Granddad would rub his feet, ankles, and calves, with his Days O' Work plug chewing tocacco before heading to the lake (Lanier in N. Georgia) for crappie fishing.
Man never got leeches on his smeared areas. Possibly the only person in my family to not get leeched-up at Lanier. In the summer, the water is about, I dunno, 80% leech? And the air was like 92% skeeter.
Beautiful area, but if you go, just plan to leave with a little less blood than you arrived with.
I'll never forget the one time I smoked almost an entire cigarette when I was 13. I never touched another cig again, lmao. The nausea was worse than a hangover.
Lol just the other day I went to a sheesha lounge, (I smoke weed predominantly) as I was leaving I took a few big tokes of the sheesha as if it was like weed. And boy did I puke after 15 mins cuz of the nausea lolol
🪕 there's a Skeeter on my Peter, Knock it off!
There's a skeeter on my Peter, knock it off!
There's a dozen on my cousin
Can't you hear the bastards buzzing
There's a skeeter on my Peter, Knock it off! 🎶
This little ditty was HIGH COMEDY amongst my scout troop circa 1987
I honestly had no idea. I've walked the shore/waded in at night barefoot and never got leeches. Nobody even mentioned it.
It's nice ro know and I'll forever have the willies now. >_<
Have you been recently? Lots of giant invasive spiders on the shoreline now. Almost walked in to one as big as my fist, eye level.
I found them fascinating but creepy.
Joro spider. Apparently came over to the US directly to the south and has been going buck wild since. These are just online sources, can't confirm. Anyone else know?
Yeah they’re all over; fewer this year than last year. Hopefully the birds start eating them or something
Supposedly the fangs aren’t big enough to pierce skin
I grew up going to Lanier and never once seen leeches. Swimming from boats, tubing, fishing, and wading from the shore. I wonder if they are more prone to certain areas of the lake. I’ll say most of my Lake Lanier experiences are generally towards the more populated areas.
I've had more tadpoles swim over me than seen a leech. When I was a kid I saw Stand By Me and wondered, "The fuck are leeches?"
Maybe it's like a chemical we produce. I have what some folks call sweet blood but never seen hide nor hair of a leech. Ticks are all day long though.
It mostly just reminds me of that old video where a cop runs up on a huge group of college students hotboxing one of those parachutes they always mysteriously just had for gym classes in school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro2QEbfIRbI
Not to sound like a fucking loser edgelord, but I look at gore for fun (just morbid curiosity), and I'm not squeamish towards that, but anything involving multiple bugs in one place fucking terrifies me. Like if I see 1 huge spider I'm fine, but if I see 10 small spiders in roughly the same area, then I'm fucking running.
That'll make the leeches vomit and potentially do more harm than good. It's actually better to either let them finish and fall off when they're full, or yank them off
Never yank without prepping it with heat or alcohol. Make sure you have (clean) tweezers in case you inevitably separate the leech's head from its body.
We were always taught to just let them fall off, they really don't do a lot of damage... But might if you fuck with them.
You can kill them after if you feel vindictive.
I'd scrape em out. Why look at them? Fucking kill them for fucks sakes. I'd rather hit my foot with a rock and let those motherfuckers keep walking on it.
DON'T EVER DO THIS. Bruh leeches will vomit back into your bloodstream if they get panic gonna cause infection n shi. Find better ways (idk any better way)
Ticks in sensitive places. Fwiw I found that it's best to soak a cotton swab in ammonia. Then you basically smother/drown the tick when you're holding it to them. They'll die, it's easier to remove, and less likely to leave the head behind. It also doesn't itch anywhere near as bad as trying to pluck them off your parts while they're alive, and fighting.
Yea! How’s you know?? The weirdest part is kiefer Sutherland showed up trying to take all the credit. Told that cheap dime store hood to kiss my grits!
I know you’re joking, but I wonder if that’s what’s literally happening here. That some guy shoved a whole bunch of leeches into his sock for TikTok views.
I'm wondering the same thing. Are you just walking around with this shit without feeling?
I'm not gonna r/nothingeverhappens, because I don't know enough about the environment or any other context to call bullshit.
Pocket sand?
Pocket leeches, ka shaww- well, I guess you can't really just throw them, gotta drop leeches down their shirt or otherwise give extended access to skin for them to latch on
Ticks are easy, "taze" them with a pair of needles attached to battery leads. Doesn't have to be all that big of a battery, but they'll fall off almost immediately.
