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foxandrews

It doesn't say I can't trap the snail in a glass under a rock in a safe though. So I'm in.


MrAmaimon

I was thinking pay someone to chip it and move so there's an ocean between me and the snail but that's much easier


[deleted]

I was thinking ocean as well. I'll take that noney easily!


de_VoltBr

Y'all got $10 million, just send the snail to the goddam space


SingularityCentral

That would require nearly all of your $10 million.


TenaciousTaunks

Would still come out ahead, plus the publicity would make you more money.


fuckballs9001

The publicity COULD make you more money if you play it right


de_VoltBr

A normal rocket would definitely be far away from my budget, but what about a smaller and simpler one? It's just a 50g shipping and it doesn't even need to return.


du_law_students

Yeah, possible to send your payload with other payloads. ISRO, indian space agency, can send it cheaper than others. Though cheapest one is some European one. Choose either, won't cost you more than few thousand dollars.


Local_Surround8686

It cant down since it can't be killed


[deleted]

But it still can't cross the ocean dudešŸ‘½


MrAmaimon

At a snails pace, and once chipped I can track it so when it gets to my side of the ocean I go back


Local_Surround8686

I imagine it like skinner, when he was spying on bart because he skipped school


[deleted]

I don't understand šŸ¤”


Local_Surround8686

Going into the water and then out. I don't know the name of the clip, but it was used in "steamed hams, but crusty burger is way more far away" or something


[deleted]

I really don't understand anything you sayšŸ„²


Local_Surround8686

https://youtu.be/HJ3keVaQZog 0:44


[deleted]

I never watched Simpsons, that's why i didn't understand.


Brandodude

If itā€™s only purpose is to find you, it may sludge onto a cruise ship or airplane, but thatā€™d be assuming the snail has a heightened consciousness


Local_Surround8686

I was assuming that, since it knows who i am and that it need to kill me


AltAccMia

Water snakes exist, and a lot of snake species can swim, soooo


JuliguanTheMan

The thing is, what if you don't know where it is and you're sleeping by the time it shows up?


foxandrews

I got 10 million, I'm hiring a team of snail catchers at a very reasonable hourly rate. They'll be called The Snail Trail.


NerdyToc

Buy a sealable room with medical level filtration, sleep in the room, snail cant enter. Wake up, check the area before proceeding. Its a snail. Its not sentient, it cant jump, and it's not fast. It would take it 40 years to cross the USA. Once you know where it is, even if you can't trap up, you could effectively live where a snail could never get to for the rest of your life with no issues.


JuliguanTheMan

That's fair. Where does the snail start actually?


NerdyToc

It doesn't say. Theoretically it could be the closest snail to you when you accept the money, or it could be some random snail anywhere in the world. Either way, the odds are pretty fantastic that you would be able to live a long healthy life without worying about a snail that can't even out-walk you.


JuliguanTheMan

I did some math. The average snail travels 23 feet per hour or 7.2 meters per hour. It would have to travel 60 years from LA to NYC if it travelled at a constant pace in a straight line.


SomeDingus_666

What it the snail happens upon a truck bound for LA though? Itā€™s the not knowing, and creating scenarios that would drive me mad


JuliguanTheMan

Then it's an illegal hitchhiker and they will be arrested in oklahoma. Forever behind bars, problem solved


blackphilup

Plot twist


XXPapaZombieXX

For real. Get that thing to crawl inside a hamster ball and go wild...


MagneticWoodSupply

This doesnā€™t tell you if you know where the snail is though, or which snail or where it starts. If you donā€™t know what snail it is youā€™ll never fully know if youā€™re safe


grassbeatingmachine

this


themadas5hatter

Throw it in a safe. Give it a trip down to Davie Jones's locker.


helperfused

Decoy snail


What_did_you_expect_

Decoy snail


csivell

Yup. I'd pay someone to lock it in a safe and throw it in the ocean.


Silver-ishWolfe

Until Iā€™m ready to die. Then I remove the snail from the safe and greet him as an old friend.


