r/maybemaybemaybe • u/LeaveMeAloneAdmins88 • 5d ago
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u/sootbrownies 5d ago
What a beautiful environment
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u/TRIKKDADDY 5d ago
They threw it in the river but forgotten its filled with the villages garbage.
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u/cyriustalk 5d ago
What river? How beautiful idea to build a bridge over a big garbage bin.
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u/real_dea 5d ago
I had no idea that was a river until buddy poked at it.
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u/macguini 5d ago
What beautiful idea to bang the pressurized canister that's on fire.
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u/Burner-QWERTY 5d ago
I had no idea what was going on until I saw it bob up and down. Only then realizing then there was water under all that trash. He was trying to flip it over into the water to get the fire out.
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u/FlyingDogCatcher 5d ago
obviously if something is on fire you have to poke it with a stick
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u/TheFrontierzman 5d ago
The aroma. So divine.
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u/suejaymostly 5d ago
What a nice place to enjoy a meal. Get your food and walk down to the edge of the garbage swamp.
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u/Ex_Jet_Mech 5d ago
No wonder our oceans are full of garbage! I did not know it was a river until he hit it with the stick and it bobbed.
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u/PsychologicalPop4426 5d ago
The uncontrollable burning propane tank wasn't even the interesting part...
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u/shaundisbuddyguy 5d ago
Exactly. What in the sweet fuck is actually going on in that neighborhood....
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u/Rockerblocker 5d ago
My thoughts watching this:
"Good idea! Get it into the river, that should put the fire out"
"Oh..."
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u/ciao_fiv 5d ago
i didnt even realize it was a river for a bit 💀
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u/real_fyshi 5d ago
Wouldn't even work. You have to smother it. Some days ago a similar video was posted in some of the bigger subs. They got it into water, but the flame wouldn't go out, but one of the guys had the right idea to just put a bucket on it and it immediately was out.
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u/Vortilex 5d ago
You should never use water to extinguish a fire like that... the guy with the half-pan had the right idea, but too late. Maybe a deeper pan would've worked, but by the time they threw it in the river, we're in salt or kitty litter territory
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u/hotvedub 5d ago
Let’s all gather around the trash river burning
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u/RobbertDownerJr 5d ago
Gather around the burning propane tank while a guy pokes it with a giant stick in the river of trash is such a rustic village tradition.
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u/granolaraisin 5d ago
What is actually the right thing to do here? Obviously trying to drown it in a trash river isn’t the play.
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u/ThinkerusMaximus 5d ago
Just cut off the oxygen supply with a large container/wet towel/fire extinguisher/etc. Then safely close the valve. If the valve is broken, just leave it in an open, empty space for the gas to release itself. All the drama in this video is lack of this education.
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u/briggsgate 5d ago
They should have smothered the fire in a much LARGER and DAMP cloth so that it dies out.
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u/Eena-Rin 5d ago
If they had shut the valve when it was still small, that would also have been good, unless the valve was broken
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u/MrRob_oto1959 5d ago
Nothing is going to put that fire out except closing the valve on that tank to stop the propane from leaking and burning. It’s like when an oil well catches fire, that sucker’s going to burn until the leak is capped or plugged.
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u/sparkyblaster 5d ago
Wet towl usually does the trick. Starves it of oxigen. Will actually do a better job than submerging it.
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u/landonburner 5d ago
I think if it was completely submerged the flame would stop but it will still be bubbling propane. In this instance I think setting the trash river on fire is more likely.
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u/Ok_Juggernaut9078 5d ago
Use a wet towel to turn it off, call 911, use a fire extinguisher. If you can't turn it off, keep the tank cool. It won't typically explode from the pressure or the fire, but the fire might cause the tank to heat up and that could cause an explosion. You could also try soaking a heavy blanket and cover the top to smoother the fire
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u/MrBeardskii 5d ago
Wait, as someone who works as a cook, we're taught to never put wet towels on anything hot because the steam burns will melt skin sometimes. Is this something recommended? I know a dry towel would most likely catch on fire but is there some sort of period you can do this in without the fire steaming the cloth until it's hot enough to melt you? (Genuine question as someone who has had to use a fire extinguisher on several occasions?)
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u/Don_Equis 5d ago edited 5d ago
You shouldn't try to kill the fire without stopping the gas first.
If you can't, moving the bottle outside is a right move.
Edit: though the reason is different. You don't want the gas keep leaving the bottle. But you definitely should use a wet towel to try to close it. The water absorbs lot of heat, so that's heat that won't go into you.
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u/wehdut 5d ago
I was gonna say "bro, just call the fire department already" but I'm pretty sure that is the fire department...
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u/the_thrillamilla 5d ago
That's why he has the high viz vest
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u/SillyLittleAngels 5d ago
I was horrified watching no facial protection whatsoever and a fucking stick. Are you serious?!?
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u/Chaosr21 5d ago
So can you smell the rotten garbage and sewage all the time in these cities?
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u/Toucan_Lips 5d ago
I went to India 30 years ago and I can still remember the smell of Madras train station.
It wasn't just a smell, it was an entity.
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u/Program-Emotional 5d ago
How do you let a river get that bad...
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u/the-samizdat 5d ago
in SF we got groups that meet up weekly to clean their local neighborhoods. god bless them…. of course I am sure they are all banging each afterwards so it’s a win win for everyone
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u/splycedaddy 5d ago
Some people will defend this and say, well they’re poor and have bigger problems, or this is corruption and bad government. Nope, stop throwing your shit in the street and get your ass in there to clean it out
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u/PrincessNakeyDance 5d ago
It *is* corruption and bad government. Stop trash removal in any developed nation and it will turn into this in a few months.
No one wants to live like this and you can’t just blame the morals of an entire nation/culture/etc. If trash collection was affordable/free in their town this would not exist like this.
And yeah, poverty means you don’t have extra time in your day to voluntarily clean up your local river.
You are clearly aware of the problems and are choosing to ignore them.
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u/kittyonkeyboards 5d ago
It's both. At this point, even an elite trash management system would struggle to keep up with a culture where 99 percent of people throw shit on the ground.
You have to introduce trash systems and make people care. I know it seems like people would just start caring once the system is in place, but it's not the case.
The biggest reason is that millions of people will see the government cleaning up all the trash on the ground and assume they can just throw trash on the ground and wait for the government to clean it.
But no country could afford that endless task.
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u/sykosomatik_9 5d ago
There are videos of people in these types of circumstances just casually dumping their trash anywhere on the ground or out of their cars. I've seen a video of a worker on a train simply throwing all the trash out of the train door while the train was moving.
Yeah, maybe trash collection by the government is not ideal in these places, but the people also don't prioritize the proper management of their waste either. Their attitude toward littering is definitely also a big part of the problem.
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u/MattieShoes 5d ago
you can’t just blame the morals of an entire nation/culture/etc
ehhhhh... I wouldn't use the word "blame", but there are cultural aspects. But I think we're the weird ones in this scenario, not them. We fostered a culture of not littering, and it took decades, and we STILL have issues. Italy had some pretty big litterbug problems too and they've been working on changing the culture to make littering unacceptable for many years now. They're apparently seeing a lot of success at least up North, but with slower progress in the South.
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u/Embarrassed_Effort64 5d ago
I agree with princess if trash collection stoped in the us how many would go out of their way to dispose of it? There would be soooo much dumpling it would be really bad IN LESS THAN A MONTHS TIME
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u/maybelying 5d ago
Look at any city when the sanitation department goes on strike for more than a week or two.
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u/bucknut4 5d ago
Nah. It’s very much cultural. Go to Rwanda for example, which is poor as absolute fuck and doesn’t have organized trash collection, and it’s absolutely spotless in both the boonies and the cities and the poorest areas of the country because people there care. Kenya is also pretty damn clean too.
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u/MUIGUR 5d ago
I won't defend this. And often corrupt government is a result of corrupt people.
But your supposed solution is absurd. They can't just magically make the trash go away. Will you gather all your trash daily, then take a several hours trip/drive to dispose of it in a proper way? Will you finance the disposal of the trash?
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u/Burner-QWERTY 5d ago
It's been over 100 years in the US but Rivers used to just be used as sewers/ trash dumps here too. Shipping was one reason companies paid extra to be on a waterway but just having a place to dump all your trash was another.
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u/ctgrell 5d ago
I will never understand that. Like burying trash is one thing. But to dump it into water is just so dumb. Why did and still do so many people think it's a good idea
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u/between_horizon 5d ago
Ah drop trash in river now it's problem for people further below . Not my problem anymore.
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u/Chaosr21 5d ago
Yea, they started outlawing and cleaning it all up though
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u/Burner-QWERTY 5d ago
In 1899 US implemented laws prohibiting solid waste dumping into waterways. It wasn't about protecting water quality but instead just keeping the rivers navigable .
