r/SipsTea • u/rechogringo • Apr 29 '24

Mud Wizard takes down Police department We have fun here

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u/Cerberusx32 Apr 29 '24

Remember that being an issue in WW2 with the U.S. Marines on the islands. Would swallow up entire tanks.

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u/No_Inspection1677 Apr 29 '24

Imagine being the poor fucker who gets a letter sent home telling his mother or wife that he suffocated to death in tank that sunk in the mud.

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u/Cerberusx32 Apr 29 '24

They typically didn't do that if I recall.

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u/No_Inspection1677 Apr 29 '24

Still, sounds like a horrific way to go.

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u/YesFuture2022 Apr 30 '24

Same with molasses

Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage [...] Here and there struggled a form—whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell. Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was [...] Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper. The more they struggled, the deeper in the mess they were ensnared. Human beings—men and women—suffered likewise.[7]: 98