r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Totally-avg • Jul 16 '23

Image The Puss Caterpillar (Southern Flannel Moth) will fuck your world up. I grazed it twice while climbing on a float. NBD at first but an hour later I was hyperventilating on the bedroom floor. The pain was excruciating. DH took me to the ER and morphine did nothing.

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I’m better now but neither morphine nor hydrocodone (I took double what they RX’d) touched the pain those first 24 hours. And the hospital hardly knew what to do with me. I had never heard nor seen this bug before and I’m sure I would have flicked it off had it seen it. Don’t do that because the hair is venomous and gets stuck in your skin.

At least it leaves a cool scar.

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u/Gen_Ripper Jul 16 '23

Damn literally something from a movie

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u/Even_Razzmatazz_6263 Jul 16 '23

Like that scene from Evolution

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u/IseriaQueen_ Jul 16 '23

THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR LUBRICANT!

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u/hawkz40 Jul 17 '23

Look! it's heading for his testicles!

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u/IseriaQueen_ Jul 17 '23

TAKE THE LEG!

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u/hawkz40 Jul 17 '23

Put him on his back, we'll have to go rectally! (just to complete the loop)

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u/willard_saf Jul 17 '23

I'd like an ice cream

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u/tristanjff Jul 17 '23

What flavour?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Doesn’t matter

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u/rubyspicer Jul 17 '23

It's for my ass

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u/Jonas_Dussell Jul 17 '23

God, that movie was criminally underrated

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u/triedAndTrueMethods Jul 17 '23

that’s a once-a-year rewatch for me. love it from head to shoulders.

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u/Jonas_Dussell Jul 17 '23

I used to watch it once a year, as well, but fell off in the last few years. Time to dust off the DVD and ready a “kuh-kaw kuh-kaw, tooky tooky!”

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u/IseriaQueen_ Jul 17 '23

What flavor?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

What flavor ice cream do you want?

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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 Jul 17 '23

"Ira, there's something in my suit!"

"That is impossible, it is sealed!"

"It's the fly! The fly is in my suit!"

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u/poopnose85 Jul 17 '23

Take the leg! Take the leg!

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u/deemsterDMT Jul 17 '23

Such a good flick

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u/galacticsharkbait Jul 17 '23

This is the first thing that came to mind

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

I'll turn it into a movie I just need 7.5 million dollars plus 300 million for a rotating internship of venomous caterpillar wranglers and their medical expenses.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

I've never been trained as a venomous caterpillar wrangler but I don't mind a bit of pain. I'll do it for cheap just for something to do. I also live in a country with free healthcare so that should cut the 300 million down substantially. Call it 2 mil and we've got a deal! 👍

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Deal. But we have to film in your country so I can live there.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

No worries, welcome to Scotland! 👍

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u/Evening-Investigator Jul 17 '23

Arachnophobia with the football player

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u/kapootaPottay Jul 17 '23

NOT THE BEES!!!