Bananas!
Sixteen containers washed up on West Sussex beaches: eight containers of bananas, two of avocados, one of plantains and five empty. The Coastguard said you have to report anything you find or you’re breaking the law, but then said it doesn’t apply to perishables.
Seems to me they could have given plainer advice than that. Can we pinch bananas or not? Eh, never mind…too far to drive for a free banana.
As you might imagine, the English Channel is a busy, busy waterway. This is a fun tracker for ship watching – like FlightRadar24, but for boats. One of the fish and chip shops we go to has this playing on a big monitor in the main room and I find it kind of hypnotic. Doesn’t like my VPN, though.
Posted: December 9th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 3
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Comment from Uncle AL
Time: December 10, 2025, 12:04 am
How come no cargo ships ever lose containers full of whiskey?
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: December 10, 2025, 1:31 am
When we lived in Japan Mrs Vegetable worked for a shipping company, exporting Japanese goods around the world. At least twice that I heard about ships traveling nonstop from Yokohama to Saudi Arabia and carrying giant pieces of Komatsu heavy equipment had 10 or 15-ton units fall overboard (sic) during the night and nobody saw NUTHIN. Oh, and they were bright banana-yellow too.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: December 10, 2025, 3:04 am
@Some Vegetable – the correct reasoning is:
“Someone loaded 1 too many of these excavators on the ship back at the dock and it’ll cost a bunch to ship it back and it’s a pain to fill out the paperwork… so we can make you a deal…”
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