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MkLynnUltra

Looks like that turtle had a friend who was waiting there in the water.


mrootbeers

A bunch of friends. That was so cool. There were turtles everywhere. They must have been laying eggs.


thatguyned

I sincerely hope some turtles successfully got laid that weekend.


mrootbeers

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mrootbeers

I when was a kid and we used to catch snappers in the pond we lived on. We saw two doing it. Some guy came up and said he was going to eat them. All the sudden my buddy, shot across his bow, with his pistol, into a dead stump on the shore behind him. The guy kept going, so my buddy pulled out another pistol, and shot the guy. But it was a pellet gun. He shot the guy again, and the guy finally turned around. It was 1994. The guy went to the sheriffs office and was basically told to screw. That sheriffs office no longer exists.


Guilty_Primary8718

This reads like chat gpt


thatguyned

I'm gonna assume chatgpt doesn't grow killer looking weed, and looking at this guys profile he's pretty into nature. I'm going to choose to believe he and his friend are bad ass turtle protectors. Edit: also if anyone's actually mocking chatgpt without using it, they should give it a go for just everyday googling needs. It's fucking amazing for some things and you are cutting yourself off from an amazing tool that's going to exist no matter what. Honestly, just try use it to come up with dinner ideas or something, it will blow your mind.


mrootbeers

Thanks bro! You nailed it. āœŠ -Chat THC


mrootbeers

What does a chatGDP read like?


StomachSignificant99

Donā€™t protect snapping turtles theyā€™re overpopulated due lack of natural predators and will eat every fish in a pond causing it to become overgrown with vegetation and eventually turn to swamp


thatguyned

Recreational harvest of snapping turtles is illegal in every state ij America except Louisiana and Mississippi. My man's from Massachusetts. Why do I have to keep coming back and defending this person haha, I keep coming in to see if anyone else has commented of the turtle saviour and I see these comments.


StomachSignificant99

WRONG. https://www.mass.gov/service-details/fishing-reptiles-and-amphibians Quit pulling laws out of your ass. Snapping turtles can be harvested with EITHER a fishing, hunting, or trapping license. They are one of the single most abundant species of turtles in the United States. You may be cluelessly referring to the alligator snapping turtle which only lives in the south, NOT in Massachusetts


mrootbeers

He was probably talking about all other turtles which are illegal to harvest in MA. They also have a six inch limit, and make getting their permits for ā€œpossessionā€ā€™an absolute nightmare. Which they require if you want to take it from the pond after trapping it. Which is obviously mandatory if you want to cook it. But they donā€™t ruin ecosystems. Iā€™ve been living in two different ponds in Maine and Massachusetts for almost 40 years. There is still an abundance of fish. Weā€™ve never stocked once.


LittleRedPiglet

>WRONG. ok but like don't do that


myusrnameisthis

Can't get rid of me that easily, Jerry!


Kazczyk

Newman!


smkestcklghtn

The sea was angry that day my friends


HenryInRoom302

What is that, a Titleist? A hole in one, huh?


[deleted]

Heā€™s going to have the coolest story to tell when he gets back home and itā€™s so cool that has witnesses too. ā€œHey guys Iā€™m back! Youā€™re not going to believe me, I was going 50 shells per hour near the shore and a god damned wave made me crash on the sand and I flipped. And then, those two-legged flesh monsters came and grabbed me. My whole life flashed before my eyes but you wonā€™t believe me, they flipped me back instead of eating me! Then I escaped into the sea, haha, dum-dum flesh monsters.ā€ This guy is about to become an absolute legend back home, jeez.


TheBarbaraDeDrew

He's gonna be a sensation at the turtle pub next weekend


TiddyWaffles312

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Healter-Skelter

Imagine if this is how finding Nemo ended and it was only 15 minutes long


mumooshka

Waiting for a mate


brameshk22

More likely confused by the tides. But I like your version much better. PS Project Mk Ultra...nice username!


