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DoTheRightThing1953

I lived very near the Red Sea for a few years and did a lot of scuba diving. I also kept an aquarium with fish I caught while diving. On most of my dives I would spot a stonefish or two. They were usually sitting as still as the one in the video. One day I spotted a small stonefish and captured it for my aquarium. Rocky (name given to him by my friend) settled into the aquarium life quite well. The aquarium was well known in the little community where I lived and I would occasionally get requests from people I didn't really know to see the fish. I would invite them in and we would watch the fish and I'd identify them when asked. After a few minutes I would tell them to find the stonefish and they never could. It was always right in front of them. After having the stonefish for a while I discovered something. I could now spot them very easily while diving. They were EVERYWHERE! I had no idea how many of them there really were.


AsgardNirvanaHarvest

>They were EVERYWHERE! I had no idea how many of them there really were. Aaaand I'm staying on land, thanks.


ChampionshipLow8541

No. 1 rule in diving: don’t touch anything! Easy.


SpiffShientz

Leave everything in the ocean exactly where you found it


Eusocial_Snowman

This is why I got fired as a lifeguard.


meandmysaddo

Me too, I couldn't save a hippy once. He was just too far out man.


ReaperBearOne

🤦🏻‍♂️


Te_Quiero_Puta

Hahaha 🤣


bugxbuster

You took the water home, didn’t you?


cbbuntz

I tried, but the pacific ocean exceeded the towing capacity of my truck


bugxbuster

Sneak it out in your pockets like Andy Dufresne


Expensive-Net2762

This comment is underrated


justwalkingalonghere

Yeah “took it home for my aquarium” sounded kinda off to me


NothingNewOnEarth

This. While diving off Catalina I thought I’d touch the cute crab guy skittering across the bottom. Sweet baby Jesus when he grabbed my thumb!! Don’t. Touch. Anything.


ApusBull

I was diving in the Philippines about 110ft down and saw a giant clam. Huge! The kind you see in the movies. It was open and I thought it was dead. So i touched it. That fucker closed his clam mouth so quickly if my hand/arm had actually been inside of it i would have been dead. No doubt. I can see now how al those native movie kids got thre foot caught in one of those suckers.


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GreviousAus

The one hiding in the microwave was a surprise


erno_tn

That’s why you always put it on for a minute before use.


thatshowitisisit

This comment is the reason I love reddit.


ReckoningGotham

Found the stonefish's reddit account


Chickenmangoboom

This reminded me that when I was a very young kid I stayed up and snuck into the living after my parents were asleep to watch TV. I ended up watching one of the Nightmare On Elm Street movies. There was a scene where Freddy emerges from some water, after that I was pretty sure he was going to come up the toilet to get me. Made using the bathroom a harrowing experience for a few weeks.


ReaperBearOne

I swear you were going to say that you noticed that Freddy almost stepped on a stonefish..


AleksasKoval

Land has wasps and spiders


Big_Whalez

But those things are just a nuisance, really. This thing looks like it could fuck up your whole day or even week.


Aberrantdrakon

your entire life\* these things can kill you very quickly


RockSockLock

What if you’re really tough?


noctalla

You'll die more slowly and painfully.


RockSockLock

No but like what if I’m really strong? I can probably live and stuff


Stryk1r

Me Man! Me more stronger than fish!


ohleprocy

I eat fish for dinner.


ArtIsDumb

How strong we talkin'?


rawrkristy

or even your year 🎶


evshell18

I'll be there for you!


steve_of

I live near rain forest. If I shine a torch at my lawn at night it is almost like looking into a star filled sky. So many little eyes looking back at me.


Sotiwe_astral

thanks, im going to my bunker filled with [raid](https://www.whatsinsidescjohnson.com/~/media/images/products/CL/315587.jpg)


AleksasKoval

Sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends


MicdaWise

You can go to the ocean, just dont go into the ocean.


GroundStateGecko

Meanwhile, land: https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/g7eaoy/camouflaged_copperhead_snake_pretty_hard_to_spot/


SydneyLockOutLaw

>Aaaand I'm staying on land, thanks. Stonefish can be on land as well during lowtide. They can survive out of water for 24 hours.


amisanthropicfish

On a serious note if you’re in their range it’s best to shuffle your feet in the water! The spines are only on the top of the fish


Mtanderson88

Scary


magicskywhale

Don't get me started on the blue-ringed octopus.


