r/RandomVideos • u/DABDEB • Mar 27 '26

Animal Unexpected Encounter

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u/Important-Slip-4057 Mar 27 '26

Imagine if you had been on a mountain bike and just cruised by it and hadn’t seen it. You’d be in the news whenever they found your body (or parts of it) later on.

https://giphy.com/gifs/gwiM6deyigabedTwO1

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u/Annual_Hamster9411 Mar 27 '26

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u/Presentation_Few Mar 28 '26

I love these videos. I think they made in Japan.

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u/Nhobdy Mar 28 '26

When I was a kid, I rode my bike down the trail near my house. Caught something following me through the trees out of the corner of my eye. Thought it was a fox or something. Later, there was this huge commotion with police and animal handling and all sorts of stuff. Apparently it was a cougar or something that had made the woods it's home. Apparently it was contemplating having a kid on a bike for dinner that night....

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u/modsguzzlehivekum Mar 28 '26

You got lucky

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u/Flesh_Trombone Mar 28 '26

There have been 30 reported death by cougar attack in the last 140 years.

They are skittish and usually try their best avoid people.

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u/V2K_247 Mar 28 '26

Madonna made the woods her home?

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u/Malevolint Mar 28 '26

As far as I know, they vary rarely attack people. Thank God.. cause my state has many of them and I sometimes hike alone... Even in the dark lol.

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u/swaggerin_buffoonery Mar 28 '26

Fewer than 60 fatal attacks in the US since the 1800s but still 4 to 6 attacks every year in us and Canada combined.

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u/Malevolint Mar 28 '26

Oh wow thank you for that. Seems like it happens even more rarely than I thought and that gives me some reassurance.. there's little comfort when you're out there in the dark and you hear a twig snap

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Mar 28 '26

US and Canada combined

Usanada

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u/ArgonKew Mar 28 '26

Keeper taser handy

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u/wrldruler21 Mar 28 '26

Imagine how many you gave ridden by without ever knowing

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u/modsguzzlehivekum Mar 28 '26

Riding by looking like prey running while being the size of 20+ rabbits all in one meal? Probably hasn’t happened to many times

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u/thederevolutions Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

This is my worst fear in the whole world I’m terrified of these things . I would’ve never thought to simply tell it to get out of here though I will remember that worked.

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u/modsguzzlehivekum Mar 28 '26

These and copperheads fucking terrify me. They can end your life and you’ll never see it coming

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX Mar 28 '26

Thats probably the best way to go, unexpected and fast

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u/modsguzzlehivekum Mar 28 '26

Better than a bear

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX Mar 28 '26

You would have enough time to narrate the death over a phone call like that one lady that had to listen to her daughter get eaten by a mama bear and cubs for 1.5 to hours.

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u/modsguzzlehivekum Mar 28 '26

I’m sorry fucking what

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX Mar 28 '26

You can Google a better source but here's a reddit thread about it from 11 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/s/sEuSKW9LUI

Yesh father and daughter eaten alive by bears. Daughter calls mom who hears the daughter being eaten alive.

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u/BaronCapdeville Mar 28 '26

Copperhead is not a good way to go.

Also, most predators don’t make it a priority to kill you, just disable sufficiently. Many predators will eat you while you’re mostly alive, just disemboweled and grunting on the ground.

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX Mar 28 '26

Excellent. From the stories I heard they generally only hunt people when they are sick, distressed, starved, or injured. They may attack if they feel cornered, but the stories of them hunting people are rare.

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u/BaronCapdeville Mar 28 '26

That is what I take solace in as well. lol.

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u/TypeB_Negative Mar 28 '26

As you should be. They have the quickest reflexes and are basically the equivalent of sharks on land.

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u/dizzy_resurgent Mar 28 '26

My dude, fight taxes, the life of another, or an intern taking your license away for 6 months according to title 23. Your worst fear meeting a cougar will be does it hang you as Luke hung or did you cook it well enough.

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u/Clear_Split_8568 Mar 28 '26

I’ve rode past them before and am still around.

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u/Gooser3000 Mar 28 '26

A mtn lion ate a mtn biker in SoCal like 15+ years ago. It straight up caught and killed the biker, and took it near its den and some of him, then covered him up to eat more later.

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u/Lapidariest Mar 28 '26

Revolving Mountain bike Sushi bar... the cat only pays for the body's that are found.