Tam- Thank you for finding this and sharing it. I happen to have a friend that works with cameras, and he was doing a time lapse shoot with one that went missing...
Of course I shared the vid with him and said I may have found the culprit....
Octopi are supposed to be somewhere in the intelligence range of dolphins, they've been known to unlatch crates and traps to get at whats inside. They're frikkin cool critters, too!
There is a story -- apocryphal, as I cannot verify it -- about a oceanographer who kept a pet octopus in one tank, and some pet crabs in another across the room.
One fine morning, he came into his office to find a tank noticeably bereft of crabs, and an extremely well fed octopus.
As near as he could figure, the octopus squeezed itself out of its tank, walked across the floor, climbed into the crabs' tank, ate the crabs, then walked back.
I think I can safely assume it was not a Canadian octopus.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Lloyd Bridges when you need him?
Gerry
That's the second time I've seen a video of an octopus taking a camera. Interesting. Are octopi the animal world equivalent of the TSA?
ReplyDeleteI SAID NO PICTURES DAMMIT!! Oooohhhh cool spear gun!
ReplyDeleteLook on youtube soon for the 'Underwater Jsckass' vids.
ReplyDeleteLittle doober's got brass cajones. (8 of 'em?) I, too, would've liked to have seen the video he'd take had he been allowed to keep the camera...
ReplyDeleteTam- Thank you for finding this and sharing it. I happen to have a friend that works with cameras, and he was doing a time lapse shoot with one that went missing...
ReplyDeleteOf course I shared the vid with him and said I may have found the culprit....
It's Sean Penn the Octopus...
ReplyDeleteThat's almost as good as the bear eating the GoPro camera. After seeing that vid it confirmed that I don't ever want to end up in a bear's mouth.
ReplyDeleteOctopi are supposed to be somewhere in the intelligence range of dolphins, they've been known to unlatch crates and traps to get at whats inside. They're frikkin cool critters, too!
ReplyDeleteErrmmm ... was giving the octopus your gun such a good idea?
ReplyDeleteDoes Masaad Ayoob do an underwater weapon retention course?
Whatever you do, don't tell Breda....
ReplyDeleteNice. California plates on the car.
ReplyDelete"Nice. California plates on the car."
ReplyDeleteI assume you are referring to the previous video?
Yes, there are California plates on the car.
The semipro internets comedy troupe did not re-plate all the cars in the lot with authentic Canadian plates for the two minute YouTube video, eh?
There is a story -- apocryphal, as I cannot verify it -- about a oceanographer who kept a pet octopus in one tank, and some pet crabs in another across the room.
ReplyDeleteOne fine morning, he came into his office to find a tank noticeably bereft of crabs, and an extremely well fed octopus.
As near as he could figure, the octopus squeezed itself out of its tank, walked across the floor, climbed into the crabs' tank, ate the crabs, then walked back.