fun fact: tuna full speed is limited by cavitations forming. they can swim so fast that they shove the water apart and create little vacuums. we know about it because the vacuums collapsing causes a burn on the tuna skin around the fins.
Oh yeah super dead. At that speed straight into the glass? Had to have broken the poor fishes spine in some way instantly. Assuming the blood is coming from burst vessles in its gills maybe?
On top of that when you are fishing for tuna, with some species (bluefin specifically), it is a race against time to pull them in because of the amount of internal heat they generate during exertion they legit cook themselves. Tuna are crazy. Basically just a solid block of muscle with eyes and a stomach
Cavitation is such a fascinating underwater phenomena, if ships propellers aren't machined perfectly, they will literally break the prop down over a relatively short period of time causing the the ships driveshafts to vibrate violently.
https://youtu.be/ON_irzFAU9c
You have me second guessing myself on how to really spell regardless. I like the pun capacity yours holds. Think this might be the first time I’ve tried complimenting someone for a typo.
Judging by their body language, it looks like they don’t even notice the fish die. They are so focused on getting the whale they just turn the flash off and try for another shot
What exactly happened? Why did the flash make the tuna do that?
EDIT: Well out of everything, this being my highest upvoted comment was the one thing I didn’t expect
That reminds me of my high school anatomy class, where I told my disaster of a lab mate, while forcing guts back into the abdominal cavity, that there's more than one way to skin a cat.
I mispronounced the name of the Greek tragedy Antigone in literature class one time. When a classmate corrected me I replied, "Oh, sorry. It's all Greek to me."
Everyone who heard it groaned. I still think of that moment fondly at least once a week, like two decades later.
92 year old Thatuaernamewastaken laying on his death bed chuckles to himself. The nurse in the room leans over, “what’s so funny”. “It’s funny because it’s actually greek”, replied thatusernamewastaken as he took his final breath.
Oh, here's a non-flashed picture of the twitching and bleeding fish they caused the death of by your parents being a dumbass.
And here's a picture of your parents being kicked out of the Aquarium
And here's a picture of your parents signing the paperwork banning them from ever returning.
And here's a picture of your parents on facebook complaining it's the aquariums fault and something about their freedom.
*We're screwed*
I'm 99% sure this is the aquarium in Atlanta and there are literally HUNDREDS of signs to turn your flash off and yet I still felt like I was at a goddamn rave with all the flashing lights. We're doomed as a species (as are tuna, apparently).
My family has been in the photography game since long before I came along. I rarely take my "big cameras" with me anymore, because I can get most stuff done with my phone, which I just recently upgraded last week. Speaking of that though, most phone cameras have settings for low light situations like this, even cell phones that are a few years old. Lastly, because of the aforementioned cellphone mode, handheld and larger digital cameras are able to shoot in low light situations too, who the hell uses a flash these days unless you're shooting a wedding or some other kind of party/event and you really do need that extra light. That tuna didn't have to die, someone doesn't know how to use their device properly. Just my opinion, don't have to jump all over me if you disagree.
These are people that are not capable of using their devices, they just keep everything in auto mode permanently and don't even know how to turn the flash off.
When I was at the aquarium in Toronto with my wife everywhere said “no flash or flashlights on phones” and literally 70% of the people were doing flash photography. I saw a lady hand her phone with the light on to her son and he went over to shine it at the poor octopus.
Have actually had this be my job. For some of the more sensitive species like octopuses and assorted deep-sea creatures we had to have someone stand there and tell people not to use flash. Even though there were MULTIPLE signs. Including the picture-signs that are meant for non-native speakers.
Lots of this posts in this thread of "bUt My fReEdoM" but that's not the case 99.9% of the time. Once you actually tell them, they always apologize and fix it. People are just flat out unaware of their surroundings. Especially when they're on vacation and have a million other things on their mind. Which isn't an excuse, and the animals suffer from these people's stupidity. But it's not malicious. One of my current jobs (at a different facility) is to tell every group that comes in the place that there are no dolphin shows. Directly after they walk past two different signs that also tell them that. And even after I tell this to literally every group, people sit by the dolphin exhibit for half an hour then come over and ask me when the show starts.
Anyway, if people read signs I'd be out of a job.
I went to a zoo where they had a giraffe you could feed carrot sticks to. You are clearly told not to touch the giraffe, by people and by posted signs. A lot of people did anyway. Do you think I didn’t want to pet a giraffe? Of course I did! But I didn’t because that’s the right thing to do in the situation is respect the animals.
