r/Satisfyingasfuck • u/Enjoylifetothemax1 • 4d ago
Just 54 seconds to do a good deed. He has saved a life
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u/Inspector_7 4d ago
Your slab is now blessed with Frog Spirit, 5% waterproofing and crack resistance added
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u/cobainbc15 4d ago
This just barely helped them avoid building it on a frog burial ground and now will also avoid the related curses.
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u/Mike_Auchsthick 4d ago
Imagine the story he will tell all these other frogs about the god who saved him and blessed the rains
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u/PetalPattyy 4d ago
Good thing the dude offered a sprinkle of water to the frog spirit, or else the stat boost wouldn't have taken effect. Both are blessed!
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u/CheekyMonkE 4d ago
what is it with frogs and concrete? I know I have seen many frog shaped holes in concrete walkways over the course of my life.
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u/kickintheface 4d ago
Maybe they’re drawn to the heat of the concrete.
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u/badchefrazzy 4d ago
Especially when it's still damp and warm... I can totally see that drawing in a lot of frogs.
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u/_Nickmin_ 4d ago
Hell, I'd totally go for a damp and warm concrete dip in this autumn weather myself!
Really can't blame my little amphibian friend here
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u/TheVenetianMask 4d ago
They are often in the sand, specially if the sand had been piled somewhere for a while.
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u/ferrum_artifex 4d ago edited 4d ago
Poor toad probably toxed out a just after this. Good effort though, I would have done the same thing.
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u/mythrowawayheyhey 4d ago
Yeah… I have to think concrete.. which sucks the moisture out of the air around it (don’t leave bags of concrete in a humid environment for too long or you end up with bricks)… is very bad for any kind of amphibian. Concrete burn happens to people too but they have skin to make it not so bad. Frogs are very delicate creatures.
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u/GolfGunsNWhiskey 4d ago
I have a bag of concrete I use to work out that I've wrapped with waterproofed tape because I've learned this exact thing. Previous bag just turned progressively more compact and definitely more than 50lbs.
This one's lasted about... 2 years?
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u/Tweedishgirl 4d ago
It also causes chemical burns. Needed rinsed off at least.
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u/_HIST 4d ago
He did
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u/Idiotology101 4d ago
He sprayed water in the general direction the frog went, but that won’t get all the concrete residue.
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u/VeryMuchDutch102 4d ago
It also causes chemical burns
Yeah... He shouldve also been wearing gloves
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u/JankoStanic 4d ago
This is beautiful. Many times I have been like that. I have been walking down the street and on certain occasions I see small animals on my path and I avoid stepping them. They deserve to live :')
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u/Bitter-Cheetah-213 4d ago
You should look into veganism 🌱
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u/LonelyContext 4d ago
No no no! i mean only good animals, not stupid food animals.
Honestly I'm going to lose my mind if I read any more of this thread.
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u/acky1 4d ago
The comments are pretty crazy, eh - 'Not helping animals when you're the reason they need help is sociopath behavior' 194 upvotes at the time of writing this comment. I doubt that person and the vast majority of those upvoters are vegan. People need to wake up to the obvious disconnect they have with their beliefs and their actions.
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u/TheHeterosSentMe 4d ago
A frog covered in wet cement is not gonna live.
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u/ExtensionAtmosphere2 4d ago
That's why he sprayed it off? And it looks like a toads. Toads are tougher than they have any right to be.
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u/Outrageous-Pop-9535 4d ago
Unfortunately amphibians are very vulnerable to toxic environments. Amphibians are unique in that they absorb moisture and undergo gas exchange through their skin, which makes it impossible for them to avoid pollutants. Because of this, amphibians are the most at risk of all vertebrates, which around 40% of amphibians being at classified as threatened with extinction. Depending on how long the frog was in the cement, it very well could’ve already received a fatal dose of whatever toxins were present within the mixture.
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u/el-dongler 4d ago
Cement is full of chemicals. If you've ever had it on your skin for a little too long it burns like he'll.
Frogs are extremely sensitive to their environment. Very unlikely it will live.
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u/ExtensionAtmosphere2 4d ago
I get it on my skin all the time at work, and have moved many many frogs, toads, snakes, and other critters from work environments. Animals just don't keel over and die as easy as some folks want to believe they do.
