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Spills & Sundry Messes

Welsh river turns white after milk tanker overturns

In Carmarthenshire. Video at link.

The Carmarthenshire river turned white on Wednesday
 
Milk shakes on the motorway.

About 3,000 litres (660 gallons) of milk have been spilt on a motorway after a lorry caught fire.

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue said it was called to the southbound M40, between Stokenchurch and High Wycombe, at 19:42 BST on Monday.
The southbound section was closed while crews worked to clear the spillage. It has since reopened. The service said it received more than 20 calls about the vehicle, which was carrying about 8,000 litres of milk.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56899526
 

Tomato puree spillage closes A14

A section of major road turned bright red after a lorry crash caused a spillage of tomato puree and olive oil.

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The crash happened not at Spaghetti Junction but on the A14 near Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.

Social media users could not resist weighing in with puns, with one calling it "a disaster, puree simple".

One BBC Radio 2 listener asked if it "was suitable for traffic to passata safe distance", while another tweet read: "Some of our drivers had to go pasta this earlier today. They are starting to ketchup after the delay though."

maximus otter
 
A section of Interstate 95 in Florida was closed after a multi-truck crash that dumped cow manure all over the highway.
Dump truck crash spills cow poop onto Florida highway

The Florida Highway Patrol said a section of interstate was closed when a crash involving a dump truck loaded with cow manure caused poop to spill into the roadway.

The FHP said the dump truck was involved in a crash with a semi truck at mile marker 198 in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 near Rockledge in Brevard County on Tuesday. ...

No one was injured in the crash, but the dump truck's load of cow manure spilled out onto the road, making for a messy situation for cleanup crews. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...tate-95-Brevard-County-Florida/6231626805615/
 

Pollution turns Argentina lake bright pink


A lagoon in Argentina's southern Patagonia region has turned bright pink in a striking, but frightful phenomenon experts and activists blame on pollution by a chemical used to preserve prawns for export.

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The color is caused by sodium sulfite, an anti-bacterial product used in fish factories, whose waste is blamed for contaminating the Chubut river that feeds the Corfo lagoon and other water sources in the region.

The lagoon turned pink last week and remained the abnormal color on Sunday, said Lada, who lives in the city of Trelew, not far from the lagoon and some 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) south of Buenos Aires.

Environmental engineer and virologist Federico Restrepo told AFP the coloration was due to sodium sulfite in fish waste, which by law, should be treated before being dumped.

The lagoon, which is not used for recreation, receives runoff from the Trelew industrial park and has turned the color of fuchsia before.

https://news.yahoo.com/pollution-tu...ggURFa7x6tmJUNq2QVvwDGq4zO8y2pb_8RPA7kGfWSn2B

maximus otter
 
There were peppers all over the expressway in Brooklyn ...
Truck crash covers New York City expressway in peppers

An early morning crash on a New York City expressway caused traffic to be restricted to one lane because the roadway was covered in peppers.

Authorities said the tractor-trailer was traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Monday morning when it overturned, spilling a mass of peppers into the roadway at Exit 30 to Flushing Avenue. ...
FULL STORY (With Photo / Video): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/07/26/Brooklyn-Queens-Expressway-crash-peppers/6091627331168/
 
Someone's block of raw chicken somehow escaped its packaging / baggage and wound up on the luggage claim carousel at Seattle's airport.
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Raw chicken ends up on Seattle airport's baggage carousel

The Transportation Security Administration shared video of the unappetizing situation that resulted when a block of raw chicken ended up on the baggage carousel at a Seattle airport.

The TSA said in an Instagram post that the chicken had apparently been in a cooler in checked baggage, but it had come free of its container at some point and ended up as a mass of raw meat on the baggage claim carousel at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. ...

"We hear at one time these wings and thighs were cooped up in a cooler. Somewhere between baggage and the carousel they became free range," the post said. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...coma-International-Airport-TSA/8831630442779/
 
The question is, of course, what kind of person takes a load of raw chicken on an airplane flight?
It's not as though it's a commodity that would be unavailable at the destination, surely?
 
The question is, of course, what kind of person takes a load of raw chicken on an airplane flight?
It's not as though it's a commodity that would be unavailable at the destination, surely?
Possibly the person mentioned earlier today who went on sick leave and forgot to take their chicken sandwiches out of their work locker. :chuckle:
 
Don’t cry over spilled milk or we should say whiskey.

Last Monday a Jack Daniel’s Whiskey tractor trailer truck overturned near our town spilling $ 400, 000 dollars of whiskey over Interstate 24 plus a lot of broken bottles.

If that stuff is aged 7 years, that will be hard to replace.
 
I bet a major honey spill makes for a gooey expressway.
Honey spill creates 'sticky situation' on Indiana highway

A stretch of interstate in Indiana experienced hours of delays Tuesday when a semi crash resulted in a large amount of honey being spilled across the roadway. ...

"We have a sticky situation on I-65," ISP spokesman Sgt. Glen Fifield tweeted. "Overnight a semi crash resulted in a large amount of honey being spilled across all the lanes at the 219 mile-marker. Traffic is being diverted at exit 220."

