This is delightful—an octopus rips a video camera out of a diver’s hands, flees (while the camera is still recording), and then gives the camera back:
The video is a much-less-disturbing version of some stories I heard about local giant Pacific octopus attacks—one creature holding a diver underwater while his air ran out, another trying to drag a diver into its den—while working on this story last year.
*And don’t think of stealing “octopus attack with a happy ending”—I’m taking it for my new series of Japanese porn videos.
Pit bulls of the deep.
<— I love those things
Whoa! Way cool!
*its
Why is this so hard for people to figure out?
Fawking awesome!
so awesome!
Now I’ve got “Octopus’s Garden” stuck in my head, and I’m picturing a blanket full of stolen cameras, cell phones, DVD’s and chargers lying on a sheet just in front of the garden.
@ 4: umm, no. it is still recording.
That octopus is a crap cinematographer.
Can an octopus know joie de vivre?
If/when we encounter intelligent life other planets, it is going to freak us the fuck out. Seriously – life indigenous to our world is weird enough; imagine how truly insane-looking alien species are going to appear.
I wonder how this was resolved. Is there now a speargun-wielding cephalopod at large?
@12, yes, it’s even easier to steal a video camera from a diver after you’ve shot them with a speargun.
@ 12 – no, but the octopus is prank-calling Seattle on its new iPhone.
@8 —- You didn’t watch the video, did you??
That octopus has made the most gorgeous abstract art video I’ve ever seen.
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whoa, it gives the cam back? octopus hospitality huh.
Drew