You can argue all you want, I'll just go ask Jeb. That's what my 6yo named the toadlet I brought home a few weeks ago from a job site we were working at. He seems to be doing fine.
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u/ferrum_artifex 4d ago
Frogs are really susceptible to it because of their skin. Chlorinated water alone will sometimes do them in I've kept them for about 10 years now
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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 4d ago
Frogs are extremely sensitive to their environment. Very unlikely it will live.
Damn guess he shouldn't have even tried, what a waste of time for all involved. But it was especially a waste of time for that jackass frog who didn't have the good graces to just fuckin die the second the cement touched its skin.
Next time I see a frog I'll just step on it. It's surely going to waste someone else's time with its pathetic existence, so I may as well save us all the misery.
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u/conker123110 4d ago
That's a lot of not what he was saying.
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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 4d ago
Siri, what is hyperbole and how can one use it in an argument to make a point?
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u/Mysterious-Job-469 4d ago
There is no need to strawman. Your reaction is understandable.
It's important to be realistic while still showing compassion. You can do everything to help the helpless, but it's important for your mental and emotional health to temper your expectations in the event that you fail.
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u/eulersidentification 4d ago
There is no need to speak to people like you're a schoolteacher addressing a 5 year old. Your tone is understandable for a redditor who thinks rick and morty is only for people like you with extremely high iqs.
It's important to be polite and cooperative when you interact with people. You can have the best intentions and still come across like a self important, supercilious bore. It's important for your social interactions to temper your ego and consider that you're not delivering a moral-of-the-story at the end of a children's TV show.
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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 4d ago
There is no need to strawman. Your reaction is understandable.
Wrong fallacy, that wasn't a strawman.
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u/yamimementomori 4d ago
But how did he know it was there?
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u/LieUnlikely7690 4d ago
Rocks don't move
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u/yamimementomori 4d ago
Zero movement visible to me. And it was buried deep.
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u/TikkiTakkaMuddaFakka 4d ago
Yeah makes me think they poured the concrete over it then he went back and got it. I know concrete has to be done quickly but that quickly? 😆
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u/Tytonic7_ 4d ago
Kinda yeah. They'd be pouring in one spot and the concrete spreads out to fill the space. He probably saw a hop or two from afar before the concrete flowed over him.
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u/Sir-Hamp 4d ago
This. Source: I work with shotcrete/concrete mixes at a mine. Depending on your mix and/or what work is being done that shit can flow like water. On a surface like this you want it to be able to spread to fill the space. It is likely that it enveloped the poor little frog dude and this guy noticed, got the phone out and immediately dug the frog out. The frog would MOST likely be just fine, and a rinse will rid the poor little fella of the concrete. Personally I wouldn’t know how the mix would affect a frog and would have given it more of a shower, but in the end I would imagine the frog would be fine and is living its days happily in the forest. Or it fell victim to a predator already, who knows?
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u/IzarkKiaTarj 4d ago
Thank you for providing a plausible explanation, because the only one I could come up with was not a very nice one.
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u/FureiousPhalanges 4d ago
But still decided to get his phone out and film it before helping it
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u/Niempjuh 4d ago
HOW DARE HE
Blatant exploitation of a froggy victim of sudden concrete-ation……… 😒😒😒
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u/LieUnlikely7690 4d ago
My guess... camera came out when they realized. They weren't walking around filming and go "oh look, a pebble sized frog in concrete".
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u/Competitive_Swing_59 4d ago
The fact that people set up these "situations" for attempts to go viral & people cant see it is light weight disturbing. Social media is a drug, dopamine str8 to the brain. Drug dealer gets all the blame, but the addicts outnumber the dealer 20 to 1...
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u/Existing-Diamond1259 4d ago
This is not one of those "puppies intentionally thrown into a canal so we can save them from drowning on camera" videos. This is a frog in a tropical location (one that is likely saturated with frogs) that jumped into a massive area of cement. Not far fetched, likely impossible to avoid at this specific location. I promise you, this is not one of those videos lol.
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u/FlusteredDM 4d ago
It's not improbable, but I'll never upvote these rescue videos because there is always a risk that I'm encouraging one of the psychos who do abuse animals like that to save them for social media.
