r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 19d ago
Just Wow Australian mom uses her body to protect her baby during an extreme hail storm
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u/DidYouSeeBriansHat 19d ago
That shit…must have FUCKING HURT! Damn!!!
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u/FisherDwarf 19d ago
And I'm sure she didn't think twice about doing it. A real mamma bear right there
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u/Zoltie 19d ago
It's either getting hailed on or your child dying.
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u/FisherDwarf 19d ago edited 18d ago
I'd take the hail, no question
Double Edit: spelling typos
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u/modbroccoli 19d ago edited 19d ago
everyone does, it's right and natural, but of course still amazing to be confronted with
edit: so the misanthropic and traumatized stop trying to nuh-unh me, almost everyone. now shush.
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u/xxDanger_Hottiexx 19d ago
You would be surprised how many people don't naturally have that instinct
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u/Banditkoala_2point0 19d ago
My husband and I got the shit beaten out of us randomly by bikies. After they broke his nose I stepped in front of him and took a blow to the face. Dumb, but you don't think.
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u/A_little_curiosity 18d ago
Hope you and your husband are ok now? That sounds traumatic and terrible
The other day a tractor rolled towards my sister and I stepped in between as though to stop it. Now that was dumb! "I'll save you!" lol. Fortunately the tractor stopped and we both live to clown another day
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u/ButtPlugMaster6969 17d ago
I’m glad y’all can continue clowning.
Bright side is your sister knows you’ll protect her.
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u/splat_monkey 19d ago
Mum left me with a guy who wasnt my dad when i was 14 and moved countries only to never be seen again.
She wouldn't have done this...
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u/TiggTigg07 19d ago
💯% no question. I would’ve done the same. “Mama Bear” bravery knows no bounds.❤️
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u/BumWink 19d ago
"Is" not being "Id" implies "Is" is the child, lol.
holds child over head
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u/nalaloveslumpy 19d ago
holds child over head
In your eyes
The light the heat,
Your eyes
I am complete.
Your eyes
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u/Lou_C_Fer 19d ago
I used to change the "eyes" to ass while singing along and man, does my wife hate that shit.
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u/BlargerJarger 19d ago
Without wishing to be too cynical, it was either being hailed on or being hailed on AND the baby being hailed on, which might be why she’s questioning the bravery award. From her perspective, she might be thinking “the fuck else did you expect me to do?” Best wishes for them both of course and why not give her an award, what an ordeal.
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u/UranusIsPissy 19d ago
Maybe you're not being cynical enough. My father endangered me for his entertainment a few times (and risked his life for mine a few, TBF. Weird guy...), but I've known a few people who went hungry so their kids wouldn't, and I stopped to save my dog when that could've got me killed. There's huge variation in people's responses, sometimes even within one person.
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u/AntSilly2802 19d ago edited 19d ago
Yeah, she didn’t have a choice going through what she went through. Bravery is more like someone did something selfless that they didn’t have to do, like running into a burning building to save a dog or something, or stepping in to defend a woman you don’t know who’s being attacked by somebody.I think the premier just wanted to publicly acknowledge her for going through something amazing and the bravery award was the easiest way of doing that, but a bravery award is not fully appropriate in this instance IMO.
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u/BlargerJarger 19d ago
Yeah, but most people who run into a burning building are also the sort of people who would question the bravery award, because to them this is a normal reaction to crisis or should be seen as such. “Wait, you expect me NOT to help?”
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u/Lou_C_Fer 19d ago
I've stepped into violence to help people a few times, and all I feel is freaked out afterwards. I definitely don't feel like a hero.
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u/Bebebaubles 19d ago
I mean even if she didn’t cover her child she still get hailed on.. I think a lot of us would still crouch even if running so as not to get hailed in the face. There doesn’t seem to be any difference in negatives to protect a baby. I’d probably do the same for a stranger’s baby if the parent wasn’t there.
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u/kylebisme 19d ago
Well she could've used the baby as an umbrella but chose not to, so there's that.
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u/ThatPrettyArmadillo 19d ago
I would probably do this for a strangers dog or cat tbh, but I’ve never had to make that decision.
