On Thursday morning, residents of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina were in for a bit of a surprise, especially those who liked Doritos. A damaged tractor-trailer-size shipping container washed up on the beach, bringing with it thousands of bags of the Doritos -- Cool Ranch, Nacho Cheese and Spicy Nacho -- that it contained. Locals, from shopkeepers to fishermen, grabbed as many bags as they could carry from the water and from where they lay strewn on the sand. One person even filled up a pickup truck with them - all in the name of "helping with cleanup," of course. The chips were almost entirely undamaged, thanks to their airtight packaging.
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
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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12-06-2006 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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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12-06-2006 @ 9:07PM
Mike said...
I remember about 25 years ago about three very large aluminum containers washed up on the northern california coast north of Marin, they were LOADED with marijuania, prob. from asia, anyway, the news showed people out there with big garbage bags filling them up and draggin them off. Probably smugglers who got spooked by the coast guard.
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12-06-2006 @ 9:10PM
MikeyP. said...
YAY!!! Chips!!!
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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 @ 9:24PM
aaron said...
Ha I think that this is really funny, and i too wish that i was there to collect a few of those doritos!! I Just think that the people that are all mad about this ordeal need to get a life and come to realize this was an acident and that im sure there are not millions of other ships of cargo out there spilling there goods into the ocean!!! AHHH these people piss me off royaly!!!!
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12-06-2006 @ 9:27PM
yaya said...
that is way cool, free Doritos, lets party!;)
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12-06-2006 @ 9:28PM
DORITO MAN said...
YOU CAN'T HAVE JUST ONE !!!!!!
WHY NOT THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM?
THE MORE THE MERRIER MAKES
FOR HAPPIER DAYS MMMMMmmmmmmmm
D O R I T O S
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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 @ 9:34PM
T said...
Zack -
Can you please see the humor in this before getting on your soapbox and ranting about the environment? We all know that there are problems with pollution. Have a little fun.
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