Posted on 08/09/2023 1:12:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
It’s no gouda.
A 74-year-old dairy farmer got creamed during a meltdown at his sprawling cheese warehouse in northern Italy on Sunday night when thousands of wheels of hard parmesan-style formaggio collapsed on top of him.
Giacomo Chiapparini, the owner of the eponymous Chiapparini cheese-making company in Lombardy, was killed in the freak accident when giant shelves holding the 90lb wheels of grana padano cheese suddenly buckled.
Chiapparini was using a machine to rotate and clean the cheese wheels at various stages of ripening when one of the metal shelves caved, creating a “domino effect,” firefighter Antonio Dusi told the news agency AFP.
The storehouse, which had been stocked with 25,000 cheese wheels, was left in shreds.
Thousands of 90-pound cheese wheels, arranged in stacks of 20, tumbled to the ground from long, narrow shelves — some towering at 33 feet high — burying Chiapparini alive.
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Something is going on in the world, yesterday it was falling snake and hawk attack and now killer cheese...something is afoot at the circle K
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Sounds pretty chessy to me ........
Rotflmao!!!!!!
I like cheese, but would not want to have to dig through so much de Brie to recover the body.
Thanks! Used to work at a Pontiac dealership in ‘80 and drove many of those Trans Ams. One perk of the biz was driving cool cars and running the beans out of ‘em! TA’s, Vettes, RX7’s, 240z’s, great fun, didn’t beat them though...wanted to run off with a Pantera, but, no.
Agree. I couldn’t believe I was reading an article about someone’s death!
What a cheesy story.
How awful! Prayers for the family.
“Cheese Wheels of Doom” is a level of a video game called Bubsy...............
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