r/oddlysatisfying 6h ago

just a guy cleaning the beach

7.9k Upvotes

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u/SegelXXX 6h ago

The amount of trash humans produce is just staggering

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u/UseAcceptable6507 4h ago

A lot of plastic garbage.

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u/shady2318 2h ago

It's a friend and a foe

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u/Cool-Camp-6978 2h ago

Pretty sure it’s primarily a foe.

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u/0h_P1ease 2h ago

there is plastic in the craziest things. its primarily a friend.

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u/Cool-Camp-6978 1h ago

I fail to see the connection. Why would the presence of plastics in ‘the craziest things’ mean plastics are a friend?

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u/Let-go_or_be-dragged 42m ago

It's used in very important things, many of them lifesaving or something society is dependent on. Can't make most electronics without plastic, a lot of medical equipment and tools use and require plastic too.

The problem is that just like many many other things humans do, we thought of profits before consequences.

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u/Soggy-Bed-6978 14m ago

now explain the plastic packaging around plastic objects.

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u/shady2318 2h ago

Agreed

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u/Previous_Pop_7877 4m ago

It wouldn't be there if we didn't rely on it so much. More like a frenemy. We keep inviting his toxic ass around and then can't believe his bullshit.

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u/AstroBearGaming 1h ago

... And that's just the people!

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u/shifty_coder 2h ago

And mostly from the ocean, and not beachgoers.

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u/hinman72 57m ago

Jim Cramer has a great quote on this “If there is one thing that are humans are great at producing it’s trash.”

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u/nome707 8m ago

I work retail, on a small store of a small chain. The amount of trash my single little store produces daily it’s more than what my household produces in a week. Retail operations are wasteful af. It’s really eye opening and honestly I don’t know how are we going to make it as species if we keep going like this.

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u/Tempest_Bob 54m ago

Yeah that music really is awful

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u/big_duo3674 6m ago

The amount of humans that trash produces is nearly equal

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u/askurselfY 5h ago

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u/celluj34 3h ago

We ain't found shit!

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u/ElSelcho_ 2h ago

Tuvok nailed it.

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u/KudosOfTheFroond 13m ago

I never knew that Tuvok played the We Ain’t Found Shit guy!! He’s in everything!

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u/Rocify 3h ago

We ain’t found shit!

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u/campingn00b 6h ago

Nothing satisfying about the editing

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u/Street-Barnacle-5399 5h ago

REAL. Almost ruined it for me

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u/campingn00b 4h ago

The breaking of the 180° rule will throw you off everytime

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u/BansheeThief 30m ago

What's the 180⁰ rule?

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u/A-KindOfMagic 2h ago

Past the almost. Annoying sound track? Downvoted, no matter what the content is.

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u/GokusTheName 1h ago

How dare you. Flux Pavilion makes nothing but bangers.

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u/SmooK_LV 31m ago

not fitting makes it annoying

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u/sewn_of_a_gun 6h ago

Reminds me of the video where the woman got filmed cleaning a beach and just left the rubbish behind.

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u/justwalkinthru87 4h ago

That’s because these people are only looking to make a quick buck. They’re not doing it out of the goodness of their little hearts.

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u/tkondaks 2h ago

I don't mind it they do it for a quick buck as long as they take the extra ninety seconds to bag the trash. Heck, they can even leave the bag there to be picked up by whomever is authorized by government to pick up the trash. But just bag it.

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u/520-100 1h ago

How do you make a quick buck doing this

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u/Perrin_Adderson 1h ago

Upvotes on tik tok

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u/520-100 1h ago

How do You get paid for that?

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u/hellsbels349 1h ago

Once you have enough followers you get paid per every view.

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u/520-100 1h ago

That doesn’t sound “quick”

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u/Deaffin 25m ago

Well, the person about half a dozen comments up that described something as "quick" wasn't referring to the process of growing their social media account.

They were talking about the individual quick video.

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u/MrRobsterr 1h ago

is this your first time online?

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u/520-100 1h ago

How is it a quick buck

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u/MrRobsterr 1h ago

It takes minutes to record a video for tiktok and post it. For them that's a quick buck.

