r/nextfuckinglevel • u/subodh_2302 • Jan 26 '23
The release of a bag of snakes into the wild
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u/HotBritches Jan 26 '23
Can someone help me understand why thereās a giant bag of snakes in the first place?
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u/hegemonycrickets Jan 26 '23
Law of unintended consequences. Thatās so interesting, thanks for sharing
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u/AttarCowboy Jan 26 '23
The chief source of problems is solutions.
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u/NobodysFavorite Jan 26 '23
One day you should ask about cane toads. That's definitely in that category.
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u/DarkHumourFoundHere Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
Additional facts.
This was when India was being ruled by british. British implemented this policy and later was removed once the british understood the consequences. But the above video cant be pre independent video.
Edit - Britishers -> British
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u/ursoevil Jan 26 '23
Curious, is āBritishersā a regular term used to refer to the British? The other day my Indian coworker also mentioned Britishers and I thought I misheard the word. Never heard it before.
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u/DarkHumourFoundHere Jan 26 '23
generally used. But correct term is british.
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u/areyoueatingthis Jan 26 '23
"britiff" is also tolerated if you're missing a few teeth
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u/TacticalNuke002 Jan 26 '23
Britisher is Indians referring to the British, especially if it's the British Raj. Its not meant to be very respectful.
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u/work3oakzz Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
If your gonna pay people for dead animals. There will ALWAYS be a market for said animal to be farmed. Fucking duh. Expect the worse out of people. Then after you did that, expect worse than what you just thought, then you might be at the level of some people
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u/MrLazyLion Jan 26 '23
Lord Vetinari: "Tax the rat farms!"
(Discworld by Terry Pratchett, had a similar problem with rats, can't remember which book)
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u/Firemage007 Jan 26 '23
Additional fact: after they released the snakes, most estimates conclude the number of snakes drastically increased compared to before the policyā¦
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u/psychord-alpha Jan 26 '23
So how tf are you supposed to get rid of a pest species
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u/Ceeeriuz Jan 27 '23
This is nothing to do with this video. This person is a snake relocator, catching snakes in urban areas that are deemed ānuisanceā. He probably just saved up a bunch to release at once. Itās really bad practice to release so many in one place as the local environment will not have the prey resources to keep them alive.
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u/Grimskraper Jan 26 '23
He removed them from a place close to people and used it to transport them to the wilderness.
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u/Enough_Minimum_3708 Jan 26 '23
or alternatively he knows his neighbor is deadly afraid of snakes and unloaded all of these to mess with him
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Jan 26 '23 edited 22d ago
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u/Jwinnington50 Jan 26 '23
Hate to be that guy but this one always gets me. Poisonous refers to toxins that are ingested. Venomous refers to organisms that produce venom and inject it often via bite or sting. So snakes that produce venom are venomous not poisonous
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u/thiosk Jan 26 '23
Not necessarily true. If the snake ingests a poison-type pokemon then it rolls a saving throw to determine whether it absorbs the poisonous trait
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u/Jwinnington50 Jan 26 '23
Haha yeah that is true I shouldāve qualified my statement with the vast of majority of snakes. The garter snake is not venomous, but is poisonous if it is eaten from all of the toxins it absorbs from its prey (newts and salamanders).
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u/petitcochonATL Jan 26 '23
Oh this is my new favorite piece of trivia, thank you!! Iām always very careful about the distinction between venomous and poisonous, but I never knew there were poisonous snakes š
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u/freddymerckx Jan 26 '23
What do you call it if you eat the venom?
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u/WanderingJude Jan 26 '23
Perfectly fine. You can drink snake venom with no issues as long as there are no internal wounds that allow it into the bloodstream.
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u/Grimskraper Jan 26 '23
Perhaps he is trying to preserve the lives of the snakes. They may not be viewed as pests here. He could be sympathetically removing them from harm's way.
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u/Coc0tte Jan 26 '23
In some places snakes are endangered so there are captive breeding programs to help boost the species' numbers and the snakes are released into the wild in big numbers because there is often quite a lot of mortality with reptiles. They are also often released in areas with rodent issues to help farmers as well.
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u/FreakyGangBanga Jan 27 '23
I agree with most of what you have said. However nothing warrants an act of releasing so many snakes in one spot. Rat infestations have to be in plague numbers for that and those scenarios are rare.
