What happened to quicksand?

[MOONDAWG]

My foot's on the rail.

...he said, "The Sheriff is NEAR!"

 

[ancient-one]

Real quicksand is no joke. A few years ago a guy was fishing under the old Highway 33 Bridge near Coyle and spent the night stuck in the quicksand.
Me and my hunting buddy hunted ducks for years on the river and you had to be really careful where you walked. It could be a small or large area. We were walking on a sand bar quite a distance from the water and all of a sudden my right leg went in almost to the top of my waders. The sand around that one spot was firm. We finally wrestled me out without
losing my wader. It was a heck of a surprise and from then on we were even more careful.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Doggone near lost a $400.00 hand cart.

 

[Bert Man]

It was over-loaded with tragically lost firearms and was replaced by boating accidents.

 

[Wyatt p. Tato]

Actually, this is what I have heard happened. Movie animals like trigger, silver, rin tin tin, lassie and others went to peta and complained, peta appealed to the government that animals were being endangered while rescuing their stupid human overlords. Thus Al Gore put all wetlands under government control, saying if one animal could be saved it would be worth it.

 

[Chuck24]

It had to be discontinued for offending the slow sand and ruining its self-esteem.

 

[chaparrito]

I saw a dead steer that had become mired in quicksand in a side canyon in up on the Arizona Strip. He was up to his belly in it. It happens fairly often up there. The Navajo Sandstone breaks down into some slippery silt and will pool up in eddies after a flash flood. We used to play in it when I worked on the San Juan River. The stuck feeling is scary and you never go into it wearing shoes if you want them back.

 

[ladder13]

Terrible way to die, gave me nightmares when I was a ute.

 

[LittleCooner]

Sinking in the Creek there, Deputy Dawg?

 

[Kinman]

Back in the 60's there was a place folks used to throw keg parties and such. It was a natural creek that had been diverted to cool parts of Kaiser Aluminum's Mead Facility. From what we understood the creek was diverted and ran over pipes that had a coolant in them and the two were never supposed to meet. The water was a very nice temperature year round which made it a haven for late night keg parties. The only "rule of thumb" was never go in the water without some kind of shoe because of the obvious possibility of broken glass...drinking and water....anyway...I had on a pair of sneakers and was wading a ways down from the party with a young lady, looking for a little privacy. We found a quiet little place and were getting to know each other a little better while standing still and suddenly noticed that we were sinking down into the sandy/loamy bottom. At first it was a little fun but she got spooked and worked her way out, I stayed in one spot and even tried to see how far I could "work" my way into the "quicksand" and got up to about mid thigh, then I decided to work my way out and found that try as I might I could not get one shoe out, so I ended up loosing one shoe to the quicksand of Peone Creek.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Actually, this is what I have heard happened. Movie animals like trigger, silver, rin tin tin, lassie and others went to peta and complained

You can tell that this little monkey was starting to protest. Not content with just being in a scene saving a human from quicksand, he pushed them in quicksand!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUe46ug9xRc[/ame]

 

[peterthefish]

http://www.radiolab.org/story/quicksand/

Your tax dollars at work explaining just what happened to quicksand. Short answer - it's not in movies anymore.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Quicksand was discontinued since it was found to be defective in Hollyweird.

When someone stepped in it they sank right to the knees, then in a minute to the waste. An hour later to the waist and after that the waist was exposed like they got pushed up. The next scene which is actually one minute the only thing bobbing around was their head, which never went under unless they were the bad guy.

Therefore since we all know the movies are real they had to stop using defective quicksand.

 

[JcMack]

Today's quicksand = credit cards

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Link in post 33

The below quicksand chart is exactly what I'm talking about!

Notice the decline of quicksand in movies coincides with the moral decay of society beginning in the 60s.

Bring back our quicksand!

God bless America.

 

[Old TexMex]

Caj knows:

You can tell that this little monkey was starting to protest. Not content with just being in a scene saving a human from quicksand, he pushed them in quicksand!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUe46ug9xRc

When the monkey claps his hands after passing the vine to the human, take note: the monkey wasn't applauding, that's known as "pat yo' hand". In other words, Hand over the money, cross my palm, decorate the mahogany....you know what I mean?

I was first exposed to this hand signal playing Boo Ray in the wilds of Plaquemines Parish. They got quicksand down there too, yeah, with alligators.

 

[Maximumbob54]

Didn't people used to get stuck in tar pits?

 

[Absalom]

It was outlawed as being too dangerous.....

 

[mrrick]

EPA banned it.

 

[chaparrito]

Back in the 60's there was a place folks used to throw keg parties and such. It was a natural creek that had been diverted to cool parts of Kaiser Aluminum's Mead Facility.

Mead was made by Kaiser Aluminum??

What next, Whiskey by 3M???