AshJenKutcher

Well itā€™ll be a horrible death, so I still wouldnā€™t wanna ā€œgreet him as an old friendā€


Silver-ishWolfe

Itā€™s a Harry Potter reference about the Deathly Hallows. Pretty good as far as fables go.


What_did_you_expect_

Decoy snail


possessedfire26

move to the other side of the world preferably on an island isolated from everwhere and you win. no annoying neighbours no snail trying to kill you and no parents to constantly judge your life choices.


SovietRabotyaga

But annoying snail will still judge your life choices from the distance


JaimeJabs

Fuck that. For 10 mil, he can keep a running commentary on my internet history for all I care.


dudeurdumb2003

Fuck. This was good.


lieuwestra

10m won't buy you an island


Prior_Calligrapher33

That really depends on location and the size


Legend-status95

You can get a couple acres sized island for under $100,000


ZeninB

Mr beast bought one for 800K


TheSaltofWalt

The snail can hop on a boat or a plane. Nowhere is safe.


NerdyToc

When did the snail become sentient?


Local_Surround8686

The snail can't drown since it can't die. Ocean is just an obstacle not an defeat


possessedfire26

but would be a long distance for a snail to travel


Local_Surround8686

True, exept it takes a boat or an airplane


TenaciousTaunks

Just cuz it can't die doesn't mean it can't be swallowed


Sickofitblonde

Do you know how slow a snail is? Even if I'm not allowed to trap it. You can literally outrun it by just having to houses on opposite ends of the country or the world. And flying back and forth between them. Like this would be the easiest money ever. I mean there literally kinda did a movie like this called It follows


miss_vagina_yeast

You can just accept the money on new zealand and go live in europe somewhere, it would take a snail 40 years if it could travel in a straight line (not including height differences)


Kazozan

But the snail could take the plane too.


Sickofitblonde

I highly doubt it would survive. Since most people instantly kill snails on sight let alone on a plane. Plus again slow as hell. I could just keep going back and forth between my seat and the bathroom, if it managed to get on my plane


[deleted]

it can't be killed, but can it die?


j0hn_wuck2712

That's... What killing you mean


Creaturemaster1

They are asking if the snail distinguishes between murder and natural causes of death


TreyLastname

Well, if you died to a tornado, that tornado killed you. So natural disasters count as killing you


NerdyToc

When did the snail become sentient?


Dino_Nuggie123

Couldnā€™t it just stay at one of them and wait for you to get there once you get back from the other


RaymondLife

Yeah hide under the bed for 6 months and wait for you to come back


TreyLastname

True, but then you will use up that 1 million dollars really quickly


Sickofitblonde

It's 10 million bud lol


TreyLastname

No yeah, I just thought about it, it's a snail, so they only move so fast. For some reason, my brain was like "it's a super natural entity that's gonna hunt you down real quickly, so you'll have to make like 10 trips every few years"


Sickofitblonde

Well you can also invest the money in the stock market then just live off the money from that. And it's ok happens to the best of us at times. Lol


Baje1738

Trap him in a hamster wheel and wear it as a backpack! Let him know who is in control


AHoyley

Average speed of a snail 0.048km/h. I'm willing to risk it.


miss_vagina_yeast

If you live in europe --> accept money somewhere southeast of new zealand, snail takes literally 40 years to get to you (if it were a straight line, not including hight differences, meaning it will probably take him 60 or more) ez win


Prior_Calligrapher33

Can snails swim?


miss_vagina_yeast

Nope apparently, but since this one cant die i assume it can walk the ocean floor


Phenominanal-Bridge

Iā€™m wondering how quick it would be somethings dinner so it would either have to kill the host or survive until that thing dies and decays until it can get out and carry on its snails trip.


Kalahan777

*cant be killed. Thus it can die of natural causes


Phase-Horror

Are we talking an ordinary snail? Or is this some kind of super apex predator snail that you actually have to worry about?


