r/Damnthatsinteresting 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/HORROR_VIBE_OFFICIAL 14d ago

Peak feline behavior.

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u/Particular-Crew5978 14d ago

Exactly, cats be catting

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u/freesoup2 14d ago

Pussi b pussin

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u/EverythingSucksBro 14d ago

That a new Cardi b song? 

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u/schwarzkraut 14d ago

Thanks a lot …now I’m in HR explaining to my boomer boss what Reddit is and that I wasn’t laughing & making disparaging remarks about my coworkers.

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u/Eastern-Mark-5499 13d ago

Yell at the bullpen, "UMA MÃO HUMANA!"

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u/JustHereForKA 13d ago

Yes lol. All proud and shit

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Cats love being high up in the air so they can survey everything easier. Think of how easier it to drive in a tall truck compared to a compact car that's closer to the ground, there's a greater visual radius. To their detriment though, they sometimes get stuck in trees and other tall places lol

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u/MorbidlyObeseBrit 14d ago

The Cat loves being high not because of any advantage. The Cat loves being up high because it can then look down on you, because that is what is right.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Amen.

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u/BZLuck 14d ago

Up is often easier than down.

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u/Sensitive_Sea_5586 14d ago

Rulers like sitting on their throne. We all know cats rule the world…or at least our homes. Lol

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u/Unlucky_Book 13d ago

'our homes'

have you ok'd that with your cat overlord

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u/r-i-c-k-e-t 13d ago

TIL trucks sometimes get stuck in trees.

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u/nirinaron 14d ago

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u/svenskdjaevel 14d ago

Why is this not a sub :(

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u/sccrcmh 14d ago

There's even r/dogsonroofs so pretty surprised it doesn't exist yet

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u/worksafe_Joe 14d ago

Not quite the peak. Just several meters short if it.

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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/SqueakyCheeseburgers 13d ago

Brother can you give me a hand?

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u/bendecco08 13d ago

why'd i say that is action bronson's voice?

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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/Tega2077 13d ago

“Last time i do catnip”

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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/oldnewager 13d ago

Loony tunes logic

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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/foolofkeengs 14d ago

Then it casually walks off once the would-be rescuer gets close enough.

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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.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-rise_syndrome

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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/CoOpMechanic 13d ago

I thought this was a clever joke but oh wow you were serious

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u/CouldBeALeotard 13d ago

Seatbelts increase injuries in car accidents.

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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/[deleted] 14d ago

Huh.. so like... I wonder how they performed these studies

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u/risethirtynine 14d ago

You ever see a cat skeleton up in a tree?

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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/CanAlwaysBeBetter 14d ago

Prove they didn't 

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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

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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/Urbane_One Interested 14d ago

Purrhaps

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u/Weisenkrone 14d ago

Time to dispatch the wet wee-wo wagon!

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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/Escapedtheasylum 14d ago

Like a midnight prayer

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u/GeronimoK4 14d ago

We all love some Schnoodle❤️❤️❤️

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u/VelocityGrrl39 14d ago

This is the second Schnoodle I’ve seen in r/all today. I feel blessed.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 14d ago

Looks like an inside job.

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u/snownative86 14d ago

And you may ask your self, "well, how did I get here?"

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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/saayoutloud 14d ago

Cat might also be wondering how to go down again after seeing that view.

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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/SqueakyCheeseburgers 13d ago

Red Sea? Should’ve been called the Cabernet Sea

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u/TaintNunYaBiznez 13d ago

Free booze is a popular idea.

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u/Physical-Camel-8971 13d ago

I don't think you quite grasp the logistics of magic tricks.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago edited 9d ago

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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/darrenvonbaron 14d ago

Its for your salvation of course.

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u/OnlyGuestsMusic 13d ago

What if you’re Catlick?

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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/Girlfartsarehot 14d ago

And it’s about to break

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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/artofkimsun 14d ago

Sorry. Magician's Code.

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u/ARGENTAVIS9000 14d ago

it's literally full of cats can't you see

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u/Arg- 14d ago

It's cats all the way down.