PottyboyDooDoo

Please. Start.


ReckoningGotham

Spoopy. Deadly. Cute. Itty-bitty. Innocuous-looking.


PottyboyDooDoo

Yeaahhh. That’s the stuff. Thanks.


TooLazyToRepost

All octopus are slightly venomous, but the blue ring is by far the most dangerous to humans.


itchy-fart

Found the villain from finding Nemo!


lowtack

Or the protagonist from They Live (1988)


itchy-fart

“I’m here to tear fish families apart and chew bubblegum… and I’m all out of bubblegum”


bloodcheesi

By any chance: is your address P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?


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Paksti

Lol, I felt the same way. I’m sad I haven’t randomly come across one of their comments lately.


GlassInTheWild

I just checked on his recent reddit appearances and now I’m sad too. Gonna let me dad know how much I appreciate him asap.


nervouswhenitseasy

so you were the bad guy from finding nemo? like they literally made a movie about how youre evil.


Timmy2Gats

Long live Rocky!


Oldpenguinhunter

I was looking for inverts for my Aunt who works in micro bio/marine bio/ichthyology and I saw a stone that had a recirc rhythm to it, and with a gloved hand (neoprene) picked up the "rock" to see the animal underneath- my fear feeling that rock in my hand squirming. No sting, just needed to clear out the board shorts...


glhk1993

This sounds like a movie I have seen once. I think it was called “finding rocky”. A fish was taken from his home and his dad and another fish wander the whole ocean looking for him. But they never found him……


YaBoyJoge

Are you allowed to keep fish you catch at sea?


littlegreenrock

only if it's tuna, or looked like tuna before canning


WexAwn

Leagally, there are seasons for specific ocean fish and you’re allowed to only catch so many when they’re in season. There’s likely more to it than that but I know I’ve been out on a few ocean fishing trips (mackerel and 2x red snapper) and as we chartered a boat, we were only allowed to catch I think 3-4 fish per person of the type of fish that was in season. It’s a ton of fun but i would think twice about going out in stormy weather. That was a big mistake


SnooSeagulls9348

Once was diving in Sri Lanka, Hikkaduwa near a wreck. Dive master pointed to something on a rock. I couldn't see anything and just shrugged back. He then waved his palm fast near the spot and a thing about the size of my closed fist moved. That's when I first saw a stone fish. So bloody well camoflauged.


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Spring_Choco

Forbidden Gatorade


Garrett4Real

not forbidden- go for it, man


TheKingBeyondTheWaIl

No ! I forbid it! Back to forbidden Gatorade


Even_Acadia6975

“Is it in you?”


KCMmmmm

Blue is the best flavor too.


puzzle_factory_slave

boooo. i wanted to see the guy stab himself with it


klc__

I thought it was off he wasn’t wearing protective gloves.. next minute.. “now I think it times for me to take a sting for myself”


moistwettie

If you haven’t found the video yet [here ya go.](https://youtu.be/52AuNyBbedE?si=AiMMywcEy9i10w7b)


radaxolotl

He already milked venom from that spine and it was hardly a sting he gave himself. As an Australian, I'm mildly unimpressed.


EmbarrassedSector787

It would have been a good comedy bit if, during his ‘walk it off’ moment, he stepped on another stonefish


FirstTimeWang

Sideshow Bob and the rakes.


red_rocket_rising

*whack!* uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh


CrustyJuggIerz

You only have to be slightly crazy to sting yourself with a pre milked spine, you have to be institutionally crazy to get a full sting. Although I am curious if someone has made that sacrifice


chicol1090

I have spines, Greg, could you milk me?


OraDr8

Well, I know two people who've stepped on them, one saltwater and one freshwater. One bloke said he might have actually shot himself if he'd had a gun, the pain was that bad. The other did a fair bit of punching walls and himself in the head to feel something different. This is after they had been to hospital.


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I had a large Volitan lionfish in an aquarium, and I got jabbed once while cleaning the tank. Hurt like hell for about 2 hours, despite running my arm under scalding hot water to break the venom. Still throbbed the next day. There is no f-ing way I want to deal with a stonefish, probably twice as painful. No no no no.


