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Kate Plummer
Jul 23, 2021
The moment the man fell
@fred035schultz/ Twitter
A hilarious video of a man trying (and failing) to cross a muddy swamp has gone viral.
The video shows the man wading through mud and trying to cross swampy water to get to the next patch of dry (ish) land.
“I don’t know how I’m going to get across,” he says.
“My trousers are getting dirty,” he adds, as he takes off his shoes to attempt the journey barefoot.
He then confidently steps forward, appearing to not know that he would be stepping into a pond not puddle, and duly falls into the murky depths, causing the person filming him to laugh as he reemerges absolutely soaked in mud.
Reacting to the clip, which has racked up over 670,000 views, some people found it hilarious:
@fred035schultz I feel bad because I laughed out loud. 😂.— KatherinetheGr8t (@KatherinetheGr8t) 1626992898
@fred035schultz that muttley laugh of his friend really tops it off— Tweety (@Tweety) 1626984709
@fred035schultz His trousers, did in fact, get dirty.— Kevin Day 🍷🥂 (@Kevin Day 🍷🥂) 1626960099
Other swamp truthers speculated that the video was staged, because the person filming it seemed unsurprised when the man fell in:
@fred035schultz He needs to work on his acting skills.— Firstplacelast😜 (@Firstplacelast😜) 1626960448
@fred035schultz Not set up at all 🙄— Dan (@Dan) 1626959929
@fred035schultz Looks staged. The person who films usually flinches and pans the camera out of focus in unexpected moments such as these.— Herbiwankenobi🍥 (@Herbiwankenobi🍥) 1626961001
If it was fake, then committing to absolutely ruin your outfit and surely day just to make the internet laugh is no bad thing in our books.
And if it was real, then we hope the man gets cleaned up soon and didn’t have his phone or any other valuable items in his pockets.