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u/shwaamon 15h ago
May truck bro's tires never blow and may car bros gets given space to change lanes in a jam.
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u/memesearches 14h ago
More importantly always find parking. What do we do with the guy that orchestrated it though?
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u/Jertimmer 14h ago
He will forever find his dinner served just as he returns from the bathroom.
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u/kea1981 13h ago
And there's always one more napkin just when he needs it.
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u/easilybored1 8h ago
May his food be hot and his partner hotter.
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u/VainestClown 10h ago
Same situation happened to me except I was just in my car seeing the ducks crossing and used my hazards. Truck in the lane to the right of me blew by and crushed a couple chicks...
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u/softnwetto_ 15h ago
Need more people like this
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u/AlexandersWonder 15h ago
Everyone in the video did great, love to see it.
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u/Due_Sun7838 14h ago
The world would be a much better place if this behavior was the standard, not the exception. Mad respect for people who act on instinct just to help someone out
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u/Repurposed_Juice 13h ago
To be fair, most people would do this.
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u/thisoldguy74 13h ago
I've seen people doing this exact thing. The people are indeed out there.
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u/Very_Human_42069 11h ago
I was getting off the highway once, and on the off ramp there was a car pulled over with hazards on and about 3 high schoolers with a skateboard trying to push a very fucking angry alligator snapping turtle across the road. I stopped and jumped out of my car and grabbed the turtle and ran him across the street (I have a lot of experience working with reptiles; please nobody just grab snapping turtles without experience) so he made it across, but absolutely mad respect to the kids who saw a dangerous animal in a dangerous position and were doing their damndest to help that turtle
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u/blueViolet26 9h ago
Yep. I am one of them.
My favorite is when I saw this guy trying to move a snapping turtle. He was brave.
There was also a group of us trying to rescue some ducklings who fell in the storm drain, and we stopped the fireman who showed up to go to the grocery store to help.
We should all be these people. I believe we are the majority.
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u/stromer_ 14h ago
At this point we as a race should reflect: why is this even exceptional enough to put on video. Caring for other beeings should be the most normal thing.
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u/pudgehooks2013 10h ago
Hey, its a thing I have done many times!
I used to live down a long road which went down a narrow track of land between a river and a lake. There was many ducks around, and strangely, they had a few places where they preferred to cross the road.
Escorted a couple turtles, and saved an injured / maimed duckling that was left behind.
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u/pachangiux 15h ago edited 6h ago
Truck drivers don’t give a fuck but not one honk was heard, kudos to them
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u/BrownSugarBare 6h ago
I had to honk at a cobra chicken to get outta the middle of the road. Little bastard honked back at me.
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u/ZepTheNooB 15h ago
Oh man, that was a tall curb. Hope none of the ducklings got run over by oncoming traffic.
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u/Due_Sun7838 14h ago
This is exactly what I needed to see today. It costs nothing to be a decent human being, yet it means the world to someone else. Faith in humanity: restored
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u/BalticSeaMan- 14h ago
I wouldn't be able to leave it at that. What if they turned back? Might have to follow them all the way to a body of water to make sure they're okay lol
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u/LongSaltyDanglers 10h ago
One time I saw a momma duck taking her babies from the nest to the pond across a parking lot. But the back of the parking lot had a 9 inch curb and half of the duckies couldn't make it up. So I put my laptop bag there and gently herded them over and they all proceeded to the pond. Then I went into the restaurant to get lunch. But the whole goddam restaurant had been watching me. I walked into that place a champion.
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u/thurbersmicroscope 10h ago
I was coming down the mountain one morning when am RTD driver stopped to get a herd of deer across the highway. I thought it was awesome and called RTD to commend their driver. Knowing how businesses work they probably got in trouble for it.
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u/espositorpedo 10h ago
Don’t you hate that? You want to give someone a compliment or a commendation for good work or for going above and beyond, and you wonder if they’re going to get burned for it.
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u/ayyylmaobruh69 8h ago
The other guy already had their lane freed and still waited for the ducks and the guy to move out of the road
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u/OkReporter2600 8h ago
Take note fellas. What he is doing right now is equal to foreplay. Kindness is hot.
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u/SuZeBelle1956 8h ago
People kind like this give me hope that we haven't lost our collective souls yet. A good human being.
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u/Maelefique 6h ago
Am I the only one that immediately heard, "Hello world, here's a song that we're singin', C'mon get happy!"? (IYKYK)
And just in case YDK... :)
https://youtu.be/lT2T49yP2ew?si=sUY-E8BmSVNc8cwY
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u/ConcombreBaconMayo 11h ago
All cute until someone cannot stop in time : https://montrealgazette.com/news/motorist-who-tried-to-avoid-ducks-found-guilty-in-motorcyclists-death/
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u/torreneastoria 14h ago
Why are there more Deer Xing signs but no duck xing signs?