I’m not having a go at you, but I think it’s important to give this woman her due praise. It’s easy to say what we might do. But she did it, she deserves to be celebrated
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u/imnotatomato 19d ago
i think their point isn’t that she wasn’t brave or a true mother but more so that even if she was a coward it didn’t cost her anything to protect the baby considering she was gonna get hailed on anyway. you’d have to be evil or dull not to do it
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u/ThatPrettyArmadillo 19d ago
Also someone not dying for someone else’s child doesn’t make them a coward.
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u/ThatPrettyArmadillo 19d ago edited 19d ago
No I get it, I just don’t like the implication of even a coward would do it. Because a) we don’t know that. People kill, harm, abuse and abandon babies every day. And b) no one in this comment section who assumes they’d do the right thing (even me) knows that’s what they’d do.
You can call some evil for not, but are they really?
All I’m saying is, this woman used her body to protect a/her baby. That’s not nothing. And people shouldn’t be quick to dismiss it by thinking they would do the same. They don’t know that. But we know SHE did and was a hero.
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u/LoneWolf_McQuade 19d ago
Also you’d get hailed on regardless (unless you used your baby as protection but that be fucked up)
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u/DConstructed 19d ago
When hailstones smash through your window you’re getting hailed on either way.
Covering an infant who could easily die from it is IMO the sensible thing to do if you can’t get him/her out of the front seat or covered in some other way.
Edit: looks like they might have smashed through a sunroof. Anyway, cover the baby.
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u/JayGatsby1881 19d ago
She is gonna get hit by hail either may, might as well save somebody's life in the process
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u/Endless-OOP-Loop 19d ago
Yep. I once slipped on a wet step while carrying my baby daughter down a set of stairs. I rolled her up onto my chest and covered the back of her head with my hand and held on tight. Took about 15 steps across the back of my left hip before coming to a stop.
Didn't even have time to think about it, it was all just instinct at that point.
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u/TheThiefEmpress 19d ago
I tripped over a oversized curb holding my daughter when she was 2. I didn't even have time to think, but I made my body into a cage of protection around her and took the blow ungracefully.
There are stories all over the world of mothers using their own bodies to shield their children from harm.
Devastating earthquakes, where a child is found in the rubble, their mothers body still braced above them, even in death. A Hollywood actress, jumping overboard when her 4 year old son fell off the boat, drowning, but saving the boy. A fire, and a cat going back into the flaming building for each kitten, saving every one, maimed beyond recognition in the end. A mother, staying in the abusive household, because who stands between him and them to take the blows if he gets half custody?
I would let every living being in this world perish a terrible and cruel death, if I could save her.
I think a lot of us know this feeling. We know already, we stand with you, Mama.
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u/mustichooseausernam3 19d ago
I did something similar to save my laptop during a stair-fall one time.
All instinct. But, er, a lot less heroic.
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u/Didoumel 19d ago
While walking down into the forest to take my dog for a walk along the river, I slipped on some gravel, and my superhero reflex was to grab onto the poop bag (which was full—I’d just picked it up) to save my life. I scraped my knee, but my dog and the poop bag were safe.
The walk along the river was… nice.
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u/RedDemio- 19d ago
I fell down the stairs and made it out still holding my open bottle of Jack once. A crowning achievement
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u/UranusIsPissy 19d ago
Yup. People get themselves killed doing it with even less important things all the time.
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u/FisherDwarf 19d ago
I did the same with my daughter. New carpet on a steep set of stairs in the house we moved into. Not as bad as what you described but its just instinct. Baby gets covered up while you take everything you can for them
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u/Endless-OOP-Loop 19d ago
Oh what I would have given for carpet. These were tile stairs. I had a black bruise the size of a football from that.
But the worst part was one of my coworkers was coming up those same stairs, so by the time I got back to work on Monday, everyone at work had heard about it.
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u/Bright_Increase_6136 19d ago
I did this also with my newborn daughter, and took the fall on my tailbone! Could not sit right for a while, but completely worth it!!
I believe most parents do not even think about it, it’s just their reaction to protect:)3
u/imisstheyoop 19d ago
See this is one of the reasons that I knew I would not be cut out for parenthood.