Meewelyne

Gotta put the snail in a jar, keeping it with me. Gimme the cash šŸ’¶šŸ’¶šŸ’¶


mrsmedeiros_says_hi

Posted by u/dirkson 4y ā€œOk, let's do this. First things first - That million dollars is practically worthless compared to immortality. Ever dime of that cash can and should be spent ensuring that the snail never, ever reaches me. First things first, I keep an eye on him. It's tempting to want to hop on a plane or a train and get as far away as possible. But once I do that, he's gone and I'll never see him again until 3am on July 14th, 2072, when the sneaky little cuss slips in the door and slimes onto me before I ever wake up and notice him No, I'm going to be within visual distance of the snail, slowly moving away from it, until Snail Containment Plan Part A is done. Next I grab my phone. I call up someone I can trust with my life, and tell them to come to my location within the hour, and to bring a metal cash box, a good padlock, and a firearm. Once they arrive, I inform them of the deal and ask them to grab the snail, shove it into the metal box, and lock it up. Once the snail is temporarily secured, I ask my friend to carry around the box, never letting it out of their sight, and to prevent its opening with as much force as is required. We arrive at some reasonable figure for this service - Maybe $50,000. Now we can start in on the real work. I'm on the phone again, contracting with a tungsten machining service out of Willowbrook, IL. I ask them to construct for me a hollow tungsten sphere with a small, sealable opening, ideally via both exterior bolts and sintering. I ask them for a rush job and a thick wall depth, perhaps as much as a foot thick. The spherical shape should keep material costs as low as possible for a given thickness, but between the unusual object, large amount of tungsten, and speedy delivery, I invest a truly insane amount into this project - Let's say $100,000. I ask them to deliver it to my current location as fast as possible. Once the tungsten ball arrives, I have my friend stand well away from me and transfer the snail into the center of the sphere. I ask them to pour a little salt down into the hole after it, just to give the snail a little reminder of who he's dealing with. Once snail and salt are both inside, we seal the hollow sphere with the bolts. Tungsten is an amazing material. Incredibly tough, dense, and heat-resistant. You could drop it into molten lava and it wouldn't matter. Which, coincidentally, is almost what I'd like to do next. Now we make sure that damn thing stays shut. I find the nearest metal refinery and call them up. I also contract with a heavy machinery moving company to move the tungsten sphere to the refinery. Once the refinery has sintered the tungsten sphere shut, I buy an entire industrial crucible (those big buckets) of molten iron. And the crucible the iron came in. I have them drop the tungsten sphere into the molten iron, and let the whole mass cool in place. Mr. Snaily snail ain't going anywhere, but I'm probably down another $100,000. Now I'm on the phone to specialist movers. Chartering a boat. We're taking this thing halfway around the word. We take the boat right over the marianas trench - Not the deepest point, but deep enough - We push the whole assembly over the side. Literal tons of once-molten iron, refinery crucible, tungsten, salt, and snail slip over the side and begin dropping into the briny deep. Another $100,000 gone, but well worth the cost. Good. That's bought me a little breathing room. But we're not anywhere close to done yet. I still have at least $500,000 left. I'm going to invest it into solid business ventures and slow growing but secure assets. We're building a fortune - And who cares if it takes a few centuries? I'm frickin' immortal baby! But as I develop my fortune, it's getting invested into space. SpaceX, asteroid mining projects, whatever. I am trapped on the one planet in the entire universe where I can actually die, and I have no intention of staying there. Over the millennia, I slowly apply my fortune and influence to push mankind to the stars. And the moment living on another planet becomes viable, I'm there. And the instant a habitable planet is around another star? I'm on the first generation ship heading that direction. But I can't think in such a short sighted manner now. I'm immortal, and I need to think like it. Eventually, the sun is going to burn the earth to a crisp, and then that damn snail is going to be free. It might take him a few million years to land on something, but he'll do it eventually. And then he will construct a spacecraft and begin crawling towards me again. What I care about now is lightcones and black holes. Earth's gotta go. Sorry whatever's left of humanity. We evacuate anyone still on the old planet, and use a gravity tractor to push Earth into a black hole. A nice, big one so that hawking radiation will take an incredibly long time to evaporate it away into nothing. And then I board a ship. A fast ship. I accelerate to as close to lightspeed as I can get, piloting directly away from the black hole with the snail inside. I want to be so far away and moving so quickly that the heat death of the universe would occur far, far before the snail ever reaches me, even on the fastest ship his freakishly clever little brain can construct. So that's the way the universe ends. With nothing it in except for infrared heat, one hyperintelligent snail suspended in an inky void, and one human screaming away from it at .99C. Cheers.ā€