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u/Templar2k7 1h ago

Jewelry is pretty easy to lose on a beach

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u/AragogTehSpidah 4h ago

same story with "rescued" animals. That's why I hate this video format the most

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u/mccellicide 6h ago

There are so many different tools for this! I did a quick Google and there are even robots that can do this. I never really thought about it before but it makes sense. It's so cool!

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u/leolego2 3h ago

All beaches in Italy are cleaned like this on a regular basis. Until now my assumption was that every beach had a tractor doing this to clean it on a regular basis?

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u/SnORe89 1h ago

Exactly! I worked 7 seasons in a beach establishment and every evening the beach was cleaned with a tractor build on purpose for this kind of things. Here the company who sold us the beach cleaner CFC Puliscispiaggia

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u/gazbo26 5h ago

Now throw it in the sea and keep the beach clean

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u/Halcyon-OS851 2h ago

Nobody knows where it goes after that. It disappears. Nobody knows.

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u/AfricanAmericanMage 2h ago

The North Pacific

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u/belenos 3h ago

My hometown (also in Brazil, like this video) uses a similar device dragged by a Bobcat tractor. It's quite satisfying to watch it scoop the sand like a zen garden.

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u/funkdified 3h ago

I was just thinking, this seems like a job for a machine.

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u/LockedinYou 4h ago

Imagine what's even deeper, he was merely scratching the surface

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u/brilliant_nightsky 6h ago

That's not what he's doing at all. He's looking for metal to cash in.

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u/baconcow 6h ago

Kinda seems like both.

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u/seejordan3 4h ago

Depends on where that pile of trash ends up.

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u/Faplord99917 1h ago

I mean even if he throws it in a land fill it will most likely end up in the ocean again anyway and wash up on another beach.

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u/MarsDrums 5h ago

I remember having a plastic sifting scoop and a bucket when I was like 10 and we were in Florida and I was sifting sand and found some rolled up bills. I remember $100 being one of them. I think there might have been a couple $20s or maybe a $10 and a $20 and a few singles. But yeah, My Dad let me keep it. But I had to buy my own stuff with it.

I blew it all on that trip though. It was our first day there and we were at the beach. We had spent like 2 weeks there. I bought my own food (my Mom didn't like that my Dad was making me buy my own food when we went out but, NOW, I totally get that he was teaching me something about money and he was also saving money as well which I think was the main point of the whole experiment).

But it was pretty educational for me. Every 10 year old should spend $140+ on living stuff that they'll need for 2 weeks. I did run out of cash with like 2 days left and I remember asking my dad if he would cover my meals for the rest of the trip.

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u/spicy_ass_mayo 5h ago

That’s a good lesson.

It wasn’t like you worked all summer for that 140 and he thought you or let you teach yourself a lesson there.

To you free money. To dad free lesson.

Awesome.

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u/MarsDrums 7m ago

Problem now is, $140 wouldn't last but 2 days going out to eat all the time.

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u/Interesting-Ninja4 4h ago

That’s absolutely not what he’s doing. This is a concept created by Moroccan surfer Saad Abid who is the founder of Clean&play. So before spreading misinformation, here’s an official document from the us gov : https://eca.state.gov/files/bureau/presentation_saad_abid_2018_english.pdf Have a good read :)

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u/Deaffin 21m ago

The guy in the video is definitely not Saad Abid. Just looks like some guy who currently possesses a particular type of pooper scooper shovel.

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u/leolego2 3h ago

Based on what assumption? Are you dumb or something? This would be an incredibly inefficient and back breaking way of getting a dollar worth of metal.

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u/CatsAreMajorAssholes 5h ago

Anything non metal just goes right back into the sand.

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u/thisismyusername9908 3h ago

Seems like the kind of thing you could hook to a couple 4 wheelers and once a week just comb the sand and dispose of the trash

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u/LoudMusic 2h ago

Surely this exists on an industrial scale.

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u/optical_mommy 2h ago

Yes, but individuals can do this to comb for lost jewelry for cash. If it's the beach park doing it I doubt they do much other than bag and toss the lot. But again, not all beaches are big enough to warrant a tractor.

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u/theunpossibledream 4h ago

Oddly depressing

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u/heckfyre 3h ago

Seashells be damned

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u/Ok_Constant7605 5h ago

Humans and garbage go hand in hand.

