You’ve probably never seen this before: A video of a seal slapping a kayaker in the face with an octopus.
Here, from The Washington Post, is a story about how Kyle Mulinder, 37, was kayaking off Kaikoura, New Zealand, when a seal jumped out of the water and slapped him across the face with an octopus. The octopus’s eight limbs were flailing as it fought for its life.
“It’s a lot like a wet towel with a bit of hardness,” Mulinder wrote on Instagram. He says he was just in the “wrong place, right time.” His video quickly went viral.
“Yes, I got slapped in the face with an octopus by this seal,” he wrote. See the video: