[dmurray]

You get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown.

Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a short cut over them. Come to think of it, most normal sand I encounter is in tidal flats, too.

[0] https://www.98fm.com/news/north-dublin-beaches-quicksand-war...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/southend-on-sea-deadly-...

[bityard]

I don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."

[riffraff]

well, dirt does kill you in Australia. In multiple[0] ways[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldust [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia_pseudomallei

[RGamma]

Nintendo taught me that quicksand is located in deserts.

[_carbyau_]

"Quicksand" is the harder sand just above the water line that is more solid and faster to walk/run on.... /s

[eqvinox]

Great, now the smartass in me thinks everywhere is quicksand because it's just a bunch of compacted sand¹ on top of the groundwater aquifer…

¹ yes I know soil is not sand