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Default Free BMW's and parfume for the Brits ~ 200 + more containers adrift


katy wrote:

It's just amazing....several containers of Doritos snack chips fell off
a container ship in a storm 2 months ago near Virgonoa Beach and the
crowds wading out to get free Doritos by the bagful was
hysterical....guess that's better than letting it all sink and having
sealife eat all those preservatives!


Once Terry and I were delivering lube and fuel to a ship in the
Boliver anchorage in Galveston. They had us bring 400 cases of beer.
One pallet was almost ship deck level and the pallet bar shifted and 75
cases of Miller light fell from 50-60 ft and hit our barge. There was a
river of beer cans 2ft wide 1/4 mile long heading offshore, you never
seen so many boats appear from no-where. The whole barge stunk like old
beer for a week.

Joe