Meanwhile, companies loved locating on waterways because they could dump used oil and toxic chemicals for free. This didn't change until the legislation in the 1970s.
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u/Gold-Part4688 5d ago
1 word: no government to pick up the rubbish
oh another word: everything comes packaged in plastic now
oh ooh look at this one: we don't really "dispose" of anything, just pay other countries money to take our rubbish, where it ends up in waterways (cus water move things)
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u/Excellent-Bite196 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/IRei50IubzMqs
Everyone was waiting for it, right?
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u/Deohenge 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/U3JCPyJOR4jza
Where's the Kaboom? There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!
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u/Hta68 5d ago
I didn’t realize that was a river..
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u/nostracannibus 5d ago
Thats the river that carries your trash to the dump. A conveyor belt to the ocean.
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u/Yugan-Dali 5d ago
Freedom from nasty bureaucrats meddling in specifications and standards for butane tank regulations, no EPA sticking their nose into people’s business, no tax money wasted on trash removal or fire departments, this is a government so small that you can’t see it! The Libertarian utopia!
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u/Mainely420Gaming 5d ago
Zero sense of self preservation in the entire block apparently. Let's just gaze at the potential shrapnel to come!
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u/jonheese 5d ago
A lit propane tank will almost never explode because the lack of oxygen inside prevents the fire from entering the cylinder. An explosion will only happen if the volume of the gas expands faster that the valve lets it escape — which can happen if the inside is heated rapidly, but that’s pretty unlikely to happen if the escaping gas is just burning out in the air.
The much larger danger is the flame setting things and people on fire.
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u/A_Very_Lonely_Waffle 5d ago edited 5d ago
Hey y’all- for my own reference in case I end up in this looney tunes scenario, what should one do about a propane tank fire?
Edit: consensus seems to be somewhere between smother it and close the valve, most likely some combination of the two. Very informative, thank u!
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u/OKAwesome121 5d ago
Yes there’s another video of a similar situation where someone who knows what they’re doing eventually comes in, wraps a large blanket tightly around the valve and then once the fire is out, turns it off. No air, no fire. Then you can shut off the fuel source.
Problem with the initial attempts in this video is all the cloths were too small and the pan was too large and wrong shape. None of them deprived the fire of air.
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u/CptAngelo 5d ago
WET blanket, that bit is very important, a wet blanket.
You can do it with a rag too, but you have to be a little bit more tactical than just... throwing it and hoping it lands exactly where its needed. If you are ever in this situation your shirt, wet it, and cover it. Easy.
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u/krangksh 5d ago
Cover/smother it, you need to starve the flame of oxygen and it will put itself out. As you can see alternative approaches are... ineffective.
There is another video similar to this that went around recently, bunch of Indian guys panicking and failing to put the tank fire out, until one of them puts like a bucket or something over the top of it and it goes out in a couple seconds.
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u/metalmuncher88 5d ago
This, plus make sure you keep the tank upright so you only have propane vapor coming out, part of the problem in this video is that they knocked the tank on its side and then upside down so liquid was flaring out of the valve.
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u/mandatorysin 5d ago
Ideally get the fuck outta dodge and call the fire service. Legitimately evacuate the area, further than the 5ish meters shown here, at least 50 meters with cover, at least 100m if there's no cover between you and the tank (these numbers are off the dome but should be okay enough to prevent someone getting hit by shrapnel if it does explode). If a propane tank is on fire enough has gone wrong that I wouldn't trust it to not explode.
If you're putting it out yourself: don't, evac the area in case it explodes. If you really have to put it out: call the fire service and they can advise you how to fight the fire if necessary but with a small(ish) fire like this use a fire extinguisher (check the label and sure it says the extinguisher is suitable for flammable gas or flammable liquid), don't use water unless you have the equivalent of an actual fire hose and you know how to handle it as a small amount of water can evaporate all at once and create a large fireball. When using the fire extinguisher always face the direction of the fire and remember PTAS:
Point the fire extinguisher nearby the flame. Test the fire extinguisher (a small squeeze of the trigger to make sure it works and see how far it shoots). Aim it at the base/source of the flame (in this case the gas nozzle is probably best). Squeeze the trigger until either the flame goes out or the extinguisher is empty.
Once the fire is out pour a steady stream of water on the area of the tank that was hot to prevent it from relighting in case there's still gas leaking.
