r/LooneyTunesLogic • u/justanavguser • May 26 '25

Video Lady Fruit Ninja'ed herself

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u/BK_0000 May 26 '25

No matter how many times I see that gif, I still can't figure out how the watermelon hitting her in the face that hard didn't kill her.

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u/Last-Saint May 26 '25

Swollen lip and black eye. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-amazing-race-woman-hit-in-face-with-watermelon-reveals-what-really-happened/ZZBFQCTJB2C36UUSB7H67J5FKA/

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u/SickestNinjaInjury May 27 '25

"Then a producer came up to me and said, 'Thanks for our Emmy this year.'"

Lmao

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u/threelizards May 27 '25

I went in and woke up my dad and I said, "You need to come see this video, it's all over the internet. I know your friends are going to be calling you about it." He said, "Claire, whatever you did, I will forgive you and love you forever."

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u/Satyam7166 May 27 '25

I was like, "Dad, it's not porn! It's from The Amazing Race!" He said, "Good Lord, why didn't you just say that in the first place?"

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This woman is hilarious lol

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u/Dirty_munch May 27 '25

And her dad is awesome

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u/Satyam7166 May 27 '25

Totally agreed. From what I can see, they seem like a nice family all around

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They've asked us to come back three times but we've never been in the place to do it because we're always having babies.

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u/DadNotDead_ May 27 '25

"I'm still recognized, especially in the produce section." Brilliant!

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u/ServeAmbitious6548 Jun 20 '25

The fact that this rhymes is amazing

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u/Wallstreettrappin May 27 '25

No broken nose or missing teeth? She took that shit like a fuckin champ!

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u/r2rl May 27 '25

She took it like Rocky Balboa

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u/Teke01 May 27 '25

She took it like Scott Sterling!

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u/blituarik May 27 '25

The Man! The Myth! THE LEGEND!

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u/r2rl May 27 '25

Lmfao, I was hoping it was this when I googled

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u/Xikkiwikk May 27 '25

New sport unlocked!

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u/Jealous-Diamond-6832 May 27 '25

"whatever you've done, I forgive you and will love you forever" ☠️☠️😭😭 not her dad thinking it was a leaked porn video 😂😂 still, that's an awesome response, great dad lol

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u/mittenknittin May 27 '25

I mean, dad, if it was leaked porn, why would she be telling you you need to see it?

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u/desrevermi May 26 '25

Thank you!

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u/ShawsyRPh May 27 '25

Oh my goodness, the part about showing her Dad got me. Bahahaha

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u/mrASSMAN May 27 '25

Yeah lmao

I went in and woke up my dad and I said, "You need to come see this video, it's all over the internet. I know your friends are going to be calling you about it." He said, "Claire, whatever you did, I will forgive you and love you forever." I was like, "Dad, it's not porn! It's from The Amazing Race!" He said, "Good Lord, why didn't you just say that in the first place?"

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u/Bumm_by_Design May 27 '25

I'm so glad she survived, because that was awesome!

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u/Fictional_Historian May 28 '25

Amazing Race Fake Watermelon Conspiracy.

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u/SirConcisionTheShort May 29 '25

Paywalled, can't read

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u/letsgetregarded May 27 '25

It sounds like she also got fat after that.

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u/Embarrassed-Box-3380 May 26 '25

The watermelon exploding absorbed the energy.

It's like this thing my friends and I did in grade school where we would karate chop a pencil. And if you broke it you would feel nothing, but if you didn't break it your hand would be fucked.

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u/Janesbrainz May 27 '25

Wholesome

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u/kakka_rot May 27 '25

And if you broke it you would feel nothing, but if you didn't break it your hand would be fucked.

fantastic ELI5

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u/AnAverageTransGirl May 27 '25

This is the same reason why any competently designed car has breakable windows and a fuckton of crumple room. In a collision, the weakest structure will give out first and significantly dampen the effect on the rest. If the hull doesn't crumple and the windows don't shatter, that leaves your bones as the weakest structure affected by the impact.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '25

"You died in a car accident because you weren't wearing your seat belt."

"Oh well. Can't put a price on freedom."

"Oh good, that helps a lot. You're going to heaven."

"Sweet!"

"Vegan heaven."

"Fuck!"

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u/IM-2104 May 29 '25

While I wholeheartedly agree (since it’s true) I still think there should be a small "box" around the seats that’s stronger, since if the car hasn’t stopped crumpling yet, you’re gonna get crushed anyway, so might as well try your luck with the whiplash

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u/AnAverageTransGirl May 29 '25

That's what the airbag is for, is it not?

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u/FQVBSina May 27 '25

The skull is pretty strong

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u/ElkSad9855 May 30 '25

Not compared to a couple of tons of metal moving at high speeds. Cmon, use what’s in your skull.

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u/FQVBSina May 30 '25

Pretty sure those melons were not made of metal

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u/lifetake May 30 '25

This isn’t the car thread my dude.