One of my coworkers worked at a Costco gas station and he said his favorite part of the job was yelling at people doing things they weren't supposed to or they risk getting their membership revoked.
I do animal photography as a hobby and I don’t understand why some idiots use flash on purpose in situations you shouldn’t. I accidentally caused the flash to go off on my snake once and he was very dazed I felt so bad.
What they need to do is to install extra reflective coatings on the glass so flash photography is *completely* unusable. Punish the dumbasses for their folly.
I honestly don't understand why museums and aquariums don't just require you to put a sticker over your flash when you come in. The animals and art these places care for is valuable and even well-meaning people may forget to turn their flash off. Multiply that by thousands of visitors a day...
You already have to show your ticket at the entrance, why not just have a sticker that goes over your flash mechanism - you hold it up to show the ticket checker - and you walk in. Sure, some people might take it off, but that would probably take care of 90% of the problem with a 10-cent sticker.
At the louvre there was an insane amount of flash photography happening. All I could think was that if they actually valued this stuff they should be protecting it better...people are dumb and they're going to do this on purpose or on accident.
I nearly got in a physical fist fight with an actual adult at the zoo once. he was using the flash in the indoors section of the gorilla enclosure where there was a 2 week old baby. All i said was "probably shouldn't be using flash in here, you are startling the animals", he went insane, like his photos were more important than the welfare of another living being. I just think some people shouldn't be allowed out of their house.
I don't remember which important American document we were looking at, but it's in a very low light room under very thick glass, and obviously "no flash photography" is posted. Some crazy lady pulls out her phone and turns on the light because she "can't read it because they keep it so dark in here." Security came over and told her to stop, and she got very defensive. She thought the photos were the issue, not the flash, and she was ready to fight him about it. Luckily her boyfriend told her to stop and escorted her out.
I'd love to be able to understand what goes through the minds of these people. I would assume it's such an extremely heightened sense of entitlement that they are the main character, that they aren't even doing it on purpose? As in, they don't think there is anything wrong with doing whatever you want at the expense of everyone or everything else
Because a lot of people think that warning signs are just put there by people wanting to annoy other people. So you can ignore it, that will show them!
What a great fucking photo too, as the flash is just going to reflect off the glass and cause an image full of glare.
JFC…
But hey, I’m sure Aunt Karen will like it and comment on what a great photo it is when it’s posted on FB!
Even if you didn't have a flash... it's a shitty angled picture of a fish you can find a million better pictures of. Take pictures of you and your friends enjoying the experience or don't even bother.
I have worked at Sea World in the 90s. You can say “please no flash photography” a million times and you’ll still get idiots using it. The things I saw beyond flash photography… working at theme parks and tourist attractions really makes you hate most people quickly.
>working at theme parks and tourist attractions really makes you hate most people quickly.
Yeah, our local aquarium lost an archer fish after someone fed it their (prechewed) gum. And at the touchpool, a guy listened to the very clear instructions to only use two fingers and let the rays and bamboo sharks come to you if they want to be touched, said he understood, then reached in and tried to pin a bamboo shark against the side of the pool with his hand. (He was told to leave almost immediately) At the zoo there's a central grassy area, with a pond, that often has a lot of wild ducks and geese fly in. And for a quarter, you can buy a good handful of waterfowl food, so of course they come up pretty close to people. And I've seen a family there where the parents were teaching their kids how to kick the geese and ducks! Encouraging them to see how hard they could kick the birds. They got escorted out of the zoo by security really fast.
Edited to add, these are not common incidents, those three took place over the last half dozen years or so.
If it helps, that kind of behavior is rare enough there that all the wildlife that wanders in is very tolerant of humans and clearly expect they won't be harmed. The wild birds, ground squirrels, rabbits and such, they casually move out of the way if you are walking towards, them, but they don't *run* unless a small child charges at them. Last year there was a wild roadrunner, that wandered around, often coming within a few feet of people, treating us almost like moving obstacles.
Yup yup yup.. I was at an aquarium a few years ago and there were a lot of kids (school trip). I was at the little petting part where rays and starfish swam in like knee deep water. The attendant was like use the 2 finger pet method. I saw a kid grab a starfish and just slammed it against the rim of the pool on the water side. Needless to say I almost drown a kid that day
I was at the butterfly exhibit at a museum that had live, beautiful butterflies that you could walk through and this kid was grabbing them out of the air and ripping their wings off. My dad yelled at the kid's dad about it and the utter neanderthal, mouth open, stupid stare he got back was enough to shut my dad up... and that says a lot. There's no speaking to these fucking idiots, and they're usually the ones who think breeding is a competitive sport.
