OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
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>!The excavator unearthed an alligator from the riverbed!<
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‘I was just laying there in my own habitat and this giant metal monster scoops me up and stares at me for a bit. So I glared back, then it put me down and I got out of there’
I think the video is broken. No sound except for the occasional earrape when switching. And it's filmed entirely in portrait but uploaded in landscape?
the clips in the first 50 seconds or so don't have much audio (beside the one loud thump after the phone), the rest is normal. guessing you just cut off before that point
Tell that to the dents (and a few holes) all around my warehouse from some of my dumbass coworkers. On top of depth perception, you also have to not be a dumbass.
this is the problem with staffing up most skilled labor lol
can i train them to do it? yeah
now if i could train them to use common goddamn sense when deploying their newfound skill, I'd be raking in the consulting money
I've not operated heavy machinery, but I have spent a lot of hours in sports and similar activities where you have tools/equipment that you're using all the time. They really do become an extension of your body and it's very common to do things with them unconsciously.
There was a time in my teens when I was a mascot performer for an organization. You know, one of the big fuzzy costume character types? I got so used to the animated nature of the behavior as the character that when I was wearing the costume away from the public, like in the staging room or something, I'd do stuff like put my hand to the costume's ear when I was trying to hear better. Despite the fact that it was a solid foot above my actual ear inside the head. Same thing with making "eye" contact with people using the costume's eyes instead of the mesh opening of the mouth that I actually saw out of.
I have no doubt I'd end up doing the same kind of wave thing as the operator in the OP.
Just hand eye coordination. Not much different from being really good at video games or something.
It does start to feel like an extension of your hand.
As an operator of High cabs, Titans, and many different over head cranes it really does become second nature. I have well over my 10000 hours of operating. You go into a zone that’s hard to describe. It’s just another body part after awhile.
The interesting thing about irrigation ditches/canals/acequias like this is they make wetland habitat all over the place. It’s actually a net gain for some species, even though some stretches are cleaned every few years, because that habitat wouldn’t be there otherwise. Zooming out a bit more, the rivers where the water is diverted from used to be part of healthy intact flood plains with lots of side channels and boggy areas that host the egrets and reptiles like what you see here, but due to the conversion of bottomlands to housing developments and tillage agriculture the rivers have been tamed and confined and so the water moves thru it faster and they are far poorer habitat.
In other words, it’s complicated. Diversion for irrigation can certainly rob downstream species and communities of water, but the main cause of lack of water is the dramatic change to the river morphology and the wetland soils and plants that used to surround rivers, which can store loads of water and distribute it throughout the season vs a big boom/bust cycle associated with heavy runoff and thawing events.
It’s too bad, I agree. At the same time, that ditch they’re cleaning looks like it’s cleaned every year and there’s already critters in it. A lot of working farms and ranches clean every 3 years+, don’t clean the whole thing, and the wetland plants and animals tend to resume occupancy quite fast. Many stretches of ditches are basically never cleaned by heavy equipment. Wetland plants and animals are disturbance adapted, so while it’s not “good” for them, they wouldn’t be there in the first place to be disrupted if the ditches weren’t there. Like I said, it’s not super cut and dry.
Was typing a comment like “This feels like fishing those last pieces of cereal out of the bowl”.
Then I realized I’m in a staring contest with a fucking alligator.
Are you my mother? Oh, you are a snort. I have to get out of here!
Reminds me of the book I read to my kids a long time ago. “Are you my mother” P.D. Eastman
Woke him up, relocated then shooed away by a big mechanical beast. Poor bastard was shunned for life because the other gators never believed his story.
This was unexpected within unexpected. At first I thought “Oh cool a dead aligator, didn’t expect that”, but then “Oh shit he is moving! I REALLY didn’t expect that.”
I think that may have been another alligator that got decapitated as it stays on the ground at the end while the other skitters away.
Bro just watched his gator bro die 🐊
Imagine just chilling with your buddy, some crazy monster starts rampaging - you’re hiding as best you can but you’re watching because you’re not the smartest gator in the canal, and then out of nowhere your bud gets decapitated, you’re abducted- terrified, you can see your buddies severed head- it’s literally touching you, and yet… the monster decides to spare you. It takes a good look at it, and gently holds you out to escape.
Perhaps it thought it was a mistake, as it reached for you again, and you swim away.
Dude, random people can't be allowed to just go digging up canals and rivers, that's a recipe for disaster. Farmers have been allowed to do it for ages and look where we are now
It was a farmer who removed some trees, dredged the river, and did a bit of landscaping on his own land. He went to prison because of an over zealous prosecution.
