It just occurred to me that “dumpster fire” is basically a modern concoction of “train wreck.”<\/p>\n
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.)<\/p>\n
So that means that there is likely a market for dumpster-fire-as-entertainment.<\/p>\n
Certainly that would be far less dangerous than a planned train wreck. Apparently the boilers would explode and the shrapnel would occasionally kill people.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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