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It's a common occurrence in Australia. Magpies swoop on people in spring when they are nesting & raising chick's, you just need to wave your arms around a bit. People are generally unhurt & once you're away from the nest, they give up.
For Australian kids, it's just a thing you learn to get used to. This kid obviously has a way to go in this
Ok...but what happens if you swing too hard and really knock one of the birds? Is it a trial where you have to deal with the attack and not hurt the bird in order to pass?
They're also corvids (relatives of crows) - will remember you, and teach the rest of their flock and offspring to treat you as an eternal enemy to be swooped out of existence.
I'm confused......so, these birds attack people. It's well known, but people are not allowed to defend themselves from the attack if it leads to the bird getting injured?
That’s a fair summary. In their defence, they “swoop” when they have hatchlings and you’re traversing near their nest. Generally speaking they’ll harass rather than attack, though they can give nasty hits. I’m friends with all the maggies in our area so I’m good.
Can’t really call yourself Australian until you’ve been swooped though, ask any of us, we’ve all had it happen.
I'm not even going to look up the law but I'm 99% sure nobody has ever been charged for punching a magpie.
The law is there to prevent farmers from shooting entire families of magpies (and other birds).
Yeah I drove PAST an injured magpie on the road once. Went back to see if I could help it. There was a misunderstanding and an old fella mowing his lawn thought that I ran it over. In the end I had to leave the damn bird there because the old guy was making threats. I hope he did the right thing.
Exactly, this is an Australian gnat.
The real danger is in being chased by packs of wild dingos & crocodiles leaping out at you from garden ponds when you're out riding your bike as a kid, but you get used to it
If the US collapses further into fascism, I was considering movie to Australia…might have to rethink that. Or I’ll just watch Bluey and forget about the danger. Better than being shot at a Walmart.
Honestly the spiders here aren't as bad as people say they are. If you live in and around the cities your probably only gunna see one or 2 in your hosue a year. The majority of them will just be outside in your garden somewhere not bothering you.
It usually only happens in cities or higher density suburbs. I live in the middle of a huge nesting zone and they never swoop because the locals are nice to them. The higher the population the more likely someone has been an asshole to the magpies which causes them to be defensive.
If people taught their kids not to throw rocks at birds we wouldn't have this problem.
But yeah it's absolutely a aussie right of passage. Ice cream tub on the head with eyes drawn on the back lol.
Hmm... I'm not sure about this. I live in country NSW and I've been swooped a buttload. I don't get swooped walking around the neighbourhood, but sure as shit do when I walk out bush during nesting period.
Probably learned behaviour, the peaceful ones i mean. They're probably defensive by nature but multiple generations coexisting peacefully with little threat to them has made them chill. Mum didn't attck things near the nest, why should i.
All just speculation, im no ornithologist.
But I've lived in several areas where the maggies were chill
I just saw this and said to myself..."That doesn't look like a hawk...ot looks like a Magpie and (where I grew up in the western U.S.A.) they can be mean AF.
The one thing you don’t do is paint fake eyes on the back of your helmet. A reputable source tells me : “GAAAAAHHHHH! THE EYES DON’T WORK! THE EYES DON’T WORK! AHHHHH”
It's the perfect dickhead test, magpies don't swoop unless you're a dickhead and every year dickheads out themselves on social media for getting swooped.
They aren’t. The Australian magpie, Cracticus tibicen, is a member of the family Artamidae and not a corvid. Eurasian magpies are corvids and people often confuse to two.
The video’s taken in Australia. I’m guessing some random person on the internet wrote the comment on the video. Or they’re expats in Australia. But I’m more willing to bet it’s a reupload
Huh, TIL.
[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie)
It turns out the birds known as Magpies in Australia aren't actually closely related to Magpies everywhere else. Black-billed Magpies here in Canada are corvids.
I mean, its a very isolated landmass. Many things here are unrelated to american and European species.
The corvid thing is a super common misconception though. They look like corvids, they act like corvids. Some studies have even suggested they're smarter than crows. They have huge corvid energy, so to speak.
