If they come empty, they’re not really sandbags then, are they? You could put anything you want in them.
Dude is maybe taking the whole climate-change threat and rising-sea-level news a bit too much to heart and feels he must work to keep the sea back. This is, of course, a wasted effort as global warming is not real because it was cold last winter. Any regular reader of CIDU should know that.
The humor is using the sand that’s already there to form a barrier that’s already there.
But it doesn’t work because loose sand erodes but bagged sand doesn’t (or at least does much more slowly).
The Acme Sand Bags container is a nice touch, since that shows he is filling the bags and not emptying them. Still, it isn’t clear why he is filling the bags: Is he creating a barrier against the sea, or is he planning to steal the sand?
In reality, tho, sandbags are not filled at beaches; when Hurricane Irma threatened in 2017, dump trucks brought sand to designated areas to be filled. Now, where THAT sand came from, I’ve no idea, but I doubt it was from beaches. Quarries, most likely.
On Lake Michigan beaches where I used to live, taking sand was illegal. I assume the same applies anywhere that beaches are public, or even private ones.
I assume he’s going to sell the filled Acme sandbags to the Coyote, who has some improbable idea of using them to catch the Roadrunner. I’ll be interested to see the details Maybe I should make popcorn and settle in. . . .
I’m with Shrug, in supposing this is the same Acme company that Coyote deals with.
“On Lake Michigan beaches where I used to live, taking sand was illegal.”
Back in the 1980’s, I lived near the Oregon Dunes Recreational area, and a big fuss was had because a company bought a license to mine the sand from a beach just south of the Dunes. It had qualities that made it ideal for glass, apparently. Another recollection involves a beach on the northern Oregon coast, where the entire beach washed away in a storm, overnight. (It was a favorite beach, and the big storm came and next morning, the beach was gone. The ground was about six to eight feet lower, and all the sand was gone, and what remained was rocks around the size the grapefruit, and waves breaking MUCH closer to shore, which was extremely difficult to reach because the stairs to the “beach” ended in empty air about six feet up. So we removed about a hundred agates, between the size of a grapefruit and a bowling ball. It’s been over 20 years, and the sand still isn’t as built-up as it used to be, although it is a sandy beach again.
Here in FL, beaches are so important to tourism that sand would be brought in (via barges, with sand dredge from farther out) and the beaches completely restored.
You folks are aware of the worldwide sand shortage, yes? It’s a key component (the major component) of concrete, and only certain kinds of sand work.
Did you know that road sand wears out?
When they put sand on the roads on top of the ice, all the little pointy bits on each sand grain catch on ice and tires and help cars to stop. Except that doing this wears down the little pointy bits until the grains of sand are smooth and worn out, and they don’t work so well to stop cars.
Old joke:
Guy buys a house, and somebody tells him he needs sandbags in case the river rises. He goes to a beach, and asks a lifeguard if he can fill some bags with sand. The lifeguard laughs and charges him ten bucks.
Later the guy returns with more bags to fill. It’s high tide.
“Boy, is that lifeguard getting rich today!”
As I have noted before, Cornered is mostly a gag on the business and corporate world. Lots of times it evolves around a twist on a common notion or phrase. Check out this link:
Sand Bagging is a real thing. Could be this mogul just can’t vacation and relax without taking his work with him.
Instead of filling the sand bags for HIS use, perhaps he is the Acme Sand Bag company is filling his empty bags to have inventory of filled sand bags to sell. Name is on the box as the empty bags were shipped to him. His wife is helping him by watching that one steals the empty bags. He has laid them out on the shore so he can count them easily.
And several weeks later . . .
The artist adds:
Sand in bad places
It’s always fun to learn about new things to be afraid of
Major CIDU — so it’s meant to be political commentary, the Danish guy and the Dutch guy being educated by the smug and sanctimonious EU king guy? …Yeah, OK, that’s how *I* see the EU, yeah… And so what, this is supposed to be happening in Denmark and the Netherlands? (“We don’t have mountains but…”) And OK, the Dutch and Danes just want to pretend they don’t see it, but the EU not only sees it and knows all about it, but doesn’t do anything other than act all smug and sanctimonious? Am I reading this right?
“So.. this is how Harry Acme refills his inventory??”
Comics I Don't Understand 
If they come empty, they’re not really sandbags then, are they? You could put anything you want in them.
Dude is maybe taking the whole climate-change threat and rising-sea-level news a bit too much to heart and feels he must work to keep the sea back. This is, of course, a wasted effort as global warming is not real because it was cold last winter. Any regular reader of CIDU should know that.