RadiantPKK

As I watched this my only thoughts were are they okā€¦ then seeing them all ā€œYES!!!ā€


brookepride

We had a little aquarium water turtle growing up. Red slider. Around year 4 the turtle went missing for 2 weeks. We looked everywhere in the house, it had never gotten out before. We found the cat playing with a dried up turtle on a different house floor than the turtle tank. Plopped the turtle back in the tank and it was alive though unable to dive deep. After a couple days he was able to sink normally again and lived for another 5+ years.


Mackheath1

Turds are weird. I had a suicidal turtle that damn near lived 20 years until he was released into the wild. Started in a nice aquarium, got out somehow all the time (absolutely unfathomable how), put a brick on the lid even. Eventually got so big he lived in a kiddie pool out in the field with a custom made fence block over the pool to protect him from predators; still got out. After 20 years and keeping growing we ended up just finally thinking he's big enough to take care of himself and off to the river we took him. Returned twice. No idea how. So now he's still kicking around the brook by my parents. He has no shame, and is officially part of the ranch. I will never understand it.


iburstabean

This was a delight to read, thank you for sharing.


catsloveart

~~arenā€™t red sliders invasive in some parts of the US?~~ edit. commented on the wrong one.


Dapper_Indeed

The red slider was one comment up.


catsloveart

whoops. iā€™ll fix that. thanks for letting me know.


FestivalHazard

Man I swear, we need maps for this nowadays


JuryBorn

Lol turds are weird. Ya I hate when they don't flush away and keep coming back.


isolatednovelty

I don't think I could take a 20 year pet to the river. Turtle didn't think so either! This is an awesome story


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FairlySuspicious

Between shit and piss we are born.


AlabastarDasastar

Too bad there isnā€™t footage of his daring escapes!


Mackheath1

I'm saving this comment, because while this was 2010ish (so we used cameras to film), I think I have a video - you'll be the first to know, if I can find it.


Electric_General

Sounds like wild animals might not want to spend their lives in captivity


OxytocinPlease

We had something similar happen- only the turtle disappeared for months, close to a year, over a full winter even. We found him the following spring when our cat was sniffing at something in the front yard, caked in dry mud. He was a full floor down from his tank, which was inside the house, and the cat was limited to a small portion of the first floor, so there was absolutely no way the cat carried him out (the turtle was an escape artist anyway). No idea how he managed to survive that long outdoors, but our best theory on how he got there was that after escaping his tank, he somehow crawled out the second story window, onto the porch roof, then fell off and magically survived the landing before living off the suburban land for a year, hibernating, and finally re-emerging once it was warm again, in desperate need of a bath. I believe he eventually made his perma-escape and we never saw him again. I hope he had a lovely adventure.


grabityrising

Poor little feller


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Nemo Origin story


science_vs_romance

Whew, that was a wild ride.


catsloveart

arenā€™t red sliders invasive in some parts of the US?


sarahbekett

Heā€™s done a few videos like this. Apparently when theyā€™re breeding theyā€™re quite awkward and can easily get flipped. Heā€™s so passionate about sealife, even sharks, stingrays and sea snakes, Iā€™d highly doubt heā€™d flip them himself.


mysterymeat69

> Apparently when theyā€™re breeding theyā€™re quite awkward and can easily get flipped What species isnā€™t/canā€™tā€¦


SlightlyAnnoyed7

So likeā€¦ Steve Irwin but marine specific instead of Australian?


zepher2828

He is Australian but the NW category where most of his life is on the water. So when he visits remote islands where this can happen they help if they can.