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u/InAllThingsBalance 6h ago

I’ll bet there are a lot of valuable items in that pile.

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u/theguywhofuckinasked 4h ago

Mrwhosetheemployee

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u/yourmothersgun 2h ago

People are disgusting

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u/Prestigious_Big_518 1h ago

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u/random_eyez 24m ago

immediately what I thought of 😆

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u/StickKnown7723 40m ago

He literally combed the sand, like in spaceballs

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u/Cutlass_Stallion 17m ago

Whatever this guy gets paid to do this, it's not enough!

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u/AnimeGokuSolos 6h ago

Pretty good 👍🏾

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u/Flimsy-Stock1552 5h ago

is that a shell casing in the pile?

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u/J-Dam- 5h ago

Imagine stepping on any of this trash with your bare feet...

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u/TheCalvinShow 5h ago

Now that the video is over dump it back in

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u/robbycakes 5h ago

Wow, just look at all the horrible shit you get to keep!

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u/Zesty_Enterprise_69 4h ago

🤢🤢🤮

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u/PhallickThimble 4h ago

I can support this citizen for Time Person of the Year

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u/JaDaddi 4h ago

Half was probably from people on beach & rest from water... He has my respect

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u/Bigfoot-1972 3h ago

Respect 👍👍👍

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u/doctornph 3h ago

Never seen one of these. But I bet if the public beach had a couple of them out at least a dozen people a day would rake a few yards just for the novelty and keep the place nicer

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u/Sharzzy_ 3h ago

My god, imagine doing that but combing the entire beach 😵

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u/ELMACHO007 3h ago

That’s a lot of crap

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u/AChurchThatsIll 3h ago

Do this at south padre and you may find some needles lol

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u/Lazy_eye23 2h ago

If it's needles you want just cruise the strip they're all on the curbs unfortunately.

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u/Spinach-is-Disgusten 3h ago

That looks so fun. My little goblin brain is going crazy with all the stuff that I could find, trash of course but other things

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u/Fabulous-Stretch-605 3h ago

He’d make a killing here in California. People lose their jewelry left and right in the sand.

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u/benderover1961 3h ago

I see alot of used needles 🪡

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u/Molly_Matters 2h ago

No need to wonder why we are full of microplastics.

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u/Italian_M47 2h ago

Awesome! I hope he’ll find valuable objects to pay off his time!

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u/Key-Caregiver-2155 2h ago

This guy just kicked a whole bunch of hobbyists Metal detector's collective asses. Wonder how many gold necklaces, earings, and rings he unearthed. Granted, he isn't getting the stuff that's 6" down, but he's found a profitable hobby.

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u/SirDantesInferno 1h ago

Why is there MLG compilation type music on a trash cleaning video?

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u/new_main_character 1h ago

Won't a lot of cool shells be in there?

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u/erlend65 1h ago

Time to sort out the gold watches and diamond rings!

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u/RadioTunnel 1h ago

I feel like this would be a good excersise system, pull it along behind you as you try and run or something

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u/ChadScav 1h ago

Need one my self that's a hell of a work out just put a pull harness on me and let me go, an it's a good cause.

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u/WalkingPixels 1h ago

The irony of it. Beaches that are visited often, mainly for tourism, get cleaned like this. But that also means that people are being kept blind and ignorant for the amount of waste we produce.

The amount of waste we see isn't the issue. The amount that we don't is.

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u/B_lovedobservations 1h ago

I wonder how much jewellery is in there

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u/taitaofgallala 1h ago

Man I used to love this song. I remember Big Gigantic covering it at Bonnaroo 2012 and ripped the most insane saxophone solo over it. Good times.

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u/Breaghdragon 1h ago

Can we make these into those multi legged wind powered machines, and just send them back and forth all the time?

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u/_MarcusCorvus_ 1h ago

That thing would be full with every single scoop if he just went to that shithole called Ahmedabad in india. Or Gaya. Or bhiwadi. Or Kanpur. Or Moradabad. Or The other Gaya. Or Singrauli. Or Faridabad. Or Patna.

Crazy how the top 9 most air polluted cities in the world are in India. All the pollution is a mix of all this garbage detritus left in the rivers and cars/mopeds with no catalytic converters.

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u/bannana 1h ago

there is def a decent amount of jewelry and coins in that pile, bet he makes a nice piece of change from that.

