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2 Family Members Stand Blindfolded In Front Of Sea Of Mousetraps - Watch As Hilarity Ensues
I can't stop laughing at these two!
D.G. Sciortino
12.11.17

Most families have certain traditions they like to keep alive, whether they started them on their own or had them passed down to them from previous generations.

And itโ€™s amazing to see how these traditions vary across different cultures and areas of the world, whether itโ€™s recipes, songs, or games that they play.

But one familyโ€™s strange original game has gone viral and involves putting their patriarchs through a tortuous blindfolded test which happens to be absolutely hilarious. The family filmed their strange contest and shared it with the Love What Matters Facebook page where it was viewed 14 million times!

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Basically, they blindfold two members of their family and force them to walk across a sea of Legos and mouse traps barefoot until they get to a table. Once they get to the table, which is also covered in mouse traps, they have to grab a fork and walk back through the sea of Legos and mouse traps.

Then they have to do it twice more. The first person to get three forks wins.

โ€œThis is a game where we have almost 200 Legos on the ground and several mousetraps,โ€ says a woman off camera and laughing. โ€œThese two men have to cross this and get three forks from this table one at a time.โ€

The entire family anxiously looks on and waiting for the contest to begin and wondering what the winnerโ€™s prize will be. Turns out, the only prize being offered here is glory and gloating rights.

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โ€œThe winner wins and the loserโ€ฆ loses,โ€ she says as her entire family laughs.

They get a โ€œready, set goโ€ count off and the men begin. They slowly and carefully begin their potentially painful march.

โ€œDad watch out!โ€ yells one of the menโ€™s daughters.

The two men are wincing the entire way and as they get closer to the table one manโ€™s toe sets off a mouse trap and causes him to shriek. And of course, his family is hysterically laughing at him. The men finally reach the table and get a little bit help in finding where it is.

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One man caught his finger in a mouse trap while trying to grab a fork causing him to shriek louder than he did before. This poor guy is just screaming his entire way back and was getting beat up pretty badly.

Youโ€™ll have to watch the rest of the video below to see how it ends.

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Man collects pennies for 45 yrs leaving bank tellers at a loss for words when he arrives to cash in
Over the course of 45 years he never accepted a penny from anyone. Not family, friends, no one but he only collected oneโ€™s he managed to get himself.
Sasha Alonzo
03.30.23

Weโ€™ve all collected something at one point or another in our lives.

If you collected all the pennies you could find for an entire month, how many do you think youโ€™d have?

What about if you collected pennies for an entire year?

Now, consider how much money you would have if you collected pennies for 45 years.

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This man collected pennies for 45 years and blew his bank tellers away when he brought them in.

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Otha Anders is a teacher from the state of Louisiana.

When he began collecting coins in the late 1960s, it wasnโ€™t to amass any type of wealth, he just liked doing it.

Even when the government began a program of paying $125 for every $100 of pennies turned in, he wasnโ€™t interested.

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He liked having the collection.

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Collecting pennies as an excuse to say a prayer.

Anders said that he began seeing pennies as a reminder to stop and say a prayer.

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โ€œIf I would see a penny when Iโ€™m gassing up, on the ground, or in a store, it would be a reminder to stop right there and say a prayer,โ€ Anders said to ABC News. โ€œI never failed to do that. Thatโ€™s why they had so much value to me.โ€

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At no point during all of his penny-collecting did Anders accept coins as a gift from anyone else.

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โ€œBut I never allowed anyone, not even my wife nor children, to give me pennies without being compensated,โ€ he continued. โ€œI wanted the inner satisfaction that God and I acquired this collection.โ€

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A reason to be thankful.

Over time this practice of stopping what he was doing and saying a prayer every time he saw a penny became important to Anders.

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He noticed that on days where he wasnโ€™t thankful enough for what he had, a penny would show up in his sights to remind him.

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โ€œI became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny was an additional God-given incentive reminding me to always be thankful. There have been days where I failed to pray and more often than not, a lost or dropped penny would show up to remind me.โ€

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Filling up giant water jugs with pennies.

Anders filled big water jugs with the coins he collected.

He said at one point his goal was to fill up 5 giant water jugs but once he had done that, he felt the urge to keep going.

He needed to go to the bank and turn them in or else heโ€™d never do it.

At the time he finally went to the bank, he had filled 15 5-gallon jugs.

โ€œI wanted to fill five five-gallon water jugs. That was the goal, but I couldnโ€™t stop. โ€ฆ If I hadnโ€™t turned them in yesterday, I was not going to stop.โ€

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In addition to the intrinsic value Anders found in collecting the pennies, they also added up to have significant financial value.

After finding out his homeownerโ€™s insurance policy wouldnโ€™t cover his collection, he called the Origin Bank in Ruston, Louisiana, where he had been a customer for years.

Anders let them know he would be coming in with a large number of pennies.

They were happy to help but it was quite the undertaking.

โ€œWe value his business, as we do all of our customers,โ€ said the bankโ€™s Vice President Jennie Cole. โ€œBut if we can help Anders with his endeavors, we are happy to do so.โ€

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The jars had to be opened with an ax and the whole process took over 5 hours.

By the end, it was determined that Andersโ€™ coin collection was worth thousands.

Anders ended up collectiong 513,614 pennies, over the course of those 45 years which came to a little over $5,136.

Watch Otha Andersโ€™ discuss his penny collection in the video below.

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