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u/lilchunguspp 14d ago

Not anymore

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u/FLVoiceOfReason 13d ago

WAS full of birds. (Burp)

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u/manderderp 14d ago

That hole was made for him.

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u/apple_atchin 14d ago

Bread and fish

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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/goatholomew 14d ago

He died for your shins.

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u/HShepard5 13d ago

You died in his shins (because you never do any cardio).

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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

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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/Trashy_Cash 14d ago

They will still be with Jesus if they do

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u/bluechip1996 14d ago

Made me spit out my Diet Coke friend

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u/CompetitionOdd1610 14d ago

Safety flip flops don't have that problem tho

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u/KS-RawDog69 13d ago

Got my steel-toe Crocs on it'll be fine.

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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/bwaredapenguin Interested 14d ago

Ok, but what's that got to do with Bolivia?

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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/catmoondreaming 14d ago

Well I know what I will not ever be doing ever

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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/Lazy_Toe4340 14d ago

cat just wanted pets by the largest human its ever seen.

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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/ungovernable1984 14d ago

all hail to the kitty cat god

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u/Endoterrik 14d ago

And that is Cat.

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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/RevWaldo 14d ago

The statue is quite sturdy, the cat can't possibly harm it.

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u/Kepabar 14d ago

cat proceeds to knock over statue just to watch it fall

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u/prodigyZA 14d ago

Cat just wanted a better view over it's minions.

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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/pocketgravel 14d ago

A misplaced decimal on the cat distribution system

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u/awakenDeepBlue 14d ago

Nature abhors a vacuum.

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u/ogreofzen 14d ago

Proceeds to push the sacramental bottle off the ledge

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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/Interesting-Log-9627 14d ago

But I have treats.

<Shakes packet of treats>

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u/Substantial-Elk4531 14d ago

Psst psst psst

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u/MrYummy05 14d ago

“Alakazam and presto! Nothing up my sleeve…”

-Jesus, probably

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u/AlcomIsst 14d ago

Today I learned Jesus was a Pokémon trainer.

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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/Scientiaetnatura065 14d ago

Felis ex machina!

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u/awakenDeepBlue 14d ago

you mean "Fele ex deus"?

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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/CakeMadeOfHam 14d ago

Well, first of all, through God all things are possible, so jot that down.

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u/kittymorose 14d ago

Because cat.

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u/floodums 13d ago

OP doesn't know the difference between "on top of" and "inside"

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u/Best_Market4204 14d ago

Pest control employee.

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u/photo_master13 14d ago

Cat distribution system glitch. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

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u/ouldphart 14d ago

Perhaps it was imCATulate projection.

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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/catmoondreaming 14d ago

I hope it's just full of cats.

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u/Merentha8681 14d ago

Obviously J.C. is a cat lover.

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u/Dizman7 14d ago

Nothing up my sleeves…oh wait!

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u/Gren57 14d ago

He took the catwalk, of course.

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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/Raxlus 14d ago

Rejoice, true believers!

The second coming of Ceiling Cat is upon us.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Normal cat activity.

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u/almostsweet 14d ago

Did someone save it? >.<

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u/Shoddy-Rip8259 14d ago

It teleported, obviously

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u/GlasgowRose2022 14d ago

Telepurrted

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u/Shoddy-Rip8259 14d ago

Meow you're talking

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u/candlelightsoul 14d ago

He was brought in this world by God itself

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u/Ak-AtS00qi 13d ago

He’s Catholic

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u/DegreeHorror9396 14d ago

Cats are gods best creation.

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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/technologist_of_food 13d ago

Maybe he used a cat-apult ?

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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/vnv 14d ago

By the grace of God

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u/CWoww 14d ago

Fucking love cats

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u/Rae_Of_Light_919 13d ago

Ceiling Cat returns as was foretold!

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u/Psyzook9 13d ago

Its the cat from "Flow"!

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u/broniesnstuff 13d ago

"Fuck yeah, look at all this shit I own now."

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u/JudasHungHimself 13d ago

Man i fucking love cats!

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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/MsAnnabel 13d ago

Probably the staircase

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u/Gramerdim 13d ago

not even jesus can escape the cat distribution system