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A security guard walking down US Highway 101 where there are towering stacks of hollow iron floats from which the iron antisubmarine nets were suspended to protect the US ports during WWII (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 25 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I'd have nightmares of one of them coming loose, ngl

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It would be more than one

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago

That's the nightmare..

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

So would Worf.

[–] grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Exactly my first thought looking at this picture. What a horrible way to go

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it reminds me of that one post10 video in which he crawled under a giant stack of logs. He made it out okay but it had me tense the whole time.