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Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:04 am to Lonnie Utah
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A a former field biologist, I've encountered it a couple of times. Obviously, I lived
I imagine it was a traumatic experience for you. Thoughts and prayers.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:05 am to Jim Rockford
Hippos kill thousands of people each year. Wonder how many people die because of quicksand. Also quicksand sounds like a good way to kill rogue hippos. Just need a good hippo herding dog.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:11 am to Jim Rockford
As a kid, my friends and I would go out in the rain together jumping in mud puddles together hoping to jump in quicksand. I have no idea why I would want to get stuck in quicksand, but yea.
Obviously, we never found any.
Obviously, we never found any.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:14 am to LCA131
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meant that I thought you were more intelligent (less dense) than many here... Hell, maybe I was wrong.
Haha cheers. I took it to mean you calling me pleasantly plump since nobody is nice to each other on the internet.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:16 am to fr33manator
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With as much as it was a problem on TV and movies you’d think it was lurking around every corner
True. It's very overlooked now, but in the 70s/80s it was frequent. As a kid I was terrified of it.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:17 am to bigberg2000
quote:Between quicksand and killer bees, I thought there was no way I ever see 30yoa.
Yeah I think all of us as kids thought it was a real problem.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:32 am to Jim Rockford
I always thought it would be a thing when I was a kid. I spend a lot of time in the woods, I’m in a shoot house now, and I’ve never seen it
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:34 am to Jim Rockford
No......but as a kid I surely thought it was going to be a bigger issue.
I think I heard that somewhere in a comedy bit too.
I think I heard that somewhere in a comedy bit too.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:36 am to CocomoLSU
It’s a travesty that this meme left out the horse in neverending story
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:36 am to Jim Rockford
As a kid I spent a lot of time playing in the spillway, shooting, fishing, riding dirt bikes and I've got almost my entire body stuck in mud and I called it quicksand. But it was never quicksand like they show on TV.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:37 am to Jim Rockford
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quicksand
There's some along Kisatchie bayou SW of Nachitoches
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:41 am to SCLSUMuddogs
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Fun fact, it's physically impossible for a human being to be completely submerged in quicksand. Quicksand is around twice as dense as the human body. At most it can make it up to around a human waistline.
Unless it's laying over a dome of water or even an air pocket under the harder sand below.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:47 am to Jim Rockford
Yea I damn near lost a 400 dollar hand car
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:49 am to CocomoLSU
I was terrified of quicksand as a kid.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:50 am to Jim Rockford
Yes
next question
next question
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:51 am to Champagne
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Could you tell us a bit more about your experience with Quicksand? Most of us have never seen it IRL.
Was hiking near Capitol Reef National Park several years ago. I stepped on what I thought was wet sand in a "dry" stream bed, and sank up to my ankles/calf on my right leg. I took a step back and took a different path. LOL.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:52 am to Kjnstkmn
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Duck hunting at the Wax there’s one island where the mud is so soft and deep it’s almost like quicksand, we actually got snowshoes to hunt it for a while before just moving to another spot where the bottom was harder and still had ducks.
I used to hunt a small bayou like this. Mud had no bottom. About 6 inches of water and if you tried to walk out past the blind you’d sink up to your chest and the more you tried to walk the deeper you’d sink. It was scary as frick. I would use a pirogue to get across to get ducks I shot as I was scared to let a dog go across it
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:55 am to Jim Rockford
At Bayou Sara in West Feliciana parish, I jumped from the bank to a "sandbar" and sunk up to my waist in wet gravel and sand. Not quicksand like the movies, but pretty weird experience.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 11:09 am to Jim Rockford
Lots of quicksand along Thompson Creek in Louisiana. None of it is deeper than 3' but it'll sink a 4 wheeler with the quickness...
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