Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Man gets trapped in Lake Michigan quicksand, emerges with a girlfriend

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Man gets trapped in Lake Michigan quicksand, emerges with a girlfriend

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Mitchell O'Brien got stuck waist-deep in quicksand April 12 on a Lake Michigan beach in Leland. Photos of the mishap went viral on social media.

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Quicksand still exists? I remember it was everywhere in the 80s
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  Right up there with the ROUSs: totally made up.

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