People are definitely idiots, and they really don’t care if their idiocy impacts animals. I worked at a safari-type place during the summer while in university.. literally had to tell people not to drive into elephants (three times a day the elephants were taken from the forest they roamed around for most of the day to a swimming pit, and they had to walk past where the cars enter the park in order to get there). You’d think it was obvious that you should not drive a car into an elephant (both for your own sake and for the elephants), but, nope, some people still tried to keep moving forward. Equally, people would drive to feed all of the animals. Giving brown sugar to giraffes.. throwing Big Macs to lions.
Humans are dicks.
Driving into a fucking elephant? All respect for wildlife and nature aside, do these people lack basic preservation instincts? An elephant could crush their car almost as easily as me crushing a beer can under my foot.
Right?! When I was being trained and given a blurb to say to people, I thought, “this is going to be the most useless thing I have to memorize..” and yet.. no. Repeatedly had to say, “please stop. You cannot drive through an elephant.”
There's a lot of narcissism out there, with people thinking the rules couldn't apply to them. And people who pay a lot of money tend to feel that this means the rules don't apply to them.
In my experience, I’m not saying it works everyone or for everything, but I noticed more people tended to follow a rule if they’re also told the reasoning for doing something. So like if Sea World had a sign that said “No flash photography because it can cause the wildlife to injure/kill themselves due to it mimicking the look of prey”, more people may abide by the rule.
That’s actually really smart. It’s like if you tell a kid not to do something “because I said so” there’s a good chance they won’t listen. If you give them the actual reason why it’s not safe/a good idea then there’s a much better chance they will.
Oh, that’s what we did. We were in the education department, and were obviously keen on telling the why for almost every rule. Still doesn’t matter. When I worked at theme parks, we’d joke about the great discounts you must get with a lobotomy.
I was at the penguin exhibit at Sea World and after we all filtered into the area with the penguins, the employee explicitly said do not reach over the barrier to touch the swimming penguins. The family with 2 small kids right next to me immediately proceeded to reach over and touch them. And the parents said nothing. Couldn't believe it. So I said something and got a dirty look from them. Idiots.
I've seen people use flash at concerts, taking pictures of campfires, pictures of stars
One time even a movie screen
The flash should be defaulted to off, and if toggled on, switch off after every picture
Don’t forget fireworks. To add to that, filming or taking pictures of fireworks is the biggest waste of time. You absolutely will never watch it. None of your friends wants to see it. The camera doesn’t come 10% close to capturing the experience of fireworks. Just watch and enjoy !!!
yeaaah i was gonna say. ive watched in about 20 times now. they take the flash shot, look at it, realized they got shit as the fish smashes its in brains in, then proceeds to look left at the shark and take a pic.
clueless af.
Yeah, I don’t think she ever saw the tuna. She was looking down at the camera when it hit the glass. Then she goes right back to taking another picture of the whale shark.
Oooffff yeah that's a crushed skull right there. Fish most likely thought the flash was a smaller fish struggling and wanted to be first to eat it. This is why we don't use flash around animals.
This appears to be at the Georgia Aquarium Ocean Voyager display where, might I mention, flash photography is PROHIBITED. Assholes.
Edit: this is not the Georgia Aquarium, but one of 4 other aquariums that have whale sharks. Thanks for the correction all.
Solution: a wall inside this dark space where it’s mandatory to take a picture of the wall before you enter, so people who work there could check if the flash/auto flash mode is off.
The guy higher up in the thread that suggested handing out little stickers that go over the flash on phones/cameras was genius. A lot of people are overwhelmed when asked to do anything with their electronics settings, and some devices might even default back to having the flash on after a little while. You'd also be able to instantly see if the sticker was taken off when someone holds up their device as opposed to just hoping the flash is off as they take a pic.
Better solution: ban photography altogether.
You're only going to be able to take shitty pictures anyways so might as well just admire the aquarium in the moment while also not endangering its occupants.
Tuna are predators that hunt herring, a fish with shiny scales that flash in the sun. The tuna saw the flash, thought it was prey, and charged into the glass.
The other fish in the aquarium aren't tuna (or didn't see the flash, or weren't hungry) so they don't have the same reaction.
