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PHOTOS: Spilled milk shuts down Florida highway after crash
WFLA-TV8 ^ | February 04, 2025 | Rachel Tucker

Posted on 02/06/2025 5:41:44 AM PST by Red Badger

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) โ€” Traffic is moo-ving again after a crash caused thousands of gallons of milk to spill on a Florida highway.

A Borden milk truck crashed on Interstate 95 near Lake Worth Beach just after midnight on Jan. 28.

Photos posted to social media by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue showed an estimated 4,160 gallons of milk strewn across the northbound lanes.

Credit: Palm Beach County Fire Rescue

11 people were looked over by paramedics after the crash, but none required hospitalization.

The mess required a legen-dairy cleanup. It took three hours to remove the mess from the busy highway.

โ€œAll puns aside, We are glad that nobody was hurt, and the roadway was ready for this morningโ€™s commute,โ€ the fire department wrote.



TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Travel
KEYWORDS: freepun; palmbeach
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To: SaveFerris

21 posted on 02/06/2025 6:03:14 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: metmom

I don’t think so. It rains a LOT in Florida.


22 posted on 02/06/2025 6:05:12 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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To: Red Badger; rlmorel; laplata; ProtectOurFreedom
To determine the cause of the crash, government investigators from the National Transportation Safety Borden are diligently searching for Elsie's "black box", but they haven't been able to locate it.

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23 posted on 02/06/2025 6:06:13 AM PST by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ "Come fly with US". ๐Ÿ”ด Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS โ™‚๏ธ, aka every man)
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To: Red Badger

24 posted on 02/06/2025 6:19:07 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: decal

was just daydreaming about what would happen if a bread truck, an egg truck and a milk carrier collided on a hot dessert highway. now I’m hungry.


25 posted on 02/06/2025 6:21:52 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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To: decal

was just daydreaming about what would happen if a bread truck, an egg truck and a milk carrier collided on a hot dessert highway. now I’m hungry.


26 posted on 02/06/2025 6:24:03 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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To: decal

LOL! More cowbell!


27 posted on 02/06/2025 6:27:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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To: ComputerGuy

I think it was a trap for the feral cats.


28 posted on 02/06/2025 6:40:20 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: Ezekiel
The "black box" is integrated to the bell around her neck!

I like cows...I always have. They make me laugh, they are generally non-offensive...:)

They look placid, and often are, but...I find something in their bovine-brains that amuses me like this (I know these are cattle, not cows, but I think cows are the same in this respect:


Man calls in cattle from the field with his trombone!

Given that, you can see how the story below still makes me grin just thinking of it.

Back in the early Eighties, I was driving in my little greenish-yellow MG Midget out to see my brother who lived in a rural town in Western Massachusetts called Belchertown. I had left early for the 75 mile drive because I had to be there by 7:00 AM, and the roads were largely unihabited with no cars on the rural road.

It was before the sun came up, but it wasn't the black of night, and there was a heavy, heavy fog. As I approached a T-intersection in the dim fog coming up the small but steep hill to the stop sign (going up the base of the T to the crossing road) there was a single street light that cast a sharp cone of light in the fog.

I stopped, and as tried to see in the fog for oncoming cars, I heard...the clopping of hooves on asphalt and the clanging of a cowbell. It was getting closer and closer, and I still couldn't see what it was. It sounded right on top of me. Then, out of the foggy gloom, appearing in the sharp cone of light, it was a large black and white cow, udder swinging from side to side, cantering down the road, the bell clanging plaintively as it turned down the road I was on, passed me, and disappeared into the mist without even giving me a glance.

As if this kind of thing happened all the time! (and all I could think was..."A cow?")

My gosh, I love that memory! There was something surreal, dream-like, and...silly about it and I can see it just as crisply in my mind today as if it just happened...

29 posted on 02/06/2025 6:41:14 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

What a cool memory, and in your telling of it I could picture it perfectly!๐Ÿ™‚


30 posted on 02/06/2025 6:53:24 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! ๐Ÿ”ญ)
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To: rlmorel
Thanks for that mooving account! I loved reading it.

Great video, too. The cows even started singing along.

Well, it's like how the sheep know their shepherd's voice.

The cattle know their Music Man.

A real Spirit of '76 going on in all of that.

76 Trombones (Full Scene) - The Music Man (1962)

31 posted on 02/06/2025 7:16:44 AM PST by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ "Come fly with US". ๐Ÿ”ด Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS โ™‚๏ธ, aka every man)
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To: Red Badger

And there’s Elsie smiling in the bottom picture.


32 posted on 02/06/2025 7:26:49 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: Red Badger

They are all empty? I see no milk spilled on the highway.


33 posted on 02/06/2025 7:27:58 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Red Badger

They are all empty? I see no milk spilled on the highway.


34 posted on 02/06/2025 7:27:58 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Red Badger

They are all empty? I see no milk spilled on the highway.


35 posted on 02/06/2025 7:27:59 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Red Badger

They are all empty? I see no milk spilled on the highway.


36 posted on 02/06/2025 7:27:59 AM PST by nwrep
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To: rlmorel

Udderly astounding....................


37 posted on 02/06/2025 7:33:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Ezekiel

Lol!!

They will never find it. lol


38 posted on 02/06/2025 7:39:19 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I hadn’t seen a picture of Elsie in years. It’s nice to see her.


39 posted on 02/06/2025 7:41:29 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
She's been low-key so as not to become a mascot for some deviancy. Her and Elmer have been a stable, traditional couple for decades.

Elsie/Elmer

40 posted on 02/06/2025 8:05:24 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (I ate more paste in kindergarten than you did and I turned out okay.)
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