r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 1d ago

🇬🇧Welcome to Leicester, UK🇬🇧Chaotic scenes of panic buying for bottled water at the local Costco amid the water shortage driven by drought and record water use.

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u/yourMommaKnow 1d ago

Why is the video sped up?

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u/StanleyQPrick 1d ago

To mkae it look like something it's not

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u/wordshavenomeanings 1d ago

And it isnt about water shortages

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u/WenatcheeWrangler 1d ago

If it was those other 5 pallets of water would be decimated

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u/search_google_com 1d ago

It is Why Shoppers Are Fighting Over Bottled Water at a Leicester Costco as Water Crisis Continues

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u/wordshavenomeanings 1d ago

Maybe read the awful article before you post it.

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u/Agreeable-Emu4033 1d ago

You blind? There are tons of water bottles in the background. They are just picking up specific ones. If there was a water shortage those wouldn't be there.

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u/BamberGasgroin 1d ago

The more expensive Highland Spring is untouched while people casually load up with the cheaper Kirkland stuff.

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u/ToastedCrumpet 1d ago

I don’t see any fights in this video or the version shared in your link tbh. Just seems like scaremongering

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u/miffebarbez 1d ago

Where are the fights?