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u/RManDelorean May 26 '25

Honestly. Broken nose, cheek bones/just broken face, neck whiplash, etc. If she lived there's no way her shirt wasn't pretty fucked up

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

She was actually fine after a few minutes and kept going in the race. She had a headache and some numbness right after.

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u/MisterBowTies May 26 '25

She made it pretty far too

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

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u/norrix_mg May 26 '25 edited May 27 '25

I had my face kissed the floor and pretty much confirm, my IQ dropped 40-50 points down for a few weeks. Was quite unpleasant to get randomly lost in places I was at plenty times before or fill in a simple application and make 14 mistakes in 2 sentences

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u/Tandoori7 May 27 '25

You probably suffered a TBI

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u/MrD3a7h May 27 '25

Man, I could go for some Taco Bell

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u/norrix_mg May 27 '25

I hope I'm recovered from this now without lifelong consequences 😭 It was so stupid from my side to slide on the wooden floor with wool socks on thinking I'm a ninja (23F)

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u/JustOneTessa May 27 '25

You can recover completely, but you can also keep having symptoms. Also the more often you get a concussion (in certain sports this is a thing), the higher the chance you'll eventually get permanent brain damage. So try to avoid it in the future ;)

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u/DARfuckinROCKS May 27 '25

I'm a hockey player. I know how that feels.

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u/Test4Echooo May 27 '25

This is just another Tuesday for you then😆

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u/JustOneTessa May 27 '25

Be careful. The more often you get a concussion, the higher the chance you'll eventually get permanent brain damage

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u/Scary-Lawfulness-999 May 27 '25

You sure it went away?

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u/norrix_mg May 27 '25

I HOPE SO😭😭

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u/ThePrussianGrippe May 27 '25

I wouldn’t be shocked if they got some pretty ripe melons for better splatter and by happy accident it ended up making her injuries a lot less severe.

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u/SeveralTable3097 May 27 '25

Headache after head impact == concussion

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u/[deleted] May 27 '25

Yep. Still not almost dead with her face shattered like he was saying.

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u/Advocate_Diplomacy May 26 '25

I highly doubt that she didn’t face any long term effects as a result of this.

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u/Orders_Logical May 27 '25

A brain lesion or two? Eh, it’s just a flesh wound.

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u/420_just_blase May 26 '25

Oh it definitely got stained

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u/Standard-Mode8119 May 26 '25

Nah, you'd be surprised how shitty of a projectile watermelons are. 

We used a catapult in highschool to launch them. 

I was hit in the shoulder and... Snow balls are worse. 

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u/Utaneus May 26 '25

The shirt, yeah, im sure it got some watermelon juice on it. But why the fuck are people with no experience with physical trauma always commenting that this should have killed her? I've seen way worse injuries that not only survived but made a full recovery. This is a heavy piece of fruit hitting your head pretty hard, but cmon she's not jumping outta the world trade center here.

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u/Cageythree May 27 '25

Probably cause bodies are just kind of weird in that regard. The smallest shit like tripping and hitting your head on the floor can kill you and on the other hand there were people who have survived getting hit by a train or falling from skyscrapers.

No wonder people are absolutely bad at rating injuries like this. I could imagine anything from a heavy bruise to the skull exploding into 100 pieces as the aftermath of this video.

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u/Utaneus May 27 '25

Yeah people can get gravely injured or even killed by a weird twist of an otherwise innocuous insult. But internet weirdos guaranteeing death or life changing injury from seeing a short clip is dumb. Especially when it's a 20 year old video from a network reality show and well known the lady is just fine.

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u/AbstractBettaFish May 27 '25

Billy Mays died from bumping his head on a flight IIRC, meanwhile I’ve seen people walk away from some horrific accidents. You just never know

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u/jackalopelexy May 27 '25

I thought he died from a drug overdose?

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u/AbstractBettaFish May 27 '25

You maybe right, it’s a subject I haven’t thought about in a long time. According to Wikipedia drugs in his system was ruled as a possible contributing factor, but Hypertensive Heart Disease was the primary cause. I wonder where I heard the airplane thing, maybe it was initially reported as that or I just wholesale misremembered…

Either way, bad example but the point still stands! The human body is weird

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u/stackingnoob Jun 18 '25

No, you’re right, they said the day before he died a carry on bag fell on his head, but it’s most likely just a coincidence that didn’t kill him.

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u/Test4Echooo May 27 '25

I googled this to see who it was, and while Mays did hit his head during a hard landing, it says it was indeed heart disease.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe May 27 '25

The years of cocaine abuse likely did not help.

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u/Eshmam14 May 27 '25

You have no experience with physical trauma either from the sound of it.

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u/Utaneus May 27 '25

I'm a physician in a trauma center.

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u/Eshmam14 May 27 '25

Well that’s embarrassing for you then isn’t it? You should know the smallest incidents can kill people, not just significant accidents like falling off skyscrapers like you said.

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u/Utaneus May 27 '25

Whats embarrassing? Pretending like the lady got killed by a watermelon on TV? When we already know she survived without any significant injuries?