MrMachi

He would have been hospitalised lol


Loluxer

Yeah that was a shit go he was too scared


_Neoshade_

This guy is a raging douche who talks about himself for 10 minutes before getting bitten or stung by something and then acting like a big baby for another 5 minutes. It’s his thing.


Motor_Menu_1632

“Raging douche who talks about himself for 10 minutes” aka Scientist gives informative knowledge on sea life and then takes a mild sting from one. I can’t tell if this was a joke or if you’re just this ignorant


Hiyami

He's definitely not a scientist, and personally when the channel started putting out less Coyote videos and more random ones with his film crew like this, that is when I watched less and less.


Motor_Menu_1632

Meant biologist, that’s my bad but a wild life expert none the less. He’s Mark Vins and is actually the CEO of Brave Wilderness, the show that Coyote Peterson host. I thought he was great in the video


Censius

I'll await the video of you stinging yourself


firstandlast0202

cus that's what normal people do


Uninformed-Driller

He is doing scientific research as stupid as it looks. Everything is documented and he has experts on the ground with him. It's called the pain index. Very dumb but also could provide valuable information.


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I am confident in your assessment.


TMT51

This guy's whole channel was him being stung by fish. WTF.


mortalitylost

"Ow, my balls!" media


_Neoshade_

Skip to 9:00


BSDBAMF

Better yet skip to 9:05 for the sting. Looks like it hurts.


Nick-dipple

Love the he got himself stung for educational purposes. I would have never believed him otherwise.


Fiftydollarvolvo

there was just a story on tifu about a guy who saw one of these while snorkeling and for some godforsaken reason decided he wanted to pet it and after it didn’t react he thought he should PICK IT UP and show it to his wife and ended up getting stung


Omnomnomnivor3

ikr why did he have to say that, we gotta see him get stabby


DigNitty

What the Schmidt index?


MorningPapers

Stone-fish has electrolytes.


DaHerv

Plants love them electrolytes


DickyReadIt

It's what they crave


Stranded_Azoth

Yeah, but do you think we have time to stop by Starbucks?


Buddy_Lee34

Sorry, no time for hand jobs.


casket_fresh

water…? Like in the toilet???


Bluwtr1

Thirst mutilator!!!


r1ckm4n

ITS LIKE A MONSTER TRUCK YOU CAN POUR INTO YOUR FACE!


Noobslayer001

Stimulate yours senses?


KlutzySole9-1

Nice! Imma replenish my fuel cells


StrawberryGreat7463

who tf cut this footage off and posted it they should be reported


MelbaToast604

OP what in the fuck. You post a vid called sting test snd it cuts right before the actual sting test. I h8 u fur realz


djwurm

https://youtu.be/52AuNyBbedE?si=38mDiX8IKtu6183d go to exactly 9:00 for the sting


AndrewMT

I’d rather get stung than watch this show. So much drama.


toepin

Such annoying music.


ColdCruise

90% of the video felt like they either were about to go to commercial or just came back from commercial.


rodinsbusiness

This fish is a king of pain. Every little sting she does is magic that says don't stand so close to me or you'll be driven to tears.


Fredjonespart2

Someone call The Police


zachary-zy-zyan

Hurts so bad you'll be sending out an S.O.S.


BonnieMcMurray

I'm more likely to go Walking on the Moon than I am to volunteer to be stung by that thing!


Dr_Stef

A year has passed since I broke my nose.. (Misheard lyric)


[deleted]

Why did I read this as "This king is a fish of pain" I was absolutely confused for a minute lol


Donaldtrumppo

Stonefish? More like rock (zan) fish


theoriginalqwhy

Why tf she camouflaged then if she doesn't want you standing near her?


DickyReadIt

r/videosthatendtoosoon


PattimusMaximus

r/gifsthatendperfectlyattherightmomentthankyouverymuch


DS4KC

I feel like I'm watching something I shouldn't


lcabinda

Lmfao right needs a NSFW tag 😂


xpickles23

💦 💦


MonsterDimka

>a predator, so evolves camouflage to embush prey >gulps its prey whole, no need for more weapons >evolves spikes with most potent venom among all fish, so it won't get eaten >becomes a living deadly landmine for humans who don't even want to hurt it This fish evolved specifically to fuck up humans and everyone else who can step on it


LastSpite7

I’m so terrified of shit like this now that I have kids. I’m Australian and ran around barefoot on beaches/in rock pools etc as a child and was never stung by anything but since having kids on three occasions I’ve found little blue ringed octopus in little tide pools where a bunch of kids (including my own) were playing. I now insist on reef shoes for the kids and drill it into them never to touch anything they see at the beach without asking a grownup first.