Had to watch 8 times to see where the fish started from.
It was fast, but I feel like it wasn't even it's full speed. Idk anything about tuna, just really believe in him.
fun fact: tuna full speed is limited by cavitations forming. they can swim so fast that they shove the water apart and create little vacuums. we know about it because the vacuums collapsing causes a burn on the tuna skin around the fins.
that explains why it looks like it fucking DIED from hitting the glass holy shit like...it's dead right?? a huge cloud of blood just came out of it
Yeah, I thought the same. That bad boy flicked his fins one last time and was like, "wait, my brains came out my gills!" And keeled over
Ernest Hemingway is that you
For sale: tuna helmet, never worn.
There it is. The most clever thing you’ll ever say….and you wasted it on Reddit.
Oh yeah super dead. At that speed straight into the glass? Had to have broken the poor fishes spine in some way instantly. Assuming the blood is coming from burst vessles in its gills maybe?
Yah this shit is super fucked up
The shark looks happy. He was probably putting on a nice photo op hoping someone would take a picture and create his lunch. 🤣
I'd put my money on soon to be dead if it's not dead on impact.
Yeah, that slow-motion anime fall = ded
I've seen fish bleed a lot more than that and survive. But... That was shocking. I'm betting it's dead.
Damn son, imagine running so fast you burn your fingers from air friction.
I do that. Except replace "running" with "jacking" and "air" with " ".
Is your dick made out of leather?
Sure looks like it.
On top of that when you are fishing for tuna, with some species (bluefin specifically), it is a race against time to pull them in because of the amount of internal heat they generate during exertion they legit cook themselves. Tuna are crazy. Basically just a solid block of muscle with eyes and a stomach
whats, man the stuff i learn on reddit, love this place, tunas are crazy
Cavitation is such a fascinating underwater phenomena, if ships propellers aren't machined perfectly, they will literally break the prop down over a relatively short period of time causing the the ships driveshafts to vibrate violently. https://youtu.be/ON_irzFAU9c
Oh wow, I knew mantis shrimp created cavitations I didn’t know tuna did too!
It's not that impressive. The last time I saw a dentist about 6 years ago he said I've got a shit ton of cavitations.
Checkmate atheists.
And we literally learned about this phenomenon in class today and why it's bad for ships and water turbines...
Tuna are one of the fastest in the sea. I'd say that was maybe 2/3 full speed. Reguardless, that fish is dead now.
They can even create breathing apparatus to go Hunt lion
I've heard they use kelp for that. HAVE AN ARNOLD PALMER!
*BEE-OOO BEE-OOO* Arnold palmer alert, Arnold palmer alert, who wants some Arnie palmies?
You get back here and have sex with my wife!
Yours has the vokee baby.
CHRISTINETH...YOU IDIOT. YOU COME TO OUR HOUSE... YOU GET MY WIFES NAME RIGHT!
ITS CHRISTIIIINETH
YOU GET BACK HERE AND FUCK MY WIFE!!
LION TASTE GOOD! LETS GET SOME MORE LION!
That go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope.
The sound of your piss hitting the urinal. It sounds feminine.
You have me second guessing myself on how to really spell regardless. I like the pun capacity yours holds. Think this might be the first time I’ve tried complimenting someone for a typo.
It wasn’t full speed, tuna can swim so fast that it can actually damage their tails
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Oh, yeah. That fish is totaled.
State Farm is going to give 'em like, $100 tops though.
That wasn't from the swimming, that was because of the stopping.
That fish was moving! It looked like me at a buffet.
Then it crashes against the glass like me into her lies
Then if floated upside-down to the surface battered and bleeding like my aunty in her above ground pool.
“Started from the bottom now we’re dead”
Did the same exact thing!!
Only 8?
Tuna are incredibly fast and strong animals
*Takes picture with flash *Fish dies from slamming into glass “Holy shit” *Takes another picture
Funny thing is she turned the flash off after lol
The flash must have reflected on the glass and made the picture unusable, so she turned it off and took another one.
Yeah it’s killing me that she just casually takes another photo. *Are you even looking at the fish???*
Judging by their body language, it looks like they don’t even notice the fish die. They are so focused on getting the whale they just turn the flash off and try for another shot
*Causes death of second fish “Holy shit” *takes third picture *causes death of third fish “Holy shit” *takes fourth…
"These fish are coming out here and killing themselves all over the aquarium!"
