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Spill covers Utah highway in smashed watermelons
UPI ^ | June 11, 2024 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 06/11/2024 11:21:15 AM PDT by Red Badger

June 11 (UPI) -- The Utah Department of Transportation said it was a "melon-choly" morning on Interstate 80 when a truck spilled its load of watermelons into the roadway.

The department shared photos on social media showing the sticky mess of smashed watermelons littering the roadway near Echo Reservoir in Summit County on Monday.

A photo shows the semi truck that was carrying the melons with the side torn off of its trailer. It was not clear how the damage occurred.

"It was a melon-choly morning on I-80 today," officials wrote. "At 3 a.m. our team learned of this fruity spill and jumped into action in the early hours to reopen all lanes in time for the commute."


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1 posted on 06/11/2024 11:21:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
It makes me feel so sad ...

2 posted on 06/11/2024 11:24:31 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Waverunner

A rather curiously written headline...not quite poetry, but not quite prose.


3 posted on 06/11/2024 11:26:17 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Red Badger
Looks like the trailer was overloaded and burst. The bed is sagging.

Watermelons

4 posted on 06/11/2024 11:26:48 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: Red Badger

Paging Mr. Gallagher....


5 posted on 06/11/2024 11:27:12 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Red Badger

Goes up watermelon, comes down squash...


6 posted on 06/11/2024 11:29:44 AM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: Psalm 73

Hahahaha that was the first thing that came to mind!


7 posted on 06/11/2024 11:38:51 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: xoxox

Spill covers Utah
Highway Smashed Watermelons
Red Green weeps on road

Better as haiku?


8 posted on 06/11/2024 11:39:45 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Red Badger

No worse than 30,000 pounds of bananas, I suppose.


9 posted on 06/11/2024 11:43:02 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Waverunner

Ran it by ChatGPT:

Melon-choly morn,
Watermelons spill and sprawl,
Highway’s fruity dawn.


10 posted on 06/11/2024 11:44:58 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Waverunner
Spill covers Utah Highway Smashed Watermelons
Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind…….

h/t Jim Morrison

11 posted on 06/11/2024 11:50:49 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Borders, language and culture. Michael Savage)
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To: Psalm 73

12 posted on 06/11/2024 11:51:35 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

Racist.


13 posted on 06/11/2024 11:53:03 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: Red Badger

Green River watermelons are among the best you’ll eat.


14 posted on 06/11/2024 11:55:07 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Magnum44

in before the gallll oh never mind


15 posted on 06/11/2024 11:55:12 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: budj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5V9nK7-OkM


16 posted on 06/11/2024 12:10:35 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Psalm 73

He’s dead, Jim..................


17 posted on 06/11/2024 12:12:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Magnum44

12 posts.......You’re slow today................😏


18 posted on 06/11/2024 12:13:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I try but I get here when I can get here. Lots of other stuff going on.


19 posted on 06/11/2024 12:17:34 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: budj

Good for spilling on your highway, too.


20 posted on 06/11/2024 12:18:06 PM PDT by xoxox
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