March 12, 2008
Truck Spills
A truck carrying flour crashes and spills on I-95 in Laurel, MD in 2004.
Crew used brooms and leafblowers to remove the flour. They were reluctant to use water because of the mess it could have created.
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“The website of odd, strange, interesting, and unbelievable things spilled on the road by trucks.”
Odd and interesting, to be sure, but set against Barry Stone’s Decking the Path to Blessedness, an aesthetic failure.
I once saw a big box of roofing nails fall off the back of a flat-bed truck in heavy, fast moving highway traffic. Dozens of cars behind it instantly had all four tires flattened. The truck never missed a beat, just kept on going. I always wondered if the driver at some point looked about, wondering why he suddenly had the whole road all to himself. I’m glad I was going in the opposite direction, with a wide median between me and the scattered caltrops on the other side.
Missed opportunities. A strategically-pointed firehose could have made the world’s biggest paste ball. Bus loads of creepy sixth graders could have been brought in to feast upon it.
Oh well.
…and just then a truck carrying 10,000 dozen eggs careened into the spill, followed by a Domino Sugar truck. Sweet Sassy Molassy, once the fire was put out the road was littered with tea cakes.