r/interesting • u/RoyalChris • 8d ago
SOCIETY Erling Haaland exiting the plane in Oslo airport after returning home
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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 8d ago
Emotional support racoon...
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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 8d ago
And so well behaved!
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u/BossaNovaCaineSugar 8d ago
He’s in a whisky coma
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u/Accomplished-Pay8181 8d ago
So THATS where Franklin went...
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u/TabletopNewtype-1 8d ago
Finding a fellow habitual linecrosser fan in the wild is a weird feeling. The kid must be missing Franklin.
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u/dicey_job 8d ago
He is still a phenomenon as a player. Norway is not such a little country to be snickered at.
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u/JupiterTVrobot 8d ago edited 8d ago
Why is everyone joking about this? This isn't some wacky one-off item from some antique shop. This is a full fledged American business corp that sells this item online. So each time someone places a $750 order do they go kill a raccoon and stuff it? All for a tacky showpiece that some rich fuck can laugh at?
This is so tasteless, disgusting, and totally needless cruelty. If any other country had something like this, reddit would be frothing at the mouth over animal cruelty.
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u/Just-Detective 8d ago
Wild to be mad at the raccoon but not the dead animal on the Hermes bag
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u/Sea-Seesaw-8699 8d ago
I see dead ones on the roads daily in rural Midwest Literally hundreds run out in front of cars
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u/Flipped_reality_over 8d ago
Because we literally have hunting seasons for these animals. They are a nuisance most of the time but either way if you get your state license for game and have a registered firearm (and property) it’s fair game.
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u/Dathouen 8d ago
You don't even need a license to kill them in my state, any more so than you'd need one to kill a rat. Granted, it's kinda our fault they're a nuisance. They're omnivores and opportunistic scavengers, so they went from hunting and gathering out in the wild to having tons of food they don't really have to compete for in places where their natural predators aren't willing to tread.
Also, it's legal to keep them as pets as well so long as you get them their shots and have them neutered.
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u/Sea-Machine-8989 8d ago
I'm Norwegian, I grew up with a taxidermied lynx in my grandparents living room. My grandfather didn't kill it for fun, he ran it over while working as a train conductor. Every time I saw that lynx I only got respect for life and how easily it can get snuffed.
It's a racoon, if you eat meat, drink milk or wear leather you're already murdering more animals than any hunter giving a racoon for taxidermy.
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u/Juiced_Rasputin_ 8d ago
Listen I think they’re overreacting as well but I think it’s perfectly reasonable to be put off by someone walking around with a taxidermied raccoon that legitimately looks like it was killed 12 hours ago.
That last bit is hyperbole, but to act as if it’s some grand offense to kind of frown at this/ thinking that eating a hamburger is the same approximation of visibly carrying taxidermy is crazy
It’s nothing to clutch pearls for but it’s dismissive to pretend as if it’s not needlessly tacky.
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u/JupiterTVrobot 8d ago edited 8d ago
So you're saying that each time someone orders this $750 item, the kind shop owners go scouting the highways and train tracks and bushes looking for roadkill and raccoon corpses? Are those roadkill raccoons, probably squished completely, even candidates for taxidermy? You and I both know that these animals are sought out and killed. Just to make a mockery of their corpse so some rich fuck can have a laugh. I can't believe the usually holier-than-thou redditors who love to preach, justify this disgusting, tasteless and needlessly cruel activity.
And just because I may not harangue people for what they eat (something that may be constrained by their environment and economic status), doesn't mean that it's okay to kill animals just to display their corpse as a tacky showpiece. It's not an all or nothing. Do you justify all animal cruelty this way? We anyway eat meat, so what's the big deal in torturing pets, right?
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u/SubstantialFly6715 8d ago
Is that a taxidermied raccoon?
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u/yukonhoneybadger 8d ago
Not just a racoon. Zoom in because it has an empty liquor bottle.
That will look great with on top of the kitchen cabinets next to the rows of beer bottles
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u/Marsupialize 8d ago
I have the exact same one, nobody in the family knows where it came from
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u/faramaobscena 8d ago
Haaland’s gf who just finished remodeling the kitchen and has everything coordinated:
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u/PoseidonMax 8d ago
Just look up squirrel taxidermy. My friend got one for his bachelor party. It was something his wife does not allow outside his man cave.
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u/YourGuyK 8d ago
Does your friend work as a janitor at a local hospital?
