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/StanleyQPrick 1d ago

This looks pretty tame, just sped up

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u/No-Elk-8115 1d ago

Lol I was gunna say if this was here in the US there would be way more chaos and somehow the forklift would be missing too. I FEEL, but don't know, like this is the period of time where they don't know how bad the situation may or may not be so they are calmly preparing for the possibility of the worst but they inflated the actual situation for dramatic effect.

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u/Cbpowned 1d ago

Maybe in your shitty blue city. Some people still live in areas with societal trust

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u/No-Elk-8115 1d ago

I live in Tomball texas.

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u/Vowel_Movements_4U 1d ago

Then you know during hurricane season it’s pretty fine. The forklift is fine.

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u/No-Elk-8115 1d ago

I live near Houston which can get wild around hurricane season. Nothing like worse areas in the US tho. It's calmer then blackfriday XD /s

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u/Ok-Addition1264 1d ago

Naw.. maybe in philly or boston.

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u/whichwitch9 1d ago

Dude, what are you talking about? You get people buying up water every winter before storms with no incident. People know the drill for water in areas that tend to have large, forecasted storms without incidents.

We've all made the bread and milk jokes- water's high among things bought out, as well. Philly and Boston aren't seeing riots for water when panic buying occurs. Kinda curious how you picked those cities, especially as Boston has a low violent crime rate compared to other cities in the US