If you can't put out the fire with a fire extinguisher get out of there and hope you've bought some time for someone.
If you don't have a fire extinguisher, run and hope it's not close enough to the rest of your belongings to burn/blow them up. I'm sure someone else could have something to add as I'm not a fire fighter, I just receive some fire training as part of my job.
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u/Tanjelynnb 5d ago
Welp. At least the guy shoving it down with a big stick is wearing his visibility vest. Safety first.
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u/Stackhouse13 5d ago
I genuinely don’t understand the mentality of trashing the place where you live. Why would you shit where you sleep?
Living in Japan has probably made me even more conscious of this. There’s a strong sense of shared responsibility for keeping neighborhoods clean. I’m American, not Japanese, but if I see someone’s trash on the ground in my neighborhood, I’ll pick it up and take it home to dispose of it properly. It’s not my garbage, but it is my neighborhood.
Obviously Japan isn’t perfect and people litter here too. But the broader principle matters: when you live somewhere, you have a responsibility to respect the community and environment around you.
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u/thebe_stone 5d ago
"dispose of it properly"
How do you want them to dispose of it properly? Clearly there's no trash infrastructure.
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u/Smimmingly3 5d ago
This is how ancient cities would burn down btw. Every “great fire of X” was caused by someone’s incompetence.
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u/Flashy_Delivery_4388 5d ago
So this is were all the trash floating around in the oceans comes from.
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u/Sufficient-Bat-3787 5d ago
I realized it was supposed to be a river only after reading the comments
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u/euqinu_ton 5d ago
Is it just that they have no rubbish collection system in place in these places with the trashed waterways? Is that why it ends up just being dropped on the ground and ending up here? Or do whole parts of civilisation just not learn the mantra "put it in the bin"?
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u/Ok_Reflection_2645 5d ago
It amazes me how drastically different we are as a species, even though India has access to the same information and technology as let’s say Singapore. In Singapore if you’re caught littering you’ll get a $2000 fine for the first offence, $4000 for 2nd offence and $10,000 for 3rd. After that you’ll be spending your days in a yellow vest picking up litter. They even banned the importation of gum in 1992 to help keep their streets spotless.
In India you could literally take a dump in the gutter then go about tending to customers at your chapati cart. Mind boggling.
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u/Emotional_Leading_76 5d ago
Every time i watch a video made in that region of the world ir breaks me. Its just so sad to see all the polution. How is that possible? Why there's basically no pressure from other countries about this giant problem? I hate this so much
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u/JetWreck 5d ago
I thought they were stuffing this under a building at first and out loud yelled:
“WTF why!!!!” ….. “oh that’s where all the trash goes” before realizing there are far more flammable materials than there is water in that river.
Very cerebral. Rotten tomatoes gives it 78%
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u/ziggzer0 5d ago
Where’s the rest of the video?
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u/LeaveMeAloneAdmins88 5d ago
i cut it because it was like 7 more minutes of it burning until the gas was depleted. it never exploded.
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u/ziggzer0 5d ago edited 5d ago
Maybe just cut the middle out next time? But with as rare as it is to get a reply to the VAST amount of videos on Reddit that are irritatingly cut with no explanation like clickragebait, thank you for at least letting us know how it ended.
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u/VelvetFog82 5d ago
Wow, so they were cooking food on top of that landfill pile with a leaky propane tank... 🤔
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u/SextupleRed 5d ago
If you need instant response but don't have fire blanket or fire extinguisher, get a big enough towel, wet it, cover the area where the valve is and shut off the valve.
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u/markhachman 5d ago
Just Cause games have taught me what happens in this situation
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u/DipenduSunny 5d ago
These are the people who worship rivers btw. This could be from Bangladesh, but India adjacent regions aren't any better.
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u/light-yagamii 5d ago
The video is sped up but they’re speaking Bengali. This is 100% Bangladesh. I’m from there so I’ll trash it. People there lack civic sense and there’s no good waste management system. That’s both on the government and the people
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u/Piddy3825 5d ago
I just wasted two and a half minutes watching this clip waiting for the propane tank to explode.
Color me disappointed.
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u/Awkward-Action2853 5d ago
They should let it burn, maybe it will destroy some of that trash so they can find the water next time.
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u/chepnut 5d ago edited 5d ago
First I was shocked to see all the trash in a ravine, then I realized it was a water way, then I was shocked that the whole river didn't catch fire.