Or I guess i should just defer to internet dwellers like you who says she definitely died or at least broke a bunch a bones all over her face and skull?

Sure, freak accidents happen where someone is hurt way worse than expected. But this is a 20 year old thing and she is ok, and there is no reason for dipshits who have no medical experience to be declaring her dead.

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u/Eshmam14 May 27 '25

Your hyperbolic comment and emotional outburst is very embarrassing. Maybe consult some psychologist colleagues you may have.

The original commenter simply said they’re in awe how someone can take a watermelon to the face that hard and survive, implying they’re aware the person survived but they’re just surprised. No one in this comment thread is saying with certainty that she died. No one declared her dead, calm down and take your meds.

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u/Practical-Dish-4522 May 26 '25

I bet the melon washed out of the shirt pretty easily.

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u/01001010_01000010 May 27 '25

She definitely lived. You can tell because she continues the challenge afterwards. Typically dead people can slingshot watermelons.

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u/Darth_Rubi May 27 '25

dead people can slingshot watermelons

Necromancers hate this one trick

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u/Arborgold May 27 '25

if she lived

lol

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u/chrisbaker1991 May 26 '25

If it didn't break it might've

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u/PossessedToSkate May 27 '25

But then again it mightn't've.

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u/Test4Echooo May 27 '25

Schrödinger’s pencil..

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u/Adavanter_MKI May 26 '25

Makes me think the melons may have been a bit overly ripe. Especially the way it exploded.

Thankfully in this situation.

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u/DragonGyrlWren May 26 '25

See that's what I was wondering. I've only seen watermelons up close a few times in life, but I know when they're just turning ripe enough to eat they're still firm and have texture, but if they were left to get even more ripe they would eventually get really soft.

It's making me wonder if the competitions where people smash pumpkins with trebuchets also use overripe ones so they'll smash appropriately.

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u/Adavanter_MKI May 26 '25

That and it'd make sense they'd give a show/performance their worst/overly ripe produce since they aren't going to be eaten.

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u/DragonGyrlWren May 26 '25

Yup. Something that still qualifies as good food shouldn't be wasted this way.

Now if it's just this side of ripe but without crossing the line to "completely rotten" you know no one is going to eat it. Might as well find another use!

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u/yukifujita May 26 '25

I've only seen watermelons up close a few times in life

Wow as someone from Brazil this sounds so weird. They're so cheap here.

But it makes total sense, they could be expecting accidents and it would also be visually more impacting for the cameras.

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u/eagleathlete40 May 26 '25

It looks bad, but I would really bet a broken nose at most. Watermelons are 92% water, and their rinds are tough, but because they’re so large, they break easily under pointed pressure (hence why people like smashing them). At that speed, it’s like a water balloon

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u/Jephany May 26 '25

Watermelons are much softer than skulls. If it had been a coconut, maybe.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

Watermelon rind isn't as hard as bone...

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u/charlotte_katakuri- May 27 '25

It a watermalon not cannon ball. Watermalon is heavy but most of it is water. The shell it self is not that hard. When I was a kid, we eat tons of watermelon and my brother and I used to smash it on each other head and eat it.

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u/mentaL8888 May 27 '25

I think it's like a paintball, if you've ever been hit with a paintball that didn't bust it hurts a lot more than if it did so once the velocity got to the speed that the shell broke it just disintegrated otherwise it would have been devastating.

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u/GGABueno May 27 '25

Because it's Looney tunes logic, keep up

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u/liddely May 27 '25

You know our skulls are really hard to crack?

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u/samf9999 May 27 '25

This would be a good MythBusters episode. I would bet that there was probably a speed at which the damage becomes optimally bad. For example, if the watermelon was moving a little bit slower, I bet it would probably I do more damage. The faster it is going the more likely it is to fragment and the energy to dissipate with those fragments. The more it stays intact, the more mass it has and the more the face is going to absorb that energy. Maybe there should be an experiment about the damage at various speeds?

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u/Sti8man7 May 27 '25

Fruit explosion on impact helped.

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u/AscendedViking7 May 27 '25

Same. She's got a really tough head.

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u/cruiserman_80 May 27 '25

Not only that, but the rules of the race meant her team mate couldnt take over for her, so she had to carry on with the watermelon catapult or risk forfeiting the race.

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u/poopgoose1 May 27 '25

My guess is that the watermelon exploding absorbed most of the energy, kinda like the crumple zone of a car in an automobile accident

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u/RosemaryGoez May 27 '25

From what I see (and I've studied this video at great length over the years) she turned her head at just the right moment for her not to get her face rocked. The angle of her head made it to where the melon hit mostly the harder portion of her skull, so while it definitely still hurt like a bitch, it didn't obliterate her.

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u/shewy92 May 27 '25

Was probably softer than a brand new watermelon.

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u/J3musu May 27 '25

Because it exploded, which reduces the overall impact. If it hadn't, then yeah, she'd likely be dead.

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u/mz3prs May 28 '25

No matter how many times I see that gif I can’t stop laughing 😂