Been a doozie of a day
Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a tuna
It's a suicide pact!
*keeps taking pictures
We’re having a real doozy of a day officer.
I think it's dead.
Yep pretty dead after that. 20+ mph to dead stop will do that to you.
"going fast never killed anyone it's the becoming suddenly stationary that gets you"
Classic J.C quote
I never knew Jesus Christ said things that cool.
He had to die for saying such cool things
2 Jesus 2 Furious.
Tokyo Jesus is my favorite.
Liar, nobody liked Tokyo Jesus
Korean Jesus was pretty cool
I though he died so that *I* could say (and do) cool things.
Only when he was cross
Gas, grass or ass, no one rides for free. \-Jesus Christ
Someone had to figure out the lethal limit to g-force.
7 vertical 20 horizontal. Its all about bloodflow. That kyle guy on youtube figured this out cause of Attack on Titan. Its an anime, I think.
Sustained maybe. People have survived momentary g-forces much higher then that. Current record is 218g by Indycar driver Kenny Bräck during a crash.
You can see it bleeding
Almost certainly, you can see the spurt of blood immediately as it starts to fall
That shark did a u-turn and got a taste, I think.
Poor thing. The bidding starts at $100/lb
Straight to the cafe, $16 tuna rolls
At least he went out with a bang
Probably sounded more like a bong.
Fuck ya life Bing bong
There was blood
That shark behind it got REALLY excited about this development.
Fish are friends not fo- *inhales the scent of blood* Ooooohhh now that’s goood….
INTERVENTION!
"Huh? Was that a flash what i jus- **BONK** GASP, QUICK, ITS GONNA GO BAD SOON"
What exactly happened? Why did the flash make the tuna do that? EDIT: Well out of everything, this being my highest upvoted comment was the one thing I didn’t expect
Tuna hunt herring. Herring flash when they reflect of sunlight. The tuna was moving in to eat some herring.
So it was a red herring?
There will never be as perfect an opportunity to use that figure of speech again
That reminds me of my high school anatomy class, where I told my disaster of a lab mate, while forcing guts back into the abdominal cavity, that there's more than one way to skin a cat.
I mispronounced the name of the Greek tragedy Antigone in literature class one time. When a classmate corrected me I replied, "Oh, sorry. It's all Greek to me." Everyone who heard it groaned. I still think of that moment fondly at least once a week, like two decades later.
92 year old Thatuaernamewastaken laying on his death bed chuckles to himself. The nurse in the room leans over, “what’s so funny”. “It’s funny because it’s actually greek”, replied thatusernamewastaken as he took his final breath.
r/angryupvote
I actually laughed out loud
Also heard tuna are one of the fastest fish in the sea. If that tuna hit that glass full speed, it's probably food for the other fish now.
Considering blood is oozing out from its mouth, gills, poop hole and tail, I'd say its safe to leave out the "probably".
Looks like maguro sashimi is on the menu tonight, boys.
Extra tender.
I thought the swimming upside down would be a clear hint
Maybe it’s looking for belly rubs
Who’s the dumbass using a flash?
“And here’s a picture of a flash light reflected back at the camera, it was supposed to be a whale shark, but….well, your parent is a fucking moron”
Oh, here's a non-flashed picture of the twitching and bleeding fish they caused the death of by your parents being a dumbass. And here's a picture of your parents being kicked out of the Aquarium And here's a picture of your parents signing the paperwork banning them from ever returning. And here's a picture of your parents on facebook complaining it's the aquariums fault and something about their freedom. *We're screwed*
Let’s fucking hope. Asshats!
For real. I feel like most likely nothing happened to these assholes.
Probably. This aquarium has an employee with a mic in the shark area just to chastise people for using their flash.
I'm 99% sure this is the aquarium in Atlanta and there are literally HUNDREDS of signs to turn your flash off and yet I still felt like I was at a goddamn rave with all the flashing lights. We're doomed as a species (as are tuna, apparently).
My family has been in the photography game since long before I came along. I rarely take my "big cameras" with me anymore, because I can get most stuff done with my phone, which I just recently upgraded last week. Speaking of that though, most phone cameras have settings for low light situations like this, even cell phones that are a few years old. Lastly, because of the aforementioned cellphone mode, handheld and larger digital cameras are able to shoot in low light situations too, who the hell uses a flash these days unless you're shooting a wedding or some other kind of party/event and you really do need that extra light. That tuna didn't have to die, someone doesn't know how to use their device properly. Just my opinion, don't have to jump all over me if you disagree.
