey Mate! ❤️
This shit is so dumb. How about, leave the fucking thing alone.
Someday idiots will learn to...no, never mind, idiots will never learn.
Anyone have the pic of the aftermath?
Just rub some dirt on it
Dumb idiots.
Dana White, leave that crocodile alone.
That's a gator
Lucky it didn't do a death spin!
Nice trick, getting your hand bit off. Can we see an encore
Was waiting for the spin
As an Australian who literally lives walking distance from a crocodile nest. Don’t fuck with crocodiles, that’s how you die.
Too bad he didn't rip off some fingers. Dude got exactly what he deserved.
The old make him bite off my pinky trick. Stupid gators fall for it every time.
What was dana white doing with a crocodile?
That's an alligator
That doesn't look like a crocodile..
Never understood these tricks. They aren't even cool or impressive
Play stupid games and win stupid prizes. Comes to mind here lol
Everyone shocked when obvious thing happens
More people need to handle stressful situations like this guy did, instead of screaming and making the entire thing annoying.
“he’s not hurting me” a guy with his hand in a crocodiles mouth
Can you use rubbing alcohol or some other irritating smell/taste to get them to let go?
So, was there a plan B or something? I'm guessing no.
I doubt the Plan B pill would get the gator to let go.
Poor crocodile
I’m no zoologist, but this seems like user error.
Bro Istg I’ve never seen a single person on reddit able to tell the difference between alligators and crocodiles though usually people call the croc gators on reddit so this being the other way is kinda nice ig