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Posted: 6/22/2017 9:23:53 PM EDT

Some construction company working on the beach here in the Netherlands.

Operators got out safe but both machines were lost.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:24:55 PM EDT

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Quicksand used to be a staple in 70's tv shows like The Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazzard, A-Team, etc.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:26:37 PM EDT

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no kidding... that stuff was everywhere!

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:28:01 PM EDT

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That looks more like someone getting caught in the tide like a dumbass.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:28:16 PM EDT

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Don't for forget about the 6 million dollar man! yeah it was everywhere

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:28:24 PM EDT

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Running through the woods as a kid I was fucking terrified of quick sand. Lol

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:30:22 PM EDT

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I used to imagine it to be a serious threat in Virginia

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:31:12 PM EDT

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You too?!

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:32:16 PM EDT

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Don't for forget about the 6 million dollar man! yeah it was everywhere

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Daktari, Tarzan and every jungle movie ever made. Hell maybe even King Kong, IDK.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:33:33 PM EDT

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Now it's just a porn fetish

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:34:40 PM EDT

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google translate

levensgevaarlijk drijfzand

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Life-threatening drift sand

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:35:35 PM EDT

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As a kid I was certain that I would meet my doom from quicksand and that a vine would be just out of reach and my baseball hat would be mute testimony of my demise.

I seriously worried about that!

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:37:39 PM EDT

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I was born in 1971.
As a kid, I always thought quicksand was going to be a MUCH larger problem in my adult life than it is.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:38:32 PM EDT

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And the undisputed king of quicksand TV: Gilligan's Island!

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:39:17 PM EDT

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Well that was lucky. Pretty near lost a $400 handcart.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:40:06 PM EDT

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Me too

Born a bit earlier though.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:41:52 PM EDT

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No wonder they got stuck. Obviously the sign maker was drunk.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:44:00 PM EDT

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Gilligan Island

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:45:42 PM EDT

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Well that was lucky. Pretty near lost a $400 handcart.

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Break times over

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:45:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/22/2017 9:47:37 PM EDT

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Running through the woods as a kid I was fucking terrified of quick sand. Lol

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I thought for sure that would be my death.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:47:59 PM EDT

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I was walking a newly cut logging road one day deer hunting. I saw a small mud puddle and stepped over it to "dry looking" ground. Next thing I knew I was waist deep in sand! I grabbed a nearby tree and pulled out. Don't know if I really hit the bottom or not. Glad that tree was there!

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:48:24 PM EDT

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Running through the woods as a kid I was fucking terrified of quick sand. Lol

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Posted: 6/22/2017 9:49:29 PM EDT

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It was apparently all over the old west as well according to all of the westerns. Yep, I grew up worrying about it as well.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:50:48 PM EDT

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Beaches and tidal zones make great places to lose heavy equipment.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:51:17 PM EDT

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Bonus points for the guy wearing Jorts with boots.

Hold my aquavit, watch this.

Posted: 6/22/2017 9:59:33 PM EDT

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Blazing Saddles

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:14:15 PM EDT

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Avoidable but scary

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:16:06 PM EDT

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I was deathly afraid of quick sand also!

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:25:42 PM EDT

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Beastmaster had me terrified of quicksand as a kid, lol

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:27:52 PM EDT

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Several years ago we bushwacked back old logging roads to the shore of a lake way up in Quebec. Nice cove with a sandy beach, a strip with just enough rock to make it safe to launch the boats.

As we were looking it over and lining up the best way to back the first boat in my oldest son stepped onto the sand and went in up to his waist!

There was a beaver dam about 10' back from the shore edge and about 4' high. Apparently the seepage from the dam traveled under the rocks and then up through the sand. It was just freaky.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:35:45 PM EDT

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I know it exists in the dry river sections of the Mojave River because I had to help a neighbor dig out his Bronco II after it sank up to the tops of the tires when he stopped on what looked like a dry sand bar.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:35:53 PM EDT

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There's a good stand up bit about quicksand but for the life of me I can't remember who it was. Basically the same thing "growing up I expected it to be a much bigger problem than it is"

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:36:30 PM EDT

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So do they just leave those machines there or is there a way to recover them?

I would think the enviro-nazies over there would have a problem with the fuel and oil possibly leaking out.

ETA WTF were they doing out there anyway?

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:40:12 PM EDT

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yep quicksand and the metric system

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:40:40 PM EDT

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Quicksand scared the hell out of me as a kid even thought I never once heard about it occurring outside of TV.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:42:44 PM EDT

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Almost forgot that.

An uppity ****** went and hit me on the head with a shovel.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:43:36 PM EDT

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What is this? GD a bunch of millennials? Do you guys even Lassie?

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:44:44 PM EDT

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And the undisputed king of quicksand TV: Gilligan's Island!

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And giant spiders and giant, fat, amorous, native girls!

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:48:18 PM EDT

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Younger me would've never believed that I would reach the age I am without having ever once encountered quicksand.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:51:48 PM EDT

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This, I suspect it wasn't quick, but slow enough there was almost enough warning, but by the time you catch on it's to late.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:54:11 PM EDT

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yep quicksand and the metric system

This.

Posted: 6/22/2017 10:54:54 PM EDT

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I was born in 1971.
As a kid, I always thought quicksand was going to be a MUCH larger problem in my adult life than it is.

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Quicksand used to be a staple in 70's tv shows like The Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazzard, A-Team, etc.

I was born in 1971.
As a kid, I always thought quicksand was going to be a MUCH larger problem in my adult life than it is.

1969 model year, but yeah this!

I'm not sure if I feel let down about the distinct lack of opportunity to put my escape plans into action or relieved. I do know I've never had to yet!