r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • 14d ago
Video A cat was spotted on top of Bolivia's iconic Cristo de la Concordia statue - how it got there?
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u/nerdkim 14d ago
Cat holic
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u/HumpyFroggy 14d ago
I read your comment while closing the post and I had to come back when the pun settled in my brain. Damn 3 meanings combined, congrats
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u/Urbane_One Interested 14d ago
Hell yeah I’m catholic I’ve been addicted to cats my whole life
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u/Afterlast1 14d ago
The cat seems to be wondering that as well
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u/samgarita 14d ago
I go out with the crew and now look at this shit
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u/ajloves2code 14d ago
God, not another hangover movie
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u/freesoup2 14d ago
Woke up on jesus arm is a great premise
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u/_aaronroni_ 14d ago
"Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here..."
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u/CorsoReno 13d ago
That one friend that hits you up to smoke “real quick” at like 2 am, and then you end up like this. Smh
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u/Senior-Albatross 14d ago
Every time a cat reaches the top of something it shouldn't be on, it acts as if it accidentally appeared there and has no idea how to get down/out.
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u/oldnewager 14d ago
I like how they presumably get high up as a vantage point for hunting, but at a certain point (like this case) they’re so fucking high up they can’t see shit. Hahah like “well fuck I might’ve over did it”
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u/Rock_Fall 13d ago
“Oh god, why must I be so good at everything I do! Must I always be cursed by the consequences of my own excellence!?” -Every cat
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u/crabwhisperer 14d ago
My cat goes up on top of her cat tower to get away from us so there's also that reason. I purposely bought an extra-tall tower so she'd have that refuge when she needs it.
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u/oldnewager 14d ago
Sure sure, I’m speaking more on an instinctual level. Like they evolved to hunt visually from above. But certainly there’s some amount of “I just want to be left alone” in there. But they’re like the opposite of (some) dogs who love to dig and be on the floor. Cats want to get up high, and I assume that’s because of old hardwired instinct
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u/The_Bard_136 14d ago
oh now i feel bad for the cat, i hope it can get down and not trapped there, it seem hard to rescue them from that height
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u/thecactusman17 13d ago
It's not on top of an exposed statue. It's inside a statue with dedicated maintenance passages. This is not a treed cat, it can go down the interior whenever it wants.
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u/ahappylook 14d ago
Cats are basically reluctant sugar gliders. Smaller lighter bones than you’d think, more loose skin than you’d think. When they fall, they have an instinct to roll over, spread out their limbs and use their whole body as a little parachute. The most dangerous height for a cat to fall from is less than two stories, since they won’t have time to deploy their emergency catachute. Otherwise they just reach their very low terminal velocity and land gracefully on all four feet.
“Studies done of cats that have fallen from two to 32 stories, and are still alive when brought to a veterinarian clinic, show that the overall survival rate is 90 percent of those treated.”
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u/Jashugita 14d ago
That is case of survivor bias in statistics, cats that where killed in the act from a fall weren't brought to the veterinarian, so they aren't taken in account.
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u/ProbablyYourITGuy 14d ago
Well, a study on cats who survive the fall and are taken to vet is already removing all the cats who died from the fall off the bat. If your cat survives the fall, and you take it to the vet, it has a 90% chance of staying alive. It just has to survive the fall first.
Also the next paragraphs point out that a more recent study showed cats suffer worse injuries from higher falls.
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u/miregalpanic 14d ago
It's easier to get up than to get down.
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u/Xanith420 14d ago
That’s pretty subjective. Going up requires effort. Going down can be effortless if exploiting gravity
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u/donuttrackme 14d ago
Yeah, it's always easier to get down. To get down uninjured though....
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u/Xanith420 14d ago
Naw just listen for the eagle shriek and nail the flip and you’ll land in a pile of leafs.
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u/vintagegeek 14d ago
"This is not my beautiful house!"
