Was this a standard van trailer except for the secret compartmant? Or could it have been like a moving van with the extra space in the botom?

 

I don't know if you seen a belly loaded FEDEX pup. A belly load pup has alot of room, if it was a 53' trailer room for more.

 

OK, let's see... A standard 53' van is 102" wide and 53' long, take away 1" all around for walls and it's 100" wide by 52'10" long. You wouldn't be able to get two deep without making it really obvious there was a false floor, so the compartment is probably 12-14" or so, and the third dimension isn't really relevent to the calculation.

The average Mexican is about 5'8" tall, and probably 2' wide at the shoulder. If you flip people head to toe, you can get more people into less space, because they're wider at the shoulder, and narrower at the waist. Figure the average people unit stacked in this fashion is 3' wide per two people. That's 2.77 people units wide, and you can probably cram in one more, so that's one, two, three, four, 5 people wide.

52'10" is 634" divided by 5'8" (68") is 9.32 people long. Call it 9 people from nose to tail, and 5 people wide. That's 45 people.

Even if you cram it up even tighter to 50 people, it still takes four layers of people to make 200.

It seems pretty incredible.

 

Ya'll know it doesn't say exactly how the bananas were put in the trailer or exactly how many people were there. It only says "about" 200, could have been less. They could have made it where the floor was sticking way up and out of place but the bananas were not stacked inside boxes, but just tossed in loosely. You know, a big pile in the trailer to hide the weird looking floor. They just happened to put in way too many to cover the floor.

 

or someone ate some bean burritos before they left..and everyone all at once tried to bail. :?

 

ooof. may be much bad. :shock:

 

I suspect a typo is in play here...20 instead of 200.

If not, perhaps it was a really, really long trailer.... :P :lol:

 

I had heard on one of the XM news channels that it was 20 people.

 

:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Try this experiment:

After you get your trailer unloaded by your favorite lumpers ever and before you get your qual-comm telling you where your next vacation will take place, give your trailer a good ole fashioned sweeping out if you don't usually, only instead of leaving the doors open, lock the right door latch and let it shut so there is no air circulation inside the trailer.

How do you feel now, Dr. Quest?

Probably like a poodle in a microwave oven. They all probably died of heat stroke.