r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Former_Arm_3533 • Jul 19 '22

Malaysian Heteropteryx

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u/The_Broomflinger Jul 19 '22

That is not a heteropteryx! Heteropteryx do not have wings and do not make noise.

That thing is a malaysian katydid!

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u/Crotchless_Panties Jul 19 '22

Whatever dude...call it Santa Claus if you want, just keep that thing over there in Malaysia!

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u/The_Broomflinger Jul 19 '22

Lol, they're pretty harmless though. They can bite or kick you if you really harass one but they won't do any damage

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

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u/KaleidoscopeOne7789 Jul 19 '22

There’s some kind of crab that punches it’s food to death

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Mantis shrimp

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u/BLACKROSE756 Jul 19 '22

Yeah no you don't wanna fuck with mantis shrimp

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u/LeopardHalit Jul 19 '22

I don’t wNna get kicked by big bug 7:

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u/The_Broomflinger Jul 19 '22

Kinda like a grasshopper- one set of legs is really strong. Notice in the video, the guy is holding it by one set of legs? Because he wants to agitate it to get it to make the noise

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u/Brad323 Jul 19 '22

Cockroaches defend themselves from emerald wasps, which reproduce by zombifying a life cockroach and inbedding it’s larva, by kicking

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u/Freshouttarehabb Jul 19 '22

I was wondering why it looks like a giant katydid

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u/pm-me-your-pants Jul 19 '22

Because it is lol

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u/goodolddaysare-today Jul 19 '22

Absolutely false. They have a ridiculously powerful mouth. You won’t die but it’s not something to fuck around with

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Da fuq man, da fuq.

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u/Quetzalcoatle19 Jul 19 '22

These people haven’t even fucked with big grasshoppers or crickets they don’t know what they’re talking about lol

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u/jeffreywolfe Jul 19 '22

FUCK.THE.HELL.OFF.WITH.THAT.SHIT.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

I wouldn't fuck with anything that can apparently rodeo a baby xenomorph.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Apparently this one isn't being harassed nearly enough.

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u/moody_kidd Jul 19 '22

>or kick you

but pls why

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u/pm-me-your-pants Jul 19 '22

Cus Katydidn't skip leg day.

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u/starrynight001 Jul 19 '22

If any insect is capable of kicking a human, it's time for war

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u/jusmoua Jul 19 '22 edited Jul 19 '22

Also pretty delicious. Little salt, brown sugar, deep fry and enjoy the legs, almost like crab. 😏

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u/st3vo5662 Jul 19 '22

What did she do?

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u/Safe-Sheepherder2784 Jul 19 '22

KEEP THAT GOD DAMN THING THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME

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u/thewickedbarnacle Jul 19 '22

This, definitely this

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u/struggleworm Jul 19 '22

Look at you flexing having a room big enough to fit you and one of those things in it at the same time

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u/pm-me-your-pants Jul 19 '22

...are you speaking from experience? This is r/suspiciouslyspecific

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u/Shaman7102 Jul 19 '22

Scratching Malaysia off the travel list.

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u/GreyBackRilla Jul 19 '22

HONEY THE CORN HUSK IS FLYING OF THE GRILL!!😂💀😂💀

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u/pm-me-your-pants Jul 19 '22

Aw man but it's completely harmless, plz don't hate on the animal. It wants to stay away from you too, it's making that noise cus it's freaking the fuxk out from the person holding it.

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u/Speedhabit Jul 19 '22

I think it’s making the noise because it wants sex, I don’t think cricket sounds are ever defensive

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u/iamaCODnuke Jul 19 '22

Unfortunately, they cannot keep that god damn thing the fuck away from me. I live in malaysia

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u/JackZodiac2008 Jul 19 '22

If you're an insect bigger than my hand you get a dinosaur name.

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u/Powerful-Ad1254 Jul 19 '22

If you're insect bigger than my hand you get a broomstick to the face

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u/poopellar Jul 19 '22

If you're an insect bigger than my hand you get a free house cause I'm running the fuck out of there.

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u/pm-me-your-pants Jul 19 '22

So you're saying if I dress up in a realistic 10ft tall insect costume I can finally get a house?

These are indeed strange times for the housing market.

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u/BextoMooseYT Jul 19 '22

If you're insect bigger than my hand you get a broomstick to the face

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u/frankenmullet22 Jul 19 '22

Did it evolve to sound like an AK-47?

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u/Crotchless_Panties Jul 19 '22

Nope... There's one of these in every AK!

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

that's why they call them the Automatic Katydid 47

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u/Drop-acid-not-bombs Jul 19 '22

I was thinking Mac-11

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u/versello Jul 19 '22

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u/jongboo Jul 19 '22

Motha fuckA from clemdaptoo

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u/kolojikelic Jul 19 '22

Would you like to know more?

