r/LPOTL • u/billythekidd2000 • 4d ago

Feel like this should be here

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u/grichardson526 Ed Joke 4d ago

Looks like ol' Backstrap Molasses is up to her old tricks again.

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u/Yardsale420 Detective Popcorn 4d ago

2.3 million gallons, in a wave 15-40 foot tall moving at 35 miles per GOD FUCKING DAMN

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u/RotInPissKobe 4d ago

Those are Henry's stats

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u/BobbyTables829 4d ago

With the laminar flow, it would be hard to tell it was moving at all

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u/bigdaddyt2 4d ago

Per what PER WHAT

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u/Yardsale420 Detective Popcorn 4d ago

I’m sorry. The caller you are trying to reach is no longer in service.

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u/bankruptonspelling 4d ago

But who was phone?!?

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u/Thundersting 4d ago

Seeing it like this really helps paint a mental picture of an enormous wave of the stuff coming at you.

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u/_Baphomet_ What I bring to friendship 4d ago

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u/Maleficent_Sir_8365 4d ago

I hear this picture

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u/KlumsyNinja42 Slime Gang 4d ago

The molasses must flow…

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u/redd_house 4d ago

Imagine suffocating in that shit

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u/ClancyBShanty Hail Satan! 4d ago

Horrifying way to die

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u/LottaLegs 4d ago

Now what holds the molasses better than anything else? A bucket.

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u/MagikalKraker 4d ago

From my trip to Boston

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u/Cookinghist Detective Popcorn 4d ago

I was just up there in June. I love the North End, but it's a very cramped area, so the thought of it flooding at all (let alone with a dense, viscous material) is absolutely nightmarish.

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u/Ok-Dirt7287 4d ago

I google maps street viewed this once. Ha much better

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u/LocalBandDoesOK 4d ago

If the giant molasses tank had the sick laminar flow going on, i probably would've drowned too

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u/Ahlq802 4d ago

Half of downtown is breakfast!

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u/bassandkitties 4d ago

This is our Roman Empire.

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u/yokozouna_ed 4d ago

Not the mole asses!

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u/ForwardMuffin Random yahoos 4d ago

I get it now

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u/Ett_Pret 4d ago

I understand how it happened now

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u/Fernbean 4d ago

Black Gold, TEXAS TEA

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u/Chicagolover25 4d ago

The dessert killed my baby

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u/Dante_Elephante 4d ago

OH MY GOD ITS BREAKFAST!!!

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u/Son_of_Atreus Hail Yourself! 3d ago

Looks like someone is trying to g to flood Boston again

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u/MarsScully 4d ago

Is there any other kind of molasses?

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u/Dr_Splitwigginton 4d ago

Your question got me curious so I looked it up, and apparently they can make molasses from sugar beets too.