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" If you&amp;#039;ve been on the Internet today, you know that the story that is gripping the imagination of thousands of people all over the world is that of a puddle in Newcastle, England.\u00A0Yes, a puddle. But this is no ordinary puddle. It is a very large puddle. So large, in fact, that someone set up a Periscope to live-stream how people chose to traverse these treacherous waters.\u00A0 Though the live-stream is now over, for the time\u00A0that it was on it was the most fascinating psychological experiment and piece of\u00A0cin\u00E9ma v\u00E9rit\u00E9 of 2016. After all, how we cross large puddles says a lot about how we overcome obstacles in life.\u00A0 Some brought rafts and other floating equipment.      How the whole internet joined together to watch people cross a puddle #DrummondPuddleWatch https://t.co/gqySAI7Gnl pic.twitter.com/5KlBrFneAL \u2014 Mic (@mic) January 6, 2016    Others hurled themselves over it.\u00A0      ...and harness its power pic.twitter.com/pCiR4ZA4dZ \u2014 Molly Fitzpatrick (@mollyfitz) January 6, 2016    And still others just sloshed through.\u00A0    Soon, #DrummondPuddleWatch was trending on Twitter, and jocular\u00A0capitalism was soon to follow. A 600 ml bottle of water purporting to be filled with what will now and forever will be known as The Drummond Puddle appeared on sale on ebay. As of now, it has 30 bids valued at 65,900 British pounds (or $96.421).\u00A0  Last year, it was the llama chase that went viral. This year, it&amp;#039;s puddles. Have we devolved as a society? Only you can decide.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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