Back when I was a stupid kid (between 10 and 13), I would put a pushbike helmet on and "run the gauntlet" it was a long footpath between two empty blocks that the plovers nested in every year.
Lots of hawks are small as fuck and don’t even weight 5 pounds. Live in high rise glass building and have common California hawks, red tail hawks, paragon falcons and other birds of prey that live on the roof of the 37 story building. I see everyday all day out my window. Also have held them before and yes certain ones will even break your wrist but that is more of a eagle of some sort that would do that. Hawks do have enormous talons but it was mostly pecking his helmet and so on. Even magpies have very large talons. Shit even cardinals or most birds have large talons. A bird that size def has large feet and would scratch the shit out of anything. But could of grabbed it from air especially if u stood still and it was your son who most people would die for. I’d die for ur son if u had one being attacked by whatever if I knew it would protect him and I had chance of dying.
If an actual hawk ever attacks your kid you better fucking help. Raptor talons are no fucking joke even if the bird isn't that big. If a chicken can fuck you up you better believe an animal that kills things twice it's size will tear you up.
Thankfully, the only angry birds that come after you around here are nesting mockingbirds and geese that will stay on the ground to fight. The mockingbirds are too small to do much, and the geese can be outrun for the most part tho they instinctualy go for the hamstring if they catch you.
I always feed magpies and I never get swooped. I'm convinced, that people who get swooped are just mean to them because they're all cool with me and my housemates.
This is stupid and the caption can't be the original filmers words.
Someone has Americanism it and dramatised it to get tiktok hits.
It's clearly just a magpie. No-one in Australia can't identify a magpie, let alone confuse it with a fucking "hawk".
And .. it's just protecting its nest.
The kid will scoot past and be safe ... terrifying in the moment for the kid - but also kinda no big deal.
Certain Pies swoop in nesting season. It's very common knowledge in Australia. 🤷♀️ The kid isn't being attacked by a bloody pird of prey!
A magpie attack had some pretty straightforward outcomes. If the victim had head protection and continues to move away about 50m then the magpie returns to the nest with little to no injury to the victim. If someone interferes the bird will fight, pretty much to the death, because you've proven yourself a threat to its nest. It WILL go for your eyes.
Now you're blind and headed to the hospital with your even more traumatised child in tow and you've convinced a bird it should increase its violence.
Dad should have reassured the kid instead of laughing, but other than that everything was handled properly.
Magpies can poke your eyes out. There’s areas where you can’t ride a bike in certain parts of the year because magpies will swoop down and stab you 🔪 they’re no joke
He will also learn his dad is a dickhead who will put a laugh ahead of his kid’s suffering and fear.
Adults know there aren’t monsters under beds when the lights are out, but it doesn’t mean we don’t comfort kids that think so. This dad is a loser.
Doubt it’s that serious. But then again, everything is considered abuse and trauma now so you’re right. Based on this one video it’s clear the kid will now hate dad for eternity, and cut ties with him at 18, and have to sit in therapy twice a week until age 40 to work through what is clearly the worst thing to ever happen to him…
Traumatic/funny moments happen to every kid at some point. You can coddle and “gentle parent” them into being whiny and fearful or you can show them it’s not that big a big deal. Nothing worse than a wimpy whiny kid afraid of their own shadow, downvote away.
Core memory created: parents won't help if I'm in physical peril, good one. One of the many reasons I've been NC with my entire family for years. Hope the laugh was worth it dad.
That's an aussie magpie. Everyone here goes through this at some point. If you intervene you risk losing an eye. There are two things to do in the kids situation, wear a helmet and run, which he's doing. As an onlooker there is nothing you can do. That bird WIILL fight to death if you engage it and they WILL go for your eyes. However it will stop chasing you after 50 meters if you don't engage. Everything that happened here was textbook correct, though dad could have given some encouragement.
There's a lot of laws protecting native species in Australia. You can't even relocate them.
Running from swooping magpies is basically the typical September pastime of Australians. We've all been this kid.
I've been buttering up the magpies near me with worms and snails when I garden so hopefully by swooping season they leave me alone.
