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The Baboon That Controlled a Railway for 9 Years
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
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if jack lived in the 21st century and got fired, the internet would riot
Senexe PETA would shut him down like Sea World.
@@bradleyweiss1089 No because he was not locked up or chained. He even did stuff on his own without being supervised.
Sea World, you have whales that literally swim from ocean to ocean.
Then you have the other sea animals that may stay in the same ocean but still swim hundreds of miles.
I feel the same about Sea World as I do about people keep birds, butterflies, other things that fly or move around.
Having most of these pets are basically imprisoning them in cages or indoors.
Jesse Miller You don’t know PETA very well.
PETA would have destroyed that man and the railroad. Taken the baboon and killed him. In that order.
@@bradleyweiss1089 The only thing I really know about Peta is that they are HYPOCRITES and Pamela Anderson works for them.
Q: Kill who, the man or the monkey.
@@jessemiller9792 The monkey. Ofc.
"never made a mistake while being constantly drunk, and a monkey" I only hope someone will say something like that about me 200 years after I die
Daniel Wiltshire - 200 years ago was 1820 ? might be a math mistake there , but i could be wrong . 1:19 4:06
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics Yeah, Daniel already bolluxed that. Jack would have gotten it right.
Right then. 22 years with the same company. NAFTA passed. Replaced by communist slave labor. Not quite as humiliating as being replaced by a baboon. But pretty close. Then had to go back to school. To become a nurse. Every mans dream. 16 years of that and the government now wants to shove a stick up my nose every 2 weeks. Retired/quit. You wouldn’t do that to an animal. Doubt my head will be in a museum. I think we have a bunch of drunken baboons running our governments.
@@bradleyweiss1089 a stick up your nose as in a swab to test for covid? That's... hardly unreasonable to ask of medical professionals these days. Shame you gave it up, nursing is a noble profession.
@@bradleyweiss1089 who the hell is saying it's over by a certain date? Nobody would buy that. Dear lord, you're some twerp with an agenda aren't you? What is it, exactly? "5G causes coronavirus"? "Space is a hoax, the world is flat"? "The Queen is a lizard"? ...Actually this is unfair maybe, if you have medical qualifications and think coronavirus is a hoax there's probably something unwell about your brain and so I shouldn't mock, you're probably going through hell with these delusions. But even so, while there's nothing wrong with retiring there's nothing noble and something mildly cowardly about it. I mean, if all you wanted to avoid was the "fake" tests for the "hoax" coronavirus, you could've switched to veterinary nursing, continued to save lives. Sad you gave up so easily.
"were aware the Jumper had found an assistant but were totally in the dark about his babooness" LMAO
They, knew... They just decided to turn a bind eye until some young "smart" upstart wanted to earn some brownie points by snitching. Causing everyone up and down the command chain to respond, generating a ton a paperwork in the process. Evidently he wasn't well liked after that.
Railroad administration: "a monkey?"
Jumper: "yes! and he's always drunk!"
Railroad administration: "...let's hire him and pay him with beer!"
Ah the good ole days. Really was a service animal.
i can accept alcohol as pay tho LMFAO
Brilliant!
Why didn’t you think of that? !? Are you smarter than a monkey?
Pay him with beer? That is normal in rural Germany
They launched an Investigation: "Is this a baboon?"/ "Yes"/ "Does he help you do your job?"/ "Yes"
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
*YES!*
Pidpie is that a mfing jojo's reference?
**insert Pikachu meme**
YAAASSSSS!
@@Pidpie So are you guys going to fire us? No. No. No. No. NO!
"Jack would do all of his work drunk and earn ten cents and half a beer per week."
Me, a grad student: "I can relate."
How can you be drunk on half a beer a week?
Prototheria watch the video again he says that jack refuses to work unless drunk off brandy
@@baporapo5016 My apologies... I must have gotten the names mixed up at some point in the video. Thanks for the correction.
@@dyoung4850 Found the dropout
@@dyoung4850 You might want to check again. We're actually highly educated and unskilled bonobos.
Jumper: a nickname that started out sincere and became ironic
Monkey's don't control where I go, 1887 British Cape colony citizen.
The fat controller laughed, you were wrong.
Sends British colony citizen’s train into the path of an oncoming one. Wins.
A railway with a money working a signal box STILL has a better safety record than Sodor
LOL 😂
And a drunk one at that.
Groooming gang strikes again
I had to google Sodor even though I grew up watching Thomas the Tank Engine. Lmao
I mean, obviously
Hello and welcome to three weeks ago on Reddit
man that was some good shit
mAAAEEEHHH
boring. can we get next week on Reddit?
