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Maverick

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looks like again in these parts more kids walking right into quicksand, parents allowed the kids to get to far ahead off the trail out of sight, luckily other people heard the screams and responded before the parents even known what had happen. Damn, if they don't know the area parents have no business allowing the kids to get more than 20 feet away if that, they were also right in the middle of cougar country.

They just moved here from irvine california and have no knowledge of the dangers here. People, WATCH THE DAMN KIDS!!!!
 
looks like again in these parts more kids walking right into quicksand, parents allowed the kids to get to far ahead off the trail out of sight, luckily other people heard the screams and responded before the parents even known what had happen. Damn, if they don't know the area parents have no business allowing the kids to get more than 20 feet away if that, they were also right in the middle of cougar country.

They just moved here from irvine california and have no knowledge of the dangers here. People, WATCH THE DAMN KIDS!!!!



People are oblivious. Check out this baby in China...ridiculous.
 
Been stuck in deep MUD before and managed to find what I called "quick sand" once.
Lucky I had a buddy with me and close by.
A large, low, wet, area near a river looked fine but was covered by fallen leaves.
I got stuck knee deep and buddy had to use a long branch to get me out.
This when I was a teen and trapping the river bottom.
Another time I was netting bait minnows and stepped into a round white looking sandy
place and went down quickly.
I handed the long minnow net handle to my buddy who pulled me out.
I'm real careful where I step in the outdoors now.
 
I've never seen quicksand. We don't have it in Tennessee

"We don't have it in Tennessee", means you haven't stepped in in yet.

Here's a bad video of quicksand in Tennessee where you don't have any quicksand.

There is NO quicksand in Ohio either but I've stepped in it twice and had to be pulled out by
a buddy.
Good thing I wasn't alone to die in the quicksand we don't have in Ohio.

Quick "sand" need not be sand. I can be mud, muck, slop, deeper than one expects.

"'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.'" - Herbert Spencer-

Food for thought?

Being a disabled police officer who served over 2 decades, 10 years as a detective,
I learned to keep an open mind and expect anything.
After all I dealt with everything that should never happen to anyone that happened
anyway.
hummmmmmmmmmm???????????????????????
Just one sad example. A teen shoots himself by accident in the head with a b-b pistol.
He bled just a drop and friends took him to the e.r.
It was busy so they had the teen wait where he DIED of bleeding in the brain an hour later.
From a b-b pistol that would hardly shoot a tiny ball through cardboard.
I have many, many, many, stories of what should never happen to anyone that happened
anyway.
Go figger.
Guess that's why I'm a prepper huh?
 
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We had a lot of quicksand in parts of Alaska where I lived. I've had my 8 wheel drive Argo stuck in quicksand many times while crossing what looked like dry sand and fine gravel near a river or on a beach at low tide. My Argo had front and rear winch hook-ups, plus I always carried a couple of tow straps and a "dead-man" to help get unstuck. There's seldom any trees close enough to winch to when you get stuck in the stuff.
 

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