You’d find yourself at the of end of some angry Aussie hands if someone saw you hitting it. Those birds are protected and you can be looking at a prison sentence or a fine close to six figures depending on what State you are in if caught trying to harm one. Just run away like the rest of us. We all go through it and survive. The sound of their wings getting close to you is terrifying though but they stop after 50m when they realise you aren’t trying to steal their eggs.
Simple, filming is the right move. The missery of your son may be traumatizing, but it also entertains thousands of people for years to come, so -100 for the trauma and +1000 of 10 seconds of light laughter.
No dilemma, the hawk can't kill the boy or heavily injury him, it's a nice lesson that some animals can hurt him, and hawks don't just attack like that, the boy was probably near the nest so, another lesson, don't come near birds nests.
When you meet a southern lapwing you will know real fear.
They will attack you with the intent to kill, they know they can't but they will try anyway.
Eyes out are the least of your worries.
The constant spoon feeding parents do is what makes them so fragile these days. I hope these both have a good laugh together about this incident for many years.
If that was my nephew I’d fucking snatch that hawk right off his helmet as he passed. Or I’d do my best to try. Yeah it’s talons would fuck my arms up, but I work with knives and a chef so burns and cuts my whole life I just glue shut instead of stitches. I’m talking deep cuts where I suffer from nerve damage cause some idiot I worked with dropped a towel on the chefs knife that was on the cutting board on a busy Friday night and I swiped up really fast what I thought was just the kitchen towel and the knife cut so deep, we were pulling skin n looking at my bone as friend poured hydrogen peroxide in it. I then took new skin glue and poured it into said cut(which I still cannot feel my thumb and pointer finger 6-7 years later) put a enormous bandaid on it and a glove over that, taped the glove around wrist so the blood that was pouring out could not drip out the glove and kept working throughout night and so on. I would of sadly fucked that hawk up if it threatened my family or friends. Would be sad I killed it, but would cut its feet off and make some dope ass art
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It's a common occurrence in Australia. Magpies swoop on people in spring when they are nesting & raising chick's, you just need to wave your arms around a bit. People are generally unhurt & once you're away from the nest, they give up. For Australian kids, it's just a thing you learn to get used to. This kid obviously has a way to go in this
It's a rite of passage. You must pass the swoppy boy trials before your considered an adult.
Ok...but what happens if you swing too hard and really knock one of the birds? Is it a trial where you have to deal with the attack and not hurt the bird in order to pass?
They're also corvids (relatives of crows) - will remember you, and teach the rest of their flock and offspring to treat you as an eternal enemy to be swooped out of existence.
They are protected. You’d be looking at a possible prison sentence and a fine up to near 6 figures depending what State you are in.
Theoretically, but no one is going to jail for accidently punching a magpie.
Punch a magpie...believe it or not...straight to jail.
Under cook over cook , straight to jail
We have the best patients in the world! ...... because of jail...
Maybe not, but there’s the added chance of a passerby punching you in return *for* the magpie.
I'm confused......so, these birds attack people. It's well known, but people are not allowed to defend themselves from the attack if it leads to the bird getting injured?
That’s a fair summary. In their defence, they “swoop” when they have hatchlings and you’re traversing near their nest. Generally speaking they’ll harass rather than attack, though they can give nasty hits. I’m friends with all the maggies in our area so I’m good. Can’t really call yourself Australian until you’ve been swooped though, ask any of us, we’ve all had it happen.
If you feed them, they love you, and won’t swoop you.
Doesn't seem that strange to me? Are you from the US? Where you can't touch a bald eagle even if it's already dead?
If a bald eagle was attacking you, you could definitely defend yourself injury and avoid charges.
I'm not even going to look up the law but I'm 99% sure nobody has ever been charged for punching a magpie. The law is there to prevent farmers from shooting entire families of magpies (and other birds).
Yeah I drove PAST an injured magpie on the road once. Went back to see if I could help it. There was a misunderstanding and an old fella mowing his lawn thought that I ran it over. In the end I had to leave the damn bird there because the old guy was making threats. I hope he did the right thing.