Ecosia is great
You didn't take this from that weird Wikipedia articles page anymore?
After the investigation, Jumper's job description was changed to: "Monkey's moral support"
“So you guys are jack and jumper”
“Yes sir”
“Well why the hell do you give alcohol to jumper”
“My names jumper”
“Uh..”
"You can start planting trees one ser..." I think you were a little overzealous trying to stay under five minutes.
Abbreviated Reviews at least this sponsor can't be considered selling out
...ch at a time“ i reckon...
Moustafa Mohsen I guess soo
No theres anough time to say it but the audio cut out
If you look at the captions it does say "one search at a time", but the audio went silent for the last part.
Why isn't there a movie about this?
The book was better...
There weren't enough explosions so Michael Bay wasn't interested.
@@matthewhudson7883 There was a man jumping between trains what more do you want
Ikr
Dominic Littlewood legs?
I can imagine how Jack’s job interview went:
“So what are your biggest strengths?”
“Ok so basically I’m Monky”
FutbolVinotinto21 best comment on the entire website
YES
"You are hired"
I didn't get it
*throws poop*
My dad had a baboon that he grew up with(he found him as a baby). That baboon was crazy aboit my dad they rode horses together and everything. He told me that sometimes they make Bobby(the baboons name)porige and they hide a fake spider underneath it. Everytime he gets to the spider he makes this weird sound and then pass out😂and he wore human clothes and had his own cup and plate for food and something to drink. Mind you my dad grew up in Namibia🇳🇦
very cool story!
Did they work on the railway?
Namibia... ok, that makes more sense than Iowa like I was picturing.
My dad grew up in tanzania. my grandpa wanted to buy a puppy for my (new born) dad, so he could grow up with it. He bought a baby baboon instead because it was cheaper... they called him kaizer and he always wore a little prussian parade helmet and he put it on himself. He had to be put down when a pack a dogs mauled it. We still have the helmet though.
@@svd5174 Poor Kaizer :'(
It'd always some stuck up elitist ruining people's fun.
First reply
A 19th century Karen.
@@sat2244second reply
I was expecting the executives to fire Jumper and replace him by just hiring the baboon directly (paying him with his daily Brandy), so everything went better than expected!
Edit: Also, this story is a bit confusing to listen to as the human has the monkey name and the baboon has the human name!
"A totally un-forseen and completely unpreventable stwist of fate" 🤣🤣🤣 gotta love this channel
Conductor: "Who's the baboon that turned the wrong signal?!"
Jack: "My apologies sir, I didn't get my half pint today"
Conductor stays dumbfounded.
Rofl
"Now if your job is replaceable by a monkey, you really shouldn't be expecting much job security"
I watched the video too!
@puppylover Yet he got hundreds of likes, while you got zero
I wish baboons would replace our Congress. They can’t do any worse. And would be less drunk than Pelosi.
@@bradleyweiss1089 Really sucks atm, Democrat candidates just feel so incompetent, yet the current Trump administration is literally hammering away at our first amendment, what a time to be an American.
@@derpidius6306 pssst... the two party system is a farce, there's just one tightly knit corporate party with two different marketing teams. Been this way for the past 60 years at least.
A tree sponsor?? Branching out, I see 😉
Get out
Delete this
DELET
The tree command is spreading it's roots into the internet.
This was ure moment and u executed excellently
“Despite being drunk. And a monkey”. I lol’d
If they respected the baboon, why would they want to display his skull in a museum. Thats a heck of a way to remember someone who was of great service.
I don't think the baboon is mad about it. Just ask him and see the answer.
@Zaraza its not about the baboon being mad about it. Its seems contradicting weird and wicked to recognize the achievements and or contributions of someone by putting their body (or in this case, skull) on display in a museum. But maybe thats just me. Just saying, its bizarre.
The Brits are crazy. They killed Aussie aborigines so they could have skulls to put on display in their museums back in England to prove evolution.
@@MAOPals Well in old times when a hero or saint died his bones, ashes tools would be displayed or put in a place for people to go and pay respect. Like a relic
@@andrefilipe9042 Rather thats true or not, its still odd.
And that's the day Jack Daniel's was born
Lol
something went wrong at the end
One search at a time
Please don't show my boss this
paul lymberopoulos LMAO
A literal ape can be a more productive and effective worker than most human employees.
I don’t even have a clue what else to say about that!
"Only tried it on with the zookeeper's wife"
Don't talk rubbish
I found my people 😂😂 DON'T TALK SHIT!!
