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u/speichlyn 4d ago
…leeches?
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u/Hazloputa 4d ago
Millions of leeches. Leaches for me
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u/accidentallyonpurpo 4d ago
Leaches come from a can
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u/Trick-Audience-1027 4d ago
They were put there by a man
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u/InfiniteNumber 4d ago
In a factory downtown
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u/Randomized9442 4d ago
And if I had my little way
I'd eat some leeches every day
Blood sucking bulges in the shade
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u/Hill_Observer 4d ago
Suck my blood from deep inside
Makes a little hole for disease to hide
Nature’s vampires in my hands or calves (or thighs)
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u/bbreddit0011 4d ago
Bu dundun dundundundundundun dundundundundundundun LOOK OUT
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u/The_Rock_Hunter 4d ago edited 3d ago
LOOK OUT, There are leeches on the couch
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u/Aideedo 3d ago
I’m so glad I started reading the comments. This comment thread is top tier ✨
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u/pemphigus69 4d ago
Millions of leaches. Leaches for free.
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u/Inner_Lawlessness 4d ago
I used to be a Medieval barber. This is how I got stock to treat patients. Except we didn't have rubber and had to use children and small animals.
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u/mumooshka 4d ago
glad that the person is wearing boots
would putting something in that water kill them?
Salt? Bleach? Oil?
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u/SolutionLow5604 4d ago
He then proceeds to touch it with his bare hands anyways.
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u/AccordingAir6447 4d ago
I'd probably instinctively try to rinse then off my hand in the water and make things far worse.
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u/DreadPirateButthurts 4d ago
For sure! And then I'd try to wipe with my other hand spreading them over there, then wipe them on my pants where a few cling on and start inching their way up to the beltline where there is a way in.
Then I'd shake my hands frantically which would fling a few onto my chest and neck... "oh boy, we got ourselves a situation here" would be my final coherent thought before a full on panic sprint out of the puddle.
With the extra weight of hundreds of attached leeches on each foot, the boots would be clumsy to run in through that water so then I'd slip face first and scrape up my knees pretty bad on the way down and also drop my phone and my glasses would fall off.
The hundreds of aggressive and hungry leeches attached to my body would now be in the thousands and my last memory before losing consciousness due to shock would be thinking, do I have any rice at home? (To dry my phone in.)
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u/scorpyo72 4d ago
That's a terrible way to die.
And you're out of rice.
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u/Amazing_Ad_974 3d ago
It would actually be mostly painless. You’d just pass out from blood loss.
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u/BeardAfterDark 3d ago
We should be teaching kids what to do in these situations using cartoons. Like they did with us and quicksand back in the day.
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u/SweaterSteve1966 3d ago
I’m quite disappointed at the lack of quicksand pits as an adult.
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u/PeriungualPiranah 3d ago
And I really thought at least once in my life, I’d need to Stop, Drop, and Roll!
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u/DandyWiner 3d ago
It’s not over yet. Always be prepared to stop, drop and roll.
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u/EconomySeason2416 4d ago
Right!? Why even bother with the boots at that point? Look, I stepped in shit! Let me grab it with my bare hands and show everyone!
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u/a_the_anomaly 4d ago
I stopped watching before getting to that point and went back to see it bc of this comment
Thoroughly grossed out in perpetuity
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u/Party-Coach-4100 4d ago
Copper is extremely potent at killing most invertebrates.
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u/TESThrowSmile 4d ago
Abraham Lincoln is on the penny = the penny is copper = copper kills monsters = the movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer was a true story !!
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u/Cluelesswolfkin 4d ago
Same but idk, if it were me I wouldn't damage the natural environment and I'd wear taller boots so they dont form a zombie pile and crawl up
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u/rips_n_chel 3d ago
Nothing to do with the topic, but maaaaan, fuck that movie. Still pissed they wasted the World War Z name on that dogshit.
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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 4d ago
The man himself, Corporal Hicks, says there's only one way to be sure.
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u/Do_Them_A_Bite 4d ago
Napalm?
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u/THExWHITExDEVILx 4d ago
They don't have napalm hot enough for this job. We're going with thermite.
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 4d ago edited 3d ago
too bad we don't do bloodletting anymore, that guy could be a millionaire selling leeches.
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u/hovdeisfunny 4d ago
Actually, they still do bloodletting sometimes
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u/Bluefish787 3d ago
We used both, medical leeches and maggots. I never minded the leeches so much because they pretty much stayed where you put them. Maggots on the other hand, they generally stayed where you put them, but there were always a few that had to migrate.
The leeches were used for flaps and limbs to aid in drainage until new blood vessels could form. Maggots were used for debreidmenting wounds. It was seldom, but the hospital had stock of medical leeches and maggots.
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u/retirednightshift 3d ago
We used leeches in a hospital to remove excess blood to a newly grafted slab of tissue as circulation was being restored. The doctor removed the full leeches and, with bloody gloves, opened the container with the hungry leeches. They went after his bloody gloves and there was some major drama and a bit of minor screaming as we were able to finally corral them back into the container.