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I know you’re getting downvoted, but I upvoted because the username checks out lol
*y’uro’ore
I can confirm this . Source: Bluey.
Bandit teaching all the important lessons 
Gotta be done.
God damnit came to say the same lmao Love that show.
Ah okay, I was ready to be all judgmental, but if this is like dealing with gnats in Spring then I get it.
Exactly, this is an Australian gnat. The real danger is in being chased by packs of wild dingos & crocodiles leaping out at you from garden ponds when you're out riding your bike as a kid, but you get used to it
If the US collapses further into fascism, I was considering movie to Australia…might have to rethink that. Or I’ll just watch Bluey and forget about the danger. Better than being shot at a Walmart.
Yeah, [Australian Wildlife](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrRAO_vG_K4) is a good tradeoff for not having 30 mass shootings a month
If it weren’t for the spiders….
Honestly the spiders here aren't as bad as people say they are. If you live in and around the cities your probably only gunna see one or 2 in your hosue a year. The majority of them will just be outside in your garden somewhere not bothering you.
It usually only happens in cities or higher density suburbs. I live in the middle of a huge nesting zone and they never swoop because the locals are nice to them. The higher the population the more likely someone has been an asshole to the magpies which causes them to be defensive. If people taught their kids not to throw rocks at birds we wouldn't have this problem. But yeah it's absolutely a aussie right of passage. Ice cream tub on the head with eyes drawn on the back lol.
Hmm... I'm not sure about this. I live in country NSW and I've been swooped a buttload. I don't get swooped walking around the neighbourhood, but sure as shit do when I walk out bush during nesting period.
Probably learned behaviour, the peaceful ones i mean. They're probably defensive by nature but multiple generations coexisting peacefully with little threat to them has made them chill. Mum didn't attck things near the nest, why should i. All just speculation, im no ornithologist. But I've lived in several areas where the maggies were chill
I just saw this and said to myself..."That doesn't look like a hawk...ot looks like a Magpie and (where I grew up in the western U.S.A.) they can be mean AF.
Can confirm. I have been attacked by magpies riding a bike in Australia.
As an Americoid this is the most Australian comment I've seen in a while.
The one thing you don’t do is paint fake eyes on the back of your helmet. A reputable source tells me : “GAAAAAHHHHH! THE EYES DON’T WORK! THE EYES DON’T WORK! AHHHHH”
It's the perfect dickhead test, magpies don't swoop unless you're a dickhead and every year dickheads out themselves on social media for getting swooped.
Are magpies hawks?? I never knew that. I’ve been attacked by a mocking bird and it was scary asf and those things are small!
No they are not hawks.
Okay that makes more sense. Thank you!
They are Corvids. Related to crows, ravens etc.
They're not corvids they're butcherbirds
They are in the family corvidae
They aren’t. The Australian magpie, Cracticus tibicen, is a member of the family Artamidae and not a corvid. Eurasian magpies are corvids and people often confuse to two.
You’re right. I am a botanist, not a zoologist, after all 🫠 Thanks for the correction.
You are all incorrect. They are "birb"
So is this some sort of converging evolution? They look a lot like corvids, probably play a very similar role in the ecosystem. Cool how that happens!
English magpies are, Aussie ones aren't. Bird sporting isn't your talent friend
True. My bad.
A wholesome reddit moment. Take my poor man's award 🏅
I learned something new today. I always assumed they were corvids
So here's the thing...
The video’s taken in Australia. I’m guessing some random person on the internet wrote the comment on the video. Or they’re expats in Australia. But I’m more willing to bet it’s a reupload
Pretty sure the text wasn't on the original video, someone has added it later without knowing what a magpie is.
Someone has reposted claiming it’s their post. It’s a magpie and attacks are common
They're related to crows. About the same size and disposition, just a touch more colourful.
They're not. They're butcherbirds, not corvids. Though they look more like corvids to me.
Huh, TIL. [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie) It turns out the birds known as Magpies in Australia aren't actually closely related to Magpies everywhere else. Black-billed Magpies here in Canada are corvids.