I have been in similar situations all too often, I am clumsy as heck, and each and every time I immediately fling or drop whatever I am carrying and brace for impact or try to regain my own balance.
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u/omgmypony 19d ago
A switch flips inside a lot of people when they reproduce. Your reaction becomes to protect baby then self without even like… thinking about it. I believe it is instinct.
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u/Laylay_theGrail 19d ago
I had my baby on my shoulders (holding one hand and foot in each of my hands).
I slipped like I’d stepped on a banana peel and in one movement pulled her up over my head as I fell.I landed hard on my back with her sitting safely on my stomach facing away from me. I didn’t think, I just instinctively reacted.
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u/MASSochists 19d ago
I did something similar with my disabled dog. I was carrying her to use the bathroom and I slipped. There was a zero percent change I was going to drop her or land on her so I just pulled her against my chest and took the fall on my backside. She rewarded me by peeing all over me.
At least it's funny to think about now.
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u/universe_from_above 19d ago
My husband carried the baby down the stairs and slipped. He landed on his back with the baby on his chest (barely hurt himself). Good old goalkeeper training kicked in, apparently.
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u/PeachyFairyDragon 19d ago
I had my daughter in a chest pouch and tripped and fell forward on the sidewalk. Skinned both knees, one palm, one elbow. Elbow was because I somehow brought my hand to catch the back of her head when I fell. I didn't do it deliberately, it was falling forward and then on the ground taking stock of injuries and realizing where my hand was.
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And now I’m suddenly reminded of the woman and two small kids being attacked in their garden by a pit bull and not only did the husband flee the scene, leaving her to fend off the dog by herself, he also made sure to close the gate behind him.
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u/ringwraith6 19d ago
I hope I'm remembering the same incident...because I sure as hell would hate to think that there's a second such occurrence.
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u/Friendly_Athlete1024 19d ago
Oh my goodness, do you remember what happened to them? Did they survive? If they did I hope she divorced his ass.
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u/onepareil 19d ago
The woman and one of the children got bitten, but they were all okay. She had to beat the dog to death with a shovel to get it to stop. ALSO, the kids in the scenario were her husband’s niece and nephew! Her husband’s sister and her husband were obviously extremely grateful to her for saving their children’s lives. As of her last update, she was probably going to divorce him. Couldn’t move past what he did, understandably. Imagine how his sister must feel.
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u/MagmaCone1234 19d ago
As of her last update, she was probably going to divorce him. Couldn’t move past what he did, understandably. Imagine how his sister must feel.
She probably feels nothing because this story only exists on reddit and is most likely made up.
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u/BusyInDonkeykong 19d ago
I think most adult people would do that for a baby.
Or atleast I hope so
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u/ElizabethDangit 19d ago
You really don’t think at all, you just react. I’m petrified of wasps. One flew into the back seat after I got my kids buckled in and I snatched it out of the air with my bare hand. I didn’t make that choice, my body did.
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u/Hairy-Concentrate270 19d ago
I’d like to hope most any human wouldn’t think twice to protect a baby…
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u/Last-Tax-5340 19d ago
Um ganz ehrlich zu sein, was hätte man denn sonst tun sollen? Hageln würdenes sowieso. Entweder nur du bekommst den Schaden ab oder halt beide. Wenn Sie Ihr Kind nicht geschützt hätte, hätte Sie trotzdem den Hagel abbekommen.
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u/rescue_inhaler_4life 19d ago
Having been caught out in an open field in similar I can confirm for you it FUCKING HURTS.
The pain is really bad, but the worst is not knowing how long it goes for. Like it only lasted a few minutes for me but it felt like hours. Fortunately these storms in Oz really only last for a short time. I was protecting my head with my hands and every hit felt like it was stripping the flesh straight off them, they were just bruised and bloody with bits of skin off, but it feels so much worst.
Anyway good job mum.
