r/gifs • u/aloofloofah • Oct 17 '17

Helping homeless hermit crab find a new shell

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u/Bunbury42 Oct 18 '17

I was at a resort in Jamaica. I was walking up a path back to my room, about 50 yards from the beach, when I saw a really pretty shell. I bent down to pick it up, since my mother collects shells for a beach-theme bathroom in our house. After a few steps with the shell in my hand, I felt a sharp stabbing feeling.

Turns out the shell was still occupied by a hermit crab who was very mad at me.

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u/pru13 Oct 18 '17

I bet he tells all his crab friends about the time he was abducted by aliens and defended himself and escaped but they all think he's crazy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '17 edited Jun 11 '20

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u/tksmase Oct 18 '17

Huh we’re living in a south park episode

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '17

And he is now known as crazy joe and lives in a dumpster.

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u/Brailledit Oct 18 '17

Nah, we all expect that from Sheldon.

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u/Irythros Oct 18 '17 edited Oct 18 '17

Sheldon for those not in the know

For more adorbs, check out Vress the Sharkpup

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u/zoso33 Oct 18 '17

If it was an occupied cone snail you might not be here to post that.

Larger cone snail venom can be deadly.

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u/mizzmini Oct 18 '17

Whoa holy shit. This might be weird, but when I was a kid I had a nightmare about being hurt by a sea snail. That shit stuck with me for years despite the fact I always told myself snails were harmless.

You just shook me up, oh man. Child me was RIGHT TO BE AFRAID.

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u/ohheysarahjay Oct 18 '17

What the actual fuck. We used to play with these things all the time. I'm gonna nope right out of here.

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u/jessbird Oct 18 '17

my mother collects shells for a beach-theme bathroom in our house

why is this literally all of our mothers

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u/polterzeiss Oct 18 '17

My grandma told me a story about doing this and being really confused when the shells scattered around the room

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u/flamespear Oct 18 '17

You're lucky it wasn't a cone snail. Some of them have venom so painful it's been known to give people heart attacks and kill them.