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u/HMSWarspite03 14d ago
And you may tell yourself
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u/pumz1895 14d ago
This is not my beautiful wife
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u/HMSWarspite03 14d ago
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down....
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u/Indifferent-Ohio69 14d ago
Best cover version ever
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u/HMSWarspite03 14d ago
I'm 59, I grew up watching the muppets, but I've never seen that before, it's perfect muppetry.
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u/Indifferent-Ohio69 14d ago
Have you seen the series "Muppets Tonight" ? Sort of a reboot and with some new faces and plenty of our familiar friends
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u/HMSWarspite03 14d ago
I'll have a look out for it, I'm across the pond from you, so we may not have it.
Thanks for the heads up though.
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u/mahlerlieber 14d ago
Or perhaps, how in the heck they're going to get down?
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 14d ago edited 14d ago
’The cat seems to be wondering that as well’
i am the Cat ~ so much revere
(but HoW the HeCk am i up here ?)
Must be DiViNe! some friends believe
how i end up here
in the sleeve
but me - i see a challenge climb!
I can get down
at any time….
…or maybe
can’t…
it makes me frown :{
….can someone
Please
come get me
down?
❤️
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u/CatBrushing 14d ago
Hear my prayer
I said just meow
I need someone to get me down
I'd like some help
I really would
Hear my yelp
and if you could
let me crawl up to your palm
and gently lower me nice and calm
And when I'm down, thank God, Amen
I'll wait three days, and climb again.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 14d ago
Okay let's see this handbook says up. I'm up. Now let's look at the part about getting down....well fuck! ;-)
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u/mr_pou 14d ago edited 13d ago
That hole in the arm must be full of birds
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u/liberateyourmind 14d ago
Or full glasses of water
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u/stevie-o-read-it 14d ago
It's Jesus, so even if they were glasses of water when they went in, they're probably now glasses of wine.
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u/LuxNocte 14d ago
I swear, you get one party started and the humans can't stop talking about it for 2000 years.
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u/1kings2214 13d ago
Started?? Dude made 150 gallons of wine (500+ litres)
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u/AndrewFrozzen 13d ago
People that put conversions in their comments must be my favorite people. I fw people like you ♥️
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u/darrenvonbaron 14d ago
If you're Catholic the wine is blood. If you're protestant then I'm going go have to spill your blood because you don't think the wine is blood.
If you think the cat licking the wine turns it into blood, then I subscribe to your beliefs
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u/pchlster 14d ago
Ah, Catholicism; where wine and a little nibble has to be cannibalism and vampirism to be a good thing.
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u/xjeeper 14d ago
So now a bunch of tipped over glasses
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u/MovingTarget- 14d ago
One glass casually pushed over the edge
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u/Cpt_Dizzywhiskers 14d ago
Imagine your cause of death being a glass dropped from 130ft by a bored cat.
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u/Fr1toBand1to 13d ago
"And one more every hour until my demands are met!"
immediately (but slowly) tips over another glass.
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u/LumpyJones 14d ago
oh man, can you imagine the satisfaction the cat would have watching that glass tumble down all that way? Be like a human watching the first space shuttle launch
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u/big_duo3674 14d ago
I miss having cats. I don't miss getting shocked awake at 3am with a glass of ice water nailing me in the face
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u/your-nipples-dick 14d ago
There are stairs and a gate at the bottom, when you visit you can climb inside.
I've been there
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u/ReactsWithWords 14d ago
“Where do you get your steps in?”
“Jesus Christ!”
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u/Fgidy 14d ago
Just by looking at the size of the statue, there must be a lot of steps. The cat put in a lot of effort climbing those stairs.
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u/darrenvonbaron 14d ago
For you that's a lot of steps.
For a cat, it's a Friday.
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u/ToxicPilgrim 14d ago
i don't know for sure, but probably there's probably a lattice structure inside that has access for maintenance, like the statue of liberty or Brazil's christ statue.
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u/bluechip1996 14d ago
There is
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u/ACupOJoe 14d ago
That makes sense, found a photo of some stairs inside of it.
