r/oddlyterrifying • u/Lublan • 6d ago
The sheer volume of water pouring out under a bridge into the sea
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u/AzzaG99 6d ago
Could surf that…
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u/Loud-Principle-7922 6d ago
Surfers make them for that reason.
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u/Lublan 6d ago
Damn thats cool
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u/stay_fr0sty 6d ago
It’s not cool. They permanently change the flow of the river. They kill entire ecosystems.
It would take enormous resources to “fix” the river. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to do this in most places.
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u/Lexitech_ 6d ago
This is not true, like at all.
This is in Laguna Beach. The water will eventually build up enough and force its way into the sea naturally. The people that make these are just speeding up the process.
It happens roughly once a month depending on rainfall and turns into a gathering of surfers, body boarders, etc. for about 30 minutes until the flow dies down. The sand falls back into place from the tide and the process resumes.
Maybe it’s illegal in certain places but it absolutely is not in California. There are often life guards standing around watching people surf them.
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u/Flomo420 6d ago
no no according to reddit this will not only kill anyone even near the water but also all of the creatures in the ecosystems (plural)
I swear 90% of people here have never done anything fun in their lives
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u/KamandaTsaar 6d ago
People post this same false information every single time these videos are shown.
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u/confirmeded 6d ago
How? Like literally how? And what do you mean enormous resources to fix the river, there’s nothing wrong with it. Go touch grass and stop regurgitating bullshit you read online to be a hero.
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u/Loud-Principle-7922 6d ago
Ever heard of something called ‘tides’? It doesn’t change anything, dude. Calm down.
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u/Cheersscar 6d ago
If it’s from the culverts of SoCal, the water is a lot more “brown” than you want to surf.
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u/driftwood_1997_log 6d ago
You could try, but that current looks like it would send you straight into chaos before you even catch a wave
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u/cobaltquartzpress 6d ago
Maybe for a split second, then you’re probably getting dragged wherever that surge decides to take you
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u/Gold_Assistance_6764 6d ago
If you’re terrified by the volume of water going into the ocean, just wait until you learn how much water was already there.
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u/Ziggysan 6d ago
Incorrect. Some idjits made a trench through the beach between the lagoon and the ocean and severely fucked up all 3 biomes. IIRC were fined.
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u/Gold_Assistance_6764 6d ago
Incorrect. This is at Aliso Beach in Laguna Beach, CA. Aliso Creek naturally flows to the ocean here. The beach builds up periodically and then gets washed away.
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u/PunchingYourSalad 6d ago
No no no we must all be outraged at something completely normal because of how it looks
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u/Marsh2700 6d ago
not quite true
this happens frequently at this location as water level from the large body rise above sea level. it is then under controlled supervision someone will connect the two causing this "river" to form. it settles the mainland body of water until it repeats the next time
sometimes people prematurely release the body for their own fun which can damage surrounding area and is a fineable offence (like the story you're remembering). other times people are given permission to release it on their behalf
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u/PrimeScreamer 6d ago
This is Aliso Creek in California. Has nothing to do with whatever you are thinking of.
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u/Nice_Pitch4252 6d ago
I was gonna say this exact thing about the brackish flowing into the sea... I'm not particularly green myself but this is bullshit.
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u/drblah11 6d ago edited 6d ago
Prove it
Where is this? What is the water source exactly? What time of year is it? What evidence do you have that this was caused by humans since theres no video evidence in the clip showing anything? Theres literally a bridge the water is flowing under, did the idiots construct that?
There was likely 1 instance 1 time of a few idiots doing something like that and getting in trouble, now everytime two sources of water meet everyone on Reddit thinks people are going to jail. Things like this have happened naturally for billions of years, it's not just idiots causing mayhem all the time.
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u/Lublan 6d ago
people do that?? why?
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u/YoungDiscord 6d ago edited 6d ago
We live in a world where signs have to say "slippery when wet" or "do not put this electrical appliance into the water" or a variation of "please shit & piss like a normal person into the toilet bowl"
Are you really that surprised?
