Just about any thorny plant will leave similar marks. I have gotten them from roses and from several native (Australian) grasses that have long thorns mixed in with their seeds or sharp leaves.
You frequently don't notice until hours later when they start itching, in my experience.
The long thin branches of raspberry plants. They shoot up all over the place like weeds and brushing against them leaves scratches that look just like that.
in my experience, rice cutgrass in particular is horrific in this way, and often you don’t even notice you’ve been cut/bleeding until you’re out of the grass. this can explain how OP’s dad didnt realize what cut him
There is also legitimate admiration for sick ass panthers, that's how the joke got its start.
Here is an example
https://www.reddit.com/r/traditionaltattoos/comments/13tpn1z/got_a_sick_ass_panther/
Literally the very last comment I read before opening this post and immediately seeing your comment was another “a sick ass panther” in the shitty tattoos sub… do we have the same home page? Lol
I once saw a five year old, dead asleep, scratch their face with their foot. I don't know what the lesson is, but I wish I could still touch my toes without bending my knees...
That was my first thought as well I grew up in south jersey a lot of the forests over there have thorny vines. the cut patterns resemble the ones I use to get when I would get caught in them
Yeah when I was a kid, we were always playing down in the forest and I’d always come home with those kinds of scratches, usually not knowing it had happened til I got back.
Speaking from experience:. Literally any piece of furniture/plant/car/garage that has slightly sharp edges, has a piece broken off, etc.
I've spent way too long trying to find the culprits each time my leg looks like this, that I just gave up at some point. The world demands a small sacrifice from us sometimes.
Edit:
Ah yes forgot the main culprit I've ususally found, nails and screws with sharp edges or that were damaged/screwed on badly
Kinda reminds me of the scratches I used to wake up to quite often. Until one fateful night, when I woke up to my cats playing a game of mortal kombat on my legs.
Probably from scratching his leg in his sleep. The sides of your nails will leave these marks during intense scratching. I've had these same marks from scratching my legs.
If he really can't think of anything it could've been, and also has the good sense to avoid thorny raspberry patches and such - ask if he's walked thru tall grass recently. Namely, tall grass in areas where water can collect with (generally) some shade.
My guess is sedges. Huge family (or genus?) of grassy plants, a lot of which have deceptively sharp blades. Seriously tore up one of my hands at a job once, thankfully just skin level but bled for a solid hour.
*Sedges have edges*
Does this happen often to his skin?
My wife would get these and scab real bad. Sometimes she wouldn't notice them until it looked like that. If so, can be sensitive skin, allergic reaction irritation made worse by scratching.
I scratch my leg at night with my other foot. I find scratches in the morning. Could be that.
I never thought I would admit this to strangers. Must be this 9% beer.
As a 55y/o I’ve seen this before. It happens when you do something, scratch yourself and then you totally forget what you were doing. Then you see the scratch and have no recollection how you got em
i get these all the time when im in thiccc woods. if you just walk right through bushes and branches not really considering what's around you it is very easy to get these.
You guys are gonna call me a nutjob. But I once summoned a spirit, and let's just say that whenever she was in a bad mood she could do something like this to me or mostly to my family members.
Option 1: You have a very aggressive cat and your dad is lying about not knowing where they're from because he's too proud to admit he lost a fight with a feline friend
Option 2: Sharp, thorny weeds. More than likely wooden sharp rather than leafy sharp. Leafy sharp wouldn't make actual bloody cuts like this.
So I started getting scratches on different parts of my body that looked just like this and the results will shock you....
*ad*
*ad*
*ad*
It was my worn out spring mattress that I had for way too long. The pressure from my body would cause the ends to poke through and any tossing or moving while I slept would create scratches.
Raspberry canes
Yup, those will do it
Just about any thorny plant will leave similar marks. I have gotten them from roses and from several native (Australian) grasses that have long thorns mixed in with their seeds or sharp leaves. You frequently don't notice until hours later when they start itching, in my experience.
