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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/--read-only-- on 2026-07-15 06:49:19+00:00.

I was out walking my dog tonight and noticed three dudes standing in their yard with a shovel and a flashlight. I thought maybe they were doing some type of yard work, planting something, or digging something up.... It's 11pm, but who knows what a couple of guys might feel like doing randomly at this hour? Maybe they'd had a couple of drinks and one of them said, "hey, help me dig up that bush!" or something??

I thought it would be funny to ask, "what're you guys doing, burying a body?" Trying to build rapport with the neighbors by joking around a little, ya know?

But you know why it looked like they were burying a body? Because they were. Their dog.

I feel like an ass and I will never recover. Thankfully one of them laughed out loud, and I apologized profusely.

TL;DR: They were burying their dog.