- I'm Coyote Peterson, and today
I'm going to be bitten by enormous
alligator snapping turtle.
Ready?
Here we go.
Ready?
One, two, three.
(screams)
(intense, fast music)
All right, guys.
So right now, I'm sitting here,
geez, calm down, with a 50 pound alligator
snapping turtle.
A couple months back, I posted a photo
on Instagram and Facebook,
and asked the question, "Should I be
bitten by an alligator snapping turtle?"
I was expecting you guys to say,
"No way Coyote, don't do it."
But surprisingly, more than 95% of you
said, "Yes, we want to see what it looks like
if an alligator snapping turtle bites you."
Now I've been stung by a scorpion,
I've been quilled by a porcupine,
I've been batted around by a grizzly bear.
But nothing, I don't think, makes me
more nervous than to get my arm into
the jaws of this turtle.
Now let's take a look at his actual bite force here.
Look at that.
That bite could easily lop off my finger,
so you're not gonna see me doing this.
But what I'm gonna do is actually
put my arm into the turtle's jaws.
Now we're going to test this out first
with a turkey leg, which is about as big
around as my forearm, just to see
what sort of damage this turtle's jaws
are capable of doing.
I know you guys are probably sitting
there right now thinking, "Coyote, you are
absolutely crazy."
My heart (laughs) is speeding right now,
and uh, yeah, I think this is pretty crazy.
If you guys had all said, "No, no, no.
Definitely don't do this", I probably
wouldn't have done it.
But there's so many of you that wanted
to see me chomped by an alligator snapping turtle,
I think I got to go through with it.
We have bought some giant turkey legs
to do a test to see just how powerful
this snapping turtle's bite force is.
And you think this is crazy, right Adam?
- Yeah, I wouldn't do it.
- Now, look at that.
That is, that is solid meat and bone right there.
And if you look at my forearm, that's uh,
that's about as thick as my forearm is.
That's a big turkey leg right there.
And uh, my arm feels just about the same.
It's all muscle right there.
Muscle and bone.
So what we're gonna do is attach this turkey leg
to the back of a piece of bamboo.
I'm going to reach it out, and I'm gonna
let that turtle latch down on this,
and we're gonna see just how hard
and deep his jaws cut into that meat.
I mean, if he cuts all the way through
down to the bone, I don't know guys,
I don't want to get injured so bad that I'm
sent to the hospital.
He gets through this turkey leg,
he's getting through my arm.
You ready?
- [Voiceover] Yep.
- All right, bring that dragon in here.
All right, so lay him just kind of right up on top here.
Let's put him just slightly off the front edge.
Got a good shot on that.
- Yep.
- All right, here we go guys.
This is an alligator snapping turtle
biting down on a turkey leg.
Oh my goodness.
Oh my gosh.
Holy cow, did you see how deep
his beak just went into that meat?
Dude, guys, I don't know about that.
- Hold it there.
- Oh my gosh, do you hear that?
- That's when they bite the worst,
when you start moving.
(intense music)
- (chuckles) We don't have much of a turkey leg
anymore at this point.
Look at the, the meat is just falling off.
That was a solid turkey leg.
That is his lower beak.
That's the hole that the lower beak made.
I don't know, man.
That is some serious damage to the meat.
- [Adam] Let's re-think this.
- Let's re-think this.
Okay, cut the camera.
- [Coyote] The alligator snapping turtle
has a bite force around 1200 pounds per square inch.
After seeing what it did to the turkey leg,
there was no way I was putting my arm
in its mouth unprotected.
Sorry guys.
- You only grow one set of fingers.
Just always remember that.
- [Coyote] However, so I could still go through
with this little experimental challenge,
we decided to build a brace on my arm
using an ACE bandage, four splints,
and some sports wrap.
Hopefully this combination will give me
some protection against the bite.
This is, not a good idea.
Kids, never, ever, ever try this at home.
And the 95% of you that convinced me to do this,
thanks, guys.
Man, look at that bite.
It sounds like, sounds like a meat cleaver coming down.
Yeah, that's bad.
My arm is about to go into that.
All right, you guys ready?
(scary, intense music)
(breathes heavily)
Nervous, very nervous.
Okay.
I'm Coyote Peterson, and I'm about to
enter the strike zone with the alligator snapping turtle.
Adam, you got a good hold on it?
All right, Mark, you ready?
GoPro, ready?
Here we go.
Ready?
One, two, three.
(screams and groans)
Ooh, I can hear crack in the bamboo.
Oh, geez.
(screams)
He's through, he's through, he's through
into my arm.
(groans)
Geez, it went right past the bamboo
and into my arm.
(groans)
Yep, he pierced skin.
I can definitely feel it.
I don't think I want to do that again.
(groans)
- [Voiceover] You all right?
- (groans) Mhmm.
- Yeah, I think he, I think his beak
definitely went down.
- Through this, you can see the hole right there.
He slipped in between the bamboo
and went into my arm.
(groans in slow motion)
Um, he didn't break my arm,
but the pressure was like, unlike anything
I've ever had in my arm before.
Just the sheer weight.
And I could feel, it's really stressing
the bamboo, about to its maximum.
And I think it was until he got over
by the side and his beak pierced through that...
(panting)
Hold on a second.
(groans)
Like, your adrenaline gets rushing like that
and I think--
- [Voiceover] Feel nauseous?
- Yeah, I do.
It's starting to hurt now.
Like, my arm is throbbing.
I don't know if he might've busted
blood vessels in my arm.
Do not try to catch these animals.
Do not antagonize them.
If you are bitten, it is going to be bad.
My arm is throbbing right now.
That was a crazy experience.
You guys asked for it, and I got chomped
by a 50 pound alligator snapping turtle.
This guy has been an incredible sport.
I'm going to call him Big Chomper.
We're going to get him back out
in the Louisiana backwaters.
All right buddy, we'll see you later.
Thanks for the bite.
Wow, what an incredible first season of Dragon Tails.
We caught some monster turtles,
took some mega bites.
Unfortunately, we didn't catch a world record.
But don't worry guys.
There's always Season Two.
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