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u/Cardinal101 Jan 27 '23
Probably not the case here, but in Vietnam animals are caught in the wild then sold to people who buy them for purposes of āfreeingā them into the wild, thus earning good karma. Those same animals are then caught again and resold to the same people who then āfreeā them again.
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u/Ftyross Jan 26 '23
Judging by the fact that he is handling them bare handed, I am guessing those snakes aren't venomous lol
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u/GoForPapaPalpy Jan 26 '23
Yeah, but the real question is if theyāre poisonous
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u/hoodyninja Jan 26 '23
For those seriously wonderingā¦. Venomous is if it bites you. Poisonous is if you bite it.
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u/Officer_dibble_ Jan 26 '23
What snake is poisonous?
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u/jmills03croc Jan 26 '23
After Indiana Jones was done filming.
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u/TheGreenIguana1 Jan 27 '23
So all but a few of the animals in that scene are actually snakes amd most of them are legless lizards, hence why if u look carefully they have earholes
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u/FreakyGangBanga Jan 27 '23
Why did you have to ruin that moment for me. Now I have nothing to look forward to. Gotta get bros in the snake actors Union to explain why they were underrepresented.
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u/TheGreenIguana1 Jan 27 '23
There were a few individual close up shots that had some snakes like some Burmese and boa constrictors, but none of the snakes in the movie are even from Egypt and are mostly constrictor snakes not venomous asp, as the movie claimed they were. Still pretty cool tho
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u/Constant_Regular_919 Jan 26 '23
New fear unlocked: changing a pillow case
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u/Big_Jerm21 Jan 26 '23
"I'm don't know about you, but I'm tired of these MOTHER FUCKING SNAKES ON THIS MOTHER FUCKING PLAIN!
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u/idahononono Jan 26 '23
Is that the remake filmed in Kansas? āSnakes on the plain, home on the range.ā
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u/urinalchunder Jan 26 '23
And that's what 100 snakes collectively saying "what the fuck was THAT all about?!" Looks like.
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u/JCarroll0430 Jan 26 '23
Dudes got some cajones on him to do that
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u/Val2a Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
Sorry I'm the grammar officer and it's "cojones" but I liked the joke
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u/54B3R_ Jan 26 '23
Personally I absolutely love snakes. No bravery for me to do it. I will gladly do it.
Most snakes in my country are not venomous, so if I see one I pick it up to show to people. They almost never bite me, and they're so soft and beautiful
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u/JCarroll0430 Jan 27 '23
I don't typically mind snakes if they're non poisonous but that amount is crazy. And if there's any poisonous ones in there then that's a nope from me lol.
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u/HelomaDurum
Jan 26 '23
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Medusa had a haircut?
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u/Plane_Baby Jan 26 '23
Okay, this guy is a supervillain. lol
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u/UWontHearMeAnyway Jan 27 '23
Boa ConstrictHer, but is gay
Sampson Saulesberry, but has a lisp
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u/100LittleButterflies Jan 26 '23
The family Rodentia decided it was a good time to move to another field.
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u/FlippyFlopper761 Jan 26 '23
I would have ran as soon as the snakes fell out of the bag
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u/gls2220 Jan 26 '23
How does this guy manage to carry the bag of snakes and his gigantic balls?
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u/redsensei777 Jan 26 '23
Thatās the elusive Everglades bandit releasing pythons and baby anacondas.
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u/swingsetclouds Jan 26 '23
See, this is the guy we have to stop. This is where all the snakes are coming from.
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u/theorys Jan 26 '23
I thought bro was going to book it as soon as he emptied the bag and he literally did the EXACT opposite, JFC.
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u/dudeman2737 Jan 26 '23
This is a scam right? They get paid to catch snakes then release them to later on catch them again and then release them again then catch them again...
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u/wotsit_sandwich Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
When I release bags of snakes into the wild I usually just empty the bag and run away. This man is separated them with his hands. What a pro!
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u/Ascarecrow Jan 26 '23
One way to tell this isn't Australia. If it was a bag of brown snakes they would of bitten him.
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u/psyk738178 Jan 26 '23
Oh ya. You gotta separate em with your hands. Otherwise they'll get all tangled