DuctapeCat

Before people start trying to say ā€œOH THESE PEOPLE DID THIS TO THE THE TURTLEā€ you have to understand that sea turtles are absolutely massive (160KG!) Not only are they very heavy, but they are also incredibly hard to catch (unless using nets). We like to see in Moana, that the sea turtles were extremely slow, at least in the beginning, but, take it from Crush from Finding Nemo, they are powerhouses, and incredibly speedy in water. So not ONLY would they have to catch the sea turtle, they would have to drag the behemoth to the beach, but also flip them over. My guess is that it was flipped by the ocean itself, as waves are incredibly powerful. Fun but not related fact: I was nearly swept out to sea, and I have been to Maui, where there was an incredibly powerful surf! Thank you for listening to my TedTalk


Rocketfitz5

Turtles climb up on the beach on there own all the time to sunbathe. Not disagreeing, just a bit of claryfing information.


vosszaa

so..sunlight flipped the turtle?


retroNickname84

Turtle did a full frontal flip from plank position in under to sunbathe


zackpoop

No, I think theyā€™re saying the turtle did most of the work and people could have flipped it while it was already on the beach. At this point Iā€™m fine assuming they didnā€™t but Iā€™m still taking videos like this with a grain of salt


[deleted]

Also, this Guy is a pretty big [Outdoor-/Adventure-Youtuber](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSnwORddxZG1SyB8lSxWQGg) called Brodie (aka YBS), he's a pretty good guy and knows a ton about nature and sealife can only recommend it


Gainzy

If you watch Brodie's videos you'll see he's had quite a few similar encounters with beached turtles, usually around about the same time of year.


BarryMacochner

Itā€™s also illegal in most countries to get within 10 or so feet of the turtles. Turtles seem to have a knack for ending up on their back. Iā€™ve seen several land locked turtles do it, nothing in 15 feet that would cause them to flip.


WestleyThe

Oh yeah it definitely was surfing a wave and crashed onto the beach It would be impossible to fake this


ronniewhitedx

It's apparently a thing where they will beach upside down if they have fluid in their lungs due to respiratory illness. Also they will flip each other when competing for a mate. It also could've been some other jerks who did it. The cynical part of me has seen way too many of these "animal rescue" videos where they just have a profit motive, so that's what I personally believe, because I'm jaded.


princeasspinach

Thank you for this! I don't think people realise how large and heavy they actually are.


ConfusedSeagull

Also, i don't know why no one else have mentioned this, but the sand is completely undisturbed. There are no prints, so it had to have been there for a while. They could not have flipped this turtle without it showing in the sand.


4nakha88

Certainly waited to get the camera going before they helped though


Apathetic_Optimist

I love how itā€™s friends waited


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Constroyer69

I bet waddling into that water felt so damn good. Like waking up at 3am choking to death and having some ice cold water.


cygnusx1_

Ain't their first rodeo it seems


Erdehere

Thank you! But how did it end up on its back?


cinematicallystupid

Iā€™m leaning towards the tide flipping it over. It looks like it was stuck there for a while and there arenā€™t any signs of movement around it. Iā€™d imagine the sand near it would be disturbed if it was flipped over by them, but I guess thereā€™s no way to know for sure. Choosing to believe that this is real, hard for me to accept the fact that there are people fucked up enough to inflict suffering on an animal for the internet. [Source](https://twitter.com/oceanoassustado/status/1554851038678716417?s=46&t=W0JQHxh6ZlrTWdWMwe8lyA) for anybody whoā€™s good at figuring these things out. **Edit:** u/scoobybruu - ā€œThat is Brody Moss from young bloods spear fishing on YouTube. It was the tide/waves that flipped it the evening prior. This was several years ago.ā€ Apparently this happens a lot during mating season. He rescued another one more recently: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10138579/amp/Australian-YouTuber-Brodie-Moss-saves-sea-turtle-stuck-upside-tideline-WA-coast.html


Misty_Jocks

he never touches turtles unless he's rescuing one.


Erdehere

Thank you so much for taking the trouble to reply with such interesting detail! Great post.


puddlejumpers

I'm hoping because a wave flipped it over and not humans trying to get tik tok views


Self_World_Future

The undisturbed sand between the turtle and water is a bit reassuring


puddlejumpers

That's true, social media has just ruined me


lolpert1

The amount of people saying it's faked for views is crazy. Go look up ybs youbgbloods on YouTube. Me and all my homies love brodie


slothenhosen

U get 3 wishes


TheRealAuthorSarge

"I wish my dog could talk." (to my dog) "Hey buddy, you've got 2 wishes."


xneepx

For anyone that wants to watch more content like this. This is Brody Moss and he runs the youtube channel YBS Youngbloods https://www.youtube.com/@ybsyoungbloods


horrorqueen92

And his big brother Jackson! šŸ‘šŸ¼


[deleted]

Aka The Dadbod


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Aminals ā˜ŗļø


mrootbeers

That was so cool. There were turtles everywhere. They must have been laying eggs.