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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise 8d ago
Everyone thinks squirrel armies are so great. I'm not sure it's the healthiest habit in the world...
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u/elquecazahechado 8d ago
One month in America.
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u/Vegetable-Zone1353 8d ago
One weekend in Florida
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u/Jesus_of_NASDAQ 8d ago
One night in South Beach
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u/lawn_neglect 8d ago
And the world's your oyster
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u/wannabe_inuit 8d ago
"Whiskey Racoon" handcrafted whisky holder, 750$
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u/killerkitten61 8d ago
Damn that’s classy
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u/AdWide5106 8d ago
I prefer the squirrel with the shooter and cig flicking me off.
https://wildbillswestern.com/collections/b-s-trading/products/h-m-sq-wsk-squirrel-mount-w-whiskey
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u/someguyfromsk 8d ago
"I went to America for the World Cup, and all I got was this taxidermy raccoon"
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u/Meowingbark 8d ago
Sold out!! Looks like I’ll have to make my own one! Checks YouTube on how to catch a raccoon
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u/SonofaBridge 8d ago
Not the souvenir I would have picked but he will always remember where it came from.
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u/Entire-Anxiety-803 8d ago
But he could have gotten this:
https://wildbillswestern.com/products/h-m-sq-wsk-squirrel-mount-w-whiskey
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u/Allykatz90 8d ago
Am I the only one who's slightly annoyed that it's called whiskey raccoon, and yet it's holding a bottle of London Gin?
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u/Citistolemymoney 8d ago
Lmao I love this, might get one and see what my wife says after
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u/Zarniwoooop 8d ago
Of course. You don’t have one?
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u/themobiledeceased2 8d ago
The standard Texas Long Horns are being shipped, too large for carry on.
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u/karenmarie303 8d ago
It’s a $750 bottle of liquor, that comes with a raccoon. And his bag is Dolce and Gabana, selling for $34,500.
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u/MichelinStarZombie 8d ago
That hideous bag is $34K? I know he was probably gifted it and is probably going to regift it, but good god, rich people can't buy taste, can they
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u/Wooden_Rabbit_ 8d ago edited 8d ago
He’s 20 and makes over 600k a week, that kind of thing is brain poison. Even if he’s a down to earth guy in other ways, his relationship with money and material things is never going to be anything we’d recognize as normal.
For comparison, this is like someone who makes $100k a year spending about $120 on a bag.
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u/wombat_hadthat 8d ago
wait what. what does this bag do for 34k?
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u/Gloomy_Pangolin6075 8d ago
Show other people that you had 34k to spend on a bag.
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u/Sintriphikal 8d ago
Norway was based out of North Carolina for the most part. This makes total sense.
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u/CasperAverage 8d ago
He bought the raccoon in Dallas, Texas when they were there for their Round of 32 game. He posted an Instagram story at the store.
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u/Admirable_Pop_7292 8d ago
They’re everywhere. I see whole families of the f#%*ers cruising from house to house in my neighborhood at night.
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u/CasperAverage 8d ago edited 8d ago
And he has a poll going on his Instagram to name the raccoon
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u/miraculix69 8d ago edited 8d ago
BrewDog, a Scottish brewery made a limited release a few years ago, with a beer, which only had 55% alchohol. The glass bottle, was put inside a squirrel. They only made 12 bottles, with a price tag about 750USD each, at release, but have become much more expensive, afterwards. It was called "End of history"
It could have been a cool gimmick to show up at the red carpet, wearing gold speedos, jump out of your Pagani Zonda R, Mazda 787B, or BMW Isetta, with a squirrel who have had a its intestines replaced with a weak beer and then just pour all of it in a beer bong, chugging It before you do the drunk dragon.
The squirrel beer. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna38376048
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u/aron2295 8d ago
For when his friends and family say,
“I can’t imagine going to America and staying for as long as you did! They have no culture!”
He can pull that bad boy out say,
“No culture? Then explain this!”
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u/davefish77 8d ago
Thank god it is. I was imaging the post script ... "In 2026 soccer star Erling Haaland brought a pet racoon into Norway after the team's run in the World Cup. Ten years later Norway is overrun with over-breeding racoons" ...
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u/moffman93 8d ago
Taxidermy is weird and creepy as hell outside of a scientific/museum situation and idk why it's normalized.
