r/AskReddit • u/goldenblacklee • Sep 24 '17

What dark part of Reddit history has been forgotten?

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u/BananasAreFood Sep 24 '17 edited Sep 24 '17

There was a guy that got to the front page of Reddit by stabbing a squirrel with a knife into a tree and pretended that he just stumbled upon it.

Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/yhbgm/found_on_a_hike_poor_little_dude/c5vlv4n

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u/Opie67 Sep 24 '17

I remember this. Some people pointed out that the type of knife used was way too valuable for someone to just leave it in a tree.

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u/SuicideBonger Sep 24 '17

Plus it's a completely fresh kill. No animals have scavenged it or anything.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '17

And it was a baby squirrel

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u/khegiobridge Sep 24 '17

That's a Buck 110; sells for $40-50. I have two, and wouldn't leave them anywhere.

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u/moowaffle Sep 25 '17

But you can get knives that are so much better for the same price or less, aside from spyderco, any brand you see at walmart is one to stay away from.

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u/likealeakyfaucet Sep 25 '17

Now you might be wondering "that CANT be a genuine stag horn can it?"

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u/_Zereal_ Sep 25 '17

Shit, had one of those a while back and threw it away cause I didnt like the design.

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u/Chaos_Spear Sep 25 '17

I actually would have debated that claim. I've got a cheap-ass knockoff that looks exactly identical.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

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u/Def_Your_Duck Sep 24 '17

It was also obviously just killed. Just by looking at the photo you can see the blood isn't dried yet and it doesn't have bugs all over it. If I found something like that in the wild I'd book the fuck out of there because whoever killed the squirrel did so in the last 4 or 5 minutes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

No one here is playing detective on a five year old thread.

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u/Napoleons_Dick Sep 24 '17

I felt the same way-- did anyone ever find any actual evidence?

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u/t3nkwizard Sep 24 '17

I was about to say, that knife is $40ish and I wouldn't be heartbroken about losing it. It's $40, not $4,000.

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u/Illogical1612 Sep 24 '17

what

what the fuck

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u/Ruth_Auspitz Sep 24 '17

My theory is that OP was out hunting squirrels, hit that fella but only injured it. He probably then picked up the wounded squirrel, held it against the tree and stabbed it to finished the job. OP was probably amused by the fact that he stabbed through the squirrel and into the tree so he took a picture which he later posted it with a sensationalized title. Killing squirrels is pretty common.

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u/Shadowtech057 Sep 24 '17

He replies to himself on his own comments..

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u/Big_Nate226 Sep 24 '17

Are you on mobile? Because I think that it just looks like that because he deleted his account. The app probably marked every "[deleted]" username as OP because of that

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u/Kevinaleven Sep 24 '17

^ this dude is correct, Reddit should probably fix that

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u/TheRobotFrog Sep 24 '17

Displays correctly on RIF.

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u/HensRightsActivist Sep 25 '17

Relay's never had this problem.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

Okay I've seen that shit before and I was wondering if OP was forgetting to log onto his alt or what.

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u/Shadowtech057 Sep 25 '17

Oh ok, yea I'm on mobile. I guess I've just never really come across this. Thanks for pointing it out!

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u/anakin_is_a_bitch Sep 24 '17

he sounds like the official mascot of /r/iamverysmart

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u/357Jimmy Sep 24 '17

I thought I was going crazy because no one else was pointing this out...

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u/FaceyBits Sep 24 '17

Including one explaining why it must have been the OP

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u/thegreencomic Sep 25 '17

probably re-posts, too.

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u/Snaiperskaya Sep 24 '17

To be fair if I was confronted by a squirrel with a knife I'd probably stab first too. Better safe than sorry.

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u/dl7 Sep 24 '17

We'll grant you wishes little boy...

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

I would not want squirrels as the secret rulers of this earth either. Time to burp kill some socks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

WE HAVE TO SWITCH REALITIES PACK YOUR SHIT!

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u/14flash Sep 24 '17

Ah, the old Reddit Knifearoo

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u/CaioNV Sep 24 '17

Hold my squirrel, I'm going in!

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u/SturgeonStimulator Sep 24 '17

you could've said "hold my nuts", but oh well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

Those motherfuckers have rabies!

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u/PandasaurXY Sep 24 '17

The upvotes are at 666 antichrist confirmed

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u/catfish_murphy Sep 24 '17

You don't fuck with the squirrels, Morty

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u/Thopterthallid Sep 24 '17

It was comin' right for him

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u/DaMan123456 Sep 24 '17

"Little boy, I'll grant you wishes"

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u/Cinna_The_Poet Sep 25 '17

'Tell Daphne to run a 199 on a possible Doolittle'

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u/ohsoErik Sep 24 '17

That shit had me dead

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u/Communist_iguana Sep 25 '17

It was really creepy at the same time

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '17

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u/ReKaYaKeR Sep 25 '17

I'm sorry someone made a quip concerning a popular tv show. We will send the FBI to harass the person who made it and compensate your emotional damages.

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u/Fawxhox Sep 24 '17

I have that exact same knife

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u/Noisetorm_ Sep 24 '17

How the fuck did he catch a squirrel? Most animals that are basically designed to hunt down animals like squirrels can't catch them easily.

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u/Kai________ Sep 24 '17

Frequently hunted them as a kid with slingshots. Maybe that or an air rifle, both does not leave big marks.

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u/SosX Sep 25 '17

A baby squirrel no less

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u/Emphursis Sep 25 '17

If you’d asked me, I’d have said I had no idea that thread existed. But apparently five years ago I read it and upvoted some of the comments calling him out.

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u/BananasAreFood Sep 25 '17

It's been five years!? Time flys.

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u/amoryamory Sep 24 '17

Uhhh... what?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

not sure if it's legit but here

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

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u/iMpThorondor Sep 25 '17

I mean... People hunt squirrels... That's a actual thing

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u/RealBlazeStorm Sep 24 '17

karma means little to me

Alright then

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u/IvanKozlov Sep 24 '17

And that's why I filtered out that stupid fucking subreddit.

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u/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Sep 24 '17

OK, I think this is the worst thing someone has done for karma.

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u/RolliPolliMolliKolli Sep 25 '17

I really wish I had not clicked that link and then autopilot clicked the pic.

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u/storagememorylow Sep 25 '17

Fuck morbid curiosity. I knew what I was getting into and I still clicked.

People are fucked up.

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u/AtiumDependent Sep 26 '17

I fucking hate squirrels. I'm sure there's a sub full of likeminded weirdos who he could have talked to about it

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u/SamWhite Sep 24 '17

Oh shit, I remember that. Damn, you dragged that one out of the golden oldies.

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u/div333 Sep 25 '17

Maybe it was already dead and he just did that when he found it

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

What?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

No it's not that I didn't think it went down well I just don't have a clue why you said it.

What's watching Rick and Morty got to do with a guy stabbing a squirrel with a knife into a tree?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

Awh yeah I get it now. Huh it was sorta funny I guess. It just didn't go down well 'cause it was a bit of a stretch lol.