Ah, of course. Australia, where even the grasses try to kill you. Do the dropbears feed on these plants?
Why does grass need thorns, what the fuck Australia.
Yep, I currently have the same in my leg.
what are those?
The long thin branches of raspberry plants. They shoot up all over the place like weeds and brushing against them leaves scratches that look just like that.
Usually they aren’t something you don’t notice when it happens though tin my experience…
Brambles. Spiny shoots.
I must be tired because I read this as "shiny spoots"
Why would raising canes do such a thing? Darn you Todd Graves!
Walking thru long grass and brushing by prickly weeds - that's what this looks like.
Chupacabra. 100%
Chumbawamba
I GET KNOCKED DOWN
BUT I GET UP AGAIN
Pissing the night awaaaaaaay Pissing the niiiiiight away
He takes a whiskey drink, he takes a vodka drink, he takes a lager drink, he takes a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Cryyyyyy for meeeeeeee
Ooh. Danny boy, Danny boyyy!
r/redditsings
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Oh Daonny Boy Danny Boy Danny Boyyyy
I take a whiskey drink, I take a chocolate drink, and when I have to pee, I use the kitchen sink! -bald yellow man
YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN
Donny Boi
Now I'm starting to wonder why there wasn't ever a low budget horror movie called Tubthumper. Those are some scary threats. :D
then took some mescaline!
I'm never gonna come back down!
You are never gonna keep me down!
His dad got knocked up? How?
He got knocked down, but got up again in some thorny vines.
He got knocked down and got up again. Now he got cut up legs.
Mexican staring frog of southen Sri Lanka
Chupapantorrillas
Peniscabra
Cabra means goat. You want chupapenis.
Who says he wasn't asking for goat penis?
Whatever floats your goat I guess.
You win.
Stop. It's obviously the Peruvian Predator. This is r/weird after all so clearly we need the most extreme answers.
From experience, this is what happens when you scratch your leg with that one badly cut nail AFTER walking through long grass and prickles.
in my experience, rice cutgrass in particular is horrific in this way, and often you don’t even notice you’ve been cut/bleeding until you’re out of the grass. this can explain how OP’s dad didnt realize what cut him
Yeah, these are very familiar scratches from walking through fields in shorts.
Second this. I've had similar from hiking off the trail when I was younger.
Third this. 59 and I still walk off trail and still get frighteningly similar scratches
Yeah those sharp sided blades will brush you and barely feel like a scrape. They seem to bleed a lot too. Maybe and anticoagulant?
Yeah the second lower scratch mark suggest it wasn’t claws since one of the cuts goes across the others.
Yeah I agree with this because I've had those scratches from tall grass and weeds before
A sick ass panther…wait…wrong sub
Ok but what’s the right sub cause I wanna go there [edit for typo]
r/shittytattoos the joke is a sick ass panther is a good coverup because they're black and you can contort them to cover almost any shape
Ahhh thank you. Although I’m sad it’s not an actual sick ass panther sub.
Oh I believe /r/sickpanthertattoos is what you’re looking for
There really is a sub for everything
The highs of Reddit. And now, the lows - fuck you
r/dragonsfuckingcars
r/carsfucksdragons too! Well, I'm a sad panda now, apparently that sub was nuked.
r/shrimpsisbugs
r/subsithoughtifellfor
I feel like it comes up in r/tattoocoverups frequently.
There is also legitimate admiration for sick ass panthers, that's how the joke got its start. Here is an example https://www.reddit.com/r/traditionaltattoos/comments/13tpn1z/got_a_sick_ass_panther/
Goddamnit I hate that I knew that sub before this comment.
Thank you 😁
Stepped on a raccoon while sleep walking
I understood this reference
Literally the very last comment I read before opening this post and immediately seeing your comment was another “a sick ass panther” in the shitty tattoos sub… do we have the same home page? Lol
I’m in both subs too!