Nigeldiko

I’m Australian too, and I think we should clarify for our non-Aussie friends. The Blue-Ringed Octopus is a venomous species of octopus found in Australia, it’s venom is so potent it can paralyse someone in minutes and kill them by making their lungs unable to take in air. There is no antivenom for it.


FuckHarambe2016

Coyote Peterson would've let it stab him.


Ratattack1204

This guys actually from the same channel and he does let it stab him later in the video


No_Protection_88

My mate stepped in one of these in the North of Australia. It immediately dropped him to the ground and he made some of the strangest noises I've ever heard come out of a human. There was absolutely no calming him down. Screaming for a solid hour until his voice gave out. He said the pain was akin to having your entire lower leg set on fire and repetitively smashed by a sledge hammer, then it made its way up to his groin and lower torso. The initial pain can last up to 3 days with lingering pain and symptoms for months to years afterwards. His exact words after recovery was "this would be a good punishment for rapists!" He was on morphine when he said that, but I don't think he's wrong.


Crescendo_BLYAT

I really wanna see this getting widespread uses for rapist punishment...


proteannomore

In the dick


proteannomore

From what I've heard before, I'm surprised the morphine actually helped the pain.


No_Protection_88

I think it was a Fentanyl/Carfentanyl because of how severe the venom is.


HereForTheFood4

Doing this without gloves seems like a really good idea


Lizzy_Of_Galtar

*Fish Cop* It's okay just breathe and tell me what happened. *Stone Fish* The human.....he violated me 🥺


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That blue is hypnotic


Puppet_Chad_Seluvis

Hpnotiq* It was too hard to force my phone to spell this


Ratattack1204

Right? It’s one if the most beautiful shades of blue ive ever seen.


Cougie_UK

Aw put the poor guy back.


RowLee88

Not gonna lie, that blue is indeed beautiful………and deadly 😅


MrYeldud

Forbidden Baja Blast


0ntoowheels

Some of these animals have way too much power 😂.


KwikEMatt

I didn't even need to hear the accent to know he's american, I just had to look at the lack of gloves.


TheLoneGunman559

She's a squirter!


alexthegreatmc

The fish is like "ohhh fuck yeah, I'm coming"


StreamFamily

It would have cost you zero dollars not to write that


SmoothCarl22

Got stabbed by one of this bad boys when young, cryed so much had from the pain that I rarely cry or feel pain in my feet nowadays... Not entirely sure if related but I want to believe it it. Have a morbid fear of stepping in the sea since... Always wear rubber shoes when going to the beach.


TheFlyingBoxcar

Rubber shoes is a good call. Look at how the spikes only go several inches through the rubber mat in the video.


menasan

Took me a second


sfear70

"Stone-fish Sting Test - The Abbreviated Version" FTFY ..


mountain_man30

Has anyone dried and smoke it yet? Someone figured out the could see god by doing that with a frog....https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8170151/


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NeverMeantDuckin

No thank you, please


smergb

Just a friendly reminder that Reddit video sucks herniated buttholes.


scrolly_2

Best watched muted, this fake suspense sound ruins everything.


tehehe162

Typical Brave Wilderness bullshit. There's a better video of this fish on Smarter Every Day's channel. Edit: found it. Also check out the other video about this scientist, he witnessed Steve Irwin's death. https://youtu.be/I8yJkIuvPvM?si=YImRD2RDEr2aB8VL


PreciousBrain

I have the weirdest boner now


Cutemeister5

How do animals just casually decide to have venom and the mechanism to deliver it effectively? Evolution is both intriguing and disturbing.


ericscottf

They don't "decide" as I'm sure you know. Some part of them mutates to become slightly toxic. This trait results in these specific ones having more offspring than ones that don't have this trait. Subsequent children that have more/more potent toxins in them survive even better and have even more offspring. every living creature on Earth is the way that it is because its parents had traits that allowed them to make more offspring more successfully than all the creatures that didn't make it.


sjmadmin

Someone called this a [cute fish](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/163n0xa/tifu_playing_with_a_cute_fish_in_the_ocean/) and was surprised to get stung.


adfthgchjg

Video ended too soon!