The humor is using the sand that’s already there to form a barrier that’s already there.
But it doesn’t work because loose sand erodes but bagged sand doesn’t (or at least does much more slowly).
The Acme Sand Bags container is a nice touch, since that shows he is filling the bags and not emptying them. Still, it isn’t clear why he is filling the bags: Is he creating a barrier against the sea, or is he planning to steal the sand?
Assuming Cornered has the usual weeks-long lead time, I assume this is not affected by the recent news report on tourists stealing beach sand from Sardinia, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sardinia-sand-theft-french-couple-faces-prison-time-after-being-caught-with-90-pounds-of-sand/. Those tourists used bottles rather than sand bags.
I’m still lookin’ for Waldo . . .
In reality, tho, sandbags are not filled at beaches; when Hurricane Irma threatened in 2017, dump trucks brought sand to designated areas to be filled. Now, where THAT sand came from, I’ve no idea, but I doubt it was from beaches. Quarries, most likely.
On Lake Michigan beaches where I used to live, taking sand was illegal. I assume the same applies anywhere that beaches are public, or even private ones.
I assume he’s going to sell the filled Acme sandbags to the Coyote, who has some improbable idea of using them to catch the Roadrunner. I’ll be interested to see the details Maybe I should make popcorn and settle in. . . .
I’m with Shrug, in supposing this is the same Acme company that Coyote deals with.
“On Lake Michigan beaches where I used to live, taking sand was illegal.”
Back in the 1980’s, I lived near the Oregon Dunes Recreational area, and a big fuss was had because a company bought a license to mine the sand from a beach just south of the Dunes. It had qualities that made it ideal for glass, apparently. Another recollection involves a beach on the northern Oregon coast, where the entire beach washed away in a storm, overnight. (It was a favorite beach, and the big storm came and next morning, the beach was gone. The ground was about six to eight feet lower, and all the sand was gone, and what remained was rocks around the size the grapefruit, and waves breaking MUCH closer to shore, which was extremely difficult to reach because the stairs to the “beach” ended in empty air about six feet up. So we removed about a hundred agates, between the size of a grapefruit and a bowling ball. It’s been over 20 years, and the sand still isn’t as built-up as it used to be, although it is a sandy beach again.
Here in FL, beaches are so important to tourism that sand would be brought in (via barges, with sand dredge from farther out) and the beaches completely restored.
You folks are aware of the worldwide sand shortage, yes? It’s a key component (the major component) of concrete, and only certain kinds of sand work.
Did you know that road sand wears out?
When they put sand on the roads on top of the ice, all the little pointy bits on each sand grain catch on ice and tires and help cars to stop. Except that doing this wears down the little pointy bits until the grains of sand are smooth and worn out, and they don’t work so well to stop cars.
Old joke:
Guy buys a house, and somebody tells him he needs sandbags in case the river rises. He goes to a beach, and asks a lifeguard if he can fill some bags with sand. The lifeguard laughs and charges him ten bucks.
Later the guy returns with more bags to fill. It’s high tide.
“Boy, is that lifeguard getting rich today!”
As I have noted before, Cornered is mostly a gag on the business and corporate world. Lots of times it evolves around a twist on a common notion or phrase. Check out this link:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sandbag.asp
Sand Bagging is a real thing. Could be this mogul just can’t vacation and relax without taking his work with him.
Instead of filling the sand bags for HIS use, perhaps he is the Acme Sand Bag company is filling his empty bags to have inventory of filled sand bags to sell. Name is on the box as the empty bags were shipped to him. His wife is helping him by watching that one steals the empty bags. He has laid them out on the shore so he can count them easily.
And several weeks later . . .
The artist adds:
Sand in bad places
It’s always fun to learn about new things to be afraid of
. . . also . . .
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/28/sand-mafias-killing-each-other-build-cities
Major CIDU — so it’s meant to be political commentary, the Danish guy and the Dutch guy being educated by the smug and sanctimonious EU king guy? …Yeah, OK, that’s how *I* see the EU, yeah… And so what, this is supposed to be happening in Denmark and the Netherlands? (“We don’t have mountains but…”) And OK, the Dutch and Danes just want to pretend they don’t see it, but the EU not only sees it and knows all about it, but doesn’t do anything other than act all smug and sanctimonious? Am I reading this right?
“So.. this is how Harry Acme refills his inventory??”
Well, apparently NOT…