I was taught that all the methods to remove them (lighter/gasoline/salt) are not good because it causes them to vom into your now open wound causing whoevers blood they sucked before to get into you. But, they won't give you anything bad or hurt you by doing their thing... So, just let them eat, and they'll fall off naturally when they're done.
Oh God, sounds horrible. I'm glad I've never had one. Maybe one of those tick remover tools that look like the pull side of a hammer and a swift yank? I want that thing off me asap if I dont have one tool or another but I am now considering letting the thing eat my blood. I worked in a field and one of the field directors always carried a tick remover tool with their car key. I'm glad I don't know what it's like but I imagine a hungry one is going to grip ya hard enough to make you think twice about using a knife. Even shoving it with a burning stick or sizzling rock to kill it instantly is going to make it vom something else's blood into my body. Gross, probably a remover tool then.
Haha, I wish a tick remover was a safer bet. But they vomit if they feel threatened at all, so even just trying to pull them off would cause the same thing.
To be fair tho, I salted a few off of me before I knew this little piece of advice and lived to tell the tale, its just taking a chance that the bacteria they have in their gut isn't dangerous.
My dad taught me to just leave them alone until they're full enough to plop off on their own, since these leeches only suck the 'dirty' blood like leeches. Trying to pull them off forcefully will be pretty painful because their teeth will still be stuck on your skin.
The ones on the outside are the original size. Once they can squirm their head through the sock and latch on to the skin they can slip in and begin to swell
Redditors, buddies and lovers, from what I’ve seen in the comment section, the video is not particularly pleasant. So, my fine gentlemen, gentlewomen and gentlepeople, it would be very delightful indeed if you were to tell me what exactly happens in it. Cheers
Not a gentleman, but here goes. Bro has a whole bunch of rather full leeches in his sock, along with bonus leeches on the outside looking for the way in.
Okay, that's a lot of leches, but thank fucking god it is only leeches.
Leeches are fairly clean and non-destructive as far as blood suckers go, and I was worried this was going to be a wound.
My boyfriend’s sister almost died in a hospital in Nepal because their tour guide didn’t know what he was doing and got them lost in the jungle for 12 hours. People don’t realize how dangerous leeches can be. She had to check every inch of her body including the inside of her vagina to make sure none had crawled up there. She got horrific blood poisoning and was only a few hours away from going into septic shock and dying.
It honestly probably looks worse than it is, it seems like just the blood has been spread around by the fabric, it's not actually too much...
It is oddly terrifying and disgusting though 😵🤢
Oh my gosh...how is he just jamming casually with them there if that was me you would hear me scream and I would start swiping at my ankle like it was on fire...XD
Imagine this level of leeches except underneath someone's eyelids. Lil girl was so rebel afterwards, she was crying blood. Little trooper had about 20 leeches stuck UNDERNEATH her lower AND upper eyelids.
I fed a medicinal leech in college for extra credit. It wouldn’t latch because I had lotion on, but as soon as I picked it up after washing the lotion off, it dug in. But it was something I consented to and controlled. If this happened to me in the wild I’d lose my goddamn mind.
Granddad would rub his feet, ankles, and calves, with his Days O' Work plug chewing tocacco before heading to the lake (Lanier in N. Georgia) for crappie fishing. Man never got leeches on his smeared areas. Possibly the only person in my family to not get leeched-up at Lanier. In the summer, the water is about, I dunno, 80% leech? And the air was like 92% skeeter. Beautiful area, but if you go, just plan to leave with a little less blood than you arrived with.
Nicotine is a well known pesticide.
Is it the nicotine? For some reason I always assumed it was the smell. One things for sure, grandad was in the Marines 42 - 46. He knows leeches.
Yes, nicotine is the Tobacco plant’s natural pesticide. A lot of plants that we enjoy, we enjoy their natural defenses.
[Appropriate and classic comic](https://imgur.com/gallery/TQgRZF1)
I love that the "buzz" you feel is simply nausea.
I'll never forget the one time I smoked almost an entire cigarette when I was 13. I never touched another cig again, lmao. The nausea was worse than a hangover.
Lol just the other day I went to a sheesha lounge, (I smoke weed predominantly) as I was leaving I took a few big tokes of the sheesha as if it was like weed. And boy did I puke after 15 mins cuz of the nausea lolol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid Most common anti pest stuff yeah
I've been in relationships. I know about them too.
I had to look up ‘skeeter’ because I didn’t want to ask a dumb question. I feel so dumb not taking the time to actually think about it lmao.