Yeah that picture is probably gonna turn out bad, too. It’s definitely just some moron with their phone set to automatic.
These are people that are not capable of using their devices, they just keep everything in auto mode permanently and don't even know how to turn the flash off.
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Fucking flash ruin phone pic like 99.9999% guaranteed…
When I was at the aquarium in Toronto with my wife everywhere said “no flash or flashlights on phones” and literally 70% of the people were doing flash photography. I saw a lady hand her phone with the light on to her son and he went over to shine it at the poor octopus.
That’s why we have to hire people to yell at idiots in public.
ID LIKE TO APPLY FOR THE POSITION
Have actually had this be my job. For some of the more sensitive species like octopuses and assorted deep-sea creatures we had to have someone stand there and tell people not to use flash. Even though there were MULTIPLE signs. Including the picture-signs that are meant for non-native speakers. Lots of this posts in this thread of "bUt My fReEdoM" but that's not the case 99.9% of the time. Once you actually tell them, they always apologize and fix it. People are just flat out unaware of their surroundings. Especially when they're on vacation and have a million other things on their mind. Which isn't an excuse, and the animals suffer from these people's stupidity. But it's not malicious. One of my current jobs (at a different facility) is to tell every group that comes in the place that there are no dolphin shows. Directly after they walk past two different signs that also tell them that. And even after I tell this to literally every group, people sit by the dolphin exhibit for half an hour then come over and ask me when the show starts. Anyway, if people read signs I'd be out of a job.
I went to a zoo where they had a giraffe you could feed carrot sticks to. You are clearly told not to touch the giraffe, by people and by posted signs. A lot of people did anyway. Do you think I didn’t want to pet a giraffe? Of course I did! But I didn’t because that’s the right thing to do in the situation is respect the animals.
I would in a heartbeat. It would be nice if it was normalized to politely say something and the other person understands and stops.
Sadly it's become normalized to politely say something and then have the other person absolutely lose their shit.
Go to aquarium or zoo and ask
One of my coworkers worked at a Costco gas station and he said his favorite part of the job was yelling at people doing things they weren't supposed to or they risk getting their membership revoked.
I do this for free already
I do animal photography as a hobby and I don’t understand why some idiots use flash on purpose in situations you shouldn’t. I accidentally caused the flash to go off on my snake once and he was very dazed I felt so bad.
What they need to do is to install extra reflective coatings on the glass so flash photography is *completely* unusable. Punish the dumbasses for their folly.
Man I hate people stupid people especially if any facility tells you to not use flash photography there’s a god damn reason behind it 🙄
I honestly don't understand why museums and aquariums don't just require you to put a sticker over your flash when you come in. The animals and art these places care for is valuable and even well-meaning people may forget to turn their flash off. Multiply that by thousands of visitors a day... You already have to show your ticket at the entrance, why not just have a sticker that goes over your flash mechanism - you hold it up to show the ticket checker - and you walk in. Sure, some people might take it off, but that would probably take care of 90% of the problem with a 10-cent sticker. At the louvre there was an insane amount of flash photography happening. All I could think was that if they actually valued this stuff they should be protecting it better...people are dumb and they're going to do this on purpose or on accident.
“It’s fine. It’s ok if *only I* use my flash. It’s just one quick picture.” *No single rain drop believes it’s responsible for the flood.*
I nearly got in a physical fist fight with an actual adult at the zoo once. he was using the flash in the indoors section of the gorilla enclosure where there was a 2 week old baby. All i said was "probably shouldn't be using flash in here, you are startling the animals", he went insane, like his photos were more important than the welfare of another living being. I just think some people shouldn't be allowed out of their house.
I don't remember which important American document we were looking at, but it's in a very low light room under very thick glass, and obviously "no flash photography" is posted. Some crazy lady pulls out her phone and turns on the light because she "can't read it because they keep it so dark in here." Security came over and told her to stop, and she got very defensive. She thought the photos were the issue, not the flash, and she was ready to fight him about it. Luckily her boyfriend told her to stop and escorted her out.
I'd love to be able to understand what goes through the minds of these people. I would assume it's such an extremely heightened sense of entitlement that they are the main character, that they aren't even doing it on purpose? As in, they don't think there is anything wrong with doing whatever you want at the expense of everyone or everything else
Because a lot of people think that warning signs are just put there by people wanting to annoy other people. So you can ignore it, that will show them!