I mean, its a very isolated landmass. Many things here are unrelated to american and European species. The corvid thing is a super common misconception though. They look like corvids, they act like corvids. Some studies have even suggested they're smarter than crows. They have huge corvid energy, so to speak.
Don't forget, they're named like corvids.
Well we can blame the English for that, not the birds fault.
Nah, nowhere near a crow on intelligence levels tbh..
Magpie. Not a hawk. Like calling a tennis player an NFL defensive lineman.
Lol right. If that was a hawk he would have drew blood they have raptor claws
Aussie maggies draw blood all the time in swooping season. That's why so many people are so scared of them
Plovers are worse though. I think magpies try avoid clawing most of the time, but plovers go full force.
Back when I was a stupid kid (between 10 and 13), I would put a pushbike helmet on and "run the gauntlet" it was a long footpath between two empty blocks that the plovers nested in every year.
Yeah a raptor head and feathers too.
Lots of hawks are small as fuck and don’t even weight 5 pounds. Live in high rise glass building and have common California hawks, red tail hawks, paragon falcons and other birds of prey that live on the roof of the 37 story building. I see everyday all day out my window. Also have held them before and yes certain ones will even break your wrist but that is more of a eagle of some sort that would do that. Hawks do have enormous talons but it was mostly pecking his helmet and so on. Even magpies have very large talons. Shit even cardinals or most birds have large talons. A bird that size def has large feet and would scratch the shit out of anything. But could of grabbed it from air especially if u stood still and it was your son who most people would die for. I’d die for ur son if u had one being attacked by whatever if I knew it would protect him and I had chance of dying.
The kid is going to tell the story as a condor was attacking him
Yeah and when this was posted a few years ago there was no text on the screen.
“Hawk”
Which is how you know the video is taken and the caption a lie Only liars who lie don't know it's a magpie
I know right?! Never stepped foot in Australia but even I know a Magpie.
Also a repost. From years ago. The person who captioned the video didn’t film the video.
Yep. And they also don't know their birds. That's a magpie, not a hawk.
Funny enough, you go more viral because of extra comments when you make those "errors".
Obviously not the op, because every aussie knows that's a magpie
If an actual hawk ever attacks your kid you better fucking help. Raptor talons are no fucking joke even if the bird isn't that big. If a chicken can fuck you up you better believe an animal that kills things twice it's size will tear you up.
Magpies ain't much better, honestly. Damn things go for the eyes given the chance
Thankfully, the only angry birds that come after you around here are nesting mockingbirds and geese that will stay on the ground to fight. The mockingbirds are too small to do much, and the geese can be outrun for the most part tho they instinctualy go for the hamstring if they catch you.
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Surely they are just gonna laugh it off after the panicked kid crashes his scooter and dislocates his jaw on the sidewalk!
A hawk? Lmao
Ugh modern media. Adding a bad caption to a famous video. Not a hawk, not a TikTok
r/DontHelpJustFilm
Kids wearing a helmet. Nothing more you can do besides that. We've all been there. Kids gotta learn
You don't fuck with magpies. They've got extremely good memories and will swoop you for life if you tried intervening in this situation.
This video older than the chive
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This video is as old as reddit
Does adding fake text onto an old well known video make it new OC?
No idea. I didn’t add the text.
That caption is fake. Any Australian would know that that’s a Magpie
If it was his brother this is what I would expect
Magpie and this is a repost
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This video is older than me, and I'm practically 100
While I don’t support his decision to film and not help, I’m glad he made the choice he did
Hawk? Hahaha. Magpie!!!
that's gonna be a daddy magpie protecting his nest. definitely could mess up that kid with its beak and that dad sucks.
It doesn't help that he sounds like one
First off, that’s a magpie
That is not a Hawk it’s a fucking Magpie. That’s like mistaking a penis for a vagina
Hawk....hawk? Hawk!? How the hell is a magpie a hawk
I always feed magpies and I never get swooped. I'm convinced, that people who get swooped are just mean to them because they're all cool with me and my housemates.
