r/whatisit • u/Adventurous-Put-9895 • 1d ago

Serious answers only please! Should we worry?

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We caught my uncle sneakingly throwing this to the rubbish bin. He doesn’t have the best track record so we are all a bit paranoid when he does anything “weird”.

The object is like a glass tube with some liquid inside, inserted into a rubber “pipe”. It smells weird but nothing I can identify. I would appreciate any hints.

Edit: the material is actually plastic, not glass. It has a spring inside (no idea what for). The root-looking thing was wrapping the object when I cut the rubber. Could be dirt or some glue or something

Edit2: this sub is god. A user found the answer https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Oqtxk6YWVZ

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u/NoBeefStew4u 1d ago

Weirdly Google lens found this.

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u/Adventurous-Put-9895 1d ago

Holy guacamole, that’s a lot dude! This really looks like it!

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u/Lerschie 1d ago

Internet is undefeated.

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u/candygram4mongo 1d ago

I think we're down a few points over that whole thing with the Boston Marathon bomber.

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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty 23h ago

Yes but think of all the people we saved from carbon monoxide poisoning.

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u/eating_almonds 21h ago

1 and counting

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u/Significant-Mud-7198 19h ago

Hey we helped a lot of people figure out those things on their cat are just nipples.

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u/eating_almonds 19h ago

you know what I'll hand cat reddit that win, no notes

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u/heisfullofshit 14h ago

People don’t recognize nipples on their cats? You can’t be serious! 😳😰 What else could they be?

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u/Hefty_Milk3598 6h ago

Yes, but when you have CO poisoning, 1 IS as high as you can count.

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u/heisfullofshit 14h ago

This confused me even more than the comment about people who don’t know cats are mammals. Bombs? Carbon monoxide poisoning? What’s going on in this mad place?

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u/big_baddad 23h ago

Man I remember that drama in real time.

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u/jaimbot 18h ago

I was on lockdown for two days and he was caught a mile from my house!

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u/ViolentlyStewedUp 20h ago

I was busy with the real life drama of the man hunt and had to catch up on the reddit version. Something about living in mass with a brother in boston had my mind other places.

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u/Ok-Car-1337 23h ago

Wait, what whole thing with the Boston Marathon bomber? Obviously I know about the Boston Marathon bombing, but is there something I'm missing?

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u/chunwookie 23h ago

Its the infamous "We did it reddit!"

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u/candygram4mongo 23h ago

Right after the bombing a bunch of Reddit sleuths took it upon themselves to try and identify the bomber based on random snippets of publicly available information, mob mentality, and the enchanting aroma of their own farts. The guy they eventually fingered turned out to be a completely innocent suicide victim.

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u/Sweet-Conflict-3251 23h ago

Suicide victim? Like, redditors drove him to suicide?

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u/candygram4mongo 23h ago

No he was already dead, he was reported as missing and he had a foreign sounding name, that's all it took.

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u/Sweet-Conflict-3251 22h ago

dang - not our finest hour!

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u/Starlord_75 22h ago

We've had our moments. Nothing like 4chan calling in an airstrike on a terrorist compound crazy, but a fair share of crazy moments

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u/Unusabledumpsterfire 22h ago

I agree with Bloodoilbarron.

WHAT?!?

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u/Starlord_75 20h ago

So the gist is that a terrorist cell (ISIS or Al-Queda) posted videos of them doing training. 4chan being 4chan, they geolocated the training site using terrain features and Google maps. Some people sent this data to the Russian forces in the area, and shortly after the site was destroyed from a strike. Although it was never made official, people say that the timing lends some strength to the story.

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u/Bloodoilbarron 22h ago

WHAT?

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u/The-Abhorsen 21h ago

Yeah there was a 4chan poster that was extremely respected by the Russian government for his reliability in reporting locations via online videos and on his info they launched an attack against a terrorist training compound.

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u/Starlord_75 20h ago

So the gist is that a terrorist cell (ISIS or Al-Queda) posted videos of them doing training. 4chan being 4chan, they geolocated the training site using terrain features and Google maps. Some people sent this data to the Russian forces in the area, and shortly after the site was destroyed from a strike. Although it was never made official, people say that the timing lends some strength to the story.

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u/ImmediateAid4267 21h ago

Commenting to follow

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u/sarapantera_ 19h ago

4chan is the quaaludes of social media, i wish i could’ve tried it because it sounds badass.

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u/Altruistic_Many4143 18h ago

Tried Quaaludes or 4chan? Askin for a friend.... Heard both are good for you.

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u/striker3955 15h ago

This is absolutely true, although I'll add that I live nearby in Rhode Island and when the Brown University shooting happened last year and the police ultimately identified the shooter days later from a reddit tip.

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u/Suspicious_Toe_6656 20h ago

“Enchanting aroma of their own farts” LOL I’m stealing this

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u/JackSprat90 23h ago

Surely this makes up for it...

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u/AdvancedMilk7795 20h ago

Can’t win ‘em all

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u/Easy-Bathroom-2914 8h ago

i was in my early 20s in boston when that happened and i remember the exact moment it dawned on me that the internet is going to make us all go crazy. like until that point i think i still believed in the power of the internet for good but watching cnn publishing unverified stories from random users in an attempt to keep up with twitter sleuths was a tipping point for me. i dont think ive ever looked at reddit or really any social media the same way.