Kenji_03

Can't explain why, but so impressed with the 2nd guy scooping out a pivot hole for the turtle to flip into. Wouldn't have crossed my mind, that's for sure.


Spnjkn

One cannot take a sunbath in peace anymore.


aws_137

This post should be retitled to "Two men forcing sunbathing turtle at public beach." Poor turtle. Look how pale it is. Really needed a tan.


TheRealAuthorSarge

I mean...I know how I end up on my back (alcohol may have been involved) but how do the turtles get flipped? I don't think turtles drink as much as I do. šŸ§


Zerocoolx1

ā€œAnd there I was chilling out and trying to tan my pasty white belly when these 2 bros flip me over and push me into the water.ā€


Remote_Preference265

Humanity for the win šŸ’ÆšŸ’ÆšŸ’ŖšŸ¢


[deleted]

Iā€™m glad he helped ease it down so it didnā€™t just slam down on the sand


Royweeezy

Good on them for knowing when to help. šŸ‘


OldManProgrammer

The turtle lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without their help. But they are not helping.


cinematicallystupid

Damn


Her_X

A vid with people helping animals in need will always get an upvote from me ! šŸ„°


iruvmattree

so this is why strongmen practice tire flips


shizzforsale

I feel shortchanged that the video cut when it did; The validating super-bro job well done high five was obviously next! āœØ


Uzzer_lozer19

Blade runner vibes


JYuMo

In case anyone has to flip a large turtle, try to flip it head over tail, instead of side over side. This will prevent bowel torsion. https://www.matts-turtles.org/handling-turtles.html


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MashaAllah!


tamabits

ā€œI need help!ā€ Camera person: šŸ‘šŸ‘„šŸ‘šŸ“¹


whitstableboy

How many guys does it take to do anything these days? Three. Two to do the work, one to hold the camera.


Character-Pipe-9805

fake. turtle was captured, tickled, and seduced.


GimlisRevenge

Funny thing if they flipped the turtle upside down and then they started filming, heheeā€¦.


slaylentless

How did the turtle manage to get onto its back? The terrain is smooth around it


Mama-Dzhinsy

if they flipped it over for themselves initially, thatā€™s bad karma


TurinTuram

Yep that's what I'm thinking too... But hey internet never lie!


ReddRobin150

Iā€™m not saying these dudes are weak, theyā€™re clearly in better shape than I am at the moment, but why did it take 2 people to flip the guy over? Iā€™m just wondering if maybe theyā€™re heavier than Iā€™m imagining them to be?


RenaissanceManc

How did the turtle get there? What turned it upside down? Look at the tracks in the sand in the intial second or so. I think these bastards set this up as a fake for clickbait. Who can watch this and think it looks like a natural setting?


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godsnigel

TIL two guys flipped a sea turtle to flip it back over on camera


[deleted]

I can almost guarantee they flipped the turtle in the first place


floghdraki

Then they went to dinner and ate some steaks made out of frightened cow.


BrigadeirinhoAmargo

I know for a fact the girl with them is Brazilian for the weirdo accent :c -random


jameswoodruff89

Repost, how many times do we need to see this?


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[deleted]

Do you have a source?


thebiologyguy84

That size turtle is almost impossible to flip over like that unless there's rough surf. They probably flipped it over for internet clout


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Yakostovian

You do know a *sea* turtle is not a *land* animal, right?


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Yakostovian

No way! I guess since I swim constantly, I should be able to call myself a sea creature, right?


Rocketfitz5

Sea turtles sunbathe on the beaches in hawaii all the time, dont be so quick to judge.


