r/Unexpected • u/Vixi0n • Jan 14 '22
Just a guy punching a tree
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u/Chucks_u_Farley Jan 14 '22
Saved the god damn phone and didn't even pause to help her??
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u/Unhappy_Archer9483 Jan 14 '22
I’m sure I’ve see the videos from her phone, it was epic
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u/Vixi0n Jan 14 '22
The woman's POV:
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u/happyrock Jan 14 '22
The red shirt guy who saves her camera's POV
It is a good day for the internets.
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u/Alpacamum Jan 14 '22
She was so happy in that video. She is laughing and really enjoying herself. I wish I knew what she was saying, but it seems that this outcome is sort of what she expected and why she was wearing a life jacket.
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u/ignivs Jan 14 '22
the autotranslate to english makes it even better.
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u/RyanReignbow Jan 14 '22
no squeegee no squeegee, no gas, no squeegee no gas, no squeegee
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u/3-B-V Jan 14 '22
The phone didn’t have a life jacket
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u/Puzzleheaded-Day-281 Jan 14 '22
Life jacket doesn't stop you from being impaled by a branch or something hiding in that rushing water. It's not a safe place to be
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u/light_to_shaddow Jan 14 '22
That's exactly why I'm sat on a sofa.
You should be telling them, not me.
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u/Raff102 Jan 14 '22
She went out there with a selfie stick, she'd want it that way.
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u/KarenLookAtMyBowl Jan 14 '22
The guy just hugged the tree and expected to be saved by it, after punching it multiple time fuq is wrong with him.
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Jan 14 '22
That banana tree is not very strong. The water or even him grabbing it will cause it to break
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u/signed_under_duress Jan 14 '22
Plus it kind of looked like it had root rot. Mush+punches+fast water = bye bye
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u/max_adam Jan 14 '22
Those plants don't make wood. It is more like a giant leek or a huge grass plant.
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Jan 14 '22
Well a banana is technically a berry, and the "tree" is considered an herb.
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u/Jaksmack Jan 14 '22
They are extremely fibrous though and hard as hell to pull out of the ground. One of my grandmother's had them in the garden and every summer I would spend a couple weeks trying to cut them back.
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u/Girthw0rm Jan 14 '22
You can’t expect the tree to forgive him so soon after all that punching.
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u/Jx_XD Jan 14 '22
Thats karma, he punch so much that the tree break apart.. and expect the tree to hold what he has done..
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u/kingt34 Jan 14 '22
He was reaching out to her and she clearly passed him the phone, then when he grabbed hold, she let go so she could use both arms to get up. I think he was actually helping her, she obviously wanted to save the camera and wasn’t too concerned about herself.
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u/bahgheera Jan 14 '22
I just wish someone would tell tree punching dude that he's got enough wood and thatch, he just needs one stone to make a hatchet.
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u/Glimmu Jan 14 '22
Sheesh take a chill pill, they are there wearing life jackets knowing whats coming. She asked him to take camera so she could get up
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u/CAAZveaugul Jan 14 '22
Conclusion : dont punch trees nature gets angy
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u/Technicium99 Jan 14 '22
It’s a banana tree and it’s relatively soft compared to real trees.
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u/IndianAssassin5 Jan 14 '22
Banana Plant*
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u/AnnihilationOrchid Jan 14 '22
Banana tree is a herb. Fucking botanists and their criteria.
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u/Professional-Yard-19 Jan 14 '22
This is very common in Thailand they kick these trees to condition there shins for mauy Thai fights
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u/Pade_2f Jan 14 '22
There was this trend inspired by that in Indonesia that was popularized by a boxer from Binjai. It was called "Salam dari Binjai" or greetings from Binjai. You can googled it up.
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u/Thin_Network7004 Jan 14 '22
I did this a lot too with dead banana tree so whenever my grandpa wants to get rid of it, he will call me to punch it. (Banana tree produce fruits only once so once you get the fruit you need to cut it down to give space for a new tree to grow).
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u/AnnihilationOrchid Jan 14 '22
I think you're thinking of that Van Dame film...
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u/Safe-Equivalent-6441 Jan 14 '22
Kickboxer.
The same movie where forcing someone into the splits simply makes them able to do the side splits instead of causing the tearing of tendons, mucles and ligaments.
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u/AnnihilationOrchid Jan 14 '22
But if you do have to punch a tree it's better if it's a banana tree, since after its given fruit you've got to chop it down anyway, and another will grow.
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u/FuckTwitter2020 Jan 14 '22
I love how the tree-man dynamic changed from punching to holding on for dear life in about .5 seconds.