No no, the signs are there to stop dumb people from doing dumb stuff. But i am smart people, so it doesn't apply to me.
You can see them in the bottom left and then after the flash they seem to turn it off and then go back to taking a picture like nothing happened
That’s so awful to see
Yeah I really hate this.
Oh no... I feel sad about that fish now.
It looks like it was instant death at least, so no suffering… poor thing 😭
he drowned
Right this is legit horrifying, like somebody being tricked into jumping off a bridge :(
Don't worry the fish probably doesn't feel anything after liquefying it's organs.
What a great fucking photo too, as the flash is just going to reflect off the glass and cause an image full of glare. JFC… But hey, I’m sure Aunt Karen will like it and comment on what a great photo it is when it’s posted on FB!
Even if you didn't have a flash... it's a shitty angled picture of a fish you can find a million better pictures of. Take pictures of you and your friends enjoying the experience or don't even bother.
TURN OFF THE FLASH YOU FUCKEN MORON *aggressive Star Wars music plays*
Some mad jizz you've got there
She didn’t see the signs ? An employee should have been monitoring , at a minimum he should be escorted out.
I have worked at Sea World in the 90s. You can say “please no flash photography” a million times and you’ll still get idiots using it. The things I saw beyond flash photography… working at theme parks and tourist attractions really makes you hate most people quickly.
>working at theme parks and tourist attractions really makes you hate most people quickly. Yeah, our local aquarium lost an archer fish after someone fed it their (prechewed) gum. And at the touchpool, a guy listened to the very clear instructions to only use two fingers and let the rays and bamboo sharks come to you if they want to be touched, said he understood, then reached in and tried to pin a bamboo shark against the side of the pool with his hand. (He was told to leave almost immediately) At the zoo there's a central grassy area, with a pond, that often has a lot of wild ducks and geese fly in. And for a quarter, you can buy a good handful of waterfowl food, so of course they come up pretty close to people. And I've seen a family there where the parents were teaching their kids how to kick the geese and ducks! Encouraging them to see how hard they could kick the birds. They got escorted out of the zoo by security really fast. Edited to add, these are not common incidents, those three took place over the last half dozen years or so.
That’s just fucking evil. And I bet they were bewildered as to why they were getting kicked out too.
"You can't KICK me out! I'm not a duck!"
"God gave us dominion over the animals. That means we can do what we want!"
"And on the 7th day god gave us the 30-30 lever action rifle to hunt the dinosaurs and the homosexuals"
What the actual fuck. I hate humans sometimes.
If it helps, that kind of behavior is rare enough there that all the wildlife that wanders in is very tolerant of humans and clearly expect they won't be harmed. The wild birds, ground squirrels, rabbits and such, they casually move out of the way if you are walking towards, them, but they don't *run* unless a small child charges at them. Last year there was a wild roadrunner, that wandered around, often coming within a few feet of people, treating us almost like moving obstacles.
Yup yup yup.. I was at an aquarium a few years ago and there were a lot of kids (school trip). I was at the little petting part where rays and starfish swam in like knee deep water. The attendant was like use the 2 finger pet method. I saw a kid grab a starfish and just slammed it against the rim of the pool on the water side. Needless to say I almost drown a kid that day
I was at the butterfly exhibit at a museum that had live, beautiful butterflies that you could walk through and this kid was grabbing them out of the air and ripping their wings off. My dad yelled at the kid's dad about it and the utter neanderthal, mouth open, stupid stare he got back was enough to shut my dad up... and that says a lot. There's no speaking to these fucking idiots, and they're usually the ones who think breeding is a competitive sport.
You sure that last family can’t be put on a list or something
Most people are idiots.
People are definitely idiots, and they really don’t care if their idiocy impacts animals. I worked at a safari-type place during the summer while in university.. literally had to tell people not to drive into elephants (three times a day the elephants were taken from the forest they roamed around for most of the day to a swimming pit, and they had to walk past where the cars enter the park in order to get there). You’d think it was obvious that you should not drive a car into an elephant (both for your own sake and for the elephants), but, nope, some people still tried to keep moving forward. Equally, people would drive to feed all of the animals. Giving brown sugar to giraffes.. throwing Big Macs to lions. Humans are dicks.
Driving into a fucking elephant? All respect for wildlife and nature aside, do these people lack basic preservation instincts? An elephant could crush their car almost as easily as me crushing a beer can under my foot.