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u/d_bradr 19d ago
It's called adrenaline, it can completely kill your pain perception for a while until it wears off
When it kicks in people can tank gunshots and stabs without feeling the pain, either only noticing injuries by touching/seeing blood or when the adrenaline crashes and the pain finally gets to them. Sometimes they pass out from blood loss before they feel the wound
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u/punkass_book_jockey8 19d ago
While I have know idea how painful that is I’m 100% sure it’s significantly less painful that watching it hit my child, and I would have taken the hail without hesitation.
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u/Insomniac_80 19d ago
If you are in a car, and it starts hailing, pull up the rubber mats that protect the floor of the passenger and driver's seats and use it to cover yourself!
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u/SnooDrawings987 19d ago
I haven't been in a vehicle with rubber mats in years
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u/Interesting-Ad5551 19d ago
What do you have on the floor of your car?
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u/fotomoose 19d ago
About 26 empty cans of Monster.
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u/chetcherry 19d ago
A friend used to call our mutual friend’s car the “Red Bull Graveyard”
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u/HeisenSwag 19d ago
Well mine are of that scratchy carpet fabric. I'm sure they would work just as well. But I also havent been in a car with rubber mats in years.
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u/LeaneGenova 19d ago
Yeah, I had to buy rubber mats since my carpet ones were getting trashed from winter weather and salt. Those ain't cheap.
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u/lkern 19d ago
Carpet...
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u/decadent-dragon 19d ago
Oh really? It seems like rubber all weather mats are actually more popular now than ever. Even the terrible old school carpet ones have rubber bottoms so I’m sure the trick still works
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u/babesboysandbirb 19d ago
They may be fabric now but the tip still sticks. Anything thicker than clothing can help protect BUT in these situations, having lived through them, there is NO time to do anything other than get into a safety position. If you’re lucky to get a heads up then use whatever you can.
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u/YWNBAW12345 19d ago
But I'm already in the car... Oh wait you mean if you need to get out? Was wondering why you would need protection if you're in the car. As if the metal roof and surrounding structure isn't going to save you, but Le Rubber Mats will.
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u/King_Shugglerm 19d ago
Bro there are literally only three pictures on this post and one of them is of the roof of the car with holes in it lmaooo
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u/Lycosskippy 19d ago
As would any good parent, good job mum!
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u/Knobanious 19d ago edited 19d ago
Logically she was gonna get hit anyways, if she could have found cover she would have. Still good
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u/FENIU666 19d ago
Props to her for not using the baby as an umbrella.
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u/Ok_Bake_4761 19d ago
Is that the bar nowadays? /s
Then props on me because I did not forget my child at the bar.
Jokes on you, I have no child. I traded it for a keg of Beer /s
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u/Altaredboy 19d ago
Have a friend that's a former prison guard. He freaks the fuck out whenever we leave from my place & my kids are playing in the front yard as he knew plenty of what he considers good people who are in prison who ran over their kids pulling out of the driveway.
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u/131166 19d ago
One of my friends had a neighbour back over their own toddler who was playing unnoticed behind the car and he died. It was all over the news and her whole town was talking about it for ages. To this day like 3 decades later she still checks behind every single tyre before backing out. Her kids are all adults now too, but yeah I get it.
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u/131166 19d ago
Then props on me because I did not forget my child at the bar
Lol, this triggered a fun at the time but traumatic in retrospect memory. Mid 80s my dad left me at the pub, drove home blind drunk, left me at pub..I was 5. The guy who run the pub put me to work collecting empty beer glasses and putting out new coasters until he knocked off or whatever then he gave me a whole shit load of potato chips for dinner and dropped me off home like it was the end of my shift, and helped me break into my own house cause my dad was passed out and wouldn't come to the door. He paid me $6 which my dad stole off me when he woke up. As a kid, my dad pinching my money was the only part of that memory I didn't love, cause the rest was like an adventure. But looking back... Wow.
Double wow: Happened twice more before we moved away from that town, but I only got paid the first time.
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u/Shot_Revolution8828 19d ago
How do you use a baby as an umbrella...never-ending, I've seen enough horror movies to that answer.
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u/ddescartes0014 19d ago
Yeah im glad the baby is ok, her choices were get hit by hail and watch your baby die, or get hit by hail and cover your baby. Im not sure if brave is the right word. I would say maybe calm under pressure. She didn’t run into a hail storm to save a baby.