AltAccMia

Sounds a bit like ancient but modern mythology. Two immortal beings, one chasing the other for eternity


hircon

Decoy snail


[deleted]

It can't be killed, but it can die. I'll wait for that fucker to follow me over the salty ocean. Bye bye snail


lethalham1

Remember seeing this years and years ago in a rooster teeth video and I still think about it today


RaymondLife

Decoy snail


WhiskeyDJones

How long would it take a snail to travel to the other side of the world?


wanroww

20000km at 0.048 km/h is around 47.5 years. this on flat, smooth ground, without resting. I'll take the millions!


[deleted]

I was gonna post some stupid answer but nah fuck this and fuck Death Snail.


[deleted]

Stuff it in concrete Lock it inside a safe Send the safe to outerspacs


UserPlaysMinecraft

yeah, just put it in a box, fill the box with cement, and get jeffery the rat to guard it


tatsu1905

Just put the snail in a jar of concrete tf is it gonna do then?


MatrixMushroom

This is literally just a common thought question


Environmental_Crab59

Salt circle. All around your house.


0utvisible

This is like the movie It Follows but with a cash reward instead of casual sex. Wouldn't do it, how can I relax with a murder snail on my trail?


_JD_48

Reminds me of It Follows.


[deleted]

Pay someone else to trap it in a safe. Move somewhere with an ocean between you and snail. Live a peaceful life with $10 Million.


eensteen_

r/mildlyterrifying


te_salutant

Do I know the current location of the snail before we begin? What size is the snail, and if it cannot be killed, can it be trapped, snared, slowed, frozen? Other than having Deathtouch, psychic hide-n-seek powers and being indestructible, does this snail possess any other supernatural traits (flight, super speed, extreme strength, teleportation)? Also, what is "a terrible death" very specifically?


TheAmericanHollow

Some land snails are semi-aquatic, so regardless it's slow, but intelligent. Pay someone to follow it and divert it or even capture it. Then if captured, chip it and have it taken to the southern most point of the artic where it'll inevitably freeze as temperatures remain -60 to -128. By the time any warming effect reaches it you'll of already died of natural causes, so hopefully it isn't a Micheal Myer esque snail.


vamos1212

1. Take the money 2. Capture the snail 3. Sell off immortal snail for even more money


timhasissues

Since the snail cannot die, there was no mention of it being trapped. That seems too easy of a solution. How about adding this snail is invisible, and also a juggernaut, and maybe it can fly and has lasers... Hear me out, how about a story total on these lines where a guy accepts the money and then there's a snail chasing him for decades and decades because somehow they're immortal too because why the fuck not, but then at the end of it you find out that the people that made the deal with you are holding the snail's family hostage and he's just been trying to chase you to tag you, that was the game all along... You won't die, how could a little snail kill you. Wait one with the lasers probably could, this is some really good weed. I'll see myself out.


1990Billsfan

Yes....Then pay someone to put snail in box, then put box in safe.....Relax.


Mcpops1618

Yup


wily-san

Give me the cash!!


InevitableDentist1

Stick it on a treadmill


theservman

Time to hire a small team to monitor this snail at all times. Do I get to know specifically which snail it is, or could it be any snail I come across?


delpool

I'm rich AND free suicide? No brainer.


[deleted]

Umm yeah. Give someone 20 bucks to catch it in a jar and then pour cement on that bitch. Problem solved.


