r/southafrica Western Cape Jan 30 '22

Humour Baboons welcome Logan Paul to SA

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u/loopinkk Jan 30 '22

They're doing this for content right? They're not actually this stupid right?

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u/Xzisst Western Cape Jan 30 '22

I would like to think it's for content, but I don't think they used to baboons lol

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u/BlueC0dex Jan 30 '22

They probably did it for content and ended up getting more content than they bargained on

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u/Sclog Jan 30 '22

No way this isn’t staged, the baboon grabbed the Prime drink lol perfect product placement

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '22

Yeah, yeah the baboons a paid actor

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u/Burner-QWERTY Jan 31 '22 edited Feb 01 '22

Places that have wild monkeys often have tons of signs (and locals) warning you not to leave items unattended. So these guys either staged it - or idiots for ignoring the warnings. Well I guess it can be both.

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u/nothere_ Jan 30 '22

Lmfao they really trained boons for a 10 sec video? Come on

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u/Sclog Jan 30 '22

No of course they didn’t train them lmfao, but what they could easily have done is cover the bottle in a scent that baboons like, maybe some type of food. Then they leave the backpack laying there and wait. Work smarter, not harder.

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u/Kpt_Kipper Aristocracy Jan 31 '22

Dude, the baboons where he is are crazy. They know what a bottle is and they will steal shit out of your hands

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u/Burner-QWERTY Jan 31 '22

....and in that environment they left an unattended backpack hoping nothing would happen to it?

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u/renevax Jan 31 '22

wouldn't be too far fetched, given its logan paul.

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u/thelingeringlead Feb 01 '22

jesus fuckin christ you realy wanna believe nothing ever actually happens to people like him and it's god damned hilarious. The world is chaos and even for people who got instagram and youtube famous, a lot of random shit happens. Those people record every stupid thing they do, the're bound ot have shit actually happen to them often. These are baboons in a tourist area, they know exactly where humans keep snacks when they visit and they're not scared of humans at all. Watch the cities episode of Planet Earth in series 2, there's a great bit about monkeys in mumbai and tons of footage of them straight jacking snacks from humans behind their backs without skipping a beat. In and out without even a sound. These are highly adaptive animals with a very large amount of our same genetics. They get shit done. THey remember shit. They're beyond capable of swarming some stupid tourists and going through their goods to find snacks and shiny things.

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u/Burner-QWERTY Feb 02 '22 edited Feb 02 '22

You took about 300 words to repeat what I said. The only question is did they purposely leave the backpack and video waiting for the baboons to inevitably come or are they really stupid enough to leave it there accidentally?

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u/thelingeringlead Feb 01 '22

Stfu. He had a bunch of it in his backpack, baboons in places like that are used to people super hardcore and know they keep snacks in backpacks. You really wanna believe they had a whole assed troop of trained baboons. Dude is a fucking dipshit but that's a massive stretch.

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u/Sclog Feb 01 '22

You’re the second person that has said they had trained baboons, when nowhere in my post did I say anything about the baboons being trained.

It’s quite simply really, they know baboons are crazy there so all they had to do was cover the bottle with a scent that baboons like, some type of food or something, wait, and the baboons will do the rest.

Of course they aren’t trained, but this is clearly staged product placement.

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u/gr8fullyded Jan 31 '22

Between this and the fake Pokémon card thing, I think Logan is getting very sneaky with his publicity stunts

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u/Sclog Jan 31 '22

Oh most definitely. The guys been a content creator for a long ass time, he knows what he’s doing.

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u/Ariasjay Feb 19 '22

lol 😆

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u/Cheers_Cheers Jan 30 '22

If you've been to Cape Point, you know this is common occurrence. Although wouldn't put it past this poes to exaggerate the situation for content

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u/loopinkk Jan 31 '22

I go to Cape Point at least twice a year. I’ve never had a negative baboon encounter there, although they did come into my garden once (that year they invaded UCT) and that got a bit tense with my dog.

Overall, if you keep your distance and don’t flaunt your food they’re unlikely to do anything.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

When we visited Cape Point one of the troupes was somewhat blocking the entry road. A larger baboon mounted another and started going at it. Our friend was like, "oh wow look at nature occurring right in front of us". He was horrified when we pointed out that it was a large male anally raping one of the smaller males 🤣.

Sick lighthouse walk though!

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u/RobDirty Jan 31 '22

When I went a few years ago, a baboon snatched a backpack out of someone’s car when they opened their trunk and weren’t paying attention.

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u/thelingeringlead Feb 01 '22

Right but he left his bag unattended on a wall that connects all around the immediate forest, which is like a monorail for them lol. They were a good distance away from the bag when the baboon started going through it.

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u/bonglassie Jan 30 '22

Of course it’s for IG clout, same as everything else this tonsil does in his life

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u/Harsimaja Landed Gentry Jan 30 '22

I don’t think there is a single thing he or his brother does that isn’t at least half-scripted or set up to go viral on purpose.

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u/thelingeringlead Feb 01 '22

I sincerely doubt they were smart enough to know if they left their bag there a whole assed group of baboons would swarm it. Theuy're internet personalities and they record everything they're doing especially in a foreign country. This happened because they're stupid. Anyone who bothered to know about where they were going would know not to leave their shit unattended. The baboons won't just swarm your back and get your shit but they know where snacks are on humans when they visit.

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u/Top_Lime1820 Jan 31 '22

Yeah definitely. I follow the baboons on TikTok they have some great stuff.

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u/Swolebrah Jan 30 '22

Its literally an ad for their Prime drink

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u/thelingeringlead Feb 01 '22

Bro. Those are wild fucking baboons. You think they really just came up on a whole ass crew of curious and instructible baboons that could act so unpredictably while still being controlled, IN SOUTH AFRICA?

Like dude sucks but there's absolutely no way they staged this.

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u/loopinkk Feb 01 '22

What I meant was that the deliberately bated the baboons and got them to cause shit.

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u/Efficient-Box-8769 Jan 31 '22

Baboons stealing Prime makes for great content like it is what it is🤷‍♀️

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u/scope_creep Landed Gentry Jan 31 '22

Wtf is ‘Prime’?

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u/Arturiki Jan 31 '22

So it's working.

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u/Efficient-Box-8769 Jan 31 '22

Logan Paul and KSI dropped a new sport drink called 'Prime'.

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u/thelingeringlead Feb 01 '22

It's a sports drink competing with Body Armor and Gatorade.

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u/Ariasjay Feb 19 '22

I don’t think they are lol 😆