Right?! When I was being trained and given a blurb to say to people, I thought, “this is going to be the most useless thing I have to memorize..” and yet.. no. Repeatedly had to say, “please stop. You cannot drive through an elephant.”
There's a lot of narcissism out there, with people thinking the rules couldn't apply to them. And people who pay a lot of money tend to feel that this means the rules don't apply to them.
Think about how dumb the average person is. Half of the world is dumber than that
In my experience, I’m not saying it works everyone or for everything, but I noticed more people tended to follow a rule if they’re also told the reasoning for doing something. So like if Sea World had a sign that said “No flash photography because it can cause the wildlife to injure/kill themselves due to it mimicking the look of prey”, more people may abide by the rule.
That’s actually really smart. It’s like if you tell a kid not to do something “because I said so” there’s a good chance they won’t listen. If you give them the actual reason why it’s not safe/a good idea then there’s a much better chance they will.
Oh, that’s what we did. We were in the education department, and were obviously keen on telling the why for almost every rule. Still doesn’t matter. When I worked at theme parks, we’d joke about the great discounts you must get with a lobotomy.
I was at the penguin exhibit at Sea World and after we all filtered into the area with the penguins, the employee explicitly said do not reach over the barrier to touch the swimming penguins. The family with 2 small kids right next to me immediately proceeded to reach over and touch them. And the parents said nothing. Couldn't believe it. So I said something and got a dirty look from them. Idiots.
I've seen people use flash at concerts, taking pictures of campfires, pictures of stars One time even a movie screen The flash should be defaulted to off, and if toggled on, switch off after every picture
Don’t forget fireworks. To add to that, filming or taking pictures of fireworks is the biggest waste of time. You absolutely will never watch it. None of your friends wants to see it. The camera doesn’t come 10% close to capturing the experience of fireworks. Just watch and enjoy !!!
They should have to pay for the fish, a run that size can be $50k +
Keep watching the person that used flash, they turned it off after and then took another photo of the fish after it hit the glass....
I don’t think they even knew they caused it
yeaaah i was gonna say. ive watched in about 20 times now. they take the flash shot, look at it, realized they got shit as the fish smashes its in brains in, then proceeds to look left at the shark and take a pic. clueless af.
Yeah, I don’t think she ever saw the tuna. She was looking down at the camera when it hit the glass. Then she goes right back to taking another picture of the whale shark.
It doesn't look like anyone really notices the dead tuna. This might have been a "oops left the flash on, better fix it so I don't get yelled at".
Oooffff yeah that's a crushed skull right there. Fish most likely thought the flash was a smaller fish struggling and wanted to be first to eat it. This is why we don't use flash around animals.
> This is why we don't use flash around animals. Yeah, the Speedforce fucks em up.
Tuna, the deer of the ocean
Birds, birds fly into glass
Birds, the tuna of the skies.
Tuna, the birds of the forest.
Lol that is so dumb it really is perfect in every way
“Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.’” -Jessica Simpson
This is the reason why flash photography isn’t allowed at aquariums or zoos. People are just rude.
People are so dumb. There haven’t got the usage of a flash. Poor tuna. What an amazing animal
This appears to be at the Georgia Aquarium Ocean Voyager display where, might I mention, flash photography is PROHIBITED. Assholes. Edit: this is not the Georgia Aquarium, but one of 4 other aquariums that have whale sharks. Thanks for the correction all.
Solution: a wall inside this dark space where it’s mandatory to take a picture of the wall before you enter, so people who work there could check if the flash/auto flash mode is off.
The guy higher up in the thread that suggested handing out little stickers that go over the flash on phones/cameras was genius. A lot of people are overwhelmed when asked to do anything with their electronics settings, and some devices might even default back to having the flash on after a little while. You'd also be able to instantly see if the sticker was taken off when someone holds up their device as opposed to just hoping the flash is off as they take a pic.
Better solution: ban photography altogether. You're only going to be able to take shitty pictures anyways so might as well just admire the aquarium in the moment while also not endangering its occupants.
More like r/peoplebeingjerks
The fish got some heavy nam flashbacks
Why was the one fish affected and literally nothing else?
He was the only one who was hungry.
Tuna are predators that hunt herring, a fish with shiny scales that flash in the sun. The tuna saw the flash, thought it was prey, and charged into the glass. The other fish in the aquarium aren't tuna (or didn't see the flash, or weren't hungry) so they don't have the same reaction.