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The feeding frenzy only lasted through the morning, as the container was secured, still containing an undetermined number of bags of chips, by the late afternoon. The boat that lost the container has not been tracked down yet, although the missing shipment is sure to be noticed when the crew reaches its eventual destination.
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12-02-2006 @2:43PM MJ said... Read this on another site ....to funny!
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12-02-2006 @2:46PM Kiwi Carlisle said... You know some of those people probably really WERE cleaning up the beach. Once the bags rip open at sea, which they will, inevitably do, they will cause harm to wildlife as all garbage does. And they certainly don't look all that nice on the beach.
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12-02-2006 @3:32PM J said... I WISH I WAS THERE LOL
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12-02-2006 @6:45PM MJ said... Nasty ..........Would never have eaten a bag of those chips!
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12-06-2006 @8:16PM Bob said... All that AND a bag of chips....Cover me in Doritoes and give me a margarhita.
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12-06-2006 @8:16PM Allison said... Yum, yum!
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12-07-2006 @6:52PM Allyson said... I'd eat em. Why not? Their packaging keeps them fresh while floating in the ocean, and Doritos are delicious! Take me there!
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12-06-2006 @8:25PM Ken said... If your in Hatteras in the next couple months don't buy the Doritos.
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12-06-2006 @11:36PM Tiffany said... That is so awsome and of course very odd. Too bad the El' Paso (salsa) Truck didn't follow, now that would've been hilarious. Hee hee. Bye Ya'll
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12-06-2006 @9:39PM LuAnn said... Gives New Meaning to the term Dorito Breath.
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12-06-2006 @8:33PM shelley said... fuck doritos. buy baked lays
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12-06-2006 @8:36PM greg said... chips and skinny dips
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12-06-2006 @8:44PM anthony said... yo get my beer and smokes lets party at the beach!!!
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12-06-2006 @9:11PM Zack said... This only drives home the extremely large problem of pollution in the worlds waterways from lost and washed overboard shipping containers.Today doritos, yesterday, bleach, plastics, sneakers, paint, toxic industrial chemicals.Tomorrow plastic pellets, oil, toluene,nitrates ect.There is no one oversight agency to make sure the containers that leave do indeed arrive, and that severe penalties are enforced for lost containers.
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12-06-2006 @9:10PM MikeyP. said... YAY!!! Chips!!!
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12-06-2006 @9:29PM Skittles said... Those people are so lucky. All those chips. I hope they have a heart attack.
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12-06-2006 @8:45PM Melissa D. said... It would be dumb to take more than you can eat in a reasonable amount of time unless you plan on selling them. Those things will be stale before you know it...
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12-06-2006 @8:49PM eddie said... you buy the beer Ill get the snacks.
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12-07-2006 @2:04AM SHARI said... YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMY!!!!!!!!!!! I SURE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE BEEN THERE!!!!!!!! I WOULD MOST DEFINITLY EAT THOSE! MY FAVOURITE CHIPS! IF THOSE WERE THE LAST FOODS ON EARTH OH YEAH FOR SURE!
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12-06-2006 @10:16PM Vir said... VERY INTERESTING! This is almost exactly what I've heard the "Old-Timers" on Hatteras Island talk about, even my own Mother and grand-parents. Years ago when ships met their fate at the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" (or met the rough seas), cargo had to be thrown overboard in order to lighten the load or the ships sometimes even beached. Residents of the island gathered all they could and took it home. I've heard stories of bunches of bananas in attics in Buxton, shoes by the cases and women's stockings which was a great treat for the women during depression days.
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