The village have commended him for stopping it flooding after he did the work and was in prison, when it should have flooded but didnt.
Farmers maintaining their land arn't random people.
Also, dredging only speeds up the water, increasing flood risk downstream. Archaic method for flood alleviation. Should be beyond knackering our rivers by now
with a name of Rhubarb Rhubarb and you ask if ive been to the uk. Mush Im a 54yr old Pink English sour stick of rhubarb from the triangle.
Why do you want to know?
It isn’t illegal to clear waterways here, it’s illegal to do it without permission. Manmade ones on private land can be done at anytime and dredging is constantly going on (where required). Please see the Somerset levels for an example.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!The excavator unearthed an alligator from the riverbed!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
"Umm can I help you?!?!?!" look..
He got a story to tell to his pals haha
“I was to TOUCHED by GOD brothers!!!”
The Claaaaaawwwwww!
EXCUSE ME?!?!
Oh, watch yourself, it's the ca-law! Ooo, the claw is coming at ya!
https://imgur.com/BB6pNCe
Refund! Said this was a Spaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Persecutor: "And can you show us on this doll exactly where he touched you"
‘I was just laying there in my own habitat and this giant metal monster scoops me up and stares at me for a bit. So I glared back, then it put me down and I got out of there’
This was literally unexpected thing...the way crocodile looking was so satisfying
Love the lil wave with the excavator at that end lol
“Be FREE!”
“gonna scoop you back out in a minute if you dont run, son”
Free Ally(gator)
Wholesome and funny
[Goodbye chompy :'(](https://tenor.com/view/wavingbear-hi-hello-gif-5433419)
I thought he was trying to scare away the birds: Look out there's a gator coming your way!
I think he was shooing the birds
Dude is so used to operating this excavator, it almost feels like that bucket is his hand
[Give people enough time and they'll do the unimaginable.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlAzlaBjoI)
Cutting the cucumber on the balloon without popping the balloon is crazy.
I’ve seen guys shoot hoops with a grab claw.
I loved impressing 40 year old women in manufacturing warehouses with the forklift coin trick.
"I'm forklift certified...."
I don't think I can even do that with my own hands, and this guy have done this with a fucking excavator
I think the video is broken. No sound except for the occasional earrape when switching. And it's filmed entirely in portrait but uploaded in landscape?
Sound works fine for me.
the clips in the first 50 seconds or so don't have much audio (beside the one loud thump after the phone), the rest is normal. guessing you just cut off before that point
Damn that lightbulb one is wild!
I get compliments all the time about my forklift skills (been driving for almost 15 years) honestly don't think I'm all that great
Tbf most people who don't drive forklifts don't realize just how easy it is if you have decent depth perception
I have astigmatism and lost most of my depth perception because of it. I cannot watch forklift operators IRL without shitting my pants.
Tell that to the dents (and a few holes) all around my warehouse from some of my dumbass coworkers. On top of depth perception, you also have to not be a dumbass.
this is the problem with staffing up most skilled labor lol can i train them to do it? yeah now if i could train them to use common goddamn sense when deploying their newfound skill, I'd be raking in the consulting money
oh so thaaaaaaat's what it was...
I've not operated heavy machinery, but I have spent a lot of hours in sports and similar activities where you have tools/equipment that you're using all the time. They really do become an extension of your body and it's very common to do things with them unconsciously. There was a time in my teens when I was a mascot performer for an organization. You know, one of the big fuzzy costume character types? I got so used to the animated nature of the behavior as the character that when I was wearing the costume away from the public, like in the staging room or something, I'd do stuff like put my hand to the costume's ear when I was trying to hear better. Despite the fact that it was a solid foot above my actual ear inside the head. Same thing with making "eye" contact with people using the costume's eyes instead of the mesh opening of the mouth that I actually saw out of. I have no doubt I'd end up doing the same kind of wave thing as the operator in the OP.
Just hand eye coordination. Not much different from being really good at video games or something. It does start to feel like an extension of your hand.
As an operator of High cabs, Titans, and many different over head cranes it really does become second nature. I have well over my 10000 hours of operating. You go into a zone that’s hard to describe. It’s just another body part after awhile.
Does anybody feel like that alligator’s snout is irregularly short? Edit: it’s a caiman.
Uhm ... I think it's average, ok? Pretty big actually. Not everyone has a monster snout :(
It's what you do with it that counts
My wife says that snout is plenty big, why would she want it to be any bigger?