It was a sick ass panther tho
Hell of a cougar
Hahaha I knew exactly what you meant. Perfect
NTA. Red flag. They're abusive. Save the evidence. Lawyer up. Wait... wrong sub
Hell yeah I chuckled
Yo my tribe. Sick ass panther.
I’m a part of neither sub but the algorithm recognizes I enjoy both
After constantly getting that sub pushed to me this this made me bust out laughing in the middle of the night
I just told my wife about sick ass panther covers yesterday lol
I’m sad I knew the reference. I don’t even have tattoos.
holy fuck LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO I know this one
Sick. Ass. Panther.
I got that reference. 🤣
Did we all just get consolidated to the same subs after the Spez fuckhead incident? Pretty sure I only ended up in that sub after the blackout.
I've seen you in that sub
His last victim?
The dad is definitely a serial killer and lying about the scratches.
100%. Was my first thought
We did it Reddit!
Cereal killers always ask « oOoO i DoN’t KnOw WhErE iT cOmEs FrOm »
Scratching an itch in the middle of the night while sleeping.
Needs to trim toenails.
This is my vote. Scratching the back of his legs with long toenails in the middle of the night while half asleep or sleeping.
Yep, do it to myself all the time.
I do this all the time and my gf always jokingly asks "who is she' when she sees it.
And fingernails
check your CO2 detectors
You think they could be scratching him?
when they're low on batteries they get aggressive
I literately laughed out loud! That was awesome.
CO
A CO2 detector would drive you nuts. Lol.
Colorado detectors?
>Colorado detectors? The police have dogs that do that.
Here we go again…
This guy gonna be number 2?
he’s not flexible like that, he can’t reach that part of his leg lol.
He can't reach that part of his legs with his toenails?
I once saw a five year old, dead asleep, scratch their face with their foot. I don't know what the lesson is, but I wish I could still touch my toes without bending my knees...
I'd immediately have a priest come for an exorcism if I saw this lol
Looks like blackberry bush scratches.
That was my thought. Maybe he got some wrapped around his leg and it kept scratching?
I'm gonna second black berry vines
Tiger
Woods?
Joe Exotic
Tiger
Rawr
Ooh. Post this over in r/ghosts. I’m sure someone will say it’s a demon. To me it looks like he got into some thorns or sticker bushes.
That was my first thought as well I grew up in south jersey a lot of the forests over there have thorny vines. the cut patterns resemble the ones I use to get when I would get caught in them
Yeah when I was a kid, we were always playing down in the forest and I’d always come home with those kinds of scratches, usually not knowing it had happened til I got back.
Lol top post on there right now is a “ghost” peaking around a corner and it clearly has a shadow
Speaking from experience:. Literally any piece of furniture/plant/car/garage that has slightly sharp edges, has a piece broken off, etc. I've spent way too long trying to find the culprits each time my leg looks like this, that I just gave up at some point. The world demands a small sacrifice from us sometimes. Edit: Ah yes forgot the main culprit I've ususally found, nails and screws with sharp edges or that were damaged/screwed on badly
Repeated shit like this fucked up my skin. Now there are weird scars on my leg that sometimes will inflate with plasma.
Ew
He scratched his itchy dry skin harder than he realized
I got briar scratches that looked almost exactly like that. Still have the scars.
Cat?
Looks like the left paw might have about 8 or 9 claws on it.
right? looks like a flesh scratching post
we do not own a cat
Ghost cat?
I think we all know this is the andwer
Rental cat then
Your mom?
My mom?
Our mom
r/suddenlycommunist
No, their mom
Those are nail scratches for sure.
So sad I had to scroll down so much to find this OBVIOUS amswer.
Kinda reminds me of the scratches I used to wake up to quite often. Until one fateful night, when I woke up to my cats playing a game of mortal kombat on my legs.
I’m going to bet he scratches his legs in his sleep.
Probably from scratching his leg in his sleep. The sides of your nails will leave these marks during intense scratching. I've had these same marks from scratching my legs.