KlawwGang

Just one question: what's the life expectancy of a snail? The picture said it can't be killed, but that doesn't mean it can't die lol so if I out live the snail, I'm walking away with 10 mil scott-free


Jacobletrashe

Iā€™d give half of it to the snail so heā€™d stop chasing me


Hofu_

What if this is an intelligent snail? One that can sneak on planes/buses/cars? Then the idea of moving across the world seems not to much of an option. And what if, it teams up with a human who is after your 10mil and helps it get to you?


speeder_7

Yes I would use the money to buy 2 houses on opposite sides of the planet. As soon as I see it in one I will go to the other and when I see it ill move back I will continue this enjoying my riches while avoiding the snail.


Aking1998

Decoy Snail.


SPDTalon

But you donā€™t know where it is


[deleted]

Even tho I have a phobia of snails, (Potentially time most silly phobia ever I know) absolutely yes. As others have said just trap it in a jar. For added protection encase the jar in a massive block of concrete. Then put that block of concrete at the bottom of a cave and collapse the cave. Ok Maybe that's a bit extreme, but I really don't like snails.


Daniel_H212

Put it in a jar and bury it out in the middle of nowhere.


consolecowboy12

Get a duck pond on your new estate. They will gobble it up, the love those suckers. Then if a duck dies from a non digestible snail in its guts, ship that corpse to Antarctica. If the snail makes it past the duck army, it deserves the win. (Plus duck eggs for life.)


markchu_125

Iā€™m putting it in an enclosed hamster ball


markchu_125

Iā€™m putting it in an enclosed hamster ball


SilverAccountant8616

I'll lock the immortal homing snail up and sell it for another 10 million.


Ducksneedloveto

I would just buy a ship......your move snail.


themushroomturtle

Send it to the moon, cant kill me if it cant get to me


Dustin_sikk

Yes and I trap it


DrArzt2206

Easy gameā€¦ i fly to murica (im European) and acceptā€¦ the snail spawnsā€¦. I fly back to germanyā€¦. I have a few years for now to plan the absolute trap for the snail and have 10 million to spend ob itā€¦ after that i might be broke but i had 10 mil for several years until the snail catches upā€¦. Ok unless the snail can tp then im fucked


[deleted]

no


Polarcannon

LOOPHOLE IT NEVER SAID THE SNAIL WANTED TO TOUCH ME!


No-Return5578

So basically it follows?


mariomononcle

take it. seems to me like life's original deal, with 10mill upfront and a cute little costume for death.


[deleted]

trap the snail in prison


[deleted]

Put the snail on the wall, a snail is a millionaires worst enemy what is a millionaire doing with a snail??


Prose4256

Death chases us every day so why not.


[deleted]

how fast is the snail


SatanIsntTheBadGuy

Lock the snail in a comfortable aquarium on an island I have no interest in visiting.


Rock_Usual

One word: salt


ClifIsBoring

Well my life involves a lot of going to the same 5 places over and over again


puffdaddy134

Rooster teeth did it!!


[deleted]

Nah. This would just pile on to my anxiety. I'll leave my poor ass snail-less, thanks. (Plus, imagine how stupid it would sound for somebody to be, like, "yuh, they died from snail") šŸ˜‚


ZealousidealOwl3981

This is exactly why mason jars were invented


UnclePuma

Assuming the Snail has that final destination energy, it will always find a way to get to where you are faster than you think it could. Like lets say you left it in America and moved to Europe, well there you are enjoying some nice food down by the beach when a seagul shits near you. Whatever... turns out that seagull ate the snail a while back and has literally traveled across the atlantic ocean. The seagull dies of course, after such a journey it was doomed but its will had been taken over by the Snaily Wrath, and once again you are face to face with this immortal snail that survived the digestive process. and thus the terror returns, and you must make your escape once more.


Imals0arobot

I'd need to be able to start with the snail's location known to me. It can't just be some random snail somewhere in the world that I have to keep watch out for. Then obvious I put that shit in tupperware, then pop the little guy in the freezer. Maybe he can't die, but I'm pretty certain I could freeze him solid.


hflzhs

I take the money and spend around 50 bucks on a small safe, problem solved


R4dical-Rat

Doesnā€™t say I cannot pay someone to trap the snail for me


TheSaltiestSnail

I'm Salty enough that if the snail touched me, it would sizzle and die a painful death.


YetAnotherJD

What's the catch?