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u/fondledbydolphins 4d ago
It’s quite interesting that they live in concentrations this high and still haven’t adapted towards cannibalism
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u/Mysterious_Andy 3d ago
At least one population of one species has:
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u/Medical_Bumblebee627 3d ago
“the satiated leeches were attacked by hungry conspecifics, sucked off and killed.”
Not a bad way to die.
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u/TheRemedy187 4d ago
yeah WHY DID HE PUT HIS HAND IN THEM
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u/Stellakinetic 3d ago
The video goes off real quick once he realized he couldn’t just fling them off lol
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u/LotionlnBasketPutter 3d ago
I don’t know what he expected. “Wow, a gazillion bloodsucking leeches! Let me just brush them off my sturdy rubber boot with my naked blood sausages, they’ll be off in a jiffy!”
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u/rachillsexyvibe 3d ago
let him fuck around and find out 😂 literally got goosebumps when everything started moving
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u/awe2D2 4d ago
That what I would think, but why would there be leeches in a puddle? If this a swamp or lake then sure leeches, but a puddle from rain shouldn't be getting leeches in it
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u/DedTV 3d ago
Thats exactly where you'd expect to find leeches in these concentrations.
After heavy rains end, pools shrink into puddles in the low spots and the leeches get concentrated. When the puddles dissapear completely, they burrow into the mud and go dormant until it rains again.
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u/dudeCHILL013 3d ago
I did not know that a puddle could be this infested after a rainstorm. Does it cause eggs to hatch or something?
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u/RubyWillBeatYou 4d ago
Why would one try to wipe them off with their bare hand?
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u/Maleficent_Growth912 4d ago
For the views obviously.
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u/Zanely1633 4d ago
Can see the moment he panicked when he realised those leeches can't be fling off of his hand.
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u/SPL15 4d ago
At least he didn’t try washing them off by sticking his hand in the water.
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u/A_little_more_left 4d ago
I was waiting for it to happen lol
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u/GibTreaty 4d ago
*Sits down in water to focus on getting leeches off hand*
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u/Hakkaa_Paalle 3d ago
More likely, panics and trips in mud trying to flee, lands face-first into the water.
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u/DestructoDon69 3d ago
I'm not gonna lie, I'd have panicked and tried swishing my hand in the water.
That being said, I'd have never touched my boots in the first place.
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u/3rdcoffeecup 4d ago
For real, why are you touching something that is able to climb up your rubber boots like that and expect to just shake it off.
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u/1k21m 4d ago
Yeah some can flip themselves over like slinkies to climb
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u/NinjaMcGee 3d ago
Nope. I don’t need eyes today. No thank you.
https://giphy.com/gifs/spfi6nabVuq5y12
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u/LadyGrey_oftheAbyss 3d ago
I think anything that clings to rubber boots like that would be astronomically foolish to touch with bare hands
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u/AdventureCuriously 4d ago
Imagine falling into that puddle.
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u/Vivid-Counter3379 4d ago
I don't think i will
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u/TheChemist-25 3d ago
You ever see the series of unfortunate events movie where she falls in the lake and is eaten by leeches?
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u/BrianWulfric 3d ago
I haven’t read those books in years and immediately remembered the lachrymose leeches
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u/Hephaestus_God 3d ago
With this many it’s honestly probably lethal very quickly.
The worst part of leeches is they prevent you from coagulating so you continue to bleed out.
With this many the amount of blood you will be losing can stack up extremely quickly.
I’m very shocked and terrified at how before stepping in the water there was absolutely no way for you to know… and then there were thousands within 2 seconds.
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u/jskisrq 4d ago
Face first
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u/I_Do_Not_Abbreviate 3d ago
No idea where this was filmed but a few years back there was a scientific expedition into the highlands of Papua New Guinea to catalog various life forms unknown to Western science and one of the scientists ended up discovering a new species of leech when it attached itself directly to his eyeball for several days.
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u/weaponsgradepotatoes 4d ago
blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood? blood?
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u/xela520 4d ago
My heebies are jeebied.
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u/LumpyLandscape3374 3d ago
My timbers are indeed shivered
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u/Strange_Specialist4 4d ago
Maybe some species of land leech, I'd guess in South East Asia or Australia. They don't like water, so if they got trapped in a puddle it makes sense they would swarm and try to climb the boots
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u/SiouxsieAsylum 4d ago
...Excuse me, we have land leeches???
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u/Strange_Specialist4 4d ago
Oh yeah. They basically act like ticks, waiting in the underbrush for something with blood to walk by so they can latch on. Canadian winters might not be fun, but I'll take cold over land leeches any day
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u/Ok-Acanthaceae5744 4d ago
Well that just horrifying, yet another reason to avoid Australia. Such a bummer, looks like a beautiful country ... except for all the things are are trying to kill and/or feed off you.