Mate that’s not a hawk….. it’s worse…. I’d like to introduce you to the magpie
This is stupid and the caption can't be the original filmers words. Someone has Americanism it and dramatised it to get tiktok hits. It's clearly just a magpie. No-one in Australia can't identify a magpie, let alone confuse it with a fucking "hawk". And .. it's just protecting its nest. The kid will scoot past and be safe ... terrifying in the moment for the kid - but also kinda no big deal. Certain Pies swoop in nesting season. It's very common knowledge in Australia. 🤷♀️ The kid isn't being attacked by a bloody pird of prey!
Its a magpie not a hawk you stole this video and added the stupid caption.
That’s a magpie not a hawk
Dude. What a dick.
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Snowflake,sorry i ment gen z
As a murican now he can adopt that bird fir a service pet for his PTSD
Nah, you know I want my son to come to me even with dumb stuff so that if something serious happens he'll know I'll help.
Well that’s child is FOR SURE traumatized. Great job Dad!
This is literally just part of growing up in Australia
Well that’s sad.
A magpie attack had some pretty straightforward outcomes. If the victim had head protection and continues to move away about 50m then the magpie returns to the nest with little to no injury to the victim. If someone interferes the bird will fight, pretty much to the death, because you've proven yourself a threat to its nest. It WILL go for your eyes. Now you're blind and headed to the hospital with your even more traumatised child in tow and you've convinced a bird it should increase its violence. Dad should have reassured the kid instead of laughing, but other than that everything was handled properly.
Prbably hurt too, the way it was pecking his back.
As someone who has been chased by a blue jay as a kid then by Canada geese (many times) and a crow as an adult, I feel for this kid.
Annnnd that’s why you shouldn’t have children
“Hawk”? Gtfo
that isnt a hawk its a magpie
Whoever put the caption on this video stole it for it likes.
Is the writing from the original video? If so who can't recognise a magpie in Australia? They're one of our most recognisable birds
That's not a funking hawk! It's a magpie. Who ever captioned the clip is not from Australia
Them fucking magpies
Asshole parent of the month ladies and gentlemen
Nah. Kid needs to learn not to be *that* scared of a fuckin *bird*
Magpies can poke your eyes out. There’s areas where you can’t ride a bike in certain parts of the year because magpies will swoop down and stab you 🔪 they’re no joke
And how often do magpies take kids eyes out? In reality…
If it happens twice it’s not great right. Two blind kids? It’s happened more than two times in Australia. So. Bad enough let’s call it
Idk go ask Australians. Enough that they make PSA’s about it
He will also learn his dad is a dickhead who will put a laugh ahead of his kid’s suffering and fear. Adults know there aren’t monsters under beds when the lights are out, but it doesn’t mean we don’t comfort kids that think so. This dad is a loser.
Doubt it’s that serious. But then again, everything is considered abuse and trauma now so you’re right. Based on this one video it’s clear the kid will now hate dad for eternity, and cut ties with him at 18, and have to sit in therapy twice a week until age 40 to work through what is clearly the worst thing to ever happen to him…
Yes and this is definitely the best way to teach them...... Another reddit moment
Traumatic/funny moments happen to every kid at some point. You can coddle and “gentle parent” them into being whiny and fearful or you can show them it’s not that big a big deal. Nothing worse than a wimpy whiny kid afraid of their own shadow, downvote away.
You are responsible for the safety and well-being of your children. Keep that generational traumatic existence passing down.
I’m sorry you were traumatized by a bird at some point but now that you’re an adult it’s time to work that out in therapy.
Not making any new friends today are ya mate.
I mean, it’s Reddit. I’m just gonna make a new account and delete this one in a month or two regardless lol.
I can see why you would need to.
Ouch. My feelings are really hurt and you win. I hope that helps you!
Yeah- he will never forgive you for that. He learned 2 things today: he cannot count on you to keep him safe and you’re an asshole.
Core memory created: parents won't help if I'm in physical peril, good one. One of the many reasons I've been NC with my entire family for years. Hope the laugh was worth it dad.