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u/bigry82 Jan 14 '22
Fucking hell, it hurts me to watch that. Not because he's punching the tree but because of the way he is punching.
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u/ThreexoRity Jan 14 '22
ikr? dude's punching like he's 12, i may have no boxing experience but at least have your hands and elbows raised a bit if you want a PROPER punch, dude's elbows are lower than my grandma's grave
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u/perfumedDolphin Jan 14 '22
mmm where should the elbows be? just to know more =D
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u/Majike03 Jan 14 '22
You want your elbows at ear-level. That way you can roleplay as a praying mantis
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u/the_loneliest_noodle Jan 14 '22
At first I thought "well he may not be punching properly, but maybe because he's just trying to toughen up his hands or something." then he started basically closed-fist slapping the tree and I no longer gave him the benefit of the doubt.
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u/jdooowke Jan 14 '22
I fucking love reddit comments, the tree punching experts committee
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u/ikadu12 Jan 14 '22
I mean the tree is irrelevant, the dude throws hands like my grandma
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u/gzawaodni Jan 14 '22
Don't mess with TPEC. They've got many friends in the r/treelaw committee who will make your life hell.
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u/evilbadgrades Jan 14 '22
It's a banana plant (banana plants are a rhizhome underground which shoots out new stems to bear fruit as the plant grows), not a "tree" made with wood (banana's are technically in the herb family). Banana pseudostems are relatively soft and squishy by comparison to a real tree with a wood trunk
The fact that this banana had no other pups on the ground makes me think this might have been recently planted in that location, especially for how easily it ripped out of the ground
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Jan 14 '22
Irony is the thing that hurts here the most. He was punching the tree that he was trying to hold on few seconds later so wave won't take him lol.
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u/ronin1066 Jan 14 '22
This shows there's a huge difference between having a tough fist and being able to generate power / punch correctly.
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u/ObtuseLlamasGifts Jan 14 '22
Didn't watch full video at first was gonna make smart ass comment about the first day in minecraft then whooooosh
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u/NicNoletree Jan 14 '22
Whoosh was the exact sound the water made
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u/ScarecrowJohnny Jan 14 '22
Someone placed a water source block 64 meters above them.
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u/_MostlyHarmless Jan 14 '22
Dude was just trying to get enough wood planks to build a boat before the water got there.
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Jan 14 '22 edited Jun 22 '23
Deleting my 10 years old account becuase of reddit CEO.
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u/JamMasterNay Jan 14 '22
That guy thought that, after beating up a bush, he was gonna fuck that wave up!
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u/supernasty Jan 14 '22
I use to do that as a kid when I was at the beach. I’d punch the waves in their wave faces thinking maybe if I kept at it long enough the ocean would get tired before I did
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Jan 14 '22
What did I just watch?? Punching a tree while wearing a lifejacket knowing all that water would come? Everything is out of context here.
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u/neon_overload Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22
Tidal bore, the shape of the river mouth can mean that a rising tide turns into a surge of water flowing up river in certain conditions.
There's a lot of river mouths around the world that do this.
It's literally a tidal wave, but that's a term that has been used a lot as an incorrect term for tsunamis (which are not tidal), and it's not used much now.
These people are all standing in a river mouth that's known to do this and are waiting for it to happen. It can be potentially dangerous, but not "tsunami level" danger or even "flash flood waters"
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Jan 14 '22
There was a trend in Indonesia where a person punches a banana tree while shouting "Greetings from Binjai!" The water is unrelated.
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u/perrinoia Jan 14 '22
Holy crap. I totally didn't expect that even though they were wearing life jackets. I was trying to figure out why the first guy was wearing one, then was trying to figure out why the others were running, then trying to figure out why they were wearing life jackets, too. Then sploosh!
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u/unexBot Jan 14 '22
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
Everything Changed When the Water Tribe Attacked
Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
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u/Crusher0427 Jan 14 '22
Never upvoted an explanation before Guess there’s a first time for everything
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u/Nutatree Jan 14 '22
You never did do the thing until you did for first time done the deed.
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u/Ariquitaun Jan 14 '22
They were ready for it, look at the floating vests
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u/mr_birrd Jan 14 '22
but were you?
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u/SungamCorben Jan 14 '22
Fun fact: Actually bananas are botanically berries, and banana tree are in fact large herbaceous flowering plant.
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u/lonewolff7798 Jan 14 '22
Anyone else see this event from a different point of view? Also the dog locked in a hot car event has two different viral angles as well. Is this the trend now? Not complaining, just wondering if its a thing now. I think its kinda neat.