Just a story that happened.
I can't even put into words how much I love all Wendover Content, learning while laughing about stale memes and funny wordplay. You just can't ask for more.
I'm dying, that salty snob ended up getting Jack paid and recognized!! if only we had a photo of their face when they found out..!! 👏😭
At first i thought this is going to be ridiculous but its actually interesting.
Not as interesting as others.
I'd say only about half as interesting. :/
Wow this is so cool, you should do a colab with Wendova Productions guy
Biggest Fan he's the same but ok
this
guess you are new here, he is the one who started Wendover
w e n d o v a p e r d e c k t u s
@@ef-tee WOOSHHHH.
Ok, this is epic
No Alexa play fortnite lobby music.
@@mikemaietto6546 im monky
Jumper really had it pegged, and Jack wasn't just monkeying around. Both were very well trained. Cheers!
This is the best story ever if I had worked on a railway for 9 years with a baboon that drank like a fish and had a flawless safety record I’d think it was the greatest shit of all time the guy probably thought so too
YES! The signals from OpenTTD!!!
😁
I am not the only one noticing it I see. I saw it one second and had to check if I was correct :)
I wanted to write that! :D
thinking that too, but i play locomotion more than openTTD so i was confused for a second cuz the looked so familiar
varana312 I did write it... 8 hours too late it seems lol
Jokes on you, I was already using Ecosia as my primary search engine before I even knew this video existed!
So Jeremy Clarkson's career before he went to Top Gear and Grand Tour... what a life..
Heh
That moment when a baboon had your dream job
I love Ecosia and am so glad you're pointing people in their direction ☺
Pretty sure karl pilkington mentioned this and got laughed at. Maybe he isnt an idiot 🤔
Karl did cover this
ua-cam.com/video/87Kest0MhrE/v-deo.html
This story is also about a baboon. The ownwer had lived in the ohrighstad district, near Lydenburg, transvaal in south-Africa . This story happens as I can recall during 1940 or 1950's (sorry if I'm wrong). He also had a baboon taking care of his herd of sheep . The baboon pitched every morning to pickup his "skarftin" (a food parcell) , a plate consisting of bread or "pap"(porridge) and milk. The baboon would eat his food at his spot on the stoop. He then will go back to "kraal" where the sheep is kept and he had a crate in a tree where he slept. He will then take the sheep out and bring them back later in the afternoon.The owner never lost a sheep during the baboon's time. It was a completely different story years later after a leopard had killed the baboon ( or so suspected as the baboon never returned) and a native black was appointed to the job.
Also a story about this same baboon went , that every new-year the people of the area wiil get together at the echo-caves for the new-year's dance. The baboon wil then sneak up and steal the people's drinks, as they went for a dance( for it was held on his owners farm at the caves) The next morning he(the baboon) would have a terrible "babbelas "(hangover) and would not show up for "work". Finally the youngsters (young men of the area), knowing of the baboons action during festivities, lured this baboon with peanuts and "dop" (drinks) during the morning before the festivities. When the baboon was well "soaked up", they put him on a donkey and chase the donkey away . The donkey would return the next day with the babelas - baboon still on his back to great cheering of the people still there. Some waited just for his return. Hope u enjoyed this true story. It wat told to me by both my parents have a nice day..
This is so unbelievable, I had to watch it more than once. Totally amazed.
Koko would be impressed too I'm sure.
The humor plus informative tone is the content I subscribed for. 😂👌🏽
'A baboon is not that different from human in brain capacity'
Maybe your brain capacity, lol
@one love-one ark What ate you smoking??
@@hemiyachtcharger6538I ask you the same thing.
The first time I heard of Jack was in the Ripleys book and naturally, I told my BFF about him. It turns out he is related to Jumper and he has never lied about anything before.
I think he’s lying,
He’s actually related to Jack
I actually just started using ecosia a few weeks before this. Good sponsor! Also incredible story about this baboon and great video as always
Love that OpenTTD reference.
Had to scroll too much for this.
Our kind is dying...
@@cplpetergriffin1583 yes
0:31 that hand signal tho
Great story, marvelous narration, exceollent presentation. Good audioand video. Subbed. Thank you going now to Ecosia to sign up.
really cool video! thanks for posting, you deserve way more views on this : D
0:27 who remembers transport tycoon...
Have you played OpenTTD?
m1ksu yeah
That's bananas! At least he wasn't monkeying around...
I'll see myself out thank you
NHD Badoom chee!
