Crabbyshack.
Australian golfers saw their hilarious game interrupted by a monster thief crab, which smashed one of their golf clubs in half, as shown in this stunning video. Golfer Paul Buhner originally filmed the footage in October 2020, but it recently went viral after his son posted it to Reddit on Sunday, News.com.au reported.
“And that’s why we call them a thief crab,” Buhner said of the incident, which occurred on Christmas Island, Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, about 930 miles away. west of Land Down Under.
In the one-and-a-half-minute clip, Buhner and his golf buddies can be seen returning from the sixth hole to find the colossal crustacean stubbornly clinging to a bag of clubs.
The thief crab, which is the world’s largest land arthropod with a maximum length of 3 feet, gets its name from its penchant for stealing anything it can put its claws on. It is also called coconut crab because of its talent for tearing apart hard-shelled fruits with its nutcracker-shaped claws.
“Hello, buddy, what are you stealing,” Buhner mused as he approached the course crasher in front of the camera. “And we didn’t put that here, it climbed up here as we went out.”
It is not yet clear why the crab headed for the golf bag, although Buhner suspects that “there were old fruits” inside that may have attracted him.
“He’s got a pretty damn good hold on it, look at that,” adds the shocked golfer as he zooms in on the intruder.
Later in the clip, golfers attempt to tear their putter away from the stubborn invertebrate, only to see it snap the tool in half “like a chainsaw”.
The clip ends with the owner of the bag, named Al, trying unsuccessfully to save one of his gloves from the creature, which clings like a pitbull to a chew toy.
Al eventually drops the prop, prompting Buhner to advise, “Just let him have it, mate. He won the victory, he beat us.
Needless to say, the “Crabbyshack” incident caused a stir on Reddit.
“Terrifying F-king, I will have new clubs at the pro shop when I leave,” wrote one appalled commentator.
Another wrote: “This will make a memorable insurance claim. “
“If he broke one of my carbon tubes, he would have dinner,” one Reddit golf fanatic swore.
Crashing on golf courses is not the only notable habit of the thief crab. A 2020 Japanese study found that these seemingly silent crabs are notoriously gabby in the boudoir, making “clicks” at every stage of sex, from foreplay to intercourse.
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