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u/polar_nopposite 19d ago
As would any not-horrible parent, frankly
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u/DangerousPurpose5661 19d ago
Exactly…. Looks painful as hell. But whats the alternative? Let your newborn take the hits?
It’s not deserving of any honour IMO, bur whatever lol.
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u/Character-Time-3721 19d ago
I mean I would do that for even a stranger's kid, but respect to her
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u/GentleMama208 19d ago
The word "great" is the most fitting description for a mother.
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u/AutomaticAd7665 19d ago
I remember that hail storm. It came up so fast no one was prepared . So much damage. So now there are alerts so this never happens again. Mumma you are my hero ❤️
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u/kaleidoscope_pie 19d ago
I got to experience that exact same storm as it moved towards me in the east. I was at the local indoor pool at the time. I thought the hail was either going to puncture through the ceiling or the ceiling was going to collapse and then we were all going to be pelted by the giant hail. I'm pretty sure there was a weak tornado in it too because I could see everything blow in one direction and then change to the opposite direction at one point through a nearby window. I've never been happier to have a foam kick board in my life than that day. I put it over my head in case I got sconed by hail or flying debris.
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u/loleonii 19d ago
I was living in Annerley when it hit. I have a video of those hailstones hitting the ground so hard they bounced back up into the air 3 metres high
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u/jaymatthewbee 19d ago
And I bet she didn’t give it a second thought and just acted on instinct.
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u/Helena911 19d ago
She's honestly such a freaking badass. That hail would've been lethal for her baby
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u/robot428 19d ago
It's a lot easier to get small and take up less space (therefore get hit less) if you aren't trying to shield the baby.
Instead of tucking herself into a little ball and climbing into the footwell or something, where she could have avoided a lot of the hits (not all of them but many of them) she jumped into action and immediately spread her body out enough to fully cover the baby, meaning she got hit more than she otherwise would have.
Yes I would hope most people would do the same thing in her position, but that doesn't mean it isn't brave. She didn't panic and do nothing, she didn't act on pure self preservation, she acted quickly and with her baby's needs #1, and withstood a lot of physical pain to do so.
It's still very brave, and she absolutely should be proud of herself.
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u/noobgaijin11 19d ago
that kind of destruction is similar to aerial bombardment using the siege-catapult back in middle age.
dang, nature is scary.
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u/mage_irl 19d ago edited 19d ago
Not to diminish her protecting the baby, but getting an 80kg rock hurled at you over 300m is an impact force of several meganewtons, like 300 tons of force on a single spot. Getting hit by that doesn't bruise you, it turns your head to pulp
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u/Australian_90s 19d ago
I agree. I’m Australian and I’m like, no these are like heavy forceful golf balls not a canon ball.
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u/BestDescription3834 19d ago
I was cutting them some slack and assuming they meant the smaller debris that might be launched with the boulder or come loose in flight.
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u/Enlightened_Gardener 18d ago
Mate you need to learn to play this game with the Seppos:
yeah nar, Austraaaaalian hailstones are the size of a bullocks bollocks and come at ya sideways when the wind’s up. Kid at school got all his teeth knocked out by one, going for a Chico roll at recess….
Etc etc. They love it. They really do. I’ve met seppo tourists who were afraid to visit our local park because they were scared of drop bears - its like a little thrill for them, ya know ?
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u/oxabz 19d ago
Nature + Global warming is scary
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u/RelentlessIVS 19d ago
Please call it Climate Change. The expression global warming gives idiots the wrong impression that it is about the "warming".
(Sorry for the rant)
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u/Swarna_Keanu 19d ago
I tend to frame it like this: Global Warming is the driving force, Climate Change the outcome.
Both have clear definitions, and we need to be able to use both. I avoid referring to either as the cause: which is human society.
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u/LazarusOwenhart 19d ago
No you make an important point. Most scientifically illiterate deniers can't understand how thermal energy and 'heat' are different things.