If he really can't think of anything it could've been, and also has the good sense to avoid thorny raspberry patches and such - ask if he's walked thru tall grass recently. Namely, tall grass in areas where water can collect with (generally) some shade. My guess is sedges. Huge family (or genus?) of grassy plants, a lot of which have deceptively sharp blades. Seriously tore up one of my hands at a job once, thankfully just skin level but bled for a solid hour. *Sedges have edges*
He’s unknowingly scratching his legs while sleeping.
He scratched himself unknowingly.
Demon
Dude, you’re calling out your dad’s affair. Just let it go.
Walking through some wait-a-minute vines.
Does he bite his nails by chance? A jagged fingernail or two and an itch and you get that.
was drunk trying to give a racoon a hug😂😂😂
That just looks like my whole body after a day of yard work. Getting old sucks.
Maybe unknowingly walked through tall weeds with briers in them? Those are no fun. And many times you don't know it til later.
When an adult has scratches but “doesn’t remember where they got them” that’s because they got them during sex and they’re being tactful
Looks like he scratched himself and didn’t realize that it had left marks.
Scratching
Does this happen often to his skin? My wife would get these and scab real bad. Sometimes she wouldn't notice them until it looked like that. If so, can be sensitive skin, allergic reaction irritation made worse by scratching.
I scratch my leg at night with my other foot. I find scratches in the morning. Could be that. I never thought I would admit this to strangers. Must be this 9% beer.
Sex stuff
I got them too. I believe it’s from scratching my leg using my other foot with Howard Hughes type nails.
He has long fingernails and itches his leg in his sleep
He has dry skin and was scratching in his sleep.
As a 55y/o I’ve seen this before. It happens when you do something, scratch yourself and then you totally forget what you were doing. Then you see the scratch and have no recollection how you got em
It was me, he knows what he did.
Likely el chupa cabras
I don't know, but, he needs to get those beginning varicose veins looked at.
Check his wife's toenails.
And any affected girlfriends....
He got them while transformed into a werewolf, obvs.
Toe Nails
Is this your dads first time walking through brush? What a world…
Demon. Seen it a million times.
His toenails.
A demon or a rooster. Or a demon rooster.
i get these all the time when im in thiccc woods. if you just walk right through bushes and branches not really considering what's around you it is very easy to get these.
You guys are gonna call me a nutjob. But I once summoned a spirit, and let's just say that whenever she was in a bad mood she could do something like this to me or mostly to my family members.
Looks like cat scratches
Option 1: You have a very aggressive cat and your dad is lying about not knowing where they're from because he's too proud to admit he lost a fight with a feline friend Option 2: Sharp, thorny weeds. More than likely wooden sharp rather than leafy sharp. Leafy sharp wouldn't make actual bloody cuts like this.
It looks like he walked through some vines
are his legs numb?
Saw briars?
Probably your mom and he doesn't want to explain the position you...
i do that shit to myself with my toenails in my sleep
Rose bush
Looks like our kitten got ahold of him.
You sure that’s a leg?
A was removing a rose bush once and that’s how my leg ended up looking.
Your dad might be an undercover emo? Nothing wrong with that.
Not scrolling. Has anyone said velociraptor yet?
dOeS hE hAvE a CaT¿
I wake up w these cuz i take my socks off to sleep and scratch my leg w my other leg/toe while i’m sleeping sometimes.
Check his fingernails. Is he scratching in his sleep?
I think dads just get randomly cut and scratched when they’re doing dad shit and they don’t realize. Happens to my dad all the time.
Looks like a cat or a fence. Could be a demon as the 3 scratch marks are considered mocking the trinity. Pick your poison.
So I started getting scratches on different parts of my body that looked just like this and the results will shock you.... *ad* *ad* *ad* It was my worn out spring mattress that I had for way too long. The pressure from my body would cause the ends to poke through and any tossing or moving while I slept would create scratches.
Definitely aliens 100%
I hate to tell you this: Your dad secretly adopted a kitten, and he's not sharing the cuddles.
Happens to me often. Long nails and scratching in my sleep.