It just occurred to me that “dumpster fire” is basically a modern concoction of “train wreck.”
Train wrecks have been around for a long time and apparently for a while in our history, they were artificially created as a form of entertainment. Guys with a bunch of money would buy old locomotives and crash them head to head in a stadium or open area arena for the sole purpose of attracting ticket buyers to watch a train wreck (and of course all of the hangers on who want to make money selling food and chachkas to the people who come to see the show.)
So that means that there is likely a market for dumpster-fire-as-entertainment.
Certainly that would be far less dangerous than a planned train wreck. Apparently the boilers would explode and the shrapnel would occasionally kill people.
But how could you make a dumpster fire exciting? Well, putting two of them on a train track and sending them careening at each other, seems like a pretty obvious win to me…