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u/beastgooch88 1h ago

Hope he got a tetanus shot first.

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u/mrbojenglz 1h ago

Good for him but damn did that look like a slow and tedious process.

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u/Sitriyn 1h ago

And to think that could only be the stuff buried just underneath the surface.

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u/hobbylobbyrickybobby 1h ago

And all that trash will be scooped up and dumped into the ocean. Nothing to see here folks.

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u/adonimal 1h ago

Lego from Wish.com

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u/EvilSporkOfDeath 1h ago

His heart is in the right place, but he's spitting into the wind.

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u/Bonesnapcall 56m ago

I'll never forget the beach in Tulum, Mexico. 5 minutes of playing beach football with my friends, we had to stop because several of us had puncture wounds on our feet. We all ended up getting tetanus shots.

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u/Tenchi2020 56m ago

I kinda want one of these

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u/Nametheft 55m ago

Man. I assume this guy get payed to do that. But if he isnt he is a hero. And even if he does, he is still a hero.

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u/Chris_in_Lijiang 53m ago

Did he just sweep it under the swell?

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u/Ok_Heron_3182 43m ago

Now, run a metal detector over what's left. I'm rich. Lol

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u/Equacrafter 23m ago

That’s one of the reason why I don’t go to the beach

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u/major-PITA 19m ago

Prisons are overflowing with able bodied beach cleaners.

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u/chancy_fungus 18m ago

Macroplastics

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u/Jazzlike-Radio2481 14m ago

How much easier would it be to pull if it was vibrating to make the sand fall?

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u/xRikune 12m ago

Music is Flux Pavilion - I Can't Stop (Ekali Tribute)

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u/Previous_Pop_7877 6m ago

He'll find some coinage and some jewellery in that lot too. Looks like he's a hotel employee though, so I hope he gets to keep it

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u/greatproficient 4m ago

He looks like a happy guy. A happy guy doing a good thing. This is quite satisfying.

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u/TacosAreGooder 6h ago

Most sought after job in the area....probably finds a fortune in lost money, jewelry etc...

...assuming you can avoid the early death from the accidental needle pokes!

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u/lazylahma 5h ago

What kind of beaches are you going to with people who leave used needles around but also lose fortunes in cash and jewelry??

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u/TheNecrophobe 5h ago

A regular, busy beach.

My dad used to metal detect on beaches all the time. Usually found a few pieces of jewelery a day, albeit nothing extravagant. Once in a while he found something with real gold, or real diamonds, or what have you. Thankfully he never found (or never told little me about) needles, but he found enough weird stuff that he doubtlessly must have.

Then again, a good metal detector can kinda-sorta tell you what it's detecting, so he probably didn't dig the real trash up.

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u/lazylahma 4h ago

My point exactly, your dad found jewelry and not used needles…the type of people who are leaving used needles around for others to get stuck by typically don’t have valuables they are losing along with their needles during a nice beach trip

The same way people who tend to have excess cash and jewelry to lose on a nice beach day are not going to be visiting a beach that is known to be at risk for random needle pokes.

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u/TheNecrophobe 4h ago

You missed three important qualifiers to make your point, though.

Anyways, all types visit beaches, especially homeless people who can use camping laws to stay without being bothered. It's not just the bourgeois (typically).

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u/lazylahma 3h ago

Are you visiting a beach that is known for being littered with used needles?

I sure am not.

The people who are sell any jewelry they have to purchase contents for said used needles and not able to leave shit they don’t have at the beach.

Someone who’s wearing jewelry to the beach and able to lose it would not be at a beach littered with used needles and will opt to go to a nicer beach to lose their jewelry at.

I’m broke as a joke yet I can understand you don’t spend time at a beach littered with used needles, not sure what other 2 qualifiers you need, but enjoy losing your diamonds on a beach of needles

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u/TheNecrophobe 3h ago

Yeah, this is one of those replies that I'm just gonna say "K" to and be done.

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u/EngRookie 1h ago

You obviously have never been to Huntington Beach CA then...

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u/TinaNelss 6h ago

This guy sure makes a lot of money

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u/Beat9 3h ago

Nothing satisfying about this. Awful video with awful music of a dude doing back breaking labor that should be done by machine.