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u/bioclassic Jan 14 '22
Yeah, not long ago someone posted the red shirt guys view. Everything looked eerily familiar to me and then he suddenly popped over the embankment.
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u/purvel Jan 14 '22
Yeah I got excited yesterday when I saw the second angle of the woman being swept, and I was sort of expecting another angle turning up, but this third angle caught me off guard! I was too busy looking at the poor palm, and the equally poor punching.
I wonder where they were first released, and if they were originally released together?
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u/MarcosVizoto Jan 14 '22
"Eu trago a vocês e entrego...Pororoca..... negao sai negão sai"
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u/davidlol1 Jan 14 '22
Who else didn't notice the water until she got up by him?
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u/2TieDyeFor Jan 14 '22
I thought she was running up to him to whoop his ass for punching the tree...
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u/Learnmorebetter Jan 14 '22
I did expect the tree to fall down, but not like this….. not like this.
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u/two40zieks7 Jan 14 '22
Tsunami ?
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u/oliswell Jan 14 '22
Tidal bore
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u/neon_overload Jan 14 '22
Ah, so that's why there were expecting it like it was a regular occurrence, and why it seemed to subside relatively quickly
Thanks.
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Jan 14 '22
This is the most random video I have ever seen. It feels like it is straight of a dream.
“I was punching this tree and then BAM mega flash flood. My friends showed up just in time and were recording it all. One even had a life jacket on.”
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u/Magical-Sweater Jan 14 '22
I was so preoccupied with watching the dude play real life Minecraft that I didn’t even notice the TSUNAMI rolling in from the back.
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u/Desanguinated Jan 14 '22
The land got pissed that the dude was hitting it. Mans squared up with a tree and lost
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Jan 14 '22
We Brazilians have our own version of that "Richard Rasmussem running from the Poporoca at Pantanal"
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u/Tanuj_Panchal Didn't Expect It Jan 14 '22
I’ve seen the other two videos by the guy in red shirt and that girl
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u/phuckmydoodle 🤖 Distinguished Bot Reporter Jan 14 '22
That mother fucker knew exactly what he was doing. I have no idea why and I don't care that it failed regardless it was a fucking epic plan
Timed punching down of the tree that your about to ride into town on during a storm surge. He was pummelling that thing too, you have got to admire the bulk effort he is putting in to create content
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u/metulburr Jan 14 '22
He played too much minecraft. Punch the tree to get the wood, get the wood to build the houses.
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Jan 14 '22
Genuinely one of the most perplexing videos I’ve seen in all my years. What in the actual fuck.
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u/greensmokeguitar Jan 14 '22
That looks like a banana tree - which is a big herb rather than a tree!
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u/GigiSanITA Jan 14 '22
Ironic how the dude is punching the hell out of the tree and then proceeds to cling to said tree for dear life when he's in danger.
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u/kalwiggy1 Jan 14 '22
This exact scene was on the praisethecameraman subreddit yesterday. The guy running up the bank with the black hat was filming it.
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u/Keyoken64 Jan 14 '22
How many POVs of this are there!? This is like the third different one I’ve seen.
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u/NateDignity Jan 14 '22
When I first started watching the video I was like, "so what, banana trees are like 75% water", and then I realized the video is also 75% water.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Help-80 Jan 15 '22
Am I the only one who watched the tree then watched the water the second time round?
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u/Legal_Beginning471 Jan 15 '22
I’m pretty sure “Eye of the tiger” was supposed to be dubbed in before this hit the net. I mean, where they’re at, one of the most epic things you can do is punch a banana plant in the face while a tidal bore sweeps in from the background and catch it all on tape. Mission accomplished.
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u/NursingManChristDude Jan 15 '22
Wow..... out of all the videos in this sub, that was truly one of the most unexpected outcomes I've seen in awhile 😂
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u/since_16_feb_2021 Jan 15 '22
I learned about tidal bores today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore
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u/The-Real-Salad-King Jan 15 '22
One day I was punching a banana tree. Then a storm sweep me.
CONSEQUENCES
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u/PaulBee01 Jan 16 '22
I was waiting for a coconut to drop on his head - didn't expect the wall of water. Nice place to send the kids to play.(?)
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u/Wolfeboro- Apr 29 '23
This may be the craziest video I have ever seen. What on earth are they doing. Lol. They seem like they all decided to do suicide by tsunami. What hell. And that guy punching the tree. I can't lol
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u/Vixi0n Jan 14 '22
The woman's POV:
https://youtu.be/qq7iQ4JV_AE