Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire
by red369 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:30PM
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I think there is also a similar story told in Chickenhawk, which is Robert Mason's retelling of his Vietnam war experiences. It may be that he presented it as a rumour too though.
Off-topic: I enjoyed Chickenhawk much more than I would have expected from the synopsis. This random person on the web here (me) highly recommends it!
Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire
by mjevans on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:10PM
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Over capacity and negligence on the part of someone who was supposed to check that are fairly good reasons for a legitimate vessel with too much stuff to get lost.
More plausibly everyone claimed what they should have been shipping, good luck proving who over-claimed and under-shipped.
that reminds me of a rumor that I heard about the Atlantic Conveyor (UK merchant ship carrying military equipment sunk during the Falklands War): many military units claimed their equipment was on the ship (and thus lost), presumably to get replacements, that in the end the ship was supposed to carrying more supplies than its capacity