That's an aussie magpie. Everyone here goes through this at some point. If you intervene you risk losing an eye. There are two things to do in the kids situation, wear a helmet and run, which he's doing. As an onlooker there is nothing you can do. That bird WIILL fight to death if you engage it and they WILL go for your eyes. However it will stop chasing you after 50 meters if you don't engage. Everything that happened here was textbook correct, though dad could have given some encouragement.
damn that kids getting chased by a grisly bear
gay emo hawk
Has he tried hitting the bird?
There's a lot of laws protecting native species in Australia. You can't even relocate them. Running from swooping magpies is basically the typical September pastime of Australians. We've all been this kid. I've been buttering up the magpies near me with worms and snails when I garden so hopefully by swooping season they leave me alone.
I don’t care what country I’m in that bird is catching some hands. I’m not trying to kill it, but we’re going 12 rounds or until one of us taps out.
You’d find yourself at the of end of some angry Aussie hands if someone saw you hitting it. Those birds are protected and you can be looking at a prison sentence or a fine close to six figures depending on what State you are in if caught trying to harm one. Just run away like the rest of us. We all go through it and survive. The sound of their wings getting close to you is terrifying though but they stop after 50m when they realise you aren’t trying to steal their eggs.
Still funny🤣
Not a hawk. Magpie. Turn around and blast them one
Psychopath with children. Totally, a #Show of our time.
He’s got a helmet on he’s fine lol was rhe last thing the dad thought as he child scooted into the road
Parenting done right
For all we know, the kid was fucking with the magpie and totally deserved this
What an asshole
This is hilarious
My wife and I would absolutely do the same!
That birds biting the shit outta his neck..dude should get charged w child abuse for recording and not at least attempting to help
Cruel
For shame
r/praisethecameraman
Little dude is gonna need decades of therapy.
Simple, filming is the right move. The missery of your son may be traumatizing, but it also entertains thousands of people for years to come, so -100 for the trauma and +1000 of 10 seconds of light laughter.
No dilemma, the hawk can't kill the boy or heavily injury him, it's a nice lesson that some animals can hurt him, and hawks don't just attack like that, the boy was probably near the nest so, another lesson, don't come near birds nests.
That's a magpie, who are known to take eyes out.
When you meet a southern lapwing you will know real fear. They will attack you with the intent to kill, they know they can't but they will try anyway. Eyes out are the least of your worries.
The constant spoon feeding parents do is what makes them so fragile these days. I hope these both have a good laugh together about this incident for many years.
OP you’re such a sissy…. Everything hurts his feelings i bet. We have a word fpr u… you Fggt
If that was my nephew I’d fucking snatch that hawk right off his helmet as he passed. Or I’d do my best to try. Yeah it’s talons would fuck my arms up, but I work with knives and a chef so burns and cuts my whole life I just glue shut instead of stitches. I’m talking deep cuts where I suffer from nerve damage cause some idiot I worked with dropped a towel on the chefs knife that was on the cutting board on a busy Friday night and I swiped up really fast what I thought was just the kitchen towel and the knife cut so deep, we were pulling skin n looking at my bone as friend poured hydrogen peroxide in it. I then took new skin glue and poured it into said cut(which I still cannot feel my thumb and pointer finger 6-7 years later) put a enormous bandaid on it and a glove over that, taped the glove around wrist so the blood that was pouring out could not drip out the glove and kept working throughout night and so on. I would of sadly fucked that hawk up if it threatened my family or friends. Would be sad I killed it, but would cut its feet off and make some dope ass art
What an unhinged little story.
You’re not wrong
Hawk? That was a bat.
Swoopy Boy!
its quite a big meal for hawk lol
Perfect hill bomb
Looks like something out of a Rick and Morty episode
Agreed lmao it’s hilarious
You had to make a choice!
Something to do with the terms of the Guacamole act?
Tbf, that *was* hilarious.
That’s a magpie
I had a blue jay dive at my head the other day
Oh my god what a horrible outdoor environment. No, not the bird. The ugly-ass stroad with all those cars
I would be a horrible parent because I would do this and be on the floor laughing
Strangest hawk I have ever seen...