Kitten and Lampshade

Quicksand is real- its just found in coastal mud flats. Its typically only seen at low tide. You wont get sucked under, but you can easily become stuck and unable to move. That wont kill you.
What will kill you is high tide.

We just had a quicksand "incident" at Popham Beach State Park. Oi. It quickly went viral and was picked up by the usual flagship clickbait news organizations like the New York Post and Fox News. Poor woman, who was with her husband at one of the most popular (and beautiful) parks in the State. Thought I was going to die! What if it had been a child!? We need more signs! Absolutely straight out of the movies. Park rangers did a great job of patiently explaining that everyone needed to calm down,