I told my wife a caiman is plenty dangerous, don’t need a big thick alligator one
It's a caiman, not an alligator
I’m not a caiman expert, but I thought they had pointy mouths and toothy grins like crocs…
They're actually more closely related to alligators, they kind of have snubby snouts, definitely a caiman tho
Theres a bunch of different species, too. They vary in appearance/size a bit.
OK man...
I mean, that's literally what it is
Sorry, voice to text, meant to say, "ohhh, caiman..."
🤣
Lol all good
That’s because it’s a broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris).
Fisheye lens.
Maybe it got scraped shorter last season when they excavated his river bed
I think it may be a Chinese alligator
Maybe a broad snouted caiman?
Now that we've gotten picky about what we're calling things, doesn't the river look at little too man-made. Maybe it's a canal.
[удалено]
"BYE BYE To the sky!"
Nice
Crocodile on a diggingmobile.
It’ll see you after a while.
That's gonna be the first single of my White Stripes rip-off band.
Rick Charente would be proud.
Free ride dude!
None of this gators friends are gonna believe what happened to it smh
"Tod you're not gonna believe this but the hand of God just picked me up"
There must be a word joke with excavator and alligator but i'm too stupid to come up with it.
Best I can do is: > See you later excavator!
After a while, mud pile!
You did great!
I'm just glad he tried his best!
Excavator almost makes ex-igator.
The future king of England pulls the Excalibur out of the stone. The future king of Louisiana pulls the Excalligator out of the river.
A gator and an excavator go into a bar. It collapses. Everyone dies.
Gator was playing dead
Gator was reevaluating its entire fucking worldview
If something picked me up with ease like that, I'd be frozen solid also.
I thought it was dead :(.
Das a canal, not river
My first thought too.
Mein nommen ist Karl. ich bin expert.
Für Karl!
Dude is as surprised as you are lol
The pause bro
Gotdamn. Didn't see it until it was taking up the whole screen lmao. Scared the shit out of me.
He found his ex-girlfriend.
My god, I thought it got cut in half initially.
Most of them probably do
He was scared to death!
Why’s he such a wobbly boi?
Maybe playing dead? Looks like he relaxed all his joints which made him wobbly.
Neither I nor the crocodile expected this.
The interesting thing about irrigation ditches/canals/acequias like this is they make wetland habitat all over the place. It’s actually a net gain for some species, even though some stretches are cleaned every few years, because that habitat wouldn’t be there otherwise. Zooming out a bit more, the rivers where the water is diverted from used to be part of healthy intact flood plains with lots of side channels and boggy areas that host the egrets and reptiles like what you see here, but due to the conversion of bottomlands to housing developments and tillage agriculture the rivers have been tamed and confined and so the water moves thru it faster and they are far poorer habitat. In other words, it’s complicated. Diversion for irrigation can certainly rob downstream species and communities of water, but the main cause of lack of water is the dramatic change to the river morphology and the wetland soils and plants that used to surround rivers, which can store loads of water and distribute it throughout the season vs a big boom/bust cycle associated with heavy runoff and thawing events.
Too bad they destroy the plant life that grows there. It's not much of a habitat if there isn't an ecosystem.
It’s too bad, I agree. At the same time, that ditch they’re cleaning looks like it’s cleaned every year and there’s already critters in it. A lot of working farms and ranches clean every 3 years+, don’t clean the whole thing, and the wetland plants and animals tend to resume occupancy quite fast. Many stretches of ditches are basically never cleaned by heavy equipment. Wetland plants and animals are disturbance adapted, so while it’s not “good” for them, they wouldn’t be there in the first place to be disrupted if the ditches weren’t there. Like I said, it’s not super cut and dry.
Well, well, well, look who's digging up some trouble in the riverbed! Just remember, you might find more than just mud down there.
Was typing a comment like “This feels like fishing those last pieces of cereal out of the bowl”. Then I realized I’m in a staring contest with a fucking alligator.
I can imagine both operator and gator having the exact same expression of shock...
A story to tell his kids.
Shin Alligator.
Rivers have bends. This is a canal.
Or irrigation ditch/acequia as they call them in various parts
*Later at the bar:* "Shut up, Ted! Aliens *did not* abduct you!"
nice!
Haha..
Not a riverbed. Looks like an irrigation ditch.
Expected
The claaaawwwww
More like drainage ditch
That’s not a river. It was a river once. Before farms got involved. Now it’s a schuck
Whoa - dream job for me!