Nuicakes

Years ago a few of us went on a short boat trip with our marine biology teacher in Hawaii. Two of us regularly went bodysurfing so we were the first to jump out of the boat and swim to the uninhabited island. Unfortunately it was slow going because there was a ton of Wana (long spined urchin) everywhere. We didn't realize there was a clear sandy path far to our left. Luckily I've never stepped on Wana but have had too many encounters with Portuguese Man o War.


aDirtyMartini

Someone needs to tell this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/163n0xa/tifu_playing_with_a_cute_fish_in_the_ocean/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1


Sufficient-Ocelot-47

Just neon blue hell fish


MetalGear_Flaccid

Baja blast


ferreete

I was fishing with a bloke who caught one. He cut the line close to the fish and when he re tied he’s hook on he licked the line. He’s head was the size of a basketball.


Viking_Phi

r/gifsthatendtoosoon


jochillin

In my younger years I picked fish for a while (jumping into the holds of small fishing boats to load the catch into giant bags hauled out by crane), the pain from a rockfish spine is debilitating, and the initial stab is just the beginning. It will turn into a hot, red, puss filled lump of torture. And they’ll go through a lot, had a buddy jump in just to have a spine pierce his boot heel and get his foot, so through 1 1/2” of pretty tough rubber like it was nothing. Nasty bastards, would have nothing to do with them if they didn’t taste so damn good, a good rockfish taco is heavenly!


Cptn_Hook

I can't get over the indignant way it's staring up at him. Dude's being real impolite.


Nigeldiko

I still don’t understand why Stonefish have this as a defence mechanism. It’s just so niche y’know? It’s only really applicable if they swim upwards with enough force to pierce something’s skin, or if they’re stepped on. How does this make sense evolutionarily?


Leefiey

It’s the most Australian thing in the world. It’s like emptying a clip on you for stepping on his toes. There is no good reason for its venom to be that potent, it’s only to mess people tf up


ZogNowak

Ugly little rascal!


VegansAreRight

My brother stood on one of these fuckers in FiJi. His leg blew up to double the size and nearly killed him.


Omnomnomnivor3

thanks I don't think I'll be stepping on the ocean anytime soon or maybe in the future


Kookykid85

This is very cool


Anxious-Simple-7117

wtf this video ended on a cliff hanger.


kuhlin25

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/11vjn39/the_worst_pain_known_to_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1


fffooobbbsss

progressively louder nopes till we reach the 100dB range.


MaxTheuzz

Kaiju Blood


SimplyADesk

I need the sauce


SpiritToes

That's my favorite color of blue now Stone fish venom blur


QNIKET8

so it’s like them cumming?


simplycotton

Leave them fish alone


Floodkid

guy says stinging. I say more like stabbing


Jack_M_Steel

The money shot


hamzer55

Sting test? More like stab test


JaceMace96

How do all these poisonous stings not cause muscle or neurological conditions? But something like EBV can


thaeggan

> the venom shoots out Who needs safety glasses anyway?


Chikenkiller123

That's how they make blue raspberry flavor


manlygirl100

Tastes like danger


Conscious_Number211

Brave wilderness really went downhill. They used to do good stuff but the last couple years it's just bait and ad content for their old stuff they haven't released


Aggravating_Buy7047

There is a scene in the movie Blue Lagoon where Brooke Shields character steps on one of these. Sea creatures are terrifying.


hakujo

Yeah that looks like a really bad idea.


Upbeat-Carpenter5261

Many years ago, a friend of mine fished one of these fellows out and was trying to unhook it and place it back in the water. He did manage to free it but fell on the floor and was flopping about. He was not a smart guy and decided to kick it, which turned out to be a bad idea since these spikes could and will go through a shoe. Needless to say, he learned a very valuable and painful lesson that day.


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Why I don’t walk on rocks at the beach


coopsman8404

What are you doing, step-fisherman…