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u/sleepysnowboarder 4d ago
a tiny frog under cement where it isn't even visible is a lot easier to set up than a dog in a canal
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u/DangDoood 4d ago
If I saw a frog do some stupid shit like hop into a concrete hole i’d immediately take out my camera so they could be reminded of the outcomes of their decisions
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u/coco-kiki 4d ago
because he put it there. how are people here so dumb, this shit gets staged all the time
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u/Impressive_Moose1602 4d ago
You're being down voted because people know you're right and they hate it lol
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u/Sir-Hamp 4d ago
Concrete can spread quickly. I work with it and could totally see something like this happening. I doubt it was staged, and the dude probably whipped the phone out the moment he saw the frog heading for doom. I personally wouldn’t have taken the time to get the phone out as idk how a frog would react to the mixture but to each their own, I guess.
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u/TimidSeaTurtle 4d ago
People are downvoting because they don't think this is staged is the most likely reason.
People downvoting "because people know you're right and they hate it lol" is the dumbest possible idea of why people are downvoting lmao.
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u/misterandosan 4d ago
apparently frogs are drawn to the heat of the concrete, so he probably saw it hop in
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u/Tuennes37 4d ago
As always in those "animal rescue videos" you have to assume, that the animal was brought into danger for the video in the first place.
How did he find the frog? It was so deeply buried. Why does he film it? I call Bullshit. It was placed there.
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u/TrustYerGut 4d ago
I remember the exhilarating feeling of finding this big beautiful toad while doing pipeline construction in the glorious British Columbia mountains. I felt such an overwhelming need to help this dusty dry creature find a brook, a stream, just anywhere to refresh himself. I loaded this beast into the caring palms of my hands all the while speaking of his bright new future, reassuring him his hardest days are over. We made it, the perfect stream. A man made bridge, to be sure, and some unsightly construction ribbon. It was kind of a busy spot actually, but he was happy, and he was free. The real winner here though was my own contentment.Turns out he was in a demarcated endangered wildlife zone and I put him in the path of the new ditch proposal.
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u/ObsoleteOctopus 4d ago
Hey man, just wanted to say I appreciate how you write. As a fellow who is occasionally (always) verbose, I enjoy seeing the energy behind what is written. It has the ability to really package up and deliver an emotion to go along with a story, you know?
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u/Chief_Rollie 4d ago
How did they know the toad was buried under concrete...
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u/Science-done-right 4d ago
He noticed that he could save a life and it'd be fun to have it on video, so he started recording
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u/TheBarslug 4d ago
By the rules of karma, That frog is going to eat the mosquito that was going to bite you next year. 😎
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u/Fr0z3nHart 4d ago
I did that with several lady bugs at the hospital and got made fun off and got a warning, I still took them outside anyway. Good on you for protecting wild life.
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u/Dry_Tradition5869 4d ago
Most likely will die from the chemical burn to come unfortunately
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u/Stopikingonme 4d ago
Comments below are blasting the guy. I’m sure he has no idea the frog wouldn’t make it, so he tried. If half of us tried half as hard as hi did in just our comments on Reddit we’d be a far less toxic community.
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u/_Aethea_ 4d ago
not only that but frogs have very permeable skin so all the toxic stuff in the cement is basically goin directly into it's system...don't get me wrong, was still right to try and save it, but the chances of survival are not high
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u/pro_questions 4d ago
Yeah cement is a lot more complicated than the dried mud it appears to be. You can get second degree chemical burns from leaving it on your skin, and if a pet steps in it you need to take special precautions to prevent them from getting those same burns between their toes. With frogs being so sensitive to basically everything, this little guy isn’t long for this world. I don’t think any of this is common knowledge, though, so the person in the video really did try their best to help :/
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u/FureiousPhalanges 4d ago
Add a few seconds though, to account for the fact they simply had to take out their phone and film it, instead of just helping
I'm skeptical of anyone that films shit like this because half the time, they intentionally put the animals in that position so they can film themselves "helping"
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u/rhymeg 4d ago
My question is how he finds it there? Planted that shit and act like saving it. disgusting people...
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u/The_Suicidal-Wolf 4d ago
I can never watch videos like this without thinking they put them there to film it. :/
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u/kriskringle19 4d ago
I'd find these little froggers all the time when I was mowing the lawn. I could see them and grab them easily when I was trimming but I don't like to think about how many I mulched when I was on my riding mower.... :(
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u/Magenta-Magica 4d ago
In Germany we often have frogs jumping over streets and getting run over during their mating season. So it’s normal here for people to gather to help evacuate them.