Shut
Right, we're never doing this again. Play a record.
This was the best thing I've heard in a very long time. Thank you.
but thumbnail is a mandrill....
Which is a species of baboon, so wtf is your point?
Except they aren't
I was wondering the same
All tge same to me
but we dont care
From Wikipedia's Unusual Articles to Reddit..
This channel need more LOVE
Props to you for finding the story man... Proud supporter
New favorite video from HAI. I wanted to go to sleep after this but now i am forced to send the link to my friends... Nice sponsor as well.
"the world going loco for locomotives" 😂
OpenTTD reference ♥️ nice vid as usually Sam
Pisses me off when bureaucrats interfere with a completely functional system. =(
Amazing stuff. always love your vids
Why is literally everything this channel posts more interesting than the stuff on Wendover Productions
Twice as Interesting
Because Wendover Productions is quarter as interesting
Because your attention span is so short you'd rather know about an alcoholic baboon than how something relevant functions in today's world?
*tips fedora*
@@dariuso2657 True tho
TL remember that these video ideas come from That Wikipedia List.
The mon- *key* to smooth running
"In a totally unforeseen, and compleatly unpreventable twist of fate" 😂 "not having legs does that" 😂🤣
Really nice to Ecosia sponsoring your videos!
Being a South African, I really love the attention to detail in this video. The currency & denomination were spot on. Although back then the 20c coin was rather larger and silver. But you wouldn't know that, and neither would I, if I didn't collect old coins and notes. So the current generation would actually easily identify (And 20c a day would have made him a very rich! Well considering he's a baboon. I've heard stories of my great grandfather earning just 2 rands a week, although he was one of the indentured labourers brought from India to work the canefields in Durban) The Brandy and beer images were also so very accurate. And you even managed to tell me a story that I myself, and many other South Africans, I'm sure, had no idea about. Very Well Done!
*Until his death by tuberculosis.*
Just like us.
Is this some sort of Lumbago ?
I've honestly never heard a more wholesome story in my life.
This is the kind of great video that keeps me smiling until the next one :)
Ah, the TTD signals really brought back memories
Memories? OpenTTD is alive and kicking 😀 My favourite way to lose a few hours every now and again
@@TomPerry83 yea, played a lot of openttd, still love it
They failed to mention that when the signalman jumped between moving rail cars, slipped, fell, losing both legs, that oddly enough they found a banana peel near the scene.
Jack the baboon was not only intelligent, he was cunning and motivated. People said that Jack always knew what he wanted and didn't let anyone stand in his way. A real go-getter that old Jack was, a real go-getter.
I love how u round up this video.
Sam you have the two best channels on UA-cam
You are the best
Please do more videos through wendover productions
4:47 One sear.. what?
Jumper’s great great grandson is known as Oscar Pistorius.
Rohan Mehta Dude that's so insensitive... that comment was really below the knee...
@@zachryder3150 7
I'm sorry to cut you off, but that was legendary.
Desi Raand
You completely missed the joke
hahahaha i was thinking the same thing !
rotten sob murdered that woman !
I like the subtle sarcastic comments in your videos! Keep it up
"so you can start planting trees, one sear-" love that
Right, play a record
Why is the channel that's supposed to be half as interesting as Wendover Productions WAY more interesting?
Love this! James "Jumper" Wide is my Great great Grandfather and the story is true!
That's quite funny! Love your videos :)
Can I have my tree now?
OMG I love this planet so much!
This is not the content I came on to UA-cam for, but is the content that I want to see.
No joke, this is the best ad transition HAI has ever had.
You should make a video about Wojtek the bear!
This was an amazing 5 min
I first of Jack, though with a few differing details, on a Paul Harvey broadcast back in the early 80s. What a good companion, friend, and signalman!
Railroaders and animals have a special bond. Most roundhouses had a shop cat to kill mice and rats. Depots often had local nascots as well. At the BC RAIL station of Sqaumish they had a pet dog named Depot!
Looks like jumper’s stunts were too...wilde
I'm a simple man. I see OTTD signals, I upvote.
Brilliant video on a brilliant topic.
*DEAR GOD IT FEELS LIKE THIS RAILROAD IS BEING RUN BY DRUNK BABOONS*
That Person With A MLP Icon Who Starts Flamewars thank you for traveling with Deutsche Bahn.
Nice OpenTTD graphics. Finally some love for that obscure game.
double one, twelve teen
Twoteen.
That was a brutal way to introduce your sponsor. Nice one.
Five amazing stars for holding out on the "monkey business" pun as long as you did.