Fifield said the clean-up operation lasted for several hours and all lanes of traffic were reopened early Tuesday afternoon. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/1...spill-semi-crash-Interstate-65/4931639512292/
 
It's probably tastier than traffic jam.
 
This is a type of problematic highway spill I don't recall being reported before ... A truckload of potatoes spilled onto a Minnesota Interstate highway and promptly froze to the pavement after two tractor-trailers were involved in a crash. Heavy equipment had to be called in to clear the spuds off the highway. The traffic blockage lasted for circa 5 hours after the crash.
Spilled potatoes freeze to Minnesota highway after truck crash

Transportation officials in Minnesota said a stretch of highway was closed Thursday when a truck lost its load of potatoes and the spuds froze in place on the road.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation said a truck crashed Thursday morning in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 in Albertville ...

MnDOT said special equipment needed to be brought to the scene because the spilled potatoes were freezing to the road.

The highway was closed to all traffic except for emergency vehicles during the clean-up ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...rtation-potatoes-Interstate-94/1081642705638/
 
A bit late to the party (and a nice picture of the scene at the link below)...

Offal spillage causes Melbourne freeway lane closure​

An offal spillage has led to the lane closure of a freeway exit ramp in Melbourne.
The left lane of the Boundary Road exit ramp closed on the M80 Ring Road this afternoon after large amounts of offal spilled across the lane.
Aerial photos captured by 9News showed the chunks of meat spewed across the road.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/o...ing-road/ffd50ef5-349d-4fc8-87bb-35d0c8af3d3a
 

Update ... All 100 monkeys are now accounted for.
All 100 lab monkeys accounted for after several escape crash

The last of the escaped monkeys from the crash of a truck towing a trailer load of 100 of the animals was accounted for by late Saturday, a day after the pickup collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said. ...

Kristen Nordlund, a spokesperson with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an email Saturday evening that all 100 of the cynomolgus macaque monkeys had since been accounted for. Three were dead after being euthanized.

The email did not elaborate on why the three were euthanized or how all came to be accounted for. ...
FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/science-pennsylvania-monkeys-animals-fe5ddc03bba64ce62433f79b0ee7c6c3
 
Beer Spillage

Gallons worth of beer cans were spilled all over an A-road in Cambridgeshire and took four hours to be cleared up.

Crates and cans of O.J beer, brewed in Belgium, were left strewn all over the road, which runs from Royston to Godmanchester.

Cambridgeshire Police said they believed the lorry had ‘struck an overhead pylon which is likely [to have] caused the incident’, the BBC reports.
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Fire crews in New South Wales had to clear 100 kg of mackerel and fish oil an unknown vehicle spilled onto a highway.
HOLY MACKEREL! ROAD COVERED IN FISH - EDEN

Eden Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews had a slippery start to the day when they responded to a fishy highway emergency north of Eden on the south coast earlier today.

An eighty-metre stretch of the Princess Highway across two lanes was covered with a 100 kg truckload of mackerel fish and oil.

The source of the piscine delivery was no longer on the scene when firefighters arrived at Bellbird Hill just after five o'clock this morning.

Fire crews quickly removed the fish from the highway and cleared away the oil residue. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/incident.php?record=1645467540
 
Gallons worth of beer cans were spilled all over an A-road in Cambridgeshire and took four hours to be cleared up.
But it would have taken three days in other places, because there'd be fewer volunteers collecting the (full) cans.

Too bad the beer and fish couldn't have gotten together for a friendly beer batter fish fry.
 
An overturned tractor-trailer rig dumped mulch containing manure all over a Maine highway.
Tractor-trailer overturns, spilling mulch with manure on ramp connecting 295, Maine Turnpike

A tractor-trailer hauling mulch with manure in the Scarborough-South Portland area overturned Tuesday.

The crash left behind a large mess over the ramp from I-295 getting onto the turnpike. ...

All lanes of the ramp were blocked, forcing traffic to detour through Scarborough.

Officials say no other vehicles were involved and no one was injured in the crash.
FULL STORY: https://www.wmtw.com/article/tractor-trailer-manure-spill-maine/39504016
 
An overturned truckload of beer closed an Interstate highway near Louisville for hours.
Truck crash spills bottles of beer across Kentucky highway

A stretch of Kentucky highway was closed Wednesday when an overturned truck spilled its load of beer bottles into the roadway.

Kentucky State Police said the single-vehicle crash occurred about 8 a.m. Wednesday in the northbound lanes of Interstate 65, near Louisville. ...

The driver of the truck was not injured. ...

The section of northbound I-65 was closed for several hours in the morning for cleanup work, and the roadway reopened in the afternoon.
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...bottles-Interstate-65-Kentucky/7921648673239/
 
Approximately 300 stuffed toys were mysteriously dumped along an expressway in Portland, Oregon.


Stuffed animal spill befouls morning commute on I-5 in Portland

A mysterious stuffed animal spill on Interstate 5 in Portland left some drivers, and transportation officials, scratching their heads Wednesday morning.

About 300 of the stuffed toys — which included a Pooh Bear, a Minion and what appeared to be several My Little Ponies — were strewn across the interstate near the Burnside Bridge around 10:30 a.m., according to Don Hamilton, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Transportation. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland...fouls-morning-commute-on-i-5-in-portland.html
 
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