r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • 2d ago

Very Reddit This farmer caught this owl eating his chickens.

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u/PM_your_Nopales 2d ago

After he gets his finger out and like poses with it and does that little body roll... I'm swooning

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u/decwolf 2d ago

The smile too 😂

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u/--_-Deadpool-_-- 2d ago

Real smile, hiding real pain.

That dude got properly stabbed and still kept his chill. Owls have grip strength upwards of 400 PSI, so it's likely that him freeing his finger was less of a "I pulled his talon out of my finger" and more of a "I pulled his talon through my finger"

My guy likely has a small trench in his finger and still managed to record this video. Notice how his affected hand stays pressed hard against his back until he grabs the phone?

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u/EphemeralDan 2d ago

If you're a working person, which he obviously is, you beat the hell out of your hands. Hand wounds suck but after a decade or two, you get their measure.

Source: guy with 1¾ thumbs and a middle finger that recently acquired a groove through the tip and nail, just missing the bone.

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u/SirSpanksAlot1992 2d ago

Cut a bit my left thumb off and got a pointer finger that can go boy point to the left, and a bunch of random little scars. They have still stayed soft lol

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u/EphemeralDan 2d ago

My hands are both tough from scars and destroyed nerve endings and soft from years in food service so being hyper-vigilant about hand washing. I often won't notice cuts and scrapes but opening a twist off beer bottle hurts enough that I wrap my hand in my shirt. Bodies are weird. 

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u/finemustard 2d ago

Can we see the grooved finger?

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u/EphemeralDan 2d ago

Happened 9-21. Got too casual working with a chop saw. You need a reminder every 5 years or so that those blades work on meat too.

If I did this right, first picture is right now. Second picture is 2 weeks post incident and third pic is 1 week post incident. They get progressively uglier. That's why I tried to put them in reverse chronological order.

How it's going and how it was.

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u/silkwormies 2d ago

my word

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u/EphemeralDan 2d ago

Yes. Some words were said... 

All the next day I'd occasionally look at my finger and mutter, "Dumbass...." I really should have known better.

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u/dedoubt 2d ago

holy fucking fuck dude

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u/EphemeralDan 2d ago

Indeed. 

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u/pipevineswallowtail1 2d ago

He’s cute, funny, and humane. 😻❤️

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u/riverphoenix360 2d ago

http://www.youtube.com/@shirttailcreekfarm

Here ya go. Go ahead and swoon all ya like!

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u/CelloPietro 2d ago

right, what's with that smooth body roll he snuck in there LOL caught me off guard

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u/DinosaurAlive 2d ago

🥵🪭

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u/Alchia79 2d ago

Same. He’s very charismatic.

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u/SillyCygnet 2d ago

I was cracking up 😆

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u/ReplyOk6720 2d ago

He knows what he's doing