Comments on: 6 Really Strange Truck Spills

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:09:45 +0000

The nickels were SO funny. (sorry the driver died, but the aftermath was hilarious.) The news kept showing people randomly pulling over on the side of the highway to pick up the coins, they had to put a state trooper there to stop the idiots from collecting the money.

By: Drayke

Drayke — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:18:15 +0000

after a closer check on the list, there are 3 different truck spills involved under the subtitle for “money” added into the other 5 posts make a total of 8. While this does make the list complete from what the original poster said, the title still calls for 6, of which there is a total of 9 including the sausage truck prior to the list’s beginning.

By: Drayke

Drayke — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:14:07 +0000

anon posted but didn’t clarify what 6!=8 means, the poster said there would be 8 spills, however the title says 6 spills, adding the one before about sausage adds up to 7… (6!=8 means 6 does not equal 8 for those that didn’t know)

By: J.Rummel

J.Rummel — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:04:53 +0000

Can I please just add that that story about the exploded whale is about the most hilarious thing I have ever read! Whenever I think I am having a rough day at work, I just imagine that guy with a hose and a giant rotten whale in the background…. good times.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:53:11 +0000

Don’t be hatin the land of the sugar. Our roving gangs of soccer moms will run your ass off the road.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:44:08 +0000

@RobertSeattle: Yes, a Navy torpedo fell off a flatbed at I-25 and I-70 in Denver, the “Mousetrap”. We all hoped at the time that it would explode and we’d get new roads built.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap_%28Denver%29

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:04:00 +0000

About 15 years ago I was driving northbound on I5 in WA state. I was on my way home from work at about 1 in the morning through some dense fog. I started noticing some dim shapes in the road, and as I slowed down, I noticed something moving not only in the road but on the dividers as well. Turns out that a truck hauling live chickens had jackknifed just north of me and there were chickens everywhere, alive and dead, some caged some not. I vividly remember a chicken walking down the divider slowly, making me think of something like “Chickens in the mist”.
It remains one of the most surreal things I have witnessed.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:41:00 +0000

Probably 15 years ago my husband & I were driving from Chattanooga to Atlanta on I70. We watched as a semi in the center lane heading north very slowly tipped over. As it fell, the side ripped open and all these cows came tumbling out the side. It was surreal slow motion and the truck finally skidded to a stop on its side leaving a trail of cows in the median. Some were obviously dead. Some couldn’t stand or were just lying on their sides. Some were just standing stunned. I looked for it on the news that night but never saw any coverage.

By: Dayton Scott

Dayton Scott — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:57:00 +0000

When i was in high school one of my jobs was working for a wrecker service cleaning up truck wrecks, ive seen oranges, diapers, 2×4′s, and toilets. but by far the worst was a truck load of suavitel fabric softener, we had to sort through all of it and save the jugs that werent busted and after about 6 hours of being in a trailer covered in the stuff i never want to use it… ever.

By: erin

erin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:52:00 +0000

its not a semi tipping over, but the truck carrying the worlds largest coal bucket didn’t follow the suggested route and clipped the bottom out of an overpass in Madison, WI in 2006.

Similarly, it seems that a truck driver protesting the building of a concrete factory (to use the train tracks) in Oregon, WI drove through the train bridge. They finished fixing it this summer, a few years later, and rebuilt the bridge, but at least its possible for two vehicles to drive under it now.