Seal slaps kayaker in the face with an octopus 531 16

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A bizarre encounter involving a seal, an octopus and a man has been caught on camera. A kayaker inadvertently got a face full of tentacles while coming between a seal and its lunch in waters off New Zealand. Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island has a large population of fur seals. The octopus tried to escape the seal by latching onto the bottom of a kayak but it is not know how successful that strategy was in the long-run Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub • 'Mate, what just happened?' Seal slaps kayaker in face with octopus ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/27/seal-slaps-kayaker-face-octopus-new-zealand Support the Guardian ► https://theguardian.com/supportus The Guardian ► https://www.theguardian.com The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► www.youtube.com/theguardian Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture Guardian Science and Tech ► http://is.gd/guardiantech

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IanRob2011 - 6 years ago

This is the funniest video I have seen in a very long time!

1111MJR - 6 years ago

Quick! Seal off the area, there’s been an assault.

1111MJR - 6 years ago

“That’s for all the plastic, muthaf...”

Closet Extrovert - 6 years ago

Guy in Kayak: Me doing homework

Seal: hormones

Octopus: SUDDEN URGE TO MASTURBATE

screwyour feelings - 6 years ago

Wonder what bought the octopus slap on?

Pastel Belle - 6 years ago

@God: me next plz. I rly need this

whacky - 6 years ago

"duck you, hooman"

Arnold 0 - 6 years ago

SQUID SLAP!!!

Untrepid One - 6 years ago

"get off my lawn!"

CE.

10. comment for Seal slaps kayaker in the face with an octopus

Devon Jones - 6 years ago

Octobitch slapped

CYP0 - 6 years ago

He should have opened his mouth.

Ally Wilder - 6 years ago

That looks more like a sea lion than a seal

Salty Diarrhea - 6 years ago

Don't mind me as I club an octopus off your dingy.

Mr Bawbag - 6 years ago

Seal slaps kayaker in face with octopus.
That's what you call a sucker punch.

David Ugarte - 6 years ago

What did the 8 tentacles say to the face?

knight night - 6 years ago

Seal: get away from my home, u stupid human. LOL

Mark Sneddon - 6 years ago

That's Seal for, "Pistols at Dawn, Sir!"

T Mah - 6 years ago

Read this headline wrong at first and thought it said Seal slaps Kanye which have been really enjoyable to see too?

Mark Brown - 6 years ago

What did the tentacles say to the face?! Slap!

20. comment for Seal slaps kayaker in the face with an octopus

Miguel Angelo - 6 years ago

He had it coming.

Bert - 6 years ago

I think it’s fair to say seals don’t like canoeists.

Sluggishnut_Gaming Sluggishnut - 6 years ago

SEALS, HAVE YOU NO SHAME!

DJQ 15 - 6 years ago

SONIC BOOM

Matt Hunt - 6 years ago

trying to eat here!!!

Wayne Lynch - 6 years ago

A seal popped up like while I was waiting to catch a wave in Malibu, many years ago. Scared the hell out of me, since there had been a fatal Great White attack days before. It just stared at me, before diving under and vanishing. The seal reminded me of a huge hairless dog. Much further out, I would see an occasional whale jump. Great times, excellent waves, but very cold water compared to the 85 degree gulf coast surf, that I was used to.

robert wong - 6 years ago

That's nature's MIRC trout slap... with an octopus.

Ally Wilder - 6 years ago

Dan Peete stop

Lunassuper YT - 6 years ago

take that you flippin invasive kayakers

Sheena Bailey - 6 years ago

Disrespectful

30. comment for Seal slaps kayaker in the face with an octopus

Hsquared - 6 years ago

Octo-pimp slapped!!

RoseCo - 6 years ago

WTF was that?

Wolfgang Von Zubaz - 6 years ago

Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Cthulhu... no?... Thwack!

Steve Vill - 6 years ago

Oh no Octopus in your sushi you say?

Carson Lee - 6 years ago

Steve Bill, LOL

Russ Tanner - 6 years ago

I hate it when that happens.

DexRey Agon - 6 years ago

Now this is news!

follow Jesus! - 6 years ago

I live on the Oregon coast and in my experience seals have always had a great sense of humor.

Tyler Paulson - 6 years ago

I'm gonna be 100 percent here.. I was hoping/thinking it might be Seal the artist slapping someone with an octopus.

MassDynamic - 6 years ago

A new kind of hentai

Kevin Karls - 6 years ago

What a ''sucker'' Punch!!

Ally Wilder - 6 years ago

Kevin Karls these are the kind of puns we need

NJ - 6 years ago

I can't go walking around in neighborhoods where I gotta worry about someone slapping me with someone else. That's too much, yo!

bustedrav - 6 years ago

Plot twist, It was actually the octopus's idea, he's like "just get me close, I'll handle the rest"

Queen Visenya - 6 years ago

bustedrav Best comment ever!

Klize - 6 years ago

*kiss from an octupus

Filipe Adão - 6 years ago

Karl Pilkington: "Weird innit?"

andrewthemandrew - 6 years ago

“How can she slap?!”

Maxwell Raza - 6 years ago

Seal of disapproval.

Fatmac252 - 6 years ago

Hahahaha

Michael Collins - 6 years ago

Massive support for Tommy Robinson today outside the courts in London showing the true depth of feeling from the everyday men and women of the United Kingdom .

MommaSon D - 6 years ago

take that, Hoooman!

Saboth - 6 years ago

"You have offended my honor, sir!" /slap, "At dawn, we shall duel with archer fish!"

Myaucat - 6 years ago

lol. when i read the title for sure i thought it was some kind of accidental thing that the media likes to exaggerate about, but this was totally intentional! Wow.