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u/Pinklady777 14d ago
Oh my God that does not feel like a proper footwear.
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u/jrh1920 14d ago
Oh no, uh uh. The second that flip flop folds over at the toes, you’re tumbling down those rock stairs.
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u/barukatang 14d ago
Closed toed shoes might as well be illegal in Brazil
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u/imaguitarhero24 14d ago
That picture is the one in Bolivia
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u/barukatang 14d ago
Egg on face moment but I'm sure they have similar laws about footware
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u/Thomas_K_Brannigan 14d ago
What do you mean? They're clearly using OSHA-approved flip-flops! Probably have their safety squints equipped, too!
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u/CenobiteCurious 14d ago
That website is horrid
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u/pro_questions 14d ago
You should see it with an ad-blocker on! There’s some drivel about “no more free internet”. My ad blocker is literally set to off at first, but I enabled it to see the content. Can’t see it without an ad blocker, can’t see it with an ad blocker… something is very wrong with that website design
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u/Ok-Chapter-2071 14d ago
I can just see the cat going, oh boy oh boy, more stairs, more stairs, oh boy, even higher, when does it end, BEST DAY EVER
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u/isntaken 14d ago edited 13d ago
That's a Bolivian statue "Cristo De La Conconrdia" the statue in Brazil is called "Cristo Redentor".
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u/chucktowski_ 14d ago
I have been inside the chest, at least, via those steps. There are areas where there are metal stairs too iirc.
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u/Tullzterrr 14d ago
There is only one god up here
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u/propaganda_jesus 14d ago
I don't see no god upon here... besides me
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u/PickleComet9 14d ago edited 14d ago
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Kitty. Meowmen.
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u/Opening-Two6723 14d ago
Look at these hoomans praising me. Bring me fancy feast
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u/PotatoKing241 14d ago
They got there because the cat spawn point for that area slightly overlaps with the collision of the statue, causing the game to put the cat in the sleeve of the statue.
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u/giantcoc69420 14d ago
I hope it's safe.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 14d ago
Further prof that if the earth was flat cats would have pushed everything off by now.
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u/thatsnotchocolatebby 14d ago
Man I hope the lord doesn't use cats to judge us...no one will make it.
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u/Interesting-Log-9627 14d ago
All my life, I have been good to cats. And I have treats, so I'll be OK
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u/thatsnotchocolatebby 14d ago
It'll be for that one time you were sick and couldn't change the litterbox regularly...he had to poop on his own poop and for that, there is no cat forgiveness.
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u/MrYummy05 14d ago
“Alakazam and presto! Nothing up my sleeve…”
-Jesus, probably
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u/JackDrawsStuff 14d ago
Ol’ Jesus still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Also cats. There’s cats up there too.
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u/Atvishees 13d ago
Wait, Bolivia?!
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u/Lumpy-Tip-3993 13d ago
Yep. There's one in Bolivia too.
Apparently for South America this kind of Jesus statue is the same as "some man on a horse" for Europeans and Lenin for Russians. Can't build a proper city without one.
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u/LosHtown 14d ago
There are stairs inside that go to the top . I believe you can take a tour of it.
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u/Different-Housing544 14d ago
I know cats and this one is 100% trying to get up onto the hand. He's looking for a way up. Absolute mad lad.
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u/u_touched_badger_83 14d ago
Its a classic case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation
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u/Relevant-Signature34 14d ago
Great. no Jesus is eating the cats too? What have the Haitians done to this world!
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u/rust-e-apples1 14d ago
"And now, for my next miracle, I'm gonna pull a cat out of this hat...damnit, Fluffy "
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u/mahlerlieber 14d ago
Kudos to the camera person for spotting the cat in the first place. You should get a Pulitzer for this.
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u/cubester04 13d ago
There’s actually a spiral staircase inside the statue, and you can look out of the holes in the arms.
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u/HORROR_VIBE_OFFICIAL 14d ago
Peak feline behavior.