I did it with my friend once. They feel weird, but were pretty docile. This reminded me :)
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u/Maleficent-Arugula36 4d ago
Heck yeah dude! Reminds me of one time when I was walking along a gulf coast beach at night, and all of the sudden I came upon a ton of tiny, shiny fish that had washed up on the shore. Like, dozens and dozens and dozens. They were very much alive, and I’m a hopeless softie, so I started scrambling around, picking them up and tossing them back into the water. Along comes some random stoner dude who sees the mission and joins in. Just me and this rando, desperately tossing little dumb fish. Got em all. I think we high fived at the end, and i never saw him again, but he’s still one of my favorite humans.
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u/TheFoolWithAids 4d ago
Let me start by saying I hate spiders.... hate em.
I work epoxy floors. And I've seen so many spiders get stuck in it.. I go out of my way to save em now. I grab a rag or cardboard and put em somewhere safe. My coworkers hate me for it. And laugh at me everything. But she's mother nature.
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u/CursedSnowman5000 4d ago
What you don't see is he's the one who put it there and buried it under concrete.
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u/Agile_Music4191 4d ago
This feels like this dude buried it with cement himself and his guilt made him go back and save it 😂 Im saying this cause it reminded me of a time i put a caterpillar on top of a ant mound as a kid and as i was walking away it actually cried out and i felt bad so i went back to get it and washed it with a hose and put the caterpillar in a tree 🤧
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u/youroffendedcongrats 4d ago edited 3d ago
I once picked out over 20 frogs with a a coworker when we did a massive slab them fuckers lover holes they can’t get out off
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u/MajorSqueeze 4d ago
Imagine living in New York and a giant hand picks you up and puts you down in L.A.
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u/prenderl 4d ago
I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
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u/LegRude9858 4d ago
Your slab is now blessed with Frog Spirit, 5% waterproofing and crack resistance added
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u/StrangemanRDR2 4d ago
His whole perspective of the world changed like four times lol
A world of wet cement, a world of heavy rains, a grassless mud waste, then to a vast forest.
In all of them, saved by a giant.
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u/LeopardRegular9983 4d ago
Always save frogs. Hoppy little bug eaters. Worse they'll do is take a small piss. And in exchange i get someone who will eat the fucks that bite me. I might be cross af with some who pees at me, but if you bit me we certainly have a fuckin problem
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u/MitaArt 4d ago
"She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone, I hope I am greeted with the same kind of mercy." - Rudy Francisco
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u/Suicidal_Jamazz 4d ago
I found a salamander while shoring up a crawlspace foundation with concrete. Moved the little bro somewhere else.
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u/Deckard2022 4d ago
“I swear I was buried and giant hand picked me up and took me miles away and then made it rain”
Yeah yeah Jim, just say you didn’t want to meet at the pond.
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u/blazinss934 4d ago
Not only did he take care of the frog… he wrapped the hose up like a gentleman. Ready mix drivers hate when guys fuck with the hose
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u/Avogato2 4d ago
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world
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u/ThinkingOz 4d ago
Good guy for doing that. I have a frog that chills in my letterbox during wet weather. Prolly eats mozzies .He’s very welcome to hop in anytime.
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u/millenniumxl-200 4d ago
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"
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u/fritzaj4 4d ago
I once found a chipmunk drowning in my complex's cold pool. I got it out, dried it and laid it in the sun to warm for a few minutes (it shivering so hard) until it moves again. It made one last glance at me before scampering off, I always thought it saying thank you before leaving. That moment always brings me joy when I think about it or I see it pop up on my Google photos memories.
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u/-Falsch- 4d ago
“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” - St. Francis
These are the action of a good man!
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u/NOOT_NOOT4444 4d ago
I know people gonna downvoted me for this.
But I bet he put that little guy for views, how the hell did he know there's a small frog there?? Even after digging it I still didn't noticed that it was a frog
On top of that his camera is ready and recording. Oh silly me for assuming such thing
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u/CryingPlanet 4d ago
When I worked at a marina, we had some of those electric boat lifts that bring your boat out of the water. We had to clean them off of moss and mud before the season started, so when we would bring them up, little fishes would helplessly get stuck between the wedges and had no water to breathe. I would hop on and flick them back in the water while the other guys just laughed at me 😔🖕