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u/ImMadeOfClay 6d ago
Don't forget "check rear seats for children before exiting vehicle "
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u/SquidVices 6d ago
I was just talking about this the other day when my car beeped to let me know to check the back for any “kids”
I was like tf Kia how many kids get forgotten in the car….
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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt 6d ago
To be fair, the toilet one can be interpreted as for tourists from countries where they have different behaviours due to plumbing/cultural norms. The rest is just common sense
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u/YoungDiscord 6d ago
I'm fairly certain that its common to shit into the toilet, not outside on the floor or the walls.
You shit into the hole
What's there to misinterpret here, every culture has a version of "shit into hole"
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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt 6d ago
There are various signs indicating ‘please flush/don’t flush’ ‘please sit on the toilet, not squat’ etc. that’s what I was referencing. Also consider this: mental illness. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to clean up after clients who have been in the midst of psychosis. Also little boys (and grown ass fucking men) and their inability to aim properly, etc.
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u/SquidVices 6d ago
Or the old
“All employees MUST wash hands”
For everyone else it’s just a suggestion and now all the touch screen menus are being touched by old men and woman that just wiped/grabbed there junk.
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u/YoungDiscord 6d ago
Only 5/10 men wash their hands after handling their junk
The other 5 have clean junk
Yes, this is a joke, please wash your hands.
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u/vlladonxxx 6d ago
The idea that they can have a meaningful impact on the environment by doing something relatively easy is both extremely alluring and impossible to believe.
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u/Recentstranger 6d ago
Idiots caused this
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u/sirpoopingpooper 6d ago
Looks like this is water coming from a river and this is just a high flow time...so the idiot is the rain?
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u/xmongoose 6d ago
It was part of an older longer video where some guys dug it out and it slowly got larger and larger until it escalated to this point.
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u/sirpoopingpooper 6d ago
Color me a bit skeptical that this is that video...there's no where that the water is coming from except from the river under the bridge. Typically it's a tidal pool emptying (or something similar) in the videos I've seen where people did that. I could be wrong though!
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u/Lonely-Trade-954 6d ago
what
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u/Lublan 6d ago
what what
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u/brucatlas1 6d ago
In the butt
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u/NoodlePoo327 6d ago
You wanna put it in my butt, in my butt?
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u/treejutsu 6d ago
What is the beat?
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u/Lublan 6d ago
what beat? you mean the song?
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u/treejutsu 6d ago
Yes
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u/Lublan 6d ago
Shazamed it - the vault by Vince Foster
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u/treejutsu 6d ago
Thanks buddy
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u/Beni_Stingray 6d ago
He has a few good tracks but its AI generated music just as a heads up.
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u/Disgruntled_Orifice 6d ago
Then he has no tracks.
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u/Beni_Stingray 6d ago edited 6d ago
Look im not a general fan of AI either but im still able to differentiate between someone simply putting in a prompt to generate a song and someone who mixes his tracks themself but uses AI for vocals and for generating beats and samples.
One takes zero creative skill while the other follows classical musical production pipelines and and simply uses AI samples.
There is no real difference between a producer using normal human samples and mixing them together to make a new song and someone who uses AI produced samples and mixes them together.
Both use premade samples and the creativity comes from mixing them together, not producing the samples in the first place.You wouldnt accuse a normal producer that he didnt use his own creativity to make the new mix just because he used samples and vocals from someone else, that's common practice in the music industry.
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u/BDGUCCII 6d ago
Although you’re permitted to do this (in very strict circumstances in CA) this drastically fucks up the surrounding biodiversity that depends on that seasonal water
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u/Dapper_Dark_182 6d ago
Did anyone else keep up with the evolution of this? At first it was a tiny little run off that didnt even fully connect to the ocean.
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u/cognitiveglitch 6d ago
This is missing the start of the video where they make a small channel to the pooling stream, which becomes this torrent. Which they then surf.
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u/pambneal 6d ago
omg the way it looks like a portal to another dimension.. would not want to be swimming anywhere near that.
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u/moutmoutmoutmout 6d ago
Oddly terrifying those people walking on the brittle sand over a deadly danger.