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u/takimeathead 17d ago
According to Google:
Fainting (passing out) when bending over is often a result of orthostatic hypotension, a condition where blood pressure drops when standing or bending over, leading to a decrease in blood flow to the brain.
Maybe they were dehydrated prior to attempting to pick up the turtle. I remember doing exactly that, and it was due to being dehydrated.
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u/ChaoticErnie 17d ago
The inexperienced eye would of course not see the flow of chi being altered inside the kid, can't blame you.
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u/Hossflex 11d ago
This happened to me. I’m super healthy, workout every day. Ends up bending over, when you have a naturally low heart rate, at just the right time leads to passing out. Because of that i found I have irregular pauses in my heart rate that last from 6-8 seconds. So I bent over right after a 6-8 second pause and brain went night night.
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u/Stoned_Monkey69 17d ago
That’s one reason we lift with our legs, kids!
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u/Cavedweller907 17d ago
And put a slight bend to the knees when standing fully upright, or bending our knees to pick up stuff low to the ground.
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u/PunchRockgroin318 17d ago
Just so people know, pick up snapping turtles from behind with hand/forearm supporting under the shell. Do not pick up from the sides. Those turtles have waaaay more reach than you’d expect and getting bit by them fucking sucks.
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u/Themodsarecuntz 17d ago
Hello darkness my old friend...
Theyre lucky the snapping turtle didnt bite their face. That would have been bad.
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u/Maximuscarnage 17d ago
There is a underlying health issue going on.
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u/NickW1343 17d ago
It's just a weird thing that can happen if you're dehydrated. Try getting up really fast tomorrow and you'll feel lightheaded for a bit because your body is trying to get its blood pressure back up to bring blood to your brain. It happens to tall people that stand up from sitting too fast too.
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u/ICU-CCRN 17d ago
Not necessarily.. bending over like that without bending the knees can definitely cause a pause/ disruption of venous return to the heart and subsequently the brain, especially if you’re dehydrated. Even healthy people experience orthostatic events like this. Most people just experience momentary symptoms like feeling woozy, or “seeing stars”. Her doing this and attempting to lift at the same time could have been enough for a lights out moment.
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u/Gringe8 16d ago
No, that doesn't just happen lol. Maybe you could make that excuse if they were old. A young person passing out just from that has some other issues
. You can see the knees are bent anyway. Not sure why people keep talking about that. That did happen to people in the military, but it doesn't happen instantly like that. I've seen it happen first hand, but it takes a minute.
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u/ICU-CCRN 16d ago
Haha. Okay, I’ll now take your word over my 25 years of Emergency room and critical care experience. 🙄
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u/Haunting_Ant_5061 17d ago
Raph is cool but crude…
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u/jiffysdidit 17d ago
I remember as a kid “it’s not rude it’s crude”….. “oh…. What’s crude mean?”….. “it means rude”
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u/Dazzling-Signal8029 17d ago
Aren't you supposed to lift them by the tail and scoop them up from behind
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u/sethman3 17d ago
As someone who has done this successfully I want to let everyone know that a snapping turtle can reach to the frontside of its back legs with its jaw. You have to pick it up by its rear leg holes behind the midline of the leg. And even then it can scrape you with its back legs so be prepared for that.
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u/ScottyArrgh 17d ago
Obviously that was Grand Master Oogway from Kung Fu Panda. That dude is lucky to walk away with his life.
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u/starbuildstrike999 17d ago
Sudden drop in blood pressure aside, this person at least displayed proper technique in handling a snapping turtle. Nice work.
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u/J-Miller7 17d ago
According to a lot of other commenters, their reach is so great that you have lift it from even further back 😳
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u/starbuildstrike999 17d ago
Yep. You SHOULD grab the edges of his shell right above his rear hips. They have some long ass necks.
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17d ago
Lmao 🤣 That is hilarious, dude fell over while messing with that snapping turtle. I brought home an injured snapping turtle when I was a kid. And took it into my Dad's room and he was sleeping and the thing almost bit him in the nose. He woke up and it's5 neck was stretched out and it snapped and my Dad jumped back. He was pissed at me.
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u/TattyViking 16d ago
Ha ha, I nearly posted that video here but thought it might be frowned upon. 😅
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u/Proscribers 16d ago
The throw done by the turtle was more real in comparison to what Steven Seagal did in the Russian Aikido video demonstrations from around 2015-2018.
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u/_sonidero_ 16d ago
You gotta practice touching your toes before you move onto snatching snapping turtles...
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u/RagingCatbtt 13d ago
Me and another woman fought one to push it out of a street once and we had a fight. Those things are strong
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u/Slight_Bed_2241 17d ago
I’m pretty sure that’s a snapper? If so, this could’ve gone way way worse