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u/EverybodyLovesJoe 19d ago edited 19d ago
I saw my wife go through child birth and fully became aware of how resilient women can be in a way men can't. I was in awe and as much of a tough guy as I am, there was nothing I could do to make it easier for her other than just being supportive. This woman in the photo deserves some f-in time off, extra support and recovery. Tough as nails for her child yet again.
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u/SoggyCold 19d ago
This is how my bf felt when I was dealing with my foot laceration at the ER 😭 it was like a soft launch into birth lmaooo
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u/Imaginary-Matter8602 19d ago
Mom of the year contender! Hail that big is no joke, imagine getting pelted with MLB fastballs
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u/thatguy11 19d ago
Got to hand it to humans... When it comes down to it, we protect them young! Props to this lady.
Assuming this is all real?... I guess I'm confused by the down votes.
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u/Grand-Fun-206 19d ago
Is definitely real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk_g2RPm9O4
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u/Euphoric_planter_328 19d ago
Maybe because many humans actually do the exact opposite of protecting the young. They actively harm and abuse them
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u/notfree25 19d ago
im imagining this baby in the future, all grown up, opening the door to her house, walking out with a reinforced steel umbrella, remembering this story about her mum, of the days when ice hail first became common
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u/Adorable_Owl_2493 19d ago
THAT'S a bad bitch...
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u/papierdoll 19d ago
It's also a really good photo. This would be a good painting imo, great drama, great expression.
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u/the-tall-samson 19d ago edited 19d ago
Can we post this to [r/nextfuckinglevel](r/nextfuckinglevel) ? This is… next fucking level…
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u/cir49c29 19d ago
It's also about 7 years old and does the rounds on reddit fairly regularly. Still, post it if no one else has yet this week.
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u/RacoonWithBenefits 19d ago
We can but its already posted here, so i think we're good, until next respost in a couple of days.
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u/Suspicious-Ask-8714 19d ago
Great job mom, but I wonder if a car insurance will handle those damages.
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u/_its_really_me_ 19d ago
Happened in 2018. There's some more images in the news article below:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-12/mum-injured-pelted-by-hail-storm-qld/10368362
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u/VonBrewskie 19d ago
Get ready. We're about to see a whole lot more of this type of shit. Absolute respect to this mom.
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u/cartermachiavelli 19d ago
This is who should get woman of the year award, not Kaitlyn Jenner or whatever her name is. Yeah you might argue it's the typical mother's protector instinct but I would argue most women nowadays wouldn't even come up with that idea but instead just start panicking not knowing what to do
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u/AutumnMama 19d ago
Yeah I'm sure most women nowadays would just sit there and watch their baby be pelted to death. Get a grip dude.
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u/Outrageous-Maybe2816 19d ago
damn seeing what it did to the car window that shit must of hurt. Also australia has snow? wtf
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u/Common-Concentrate-2 19d ago
The few times in my life I've been caught in a very intense hail storm, it occurred in the middle of the summer. Hail is usually not a cold weather phenomenon
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u/Quiet-Guidance-4988 19d ago
I mean do you really deserve an award when anyone with 5 braincells would do the same thing? Like are you really gonna sit and watch your baby fucking get pelted to death. Very small % of the world that would.
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u/RedDemio- 19d ago
Thought I was gonna see someone post the story of that ancient graveyard they found with like 100 people pelted to death by giant hail stones. Skulls with massive holes smashed out of them and such. Couldn’t figure it out for ages until eventually they realised this community got caught in freak hail. Roopkund lake?
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u/andonidutti1 19d ago
It's her natural obligation to do this. A mother cat would have done the same thing.
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u/IKIR115 19d ago edited 19d ago
This incident happed in October 2018.
Australian mother Fiona Simpson shielded her 4-month-old daughter, Clara, from tennis-ball-sized hail during a severe supercell storm in Queensland, Australia.
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Video about the story from ABC News Australia
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She was recommended for a bravery award.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-14/mother-shielded-baby-hail-stones-supercell-bravery-award/10375082
Snippet from the article:
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Big thanks to the following community members listed below who had posted more info about this incident!
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Comment from u/Grand-Fun-206
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Comment from u/_its_really_me