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u/InfluenceTrue4121 8d ago
That’s a pretty hilarious decor piece. I hope it is featured prominently in his living room. Maybe next to the wet bar.
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u/_Lucille_ 8d ago
Cost aside, nice conversation starter, and a hilarious way to remember going over to America for the World Cup even though he wasn't able to bring home the trophy.
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u/DG-MMII 8d ago
Maybe the trophy are the taxidermied racoons we bought allong the way
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u/FoundationEntire4834 8d ago
Anyone know what it actually is? Some drink of sorts?
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u/Jackson_emphasis 8d ago
I’m betting he got it in Texas and that it’s probably a tequila bottle, they love that shit down there lmao
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u/Amockdfw89 8d ago
Yea he was wondering around Downtown Dallas trying on cowboy stuff. He picked the most Texas ass souvenirs he could find 😆
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u/BernieTheDachshund 8d ago
He has a carry-on raccoon.
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u/SmartaHari 8d ago
It’s the latest Furkin Birkin, you have to be on a waiting list to get one. Posh Spice is fumin’
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u/BbwLaceyXoXo 8d ago
he had 3 of these in his hotel. ig he brought his favorite one. 🤣
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u/Lower_Ad_5532 8d ago
Oh so those photos were real.
Haalaan is a weirdo and its great!
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u/BbwLaceyXoXo 8d ago
yeah i peeped his snapchat because i was curious. his social media is actually hilarious. 🤣
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u/Joshiane 8d ago
That’s fucking hilarious. I know he saw it for the first time and went “Hell yeah!”
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u/firstbreathOOC 8d ago
I have a lot of Norwegian cousins and pretty much everything this guy does checks out with their sense of humor lol
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u/Nomadic_loco 8d ago
I see he made it to Florida.
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u/GuardianHero07 8d ago
Believe it or not, Texas
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u/TreoreTyrell 8d ago
As a Texan, yea that checks out.
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u/Amockdfw89 8d ago
I was about to say he picked the most Texan souvenirs on earth. Plus he was wondering around downtown Dallas during his time off
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u/dreamsinred 8d ago
Well, he didn’t bring home the cup, but he did bring home the raccoon hitting the bottle…
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u/ambelamba 8d ago
Yeah I shouldn't be saying this but I like my raccoon alive and happy
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u/Less_Likely 8d ago
While alive in the wild is best, dead and stuffed (roadkill) is better than as a pet.
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u/mowtowcow 8d ago edited 7d ago
Dude really saw rhe most American shit and brought it home. A taxidermied raccoon trying to drink a bottle of liquor. America, baby! 🇺🇸
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u/EdgevilleCrab 8d ago
I don’t care man, Haaland is fucking fun lmao. What professional athletes have you ever seen walk off a plane with a taxidermy raccoon holding a liquor bottle?
And, still looks better than 99.999% of these Reddit mouthbreathers.
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u/InviolableAnimal 8d ago
Haaland makes me feel better about my posture, and then I remember I'm not a world-class athlete with generational wealth
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u/damgood32 8d ago
WTF???
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u/racarlton513 8d ago
Legit there was a raccoon that broke into a liquor store in VA earlier this year, got drunk and passed out. There were some pretty hilarious memes.
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u/Andrew__IE 8d ago
Y’all are talking about the raccoon…. I can’t stop looking at the giant purse!
What a beautiful piece of work.
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u/howdidIgetsuckeredin 8d ago
D&G Sicily tote in ecru canvas with burgundy alligator accents. It's from their 2027 spring menswear collection and just walked the runway in Milan.
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u/PineappIeSuppository 8d ago
A shame that he couldn’t fit his trash panda inside his murse.
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u/AlreadyFifty 8d ago
That’s… fucking weird.
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u/Neolithique 8d ago
Not as weird as me thinking he has a pet racoon and thinking it’s cute.
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u/blazerunnern 8d ago
Yeah so what? I don't see anything interesting or significant.
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u/yogabackhand 8d ago
Whiskey Raccoon is $750 here: https://wildbillswestern.com/collections/b-s-trading/products/h-mt-f-raccoon-w-whiskey
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u/Finzak_of_Kent 8d ago
That's the trophy you get for being at the best at wandering around waiting for a pass from your teammates during a Worl Cup quarterfinal game.
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u/paperbuddha 8d ago
It’s quirky because he’s famous, right? Like if this was a normal person on a normal flight, this post would be in r/mildyinfuriating.
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