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The Virginian-Pilot
A cargo container that apparently fell from a ship washed up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Thursday and spilled thousands of bags of Doritos brand tortilla chips on the beach. People collected the chips, which were apparently still fresh due to their airtight packaging. It was unknown which ship had lost the cargo or to what port it was bound. Photo by Donna Barnett / special to The Virginian-Pilot
People gather bags of Doritos in various flavors.Photo by Donna Barnett / special to The Virginian-Pilot
The cargo container apparently fell off a ship at sea and broke open.Photo by Barbara Satterthwaite / special to The Virginian-Pilot
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Defintaly an ad
First thing you need to notice the only 2 types of Doritos are (the most popular) the ones(or the first two that were made) on the beach. Secondly, a freight container is not air tight and would not have washed up on shore. It would have sunk. Third, The Department of Health would not allow Frito to resell these items due to the high pollutants that can come from the ocean. Fourth, Who cares! it is free food, They are air tight so no contaminants can get in. If you don't believe me fly to Utah where one of their factories are and take a tour. I have and I can assure you, that is one of the tings they test for leaky bags. leaky bags mean stail chips mean no business mean bankrupt. if that is not simple enough for you then apparently you like to complicate things a bit.
First thing you need
First thing you need to notice the only 2 types of Doritos are (the most popular) the ones(or the first two that were made) on the beach.
Secondly, a freight container is not air tight and would not have washed up on shore.
It would have sunk.
Third, The Department of Health would not allow Frito to resell these items due to the high pollutants that can come from the ocean.
Fourth, Who cares! it is free food, They are air tight so no contaminants can get in.
If you don't believe me fly to Utah where one of their factories are and take a tour.
I have and I can assure you, that is one of the tings they test for leaky bags.
leaky bags mean stail chips mean no business mean bankrupt.
if that is not simple enough for you then apparently yo
Not an ad
It's not an advert. If they were in boxes, the cardboard would've broken up rapidly in sea water. I don't think would be in Dorito's best interests to advertise by littering the beach with plastic bags.
And even if the shipping container had a great hole in it, it would still float because of the huge buoyancy provided by thousands of Dorito bags filled with air.
As for scavenging, I'm all for it! These people are doing everyone a favour and cleaning up the beach. This company's loss is not enough punishment for littering the ocean. They should be fined as well, and pay for the clean-up.
Not least because huge floating metal containers are a lethal danger to small yachts and other vessels. They often float just below the surface so you can't
Clearly guerilla advertising
Please. This is so obviously an ad. They'll probably "reveal," (as if we didn't know) this on the superbowl or something. The shore pictures couldn't possibly look more glossy or adsy. The Doritos bags just happened to fall out of the boxes and spread perfectly over the sand? Sure. And the story is about how residents came to pick up the free bags in doritos "airtight containers." Adsy language plus adsy pictures= ad.
are you all stupid
if you find somthing you do not give it to some one you keep it for your self and famly or friendes and your lunch if its eat abl.
Freight Company is avoiding Fine
Come on guys the really deal here where is the freight company who lost the container, every freight company has a list of container, how come they haven't reported it missing. There is absolutely nothing wrong with free food.
Get a Clue
The container is numbered, what is in the container is inventoried. The owner has no dobt what happened to the shipment. They are likely trying not to be associated with it
Keeping Hatteras Island clean.
Most people seem to assume that the chips are being salvaged for later use. This is not true.
The people on Hatteras Island depend on tourism to keep the island going. Tourist like a pristine beach and most people on the "Island" work to keep the it clean.
Not much else to do there in the winter. Restaurants close around thanksgiving and don't reopen until late March.
lighten up
How can you call grabbing some bags of Doritos greed? If you were to give them back to Frito lay, they would just throw them away. They have been on the beach and in the ocean and are unsafe to put back on the markets. You could not give these away to homeless either because Hatteras Island does not have any homeless, and I don't think that even the homeless would try to live off of potato chips. And whoever said that people need to get lives must not understand that during the winter months, there is absolutely nothing to do on Hatteras Island. There are no malls or parks or any means of entertainment, unless you find listening to all of the island gossip (which there is more than enough of) fun.
Read Maritime Law people
Bob is right. The chips are up for grabs. There is a lot about Maritime Law and Admiralty Rights that is not analagous to US law.
If anything, the container was insured. Even the shipowner/master are probably exempt from any liability since the storm, wheere it was lost, could be considered and "Act of God."
Google it. Heck, wikipedia probably has a good article on it.