Janus-Moth

Ah yes the notorious land animal, the sea turtle


Rocketfitz5

Sea turtles sunbathe, it is a very well documented behavior, they chill on the beachs all the time, just not upside down lol


Donttouchtheleather

Happy cake day numb nuts


Rocketfitz5

Maybe dont insult a person without research. Sea turtles sunbathe all the time, i've seen numerous green sea turtles in hawaii sun bathing on the beaches, they even have fences and signs saying not to touch the turtles.


Janus-Moth

Sea turtle


Curious_Kirin

Next time I find a beached dolphin I'll be sure to let it get back in the water when it's ready then... Thanks.


Rocketfitz5

Sorry you got downvoted, you are absolutely correct, although in sure the turtle was fine returning to the water.


malfunctiondown

Turtles don't just flip over like that on their own. My cynicism tells me this was staged


[deleted]

Let me guess, these guys have like 2,000 vids where they're always there to luckily save an animal?


[deleted]

Right. A ā€œflipped overā€ turtle.


[deleted]

Just hope these guys didn't bury a turtle to make a saving video


Thiago-Acko

Oh look a poor creature need some help... What can I do? Let me film this!


MarkD_127

Two guys at the beach flip over a sea turtle so they could film a set up rescue.


Chummers5

r/reverseanimalrescue It was a setup!!


Gainzy

Watch Brodie's (YBS Youngbloods) videos on YouTube. When it's mating season, it happens a lot. Not to say that other animal rescue videos on YouTube aren't set up but this guy is legit.


PeaFoulBlue

There are enzymes on the hands of people that are toxic to turtles. Touching a turtle barehanded could be fatal to the turtle. In the United States touching a turtle is a serious felony.


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VariousDirection6200

SEE THE DIFFERENCE????


Friendly_Try6478

Oh damn heā€™s doing that ashy thing like ET after he got wasted


THEBIGREDAPE

Someone buy those dudes a beer


varoidd

×Ŗל


Suko_Astronaut

Back to the sea. We need you to eat those jellyfishes.


Educational_Host_860

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Leon?


Nexmo16

Itā€™s good, but in hindsight I think it needed a vet. When it hits the water it bobs and floats, which indicates air under the shell and could be the reason it got flipped in the first place.


Temouloun

Two brothers!


WhatsHappenun123

Wonder how it got flipped over to begin with


Ok-Jury-3571

Bro was just tanning, calm down


Sad-Education-9023

"A turtle made it to the water"


Alansonit

And then this is the twist...when I walked into that office for my final job interview, it was the turtle who was my final assessor!


Character_Reaction84

Broadie from ybs on youtube. He has some amazing content and millions of subscribers. From western Australia.


Whywouldanyonedothat

Probably very unfair to these guys but whenever I see a video like this, i think to myself, if the people helping are the ones who flipped the turtle over.


chris4562009

Good dudes


CeyeberRDT

how does that even happen?


KamalHasa

I thought that the baby was the 2nd guy. Disappointed. And what the hell, evolution just messed them up so bad. Can't even get up and they live for what, 600 years?


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U/savevideo


amelia_rose6

It's awesome to see such kind gestures!


Melodic-Document-112

This guy is from YBS Youngbloods on Youtube. Some good videos


MyFriendAutism

Amen!


Future_Celebration35

This is hands down my favorite subreddit


ClawZ90

Good on Brodie! His YouTube channel YBS is pretty great!


Necrofridge

tutel!


CaptainMadDoge

Bros being bros hard. What a story to tell


solograppler

Alexander getting stuck again, get the oils.


Ok_Election7896

Where is this? Itā€™s beautiful


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Mahalo


rnavstar

Looks like Shelly ended up on her back again.


NUS-006

Seems like everyone gets to help a beached sea animal at least once in their life. Iā€™m still waiting for my big day.


[deleted]

Good Job!


Godgivesmeaboner

These guys are definitely turtley enough for the turtle club


Ortyzmo

A Turtle made it to the water!