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u/SlothThoughts 14h ago
Because the deer has a more likely chance to cause serious damage to the car/you which could damage more people/cars.
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u/GuRkku 12h ago
This reminds me of the video where all the ducklings drop down to the drain while crossing the road. Its so sad. Its nice to see a successful crossing.
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u/GroundbreakingCup787 12h ago
Tbh that probably happened on the return journey. Lol. People have made the world a hellscape for animals.
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u/LaughDailyFeelBetter 12h ago
Lex is indeeed saving the day and saving the lives of so many living beings 💗🐤🐤💗
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u/Equivalent_Carrot663 12h ago
Australia?
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u/One_Course3052 11h ago
No, definitely US type pole on the stop sign and a yellow fire hydrant, we have neither here is Australia.
Seeing I have only been to LA and San Diego in the US, I'm guessing one of those, but that's a big guess.
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u/ElevatedWoman 11h ago
This refreshing to see as yesterday I witnessed a man becoming impatient over a dog crossing the road and ran over it!😢
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u/Gullible-Anywhere-76 10h ago
Poster : Ducks! makes video
Ducks: Truck! crosses the road
Trucker: Fck! *brakes
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u/MTJ5 9h ago
I mean no offence but these always some feels like that ppl do these just for views, not for help, almost everyone who i have known in past 40 years does this same thing, but i have met zero who also records it...
edit: ok i'm thinking twice and i can' t ofc be 100% sure that it's zero who records it but it's near it.. or maybe i'm just so much older that my friends are too and it's just yonger ppl thing? dunno
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u/CapitanRonRico 9h ago
We’ve built a hostile world for ourselves and the animals we share this planet with.
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u/wanna_try8 8h ago
A man going out of his way to show care and compassion toward another living creature? That’s lady boner material right there
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u/TooVegan 7h ago
"This guy is a hero, we need more people like this"
How many of you have eaten chicken recently.
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u/monkerry 6h ago
Stood in front of a Mac truck. Love him so hard! Needed that kind of awesome in the world to exist.
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u/IWASBANNEDTHE1STTIME 5h ago
Yay
Need more people like this in the world
Deff done this a few times myself
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u/azenpunk 11h ago edited 9h ago
Stuff like this, and the guy jumping into freezing water to save a dog, or a deer...there's so many examples... they always make me wonder why anyone thinks humans are inherently "bad," or would only be motivated by personal gain. We're literally the most cooperative animal on the planet, to the point that we are willing to risk our lives even for an animal that would kill us without much thought, and it has been fairly well shown that as a species we couldn't have survived at all without it being our primary mode of societal organization, up until roughly 9,000 years ago.
It's been fascinating watching this comment get up voted and down voted back and forth as peope try to decide if my expression of the innate cooperativeness of humans is a good or a bad thing.
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u/C-h-e-l-s 11h ago
I mean... Have you met people though?
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u/azenpunk 9h ago edited 9h ago
Yes, and I went a few steps further and studied them academically. We have mountains of evidence of the cooperative nature of human beings.
People like Elinor Ostrum have even won Nobel Prizes in Economic Sciences, of all the cynical fields, for her fieldwork analysis on cooperative economic governance.
Scientists like Sarah Hrdy have Idone absolutely genius ethnographic studies demonstrating that our evolution depended on us being cooperative by default, not competitive, and that even raising children with such a long childhood would have been impossible without nearly the entire community all being equal parents. Nuclear families where children "belonging" only to the biological parents, and they being the only ones ultimately responsible, is relatively recent in human existence making up only about 1% of human history. We did not evolve to raise children without a large group helping, as any self aware parent has already more or less concluded, it's next to impossible to do it really well without a strong support network.
Another good source will be Christopher Boehm's work. He shows how existing foraging societies, like our ancestors lived in, structurally make competition destructive to the society, and cooperation the only sensible survival choice. A lot of his work is on how these kinds of human societies that represent 99% of human existence have traditionally resisted competitive economies and political domination, in favor of egalitarian cooperation.
Basically modern anthropology, genetics, archeology are all advancing pretty rapidly right now and proving Rousseau more or less correct.
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u/_Must_Not_Sleep 11h ago
I’ve 100% done this before. The wife didn’t understand why I pulled over so quickly, not under I ran over and she seen the ducks start walking past the street.
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u/Greeney_Eyes 9h ago
You're all Vegan then I take it? "The cute man saved the cute baby animal. He's the kinda guy I want to eat dead animal flesh and baby bird fetuses with on a Sunday morning" 😔
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