Posted on 12/03/2004 4:05:27 PM PST by Rakkasan1
NEW ULM, Minn. — Tons of butter melted by a factory fire spread through the streets of New Ulm late Wednesday and early Thursday until it was overtaken by the chill of Minnesota's icebox weather.
On Thursday afternoon, amid the fatigue from hours of fighting the massive blaze, the slippery surfaces and the wreckage of the plant, even Fire Chief Curt Curry recognized some humor in the incongruous scene.
"We were looking for 40,000 loaves of bread at 2 o'clock this morning," he said, trying to wind down with a smile after working the intense fire all night.
Work crews used backhoes during the day to slice through a pond of partially resolidified butter that spread from the Associated Milk Producers Inc. plant.
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Popcorn terrorists.
Popcorn terrorist=Fabio
Reporters treat stories like this as such a "big joke" that it's no wonder that other stories are also reported as a "big joke", depending on the whims of the editor.
News events are props for some reporters and for some editors to play around with. That seems to be prime rule #1 in the new Journalism/Hollywood "merger". The News is a prop to promote the news station, to promote the reporter, to give "face time", ......
One of the great disasters of Boston was the cracking of a molasses processing tank in the North End, which flooded the entire area with molasses.
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