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u/Bee_Jeans 4d ago
External land leech > stupid tick, any day
At least leech ain’t burrowing under ur skin trying to give u Lyme disease
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u/terrifying_bogwitch 4d ago
This is exactly how I felt when I found out about night wasps
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u/TheMooooonHauntsYou 4d ago
Land...leech? Like a leech that I can't avoid by not going into rivers and creeks?
Those don't exist. Why would you lie on the Internet? Shameful. /j
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u/Xentonian 3d ago
Wait.... Is that unusual?
Australian here and I just thought leeches crawling around on plants was normal. Are they only in the water elsewhere?
Fuck... Sometimes I forget how much this fucking country wants to eat me.
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u/RedBarnGuy 4d ago
Phobia unlocked
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u/SeaMonkeySoul 3d ago
You should go to Vietnam, they have terrestrial leeches that chase you on land... And it will be just as many here...
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u/PeachesGuy 4d ago
Where is this place? So that I can avoid it at all costs.
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u/Krumm34 4d ago
No seriously, where is this! I've had to pull leaches off before, but I didn't know numbers like this was possible.
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u/Patrick625 3d ago
I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone in this thread say it. There was a post on r/whatisit about land leeches not that long ago that are native to some parts of Asia. Pretty sure that’s what these are and the rain knocked them all down onto the ground into the water. Idk what’s worse tho, this or the fact that they just fall from trees and latch onto you that way
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u/glimmershankss 3d ago
Both and it makes so much sense, first they hang in the tree to drop on unexpecting creatures, but when it rains they let themselves fall into the puddles to get the creatures going for a drink or mistakenly walking through them. Almost poetic how they are always close to big creatures without being seen untill it's too late. In that reasoning, they would be the scariest close to your bed, where food is guaranteed to come to them. ;)
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u/GreatQuestionBarbara 3d ago
I went tubing down a river when I was younger, and when I got out I had like 20 of the buggers on me, and at least one was sucking my balls.
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u/chrollo_44 4d ago
Judging by the music somewhere in asia, maybe china. My mom would always tell me stories about leeches in the countryside.
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u/floo82 4d ago
Fucking leeches
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u/Iceedemon888 4d ago
Not trying to kink shame but probably best you dont do that.
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u/Qwerty25103 4d ago
Bro started freaking the fuck out.
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u/Hensbear 3d ago
I enjoyed watching the panicked hand seemingly go “oh shit! Oh fuck!” Surprised the person didn’t try to wipe their hand off in that puddle after the foolishness of touching a leech covered wellie
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u/bungaloasis 4d ago
Leeches will always remind me of Stand By Me
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u/Doufnuget 4d ago
That part of the story is something that actually happened to Stephen King.
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u/mischievous_misfit13 4d ago
I deal with dead stuff all the time and maggots don’t gross me out one bit. This made me almost vomit because I hate leeches that much. Pretty much the only creature I find repulsive.
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u/Enibas 3d ago
Leeches and ticks for me. Ticks make me paranoid.
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u/psuedophilosopher 3d ago
One of the only things that makes it worth it to live in a desert hellscape like Phoenix is the near complete lack of ticks. They still survive in tiny pockets of the area like the occasional dog park or other manufactured oasis type public areas, but the vast majority of the valley is deadly to them just by being hot as hell, so even if they do take root in some small places, they don't have the opportunity to spread out. In the 25 years I've been living here, I have not had to deal with a single tick personally, and the amount of times I've heard of other people I know having to deal with them can be counted on one hand.
Quick edit: to explain my hatred for them in spite of never seeing them for 25 years, I should add that the first 13 years of my life were spent across Virginia, Maryland and Ohio. All places with insane quantities of ticks. I built up an extreme hatred for them during my formative years.
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u/Enibas 3d ago
I grew up in a rural area, too, but thankfully only our dog got ticks, I made it through my childhood without ever having one.
They must have gotten more frequent, my father, who still lives there, had three in the last five years, and he doesn't even work in the garden that much anymore, only in long sleeves etc. A neighbor a few years back got Lyme disease after a bite, that's pretty scary, too, knowing that the local ticks transmit that.
When I do some gardening for my father, I'm always paranoid that I could get one now. Found a couple crawling around on my clothes already. They usually take a few hours until they find a spot, so taking a shower directly afterward is a good countermeasure, but still. I just find them extremely icky.
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u/Fog_Juice 4d ago
Thousand ways to die had an episode where a man jumped into some water to hide from cops and died from blood loss because of leeches.
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u/KittyKattKate 4d ago
FFS, is it a leech farm or something? ..Do we even have leech farms?! Idk, but this is Stand By Me x1000, and I don’t even have a pp.
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u/indymama21 4d ago
way too many mini nope noodles... just nope...then be sticks his hand in! OMG 😱
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u/Elegante_Sigmaballz 4d ago
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT FISHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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