Turtles or Snakes- Which do cars hit more? ROADKILL EXPERIMENT

so I remember reading a long time ago that people actually swerve more to hit turtles on the road then they would snakes. And as a firm believer in the scientific method I decided to test out this hypothesis So I got a rubber turtle and a rubber snake I also got a rubber tarantula to spice things up a little bit. I basically alternated placing each on the shoulder of the Road and I counted cars and meticulously collected data So here's what I found Put into my relatively small sample size about thousand cars ninety-four percent of all drivers are totally boring. They didn't do anything They just drove by, but the remaining six percent are cold-blooded rubber animal killers So now if we take this 6% and we break it down Tarantulas definitely got the most next was snakes and then turtles so as you can see right here We have to reject our hypothesis snakes actually get run over more than turtles so don't believe everything you read so we also had a leaf here nobody hit it and I use that as a control but since it was 0% on the leaf You can assume that these pretty much were intentional hits. Killers vehicle of choice trucks and Suv 89% very Few were actually cars so occasionally someone would be cool and they would stop and pull over and Save what they thought was a real animal, and you can see here turtles. Definitely got saved the most and then snakes Tarantulas. I'm gonna be honest you need a new P.R. firm you got saved exactly as many times as somebody saved the leaf which is none usually they would just stop and throw rocks at you and Then run you over anyways so of the animal Savers 96% totally cool people there's even one lady who pulled over to save the snake and She started bowling with plums And the actions here from this guy from animal control Really serves as an important reminder that you cannot be too cautious when dealing with the rubber turtle four percent however are Pony tailed science haters, so you see this guy right, pulls over he's being cool. He's gonna save the snake that's cool, but then he starts to walk off with it, so I let him know "hey That's my snake" "I'm right here." Now, I know this might be a bit surprising based off his appearance but in hindsight,"I'm trying to do some science here" I might have overestimated his love of the sciences, so even though we disproved our hypothesis. It's kind of a fun experiment, and it actually kind of got me thinking What's up with this 1%? what kind of person actually hits a turtle even the cartoons the turtles are always the nice ones Wait a second pull that clip back Now play it forward Freeze zoom in on the driver and go ahead and run the enhance algorithm What do you mean? There's no such thing? This is Hollywood if you use a fancy word like algorithm. You can pretty much do whatever you want Have you ever even seen an episode of CSI? Just as I suspected Up to your old tricks again a shredder you crazy old coot It's time to let it go old friend. Let it go Finally zoom in on that backseat run the shadow lightning on multiplexer multiplexer mmM Is Bebop and Rocksteady the classic blundering sidekicks?

Channel: Mark Rober

Views: 4,589,510

Rating: 4.8859329 out of 5

Keywords: Turtle, snake, roadkill, scientific method, experiment, mythbusters, run over, kill, charts, data, TMNT, shredder, beebop and rocksteady, teenage mutant ninja turtles, mario, glowing balloon, awesome, how, to, Halloween, costume, gaping hole in torso, iPad2, Mark Rober, Arturo, Trejo, Qwiet, JPL, NASA, Jet, Proplusion, Laboratory, how to, gorilla iphone, gorilla

Id: k-Fp7flAWMA

Length: 4min 21sec (261 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 19 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/TunisMustBeDestroyed]

6 years ago my friend and I were driving back to his place to have a full weekend 2-man LAN party. out of the sudden a pheasant crosses the road 100 meters ahead and actually makes it to the other side of the road and thus the opposing lane. My buddy swerves in to the other lane to hit it and it sends it off flying over the car windshield, completely tearing the pheasant apart.

Angrily I ask why he hit it intentionally and he just plays it off with 'bro, I tried to evade it". He certainly did not or his sense of visual perception should make him ineligible to own a drivers license.

Apparently, he told some of our mutual friends about the incident and I ended up as being labeled the weirdo that was mad about intentionally wrecking a poor bird. Still baffles me today.. needless to say, we are not that close anymore.

[u/TheMechanicalguy]

In upstate New York there is a road thru a place with streams on both sides. The locals (young guys) would play a game called "Wok-Wok". That's the sound a pick up trucks tires made when you ran over a turtle. Some older guys got wood and nails some luan (thin bendable wood) and made fake turtles. Young guys would veer out of the roadway to hit turtles and get ruined tires. Good for them! Turtle run overs decreased after it hit the local papers by a significant bit.

[u/Windadct]

Years ago I was running in a very dark morning, I was on the left side of the road ( opposite the direction of traffic) -- and a car swerved all the way across and almost hit me. I think they saw the reflectors on the heals of my shoes and thought I was a small animal, but then when they got closer and saw me they swerved back to their side. Pissed and Freaked me out.... It was the day after the superbowl, so I was also thinking the person could have still be drunk as well.

[u/[deleted]]

100% not surprised that the #1 cars to run over animals are trucks/SUVs. Not everyone who drives a truck or SUV is a doucebag trying to compensate for his small dick.... but every douchebag trying to compensate for his small dick drives a truck or SUV. It's science.

[u/loganparker420]

Who the fuck deliberately runs over turtles? I can get snakes because people hate them.. but fucking turtles?

[u/theessentialforrest]

Luckily for tarantulas (ranchos) they just got a new PR firm

[u/garepottamus]

The older I get, the more I hate people.

Edit: my comment was a little dramatic. I am very fortunate to have some of the most loving, kindhearted people in my life and love a lot of people. But man, I'm tired of putting up with people's shit on a daily basis, like the 6% of assholes who take joy in running over animals. Fuck them so much.

[u/hoffeys]

I always drive carefully to avoid hitting small, cute animals. Having said that, if a small animal jumps into the road it is ALWAYS better to drive straight and hope it avoids the car rather than swerve and risk losing control and injuring or killing yourself and others in the car. If it's something big like a deer that's a different matter.

Having watched the video... WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE FUCKING PEOPLE??? Actually it kind of reaffirms my biased belief that most truck drivers are assholes.

[u/jcatleather]

Am I the only one who thinks there should have been tire shredders in that turtle?