Growing up, did you ever get caught in quicksand, or know anybody who did???

Wow, that must be some experience: quicksand…holy…

I live in a swampy/marsh/sand beach area. At the end of my road was a sand pit that people had dug into a good size pond. I was walking with my mom and I sunk up to above my knees. She couldn't stop laughing so I ended up crawling and rolling my way out alone. Lost my shoes and covered in mud. I was exhausted and scared. It's no joke. Except to my mom I guess.

That’s scary stuff . We were taught to crawl out just as soon as we felt our feet start to sink .

No, but I still haven’t grown up yet

A lot of prospectors with Geiger counters looking for uranium were swallowed up by quicksand in the 1950's especially.

never did but read about someone who did.she was out with her son when she got stuck. her son ran back to the house and got his dad who drove his mercedes out, tied a rope to the bumper and pulled her out. happened again a few weeks later but dad wasn't home so the son took the horse out who straddled the quicksand and mom grabbed onto his pecker and the horse saved her. seems if your hung like a horse you don't need a mercedes to pick up a woman

Happily not. But I know 23 Chinese immigrants who were collecting cockles on a beach south of here a few years back, who got stuck in quicksand, then were drowned by the incoming tide. A nasty way to go I expect.

Nope not as a kid, but damned if I did not get stuck in it as an adult, it took a lawyer and a judge and 11 years to get out of though, and I learned to watch where I stepped after that!

Funny, it was a huge thing in my childhood too but the funniest thing is that there's no such area in my whole country. 😆 Maybe it was The NeverEnding Story that marked my generation.

My father-in-law was caught in quicksand. I don't how deep he sank before his brothers pulled him out. They were in their teens.

I could never find any, So I decided my area was quicksand free since we were not near any jungles and the desert was elsewhere.
I was deeply disappointed.

Yeah, it was on every other TV show, like the world was covered in it!

Remember being afraid for no reasonable expectation of it ever happening.

When I was a kid we lived near the Salinas River which is famous for, especially in the summer, flowing underground (water seeps down through the sand and gravel bed of the river). In the summer a any water flow on top dries up.

Anyway, our parents - all parents warned their kids of the danger of quick sand and we were all scared to death. Except, we were kids and scared doesn't mean we weren't' dumb🤣

Anyway, one summer three of us were down in the river bed being kids when my friend suddenly started sinking down rather quickly. We of course panicked, and I ran to the fire station and got help.

By the the one fireman that followed me down to the spot, who was being all cool about it, tossed my friend a rope and pulled him out. He'd only sunk in to just below his waist, but he was beyond scared and crying, boggers flowing etc.

I couldn't figure out why the fireman was so nonchalant about the whole thing until I asked him why.

Bottom line, parents lie🤣 Or they only know the tales their parents told them. There are many cases of people being caught in quicksand and very, very few ever go down far enough to get swallowed up.

All you need to do is chill and crawl your way out - it isn't easy and it will wear you out, but virtually nobody gets swallowed up.

That's true throughout all of the U.S., or so we were told by the fireman. No clue if there is different types of quicksand elsewhere.

Nope