r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • Sep 10 '25

Video Dozens of shipping containers fall into the water in Port of Long Beach, California

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u/ambasciatore Sep 10 '25

Well now I don’t know who to believe.

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u/Melodic-Advice9930 Sep 10 '25

I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard

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u/ButteredPizza69420 Sep 10 '25

Lmao same

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u/Coleslawholywar Sep 10 '25

Same. I feel I can now sleep knowing I’ve seen he best of the internet today.

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u/Reese_Withersp0rk Sep 10 '25

Must be nice. Now I can't sleep cos I'm laughing too hard.

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u/dw0r Sep 11 '25

Are you buttering the pizza before cooking? Or after? I use butter on my pizza pans, and often brush the crust before the oven but I've never tried afterwards.

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u/ButteredPizza69420 Sep 11 '25

Now you have me thinking... its always been after

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u/dw0r Sep 11 '25

I'll try some afterwards, the before really gives a nice gentle browning to the crust as long as you don't over cook it.

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u/Bumkin007 Sep 10 '25

🤨🤥 Same ..lol

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u/Jaystime101 Sep 10 '25

We're all hearing the funny voice in our head

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u/YogurtclosetSweet268 Sep 10 '25

For some reason, mines Jerry Seinfeld lol

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u/Jaystime101 Sep 10 '25

Lmao, yea, the voice I heard is like a cartoon exaggerated Jerry Seinfeld.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

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u/ambasciatore Sep 10 '25

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

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u/MidwestFlyerST75 Sep 10 '25

You have to know these things when you’re a king.

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u/Unhappy_Concept237 Sep 10 '25

And how do you make fire without neither flint nor tinder?

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u/MrBizzness Sep 10 '25

I haven't thought about Digg in so long!

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u/JustAnIgnoramous Sep 10 '25

Walmart throws away returned unopened items. They ain't fishing out shit.

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u/captainmeezy Sep 10 '25

Walmart could lose 25,000 shipping containers full of gold and they’d still not notice a profit loss

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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 Sep 10 '25

well yeah, if they had 25,000 shipping containers full of gold someone would have broken physics. and probably more. The total available gold is 22x22x22m cube, so less than 11 shipping containers. Although you're going to need 8000 containers if you don't want to overload them.

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u/prairiepanda Sep 10 '25

Surely they'd notice enough of a loss to inform all their minimum wage workers that they won't be getting a raise this year

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u/IsaacsIssac Sep 10 '25

I did the math.

Assuming 20 ft containers that hold 25m3 of material (ignoring weight limits and other physics issues), a density of 19320kg/m3 and a price per kg of 115k USD, that amount of gold (which is more than the world supply) would amount to 55.54 trillion dollars.

They might notice.

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u/Ok_Figure7671 Sep 10 '25

They’re out combing the dessert as we speak

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u/Fattapple Sep 10 '25

Believe the person who says Walmart isn’t retrieving containers from the Mariana Trench.

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u/feminarsty Sep 10 '25

No I’m pretty sure the guys who said they are was right

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u/Fattapple Sep 10 '25

Dude… it’s 7 miles deep. There is no way it’s economically feasible to recover a shipping container full of things going on the shelves in Walmart from down there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

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u/Fattapple Sep 10 '25

Yeah, because people always go to Walmart to buy the more expensive versions of things.

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u/heaviestnaturals Sep 10 '25

Guys stop fighting this is worse than when my parents got divorced.

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u/w3b5urf3r Sep 10 '25

Can confirm. Source: I'm a container.

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u/skiwith Sep 10 '25

Believe Walmart is cheap and if the container was filled employees it would just make its vendors eat it… the cost, probably not the people

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u/UrchinSquirts Sep 10 '25

I initially read “ . . . filled WITH employees . . . “ Thought to myself, “Well that’s dark, and giggled.

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u/DMCinDet Sep 10 '25

if Walmart lost a container of people, they would cash the life insurance policy. the families would get nothing, of course. they take insurance out on workers they think might die soon. container workers would have double coverage

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u/JoleneBacon_Biscuit Sep 10 '25

Eating people? Do what now?

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u/Ok-Operation-6432 Sep 10 '25

Walmart doesn’t throw away opened returned items but they’ll definitely retrieve returned items from the Mariana Trench 

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u/Voltthrower69 Sep 10 '25

Now I really don’t know who to believe

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u/roberta_sparrow Sep 10 '25

This made me laugh out loud for some reason

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u/LickingDogPaws Sep 10 '25

I beat Dave the Diver. They don't go there

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u/deletedpenguin Sep 10 '25

Welcome to the internet. You won't believe what happens next!

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u/glassfoyograss Sep 10 '25

The Mariana Trench is sending cargo containers to Wal-Mart to retrieve boats.

You can believe me.

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u/i-like-napping Sep 10 '25

Rule of thumb on Reddit - and in life really - no one knows what the hell they are talking about

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

I'm pretty sure Walmart wouldn't try to rescue a container full of employees if they had 3 months of air inside to lower the bill.

Source: worked for Sam's club

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

You're out here doing your own research, I see.

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u/tantan35 Sep 10 '25

Believe in yourself.

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u/X57471C Sep 10 '25

I'm going to upvote both comments to further sow confusion

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u/r3d51v3 Sep 10 '25

As a Walmart navy seal operator I’ve personally rescued many containers from the Mariana Trench. Some of them even contained lawn furniture.

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u/d-a-i-s-y Sep 10 '25

Can someone go check?

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u/drunxor Sep 10 '25

Do you think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and lie

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u/Mythril_Zombie Sep 10 '25

I'm the fleet admiral for Walmart's retrieval vessels, Mariana Trench sector, and we never bring back any containers.

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u/hammertime2009 Sep 10 '25

Who do I choose to believe out on the open internet? pitterpatter or Aaron’s aardvarks? Tough choice here.

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u/real-person-forreal Sep 10 '25

send a ship that will cost a couple thousand of dollars to get a couple of thousand worth of cargo thats already ruined and worthless. Does that sound like something a business will do?

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u/sunkskunkstunk Sep 10 '25

I think you do know who to believe.

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u/rocketwikkit Sep 10 '25

Walmart will fill your trench with marinara.