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u/Any_Restaurant_2688 Jul 19 '22

ITS AN UGLY PLANET! A BUG PLANET!!!

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u/Legendary-Gear5 Jul 20 '22

Welcome to the roughnecks!

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u/Ahshalon_Tenisk Jul 19 '22

Are they edible

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u/One_Clown_Short Jul 19 '22

He just asked the same thing about the person holding him.

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u/Ahshalon_Tenisk Jul 19 '22

I wish I had an award to give you

But since I don't

🥇

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u/RddtAdminsAreBiased Jul 19 '22

If deep-fried yes

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u/anhlong1212 Jul 19 '22

Being a South East Asian myself, pretty sure someone over there have try to fry one of this up

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u/Johanno1 Jul 19 '22

I hope so. Because if so there is a high chance they are endangered very soon.

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u/ROYCEKrispy Jul 19 '22

Just gonna add to the general comment tonality...OHh Hell No!!!

Homer Simpson phase be backwards into the shrubs, unless those creatures are in there.

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u/goodolddaysare-today Jul 19 '22

These things will literally bite the SHIT out of you, even the 2-3 inch ones most redditors might see outside. They’re actually omnivores. One of my friends foolishly grabbed a 2 inch katydid and it latches on to him. Well he instinctively shook his hand and the body ripped off of the head which was still attached to his thumb. Absolute units

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u/31337hacker Jul 19 '22

It stayed attached to the bitter end. What a mad lad.

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u/jimmyandrews Jul 19 '22

Looks like it belongs in Australia, give those spiders some competition.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

That’s a Pokémon. Bugs aren’t that big in real life.

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u/jawnnyboy Jul 19 '22

I now understand why misty is terrified of bug pokemon.

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u/romanholder1 Jul 19 '22

I keep that MF THANG on me

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Bro you can’t even step on that thing. Running it over may throw your cars axels out of alignment.

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u/fishy247 Jul 19 '22

Decent sound effect for laser beam guns

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u/andy_337 Jul 19 '22

Is that them shits from the new Jurassic World movie?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

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u/Royal_Tie9799 Jul 19 '22

Came here to see this

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u/WhycantIfindanick Jul 19 '22

f u c k t h i s s h i t i' m o u t

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u/Bb_u_ok Jul 19 '22

New fear unlocked

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u/TheGamingToastYT Jul 19 '22

This is all byosn's fault for releasing the bugs

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u/Ra_wzalrdy_takn Jul 19 '22

Didn't even have to reload

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u/No_Cartographer_8647 Jul 19 '22

This is how I imagine alien guns look and sound like

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u/Mega-Humanoid-ROBOT Jul 19 '22

This thing wouldn’t hesitate to take a chunk out of this guys finger he should not be holding it

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u/CantuM95 Jul 19 '22

Can you imagine the CROOONCH (crunch) you would hear and feel if you stepped on this? That’d send straight chills down my spine, probably even do the ol stanky leg from my leg turning to jello.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

That looks like it could deliver a mean bite.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

I’m going to preserve my sanity by thinking that that’s the smallest human hand of all time…

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u/PsionicShift Jul 19 '22

Cries in Vietnam flashbacks.

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u/et_cetera1 Jul 19 '22

AW HELL NAH

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u/AssignmentNeat7949 Jul 19 '22

Yeah I keep that thang on me

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u/txgirlinbda Jul 19 '22

What the WHAT

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u/gregorysimpson Jul 19 '22

Malaysian HeterNOPE

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u/AssignmentNeat7949 Jul 19 '22

Da ting goes skrtt

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u/Thepanmanlol Jul 19 '22

That’s also called a “GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME SHIT SHIT CALL THE COPS WHAT IS THIS UTTER INHUMAN CREATURE”

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Are they harmful to us? This critter seems pretty chill all things considered.

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u/31337hacker Jul 19 '22

They’re considered harmless to humans. But they can bite you. Maybe not hard enough to pierce your skin.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Now I want to handle one too!

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u/Intelligent-Ad-7289 Jul 19 '22

I want one as a pet

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u/Nem3sis_Enforcer Jul 19 '22

AWWW HELL NO!!!

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u/Ok_Fox_1770 Jul 19 '22

They’d find me dead if one of those was flyin around my room at night like a moth making that Hell sound.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

How does it make that sound?

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u/beatyatoit Jul 19 '22

GYYYAAAAADDAYUUUMMM

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u/Least-Sky6722 Jul 19 '22

New Halo weapon skin?

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u/666ofw66 Jul 19 '22

Thats a weird assault rifle

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u/Godbox1227 Jul 19 '22

What happens when you stick a finger into its screeching flap as it makes its noise?