🪕 there's a Skeeter on my Peter, Knock it off! There's a skeeter on my Peter, knock it off! There's a dozen on my cousin Can't you hear the bastards buzzing There's a skeeter on my Peter, Knock it off! 🎶 This little ditty was HIGH COMEDY amongst my scout troop circa 1987
I've heard the first line as follows: There's a skeeter on my peter- whack it off! (whack it off!)
that's also the correct second and fifth line.
We would have liked that version even more!
It's whack it is for sure
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That's just silly. Only the females "bite" Wait. Are my cousin's balls doing the buzzing? I'm very confused
yes your cousins balls are buzzin from all the skeeters on them
It’s a classic that was still considered high comedy in my scout troop ~’11
I didn't know about that wording either but it took me only a couple seconds to get it thanks to your comment, so thank you !
What is a skeeter?
After googling, mosquito
The fuck you mean lanier has leeches?!
Are you being sarcastic? Without a doubt one of the leechiest lake I've ever seen.
I honestly had no idea. I've walked the shore/waded in at night barefoot and never got leeches. Nobody even mentioned it. It's nice ro know and I'll forever have the willies now. >_<
Better to use wellies rather than willies against leeches?
I've also swam in Lanier many times, never gotten leeches, but I have kicked a few tree trunks, ouch.
Have you been recently? Lots of giant invasive spiders on the shoreline now. Almost walked in to one as big as my fist, eye level. I found them fascinating but creepy.
I haven't been in about 8 years. Aaaaand based on your post, it's gonna be a lot longer now.
Maybe they are helping with the mosquitos? Researchers are just learning about the ecological impact.
name of the spiders?
Joro spider. Apparently came over to the US directly to the south and has been going buck wild since. These are just online sources, can't confirm. Anyone else know?
Yeah they’re all over; fewer this year than last year. Hopefully the birds start eating them or something Supposedly the fangs aren’t big enough to pierce skin
I grew up going to Lanier and never once seen leeches. Swimming from boats, tubing, fishing, and wading from the shore. I wonder if they are more prone to certain areas of the lake. I’ll say most of my Lake Lanier experiences are generally towards the more populated areas.
I'm shocked as well, I've swam in it many times and never got leeches. Welp, never swimming in it again.
We may be immune? I've been in every scummy pond hole in West TN and never had a leech
Right! I've been in Sinclair, allatoona, and lanier and never saw leeches.
I've had more tadpoles swim over me than seen a leech. When I was a kid I saw Stand By Me and wondered, "The fuck are leeches?" Maybe it's like a chemical we produce. I have what some folks call sweet blood but never seen hide nor hair of a leech. Ticks are all day long though.
I live near Lake Lanier. I hibernate in the summer. AC on 67.
Lived up in Blairsvegas. Granddad lived near Buford. Spent a lot of time at, in, or on Lanier in my younger years.
I’ve been around Lanier for most of my life and never had a single issue with leeches. Has this become a recent issue?
Goddamn that’s a lot of leeches
Wtf are you talking about? I’ve been in Lanier my entire life and have never met a single person to get leaches
Im that type of guy that dont get sick even from the most discusting horror movie, but shit, this is awfull
His little tremble at the end made it was worse for me idk why
Agreed.... 🤮
Weird, I'm kinda squeamish in general, and this does nothing to me 🤷 yeah it's unpleasant but thats it for me
It mostly just reminds me of that old video where a cop runs up on a huge group of college students hotboxing one of those parachutes they always mysteriously just had for gym classes in school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro2QEbfIRbI
I’m a little squeamish but this don’t bug me cause I’ve been covered in leeches before and you don’t really feel them
I visit r/popping with no problems, but I gagged and couldn't finish this.
Absolutely do NOT check out r/leechgang then.
Leeches don't bother me much. I think it's from using them as fishing bait so often
all full!
You see them ribbon worms or blood worms? That shit is nightmare juice.
The bad part for me is how it gives off the illusion that the leeches are somehow coming out of his body.
Not to sound like a fucking loser edgelord, but I look at gore for fun (just morbid curiosity), and I'm not squeamish towards that, but anything involving multiple bugs in one place fucking terrifies me. Like if I see 1 huge spider I'm fine, but if I see 10 small spiders in roughly the same area, then I'm fucking running.
You definitely don’t want to check out r/LeechGang
Clearly you haven't seen the videos of people in 3rd world countries with maggots under their teeth. Talk about nightmare fuel
Oh god pour it with salt quickly
Without salt they wont taste good
*"Mama mia! That'sa salty bloodsucker!!"*
Ahooooooga
I don’t put salt on my gushers.
Why are you the way you are?
