Ethnics debate - A container ship starts to sink

Well, if I was living in the area, I'd be down there taking the nappies/diapers. I'd register that I'd taken 10 packs (each pack containing 5 packets @ ~15quid/packet). Then, I'd use them on my daughter, keep the peed in ones out back and if they ask for them back, send em on as water-damaged goods.

--edit not sure whether sending the #2's back as 'waterlogged shit' would pass though

if I was down there getting motorbikes I would not be stupid enough to go on TV and talk about it in fact I would be masked up!

who can see Sarah in this pic?

She's not in that one, but I saw her walking off with a load of flatpacked cartons -

BBC reporter: "What've you got there?"

Sarah_webinc: "No idea, but I'm hoping it's an Ikea kitchen"

yeah really..that is part of what pissed me off..that they are proud of doing it

pah...I don't do anything Ikea unless I get meatballs at the same time

I heard that the new container contains them....
something for everyone.


LOL - I just saw a tonne of guys have set up a beach bonfire and a barbeque. A real nighttime shopping festival with barbeque. WTF - it must be like 0oC out there!!

ahh... so it's stuff washing up on a public beach in containers not just items drifting around. Seem a little more like looting, at first I figured it was damaged goods washing up on peoples private beaches.

Looks like the looters are making an even bigger mess by cracking open those containers.

If the people were starving or homeless I could understand it, otherwise it seems a little pathetic.

you cant take it, its like when people get evicted and all their stuff gets put out on the lawn by the sheriff and all the neighbors pick thru the stuff.

Yea I'd tend to agree, if they are taking the stuff that's scattered across the beach then it's one thing. But if they are breaking into the containers it's another.

The funny part is if the people actually filled out the claim forms they would probably get to keep the stuff unless it's a high dollar item. Because legally they would have to be offered a salvage reward by the owner to get it back.

it'd be really hard to not take home a free BMW motorcycle, but i like to think i'd do the right thing in that scenario and not be an opportunistic asshole.

apparently they will have trouble registering them in the UK anyway...dweebs

where are the free motorcycles? fuck I'm coming with a truck

In america they have salvage laws, meaning if your ship sinks, if you leave it for more then 48 hours or so, anyone can come and claim it and keep it. They have to tow it away and reregister it as a salvage boat or whatever, and they can sell it or keep it..

It was fucking nuts, last hurricane in florida, soo many sunk boats infront of my place, and there were a few people fighting over who got there first to "own" it.

Even some real companies show up with scuba divers and go down and punk all the electronics and other stuff off the sunken boats.

As you read this, more than 50,000 Nike tennis shoes are circling the globe like a convoy of tiny striped canoes.

but this flotilla of footwear is hardly alone at sea. It's been joined by thousands of Tommy Pickles cartoon heads, plastic turtles, rubber ducks, 3 million Lego pieces and, at last report, 34,000 hockey gloves.

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All this stuff and more is bob, bob, bobbing to a beach near you, said Seattle-based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer.

This month, Nike Cross Trainers are expected to wash up on Everett's beaches in Washington State, after falling into the Pacific Ocean in December 1999. This weekend will be a good time to comb local beaches, as low tides of more than minus three feet (one meter) are predicted.

But be patient?some items won't wash ashore for another ten years, said Ebbesmeyer, who's mapped Puget Sound from Tacoma to Whidbey Island since 1966.

Each year, manufacturers around the world ship more than 100 million containers?each the size of a semi-truck?across the seven seas.

Gumball dispensers, doll heads, and Beanie Babies stitched and glued in China sail across the Pacific Ocean to U.S. ports. Made-in-Hungary frocks and Pez candies travel 10th class across the Atlantic on container ships, which carry on average 4,500 containers.

But not all of them will reach port.

Every year, more than 10,000 containers fall overboard and spill their cargo into the ocean. Storms are often to blame.

An 8-foot by 40-foot container (2.4-meter by 12.2-meter), which can carry up to 58,000 pounds (26,000 kilograms) of cargo, might hold 10,000 shoes, 17,000 hockey gloves, or a million pieces of Lego.

Ebbesmeyer and his partners at Evans and Hamilton, Inc., a Seattle firm, design and manufacture instruments that measure ocean currents. The company is mapping north Puget Sound for a King County project that will locate a wastewater treatment plant in Snohomish County.

the news this morning is apparently that the police have blocked off all road entrances to the beach....duh

Yup.

If you take what is not yours, without permission, you are a thief.

All the good stuff's gone now

now we find out that a good number of those containers were the belongings of people that were moving and having their stuff shipped...so, people cracked open containers and stole personal belongings - who says humanity is fucked?

I don't care what anyone says if you take it your a thief. period.

This is what the world is coming to though.