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Tapei, Taiwan,
by Blowithand

ICYMI, the Stray Kitten Ambush from yesterday, plus additional videos.

Here's the story. It's NPR. The government forced you at gunpoint to pay for it so you might as well read it.

Turns out the kitten rescuer is a professional shooter.

As Robert Brantley was driving down the backroads of northeast Louisiana on Tuesday, something caught his eye. The professional shooter was going about 40 miles an hour as he headed toward the shooting range, but he thought he had seen a kitten on the side of the road.

He wasn't sure though, so he turned his car around and went back to find out. In a video that he posted to Instagram, Brantley walks toward a single white and gray tabby kitten.

"Look -- kitty, kitty," Brantley calls toward the kitten.

Brantley picks the kitten up just as three more white kittens pop up in the grass.
But it didn't end there. In total, 12 kittens came out of the grass after the first one and ambushed the man who said he thought it was just a lone kitten.

"Oh, no, there's a whole -- oh, my gosh! I can't take y'all. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, there's more! We got a kitten problem," Brantley exclaims in his initial video. "Who would do this? I thought I was saving one. Hot diggity dog."

Needless to say, Brantley had his hands full and did not make it to the range that day.

"I was not prepared for the kittens," he told NPR. "I was just blown away."

The 37-year-old said it was a wave of emotions as he realized someone had likely dumped the kittens on the side of the road at an age when they couldn't fend for themselves.

Then he started the notably difficult task of herding the cats into his Honda hostaback.

"When I opened the door and started putting 'em in, they were jumping out. If I'd throw one in, three would run out," he said. "But they would stay around my ankles on the ground. So I finally rolled down the windows, shut a door and started putting them inside where they couldn't get out."

Brantley then headed home with his baker's dozen of kittens. The initial video gained a lot of traction on social media, and Brantley said thousands of offers for adoption started pouring in from all around the U.S. and elsewhere in the world.

At this time, most of the litter is spoken for, with the exception of a couple of kittens that need a little extra attention, and a veterinarian is scheduled to stop by Thursday night to help out.

"We found some good people locally that want 'em, and I know that they're all good people and they're not doing anything bad with them," he said. "We haven't gave any of them away yet -- they're probably a little too young."

Very, very high martial arts kick.

nunchucks more like dumbchuks amirite

Compilation of people who are literally inches or split-seconds from death, only to miraculously survive. Or be rescued at the last moment.

That's from an account called Viral Videos. I'm going to link some more videos from that account. Be warned if you scan on that account: a lot of the videos show some serious accidents, maybe deadly ones. I'm linking harmless stuff, but if you go looking on the account, you'll find grimmer videos.

These puppies are engaging in some kind of mathematical chaos-driven behavior that would make Ian Malcolm cream his black jeans.

Skipping rope with your buddies.

Sheep thinks he's a bronco.

Little baby makes for the cutest little choreographer.

Shadowboxing cat.

Little dog chases two bears out of the yard.

Man passes out from fear during a parachute jump. Sound on. I think in the beginning he might already be unconscious, with the wind just blowing open his slack mouth.

Don't worry too much-- he's in a buddy-assisted dual-parachute rig, so his physical safety is assured. I cannot guarantee his mental safety, though. Even though this is kind of distressing, I recommend watching it all the way through; it's amusing.

You gotta think the ball here, which is pretty easy to fake up in Aftereffects, is CGI.

Still, who knows, could just be, maybe, theoretically, the result of trying over and over and over again.

Hedgehog propaganda film:

posted by Ace at 07:38 PM

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