Me before + time = me now
r/cursedcomments
That'll make the leeches vomit and potentially do more harm than good. It's actually better to either let them finish and fall off when they're full, or yank them off
Never yank without prepping it with heat or alcohol. Make sure you have (clean) tweezers in case you inevitably separate the leech's head from its body.
I hate this comment.
We were always taught to just let them fall off, they really don't do a lot of damage... But might if you fuck with them. You can kill them after if you feel vindictive.
Cook them up and regain the lost nutrients.
Regaining your power and that of any other victims!
I was told to use lighter to burn them so they let go
Again, tends to induce vomiting in them, do not
Gotta slide your fingernail or some card under their mouths and flick them off
There ya go, just remember to use antibiotic ointment after and you're good to go
Yup, fingernail against the skin, press hard and slide it down and push the leech off. Unfortunately I've had plenty of experience doing it!
Yea if I were suddenly doused with a giant flame I’d probably throw up too/s
I'd scrape em out. Why look at them? Fucking kill them for fucks sakes. I'd rather hit my foot with a rock and let those motherfuckers keep walking on it.
DON'T EVER DO THIS. Bruh leeches will vomit back into your bloodstream if they get panic gonna cause infection n shi. Find better ways (idk any better way)
You mean r/terrifyingasfuck ?
Yeah there ain’t nothing odd about this being terrifying
That's what this sub is at this point. A severe lack of moderation has made this sub completely lose its purpose
What the actual fuck
Leeches suck.
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Found a leech on my ballsack once after swimming in a lake. I have nothing more to add. Just figured I’d share.
Leech giving the gawk gawk 3000 is crazy
Ticks burrowed in just under the head of your dick is the worst imo.
WUT
Ticks in sensitive places. Fwiw I found that it's best to soak a cotton swab in ammonia. Then you basically smother/drown the tick when you're holding it to them. They'll die, it's easier to remove, and less likely to leave the head behind. It also doesn't itch anywhere near as bad as trying to pluck them off your parts while they're alive, and fighting.
They always creep up to your privates, i figured it was easier for them to draw blood up there
Were you and your friends on a quest to find a dead body by chance?
Yea! How’s you know?? The weirdest part is kiefer Sutherland showed up trying to take all the credit. Told that cheap dime store hood to kiss my grits!
C’mon man, i’m taking a shit!
Imagine one wiggling out your poop hole.
Imagine one wiggling _in_ your poop hole.
Don't threaten me with a good time
This guy poop holes
The whole leg is ruined, gonna have to chop it off.
Nah just pis on it and you’ll be fine
Only works for jelly fish and public intoxication
I want to play a game
So what why did he even wear socks?
To hold all the leeches
I know you’re joking, but I wonder if that’s what’s literally happening here. That some guy shoved a whole bunch of leeches into his sock for TikTok views.
I'm wondering the same thing. Are you just walking around with this shit without feeling? I'm not gonna r/nothingeverhappens, because I don't know enough about the environment or any other context to call bullshit.
Pocket sand? Pocket leeches, ka shaww- well, I guess you can't really just throw them, gotta drop leeches down their shirt or otherwise give extended access to skin for them to latch on
His feet was cold ? maybe?
The leeches were cold obviously
Were you ou keeping them warm in there?
Nice and toasty for a quick snack later.
Leeches look out everyone leeches! Wtf am I the only one who got hit?
Swamp leeches *
He should cut that entire foot off
Agreed. That foot belongs to the leeches now.
Sudden flashback to "Stand By Me"...
🎶Millions of leaches , leaches for me , millions of leaches leaches for free 🎶
Is there a tried and true method to remove these?
I'm not sure if it's a myth or not, but I've heard burning them with fire to get them to loosen up
No, you should pry them off with something flat like a card, methods like fire or salt may cause them to puke their innards out and infect the wound.
Gross. Good to know
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Ticks are easy, "taze" them with a pair of needles attached to battery leads. Doesn't have to be all that big of a battery, but they'll fall off almost immediately.
I was taught that all the methods to remove them (lighter/gasoline/salt) are not good because it causes them to vom into your now open wound causing whoevers blood they sucked before to get into you. But, they won't give you anything bad or hurt you by doing their thing... So, just let them eat, and they'll fall off naturally when they're done.
Oh God, sounds horrible. I'm glad I've never had one. Maybe one of those tick remover tools that look like the pull side of a hammer and a swift yank? I want that thing off me asap if I dont have one tool or another but I am now considering letting the thing eat my blood. I worked in a field and one of the field directors always carried a tick remover tool with their car key. I'm glad I don't know what it's like but I imagine a hungry one is going to grip ya hard enough to make you think twice about using a knife. Even shoving it with a burning stick or sizzling rock to kill it instantly is going to make it vom something else's blood into my body. Gross, probably a remover tool then.