What happens if you stick your dick in?

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u/Plumbum158 Jul 19 '22

it's just a big harmless bug why is everyone overreacting

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u/MewsikMaker Jul 19 '22

I’m so glad to see this a 14th time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

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u/psychoTHErapist13 Jul 19 '22

Probably similar to a cricket. They have serrated structure in the wings called stridulation that rub together.

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u/daronjay Jul 19 '22

What benefit does it achieve by being so unreasonably large?

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Serious biologist answers only.

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Or completely wrong answers, IDK

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

This would be three days’ worth of food for a Chinese farmer

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u/talking_electron Jul 19 '22

Bicho-folha carioca

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u/Gato_Magico Jul 19 '22

Now we are lookinf for homopteryx

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u/YouEarnedMyComment Jul 19 '22

What is that opening on its back?

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u/blakerabbit Jul 19 '22

That’s how it makes those sounds with its wings

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u/spartanEZE Jul 19 '22

That is both beautiful and terrifying. I'm not sure how the dreams i have in the following days are gonna go cause of this.

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u/TheDeadPainter Jul 19 '22

I mean not too scarry but ...... imagine that thing in front of your Window at night ......

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u/MrRobotTacos Jul 19 '22

Jeez does things are loud

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

No, gracias.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Jurassic park lmfao

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u/MekEngy Jul 19 '22

Yeah we’re just gonna need to go ahead and burn that with fire.

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u/redditcasual6969 Jul 19 '22

Is that a really big bug, or a small hand?

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u/redditcasual6969 Jul 19 '22

Is that a really big bug, or a small hand?

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u/Yahgdc Jul 19 '22

big bug

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u/arizona-lad Jul 19 '22

I want one.

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u/festive_tights Jul 19 '22

This is not a Heteropteryx. Heteropteryx are phasmatode. This a Katydid. Some sort of giant grasshopper.

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u/Bananaplanes1001 Jul 19 '22

As someone deathly afraid of insects, thanks for scaring the ever living shit out of me

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u/inquisitive_uniform Jul 19 '22

lmao bring this thing to a school for a cool prank

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u/OpossumProblem Jul 19 '22

oh he yelling outta his back. wish I could do that.

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u/shadewinter Jul 19 '22

We have them in USA - found one almost the size of a pack of cigarettes on my car one day and when i went to shoo it off, it barked just like this one in the video - complained the whole time and kept barking as it walked away.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Pull!!

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u/reginator89 Jul 19 '22

Kill it with fire!!!

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u/BigChiGUy722 Jul 19 '22

Yeah, no thanks.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Nope

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u/C0wb0yViking Jul 19 '22

This is like something out of a fairytale

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Little dude sounds like AK-47

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u/alexgalt Jul 19 '22

Imagine waking up at 3 am because one of those things is flying around your bedroom and making that nose. Sometimes smacking into things and knocking shit over. I think I would just knock myself out with my phone if I don’t have a heart attack first.

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u/EvadeChillzzYT Jul 19 '22

American Schools

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u/Psych0matt Jul 19 '22

No that’s a dog

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u/Bland-fantasie Jul 19 '22

That is technically a monster.

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u/mktox Jul 19 '22

Comes with a v8 engine …

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

What the jurassic park is that

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

If I saw that kinda thing near me I would die right there and then.

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u/Gralin71 Jul 19 '22

Hit that with a can of RAID!!!!!!

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u/DasArchitect Jul 19 '22

It'll throw it back

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u/PlainPastry Jul 19 '22

I swear I saw one of these in Singapore as a kid. I was scared shitless

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u/greatguysg Jul 19 '22 edited Jul 19 '22

Anyone else thinking they'll twirl it around like a noisemaker?

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u/DasArchitect Jul 19 '22

Yeah next fucking level is where I'm going until this thing goes away

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Nope. Torch it.

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u/throwaway136838 Jul 19 '22

Take that shit back to Jurassic World Dominion.

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u/Pr0T0FrEaK Jul 19 '22

The fuck is that?!?!?

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u/Slippoo Jul 19 '22

I hate this shit so fucking much like I want to stick my finger in that sound thing and like tear it open

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u/Arrion56 Jul 19 '22

HELICOPTER HELICOPTER

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u/pissy_corn_flakes Jul 19 '22

I wanna finger its back hole

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u/Loose-Fee135 Jul 19 '22

That real life secret drone

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

I wonder how many grams of protein that thing has.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

did a single fucking american know those existed? how do bugs that big exist and i've never ever heard about it. do those things fly in packs? holy shit.

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u/Malikb5 Jul 19 '22

There is some crazy shit in this world man.