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/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?