Posted on 11/14/2006 10:04:02 AM PST by BurbankKarl
The southbound truck route on the Golden State (5) Freeway was reopened after frozen pig carcasses were spilled across lanes Monday night.
A big rig collided with a box truck in the truck route from the southbound Golden State (5) Freeway just north of the Foothill (210) Freeway Monday night, scattering frozen pigs over 80 feet of the freeway, authorities said.
The collision, in which one truck clipped another, occurred at 7:36 p.m., said California Highway Patrol Officer David Porter.
The collision was at the end of the truck route, and Caltrans brought in a dump truck and loader to pick up the carcasses, Porter said.
The mess was cleaned up by 11:15 p.m., and traffic was rerouted onto the 210 Freeway.
No one was injured, Porter said.
The truck route is a section of the freeway designed to concentrate slower freeway traffic in hilly areas, helping the overall flow, he said.
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That truck bypass is a nightmare - especially since a lot of auto commuters try and share it....I used it just once on my old morning commute - never again.
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Someone lost some bacon in that accident
This is going to be a FReeper Funny of the Day thread.
(Dems will win the Congress when Pigs Fly!)
I miss the good old days when headlines attempted to summarize the salient points of a news story without trying to be cute or clever.
Well I don't know. Just as soon as I read that headline I smiled.
Hey, it's nothing serious. So some pig carcasses flew across the highway. It's a cute headline.
Although the cynic in me wonders if anyone even noticed how cute it was when whoever wrote it. The whole headline could have been an accident is what I'm thinking here.
And yet...it's cute.
When pigs fly! Uhhh Ohhhh!!
Are we sure this wasn't another episode of Mythbusters in the filming???...
I hear it was kind of cold in Hell that day as well.
Police said they never sausage a mess.
***Police said they never sausage a mess.***
GROOOOOOAAAAAANNN!
OK, fire-up the bar-be-ques!...........FRegards
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