A Spill With A Happy Ending

Thanksgiving 2014 was around the corner. Turkey, meat, sweets and a whole lot of things were being carried to the city for sale and that’s when a truck carrying 25,000 pounds of turkey met with an unfortunate accident on a busy road near Oakland, California.

Why do we call it a happy ending? Because the turkey was too damaged to be sold and they decided to donate it to the Alameda County Food Bank. “Receiving this volume of meat protein is rare for us any time of year – and a donation like this simply couldn’t come at a better time.” The Chairman of the food bank continued, “This is going to add a significant helping of holiday joy to thousands of households throughout our community.”

Lego All Over The Road

Tiffany Lantz wouldn’t have known that her legos could create so much trouble. This spill was not a result of trucks overturning but this mess was made by a private vehicle. A family had packed up all their legos in a crate and strapped it to the car’s roof. Which eventually dislodged and threw the blocks everywhere.

The road was full of miniature toys and caused quite a bit of inconvenience to the commuters driving down Interstate 79 in West Virginia. Lantz later took responsibility for the accident and apologized.

Exploding Whale

Now, this is what we had promised. What can be crazier than a bloody spill all across the road? A truck carrying the body of a sperm whale had to stop when the whale suddenly burst open and pedestrians and motorists were covered in blood and guts. The truck was carrying the whale to a research center. Guess, the scientists will have to conduct their research in the middle of a highway. 

Poor Fido

Frozen meat, packed meat any kind of meat can add sparkle in your eye but certainly not this type. A semi-truck carrying processed meat to a plant where it would be used to make dog food collapsed and what came out was this. It happened in Australia in 2006.

It was a huge loss as all that was done with the meat was disposal.

Aloha, Staten Island

Perhaps the least destructive spill on the list. The cleaning effort might have taken hours but it must not have been as creepy as the scrambled eggs or as dangerous as the flaming avocados. A tractor-trailer overturned in New York and quite a lot of pineapples were scattered on the roads.

Nobody was badly hurt and the driver escaped with minor injuries.

Wait! We are not done with avocados.

But What About All The Avocado Toast?

This has happened twice. The burning avocados! On 28 December 2017, a truck full of avocados met with an accident near Forreston, Texas. The avocados all burnt while the firefighters tried their best to make sure the fire doesn’t expand.

Fortunately, no human was injured and the soon the fire was controlled.