Posted on 12/01/2006 9:53:26 AM PST by Cagey
Hatteras Island is famous for its shipwrecks. But Thursday locals experienced their first ever "chip-wreck".
A cargo container loaded with thousands of bags of Doritos Tortilla Chips washed ashore on the beach near Frisco and broke open.
The container apparently fell off a ship. The chips scattered for about a half a mile, and some even floated as far north as the Bonner bridge.
Arley Spake photographed the broken container. Spake works for Frito-Lay, the company that makes Doritos. His wife Janice joined him at water's edge.
"It was really weird," said Spake. (Arley) was taking pictures for Frito-Lay, we still don't know what happened. Lots of Doritos, lots of people putting them in garbage bags."
Many of the chips were sealed and still edible. Dozens of people were seen gathering the chips and taking them off the beach. Jessica Maxfield, who is doing an internship with the National Park Service, grabbed a couple of bags.
"I was doing a bird survey. The gulls love the Doritos."
The National Park Service does not like the Doritos, however; the beach is protected. The container is now at the National Park Service maintenance area.
As for the accident, it's still unclear which ship lost the cargo or to which port it was being shipped.
Chips Ahoy!
oh the humanity!!! the horros!
Dang, and the best we ever got in Tijeras was a jack knifed semi full of carrots.
Some smart ad agency should be swooping down (excuse the pun) on this piece of information!!!
uh that's "the horror!"
Lunch is served....who has the salsa?
Finally, my dream comes true!
Did you have anything to do with this?
Wetback chips!
The bags are sealed, right? And the pull date is, what, 33 years from now?
Where's greenpeace?
Looks like the cleanup crew after an Earth Day beachfront celebration.
When the chips are down...
...the buffalo move on.
At a tofu spill in the bay area.
The cargo container apparently fell off a ship at sea and broke open. Photo by Barbara
Now being reported the containership went down in a collision with a Mexican Salsa tanker....
Dang, I was on the beach about 30 miles south of there this past Sat-Tues. The fishing was slow and I would have appreciated catching a few bags of chips.
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