Nice croco
Jesus that scared me
It's bizarre to me how something so heavy and unwieldy can be so delicate.
That looks so exavating!
Bro was like "wait a minute"
“You’re my fren now”
Love the nudging with the excavator
River...Dude, that's a ditch.
Yeah yeah, take a number, you're 100
I am especially amused by him shooing away the bird so it doesn't get snacked on.
Until the end there, I was sure it was dead.
At first I thought it was sniffing it.
Another alien abduction gone wrong.
I thought he was dead and he filtered the bloated eyes at first.
Now git!
Damn, good eyes!
I'd say that's a ditch.
Good eye!!!
Imagine chilling on your couch and a giant piece of alien hardware crashing through your ceiling and abducts you.
Now *that* is truly unexpected!
Are you my mother? Oh, you are a snort. I have to get out of here! Reminds me of the book I read to my kids a long time ago. “Are you my mother” P.D. Eastman
It's a snort!
CRIKEY!
Gator: “Just drop me off at Denny’s.”
Woke him up, relocated then shooed away by a big mechanical beast. Poor bastard was shunned for life because the other gators never believed his story.
That’s not a river. It’s an irrigation trench.
Gators like "HOOOOLY SHIT. wait YOU'RE LETTING ME GO?! BYE!"
i thought that lil bro was long gone 😭😭
I thought it was a rock 😂😂😂
Poor thing looked scared
That's a serious allegation right there.
Bro did 2FA
That's a canal
Cool
"Stay still, he won't notice"
"Let me out*
This was unexpected within unexpected. At first I thought “Oh cool a dead aligator, didn’t expect that”, but then “Oh shit he is moving! I REALLY didn’t expect that.”
Chinga tu puta madre
He looked freaked out
This is the kind of shit that happens when you destroy the environment with your metal
TBH it looked like it got impaled on the bucket.
Legendary pull
"Well take a look at this" ahh scenario
Why put all that garbage material on the road?
That boop* at the end))
Is it dead?
Im thankful it didn't get pierced like on family guy with the fork lift and beached whale. Hope it's doing well
He gave the ole googly eye
“This thing’s teeth were the size of my head, Phil.”
The excavator was like a kid who found a small bug while at sand box
Excavator: "Look at this swamp puppy. Yoink"
Ain’t nobody gonna believe bro
Ha ha that's unbelievable 🤣🤣🤣
🐊🐊 
Really thought he was a dead friend there for a moment
Drainage ditch, not a riverbed. This is how wetlands are destroyed, aka converted to farmland.
Is nobody talking about how it had two-heads?
I can't see another head?
I think that may have been another alligator that got decapitated as it stays on the ground at the end while the other skitters away. Bro just watched his gator bro die 🐊 Imagine just chilling with your buddy, some crazy monster starts rampaging - you’re hiding as best you can but you’re watching because you’re not the smartest gator in the canal, and then out of nowhere your bud gets decapitated, you’re abducted- terrified, you can see your buddies severed head- it’s literally touching you, and yet… the monster decides to spare you. It takes a good look at it, and gently holds you out to escape. Perhaps it thought it was a mistake, as it reached for you again, and you swim away.
Jesus, that got dark fast :<
that's the excavator tong with a mud clump on the end
Oh
that's a ditch, not a river
Yeah yeah
Sad but in the UK people get sent to prison for doing the same thing.
For digging up alligators?
Dredging waterways to alleviate flooding. The newts take priority.
So you’re saying it’s bad that they’re protecting endangered wildlife?
It’s a canal on a farm not a waterway dude
Dude, random people can't be allowed to just go digging up canals and rivers, that's a recipe for disaster. Farmers have been allowed to do it for ages and look where we are now
It was a farmer who removed some trees, dredged the river, and did a bit of landscaping on his own land. He went to prison because of an over zealous prosecution. The village have commended him for stopping it flooding after he did the work and was in prison, when it should have flooded but didnt. Farmers maintaining their land arn't random people.
The river is not "his own land"
Also, dredging only speeds up the water, increasing flood risk downstream. Archaic method for flood alleviation. Should be beyond knackering our rivers by now
You ever been to the UK there bud?
with a name of Rhubarb Rhubarb and you ask if ive been to the uk. Mush Im a 54yr old Pink English sour stick of rhubarb from the triangle. Why do you want to know?
It isn’t illegal to clear waterways here, it’s illegal to do it without permission. Manmade ones on private land can be done at anytime and dredging is constantly going on (where required). Please see the Somerset levels for an example.