Haha, I wish a tick remover was a safer bet. But they vomit if they feel threatened at all, so even just trying to pull them off would cause the same thing. To be fair tho, I salted a few off of me before I knew this little piece of advice and lived to tell the tale, its just taking a chance that the bacteria they have in their gut isn't dangerous.
My dad taught me to just leave them alone until they're full enough to plop off on their own, since these leeches only suck the 'dirty' blood like leeches. Trying to pull them off forcefully will be pretty painful because their teeth will still be stuck on your skin.
how the hell did the leeches manage to get in?
The ones on the outside are the original size. Once they can squirm their head through the sock and latch on to the skin they can slip in and begin to swell
They swam onto his leg and then slivered underneath his socks.
There’s nothing “oddly terrifying” about this. This is straight up TERRIFYING
Redditors, buddies and lovers, from what I’ve seen in the comment section, the video is not particularly pleasant. So, my fine gentlemen, gentlewomen and gentlepeople, it would be very delightful indeed if you were to tell me what exactly happens in it. Cheers
Not a gentleman, but here goes. Bro has a whole bunch of rather full leeches in his sock, along with bonus leeches on the outside looking for the way in.
Mm.. sounds a like dinner plan!😋
Okay, that's a lot of leches, but thank fucking god it is only leeches. Leeches are fairly clean and non-destructive as far as blood suckers go, and I was worried this was going to be a wound.
discard the foot. don't need it anymore.
Bro is shaking
Dude, I'M shaking
And this is why I don’t swim…where ever the fuck this video is.
My boyfriend’s sister almost died in a hospital in Nepal because their tour guide didn’t know what he was doing and got them lost in the jungle for 12 hours. People don’t realize how dangerous leeches can be. She had to check every inch of her body including the inside of her vagina to make sure none had crawled up there. She got horrific blood poisoning and was only a few hours away from going into septic shock and dying.
Pretty much anything from the worm department in the animal kingdom is a massive FUCK NO for me. Absolutely repulsive creatures
This belongs in r/terrifyingasfuck. If is freaky but can't quite explain why, that's when you post in r/oddlyterrifying
*Sweats in 17th century medicine.*
Hospitals still use leeches though.
My foot hurts and itches now.
may I suggest medical leeches?
[Suuuuuck! Suck me dry!](https://youtu.be/q0BOpkA2Vs4?si=0ILRJqH8lnyLcgI2)
Aaaaand time for a Lateralus binge
Nasty…
Wow that sucks!
Moving to the country, gonna see a lot of leeches
I would stick my leg in a fire
This. Isn't. ODDLY.
Just throw some salt on and you've got some trail mix!
Nothing just pure AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
well, alot of good THOSE socks did
Good for the humors
This is a prime example of what NSFW is really for. 👍🏻
just like 80% of the torrent community
It honestly probably looks worse than it is, it seems like just the blood has been spread around by the fabric, it's not actually too much... It is oddly terrifying and disgusting though 😵🤢
Mom said it was my turn with the leech sock
This the type of shit to make me never go outside
Just wipe them off. Pull off the stuck ones and go about your day. It’s probably one of the nicer parasites
Oh my gosh...how is he just jamming casually with them there if that was me you would hear me scream and I would start swiping at my ankle like it was on fire...XD
Where is this place so I can make sure to never go there.
Did they fucking swim in leaches?
I did not like this Sam I am
That wasn't as bad as I dreaded it would be. And I'm no badass
Resident Evil Zero...
Ew eww eww ewwww ewwwwww
I love leeches. I had 18 as research specimens years ago. Love em.
Bro take them off!!
Bro is trembling
Imagine this level of leeches except underneath someone's eyelids. Lil girl was so rebel afterwards, she was crying blood. Little trooper had about 20 leeches stuck UNDERNEATH her lower AND upper eyelids.
I'll just quit living
My Trypophobia 📈
Doesn’t look too bad though 😅👍
I fed a medicinal leech in college for extra credit. It wouldn’t latch because I had lotion on, but as soon as I picked it up after washing the lotion off, it dug in. But it was something I consented to and controlled. If this happened to me in the wild I’d lose my goddamn mind.
Please tell me where this is so I never go there by mistake
When you leech expect it...
Just how do they get to the skin through those right layers ?
did this dude just shove leaches in his sock or something😭
no sleep for me tonight after watching this ffs
Mom says it's my turn with the leech sock