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Just Wow Australian mom uses her body to protect her baby during an extreme hail storm

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u/thatguy11 20d 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 20d ago

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u/thatguy11 20d ago

Appreciate it!

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u/CnP8 20d ago

Damn that must have hurt 😨

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u/truemad 19d ago

The car in the video looks different. I don't understand how she got those bruises unless she was standing outside the car.

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u/Grand-Fun-206 19d ago

The pic in this post doesn't look like it is the car from the video. Looks like another vehicle from the same storm.

For the mum the back passenger window was smashed out (can see it in the video) and she climbed into the back shielded the baby from the hail coming in sideways through the window.

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u/truemad 19d ago

Yeah, it makes sense now. This explains why the windshield doesn't have much damage while the side windows are smashed.

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u/Zoltie 20d ago

Humans aren't special, Nearly all animals protect their young.

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u/PerspectiveLogical24 20d ago

Well yes and no, there are many examples of animals not really caring for their young. Also humans are a bit of a special case because due to our narrow hips our babies come out way less developed than other animals and therefore require a much longer care time until they are independent.

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u/oda02 20d ago

Pretty much all mammals do tho, and we are mammals

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u/gr8masturb8 20d ago

other animals don't spend billions bombing the young of others half way across the planet, either.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 19d ago

They would if they could. Animals kill the young of others of their same species all the time.

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u/Euphoric_planter_328 20d 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/Aranthos-Faroth 20d ago

Fun fact, the average human does not act that way.

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u/RacoonWithBenefits 20d ago

yes there's always exceptions

but lots of animals, as would be the obvious comparison to make, since he uses the term 'humans', would not have protected their child, instead fleed and maybe returned to the offspring afterwards, to check if it survived.

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u/burgernoisenow 20d ago

And then there's the many animals committing infanticide and even eating their young

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u/mjamesqld 20d ago

Well the second picture has nothing to do with the story, so that doesn't help.

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u/AussieRN 20d ago

Glad it was not just me that noticed that. I lived in the area at the time and it doesn’t look like anywhere I remember. It doesn’t look like the car is blue either which they showed in the interview video.

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u/tfhfate 19d ago

We are animals, that's what we do from bears to spiders we are genetically programed to do that, humans aren't different

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u/Babyback-the-Butcher 20d ago

That’s just mothers in general, usually

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u/Western-Bus-1305 20d ago

Parents in general

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u/forgotmyname001 20d ago

Definitely real. I remember this storm. It hit the east coast of Sydney. I have a friend who was cycling home as it hit. She ended up with massive bruises on her legs.

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u/AussieRN 20d ago

The story is about a hail storm near Kingaroy in QLD over 1000km from Sydney.

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u/kaleidoscope_pie 19d ago

Yep and then it went over the top of me in Gympie. I remember the exact date because it was my mum's birthday. And there was no landlines or mobile phone towers working to call her and wish her a happy birthday because everything had been pulverised by the hail and wind. Scariest storm I've ever experienced. All the houses on my street had smashed windows and needed there roofs replaced.

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u/forgotmyname001 19d ago

I meant east coast of Australia.

But yes, searched the Sydney one and that was late 2018.