13 Things That Happened When Trucks Fell
From sticky molasses leaked on the street, to cold hard cash strewn about, here are 13 Thing That Happened When Trucks Fell.
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8. Leaked Molasses
Of course, where else would over 5,000 gallons of molasses spill out onto the road if it weren’t in a place called Sugar Land? Well that’s exactly what happened when this semi truck carrying thousands of pounds of the thick and sweet liquid did back in July of 2008. And yes, Sugar Land is indeed a real place in Texas that exists. The truck had apparently rolled over, with cars later arriving to the darkly sweet scene.
7. Jello Spill
On the topic of spilling sweets out onto the highway, trucks have also been known to have spilled Jello. After a truck jackknifed onto the interstate in St. John’s County in Florida in 2008, the streets were filled with the gooey, gelatinous dessert. The truck driver ended up being okay after everything was all over. Other people in the area noted how nice the air smelled as you drove past the flipped over truck.
6. Hamburger Patties
This would be a hamburger enthusiasts dream if it weren’t for the fact the patties have all hit the asphalt and now you can’t really eat them. Well, you can, but you can eat them at your own sanitary risk. A truck near North Salt Lake City spilled 40,000 pounds of burger patties onto the I-15, leaving quite the cleanup in its wake.
5. A Ship Engine
The wonderful thing about huge trucks is that they’re made to carry a lot of things--and many of them transport just about anything that needs transporting here and there. And that includes a ship’s engine sometimes. A 200 ton diesel electric engine was one of those things being brought to a shipyard when it fell off of a truck in downtown San Diego in July 2007. You would think something of that magnitude and importance would have been much more tightly secured, but no one’s perfect. No surprise, it’s an incredibly expensive engine and those who needed it had quite a time trying to figure out how to lift it without further damaging it.
4. Stuck in the Ice
Now, even if you’re not a truck driver, you have the common sense of to be careful of where you drive--especially when it comes to something as enormous as a semi truck. Truckers that have to travel through on icy roads know the dangers that come with their job, but sometimes it’s just really hard to tell what the conditions are when you’re driving one during the winter. When you’re not careful, you might find yourself sinking in the middle of an icy plain with a semi-truck you surely cannot move by yourself. That’s what makes the show Ice Road Truckers so popular, anyway--the sheer danger.
3. Bees
This is more frightening than strange. Of course, we should protect bees as they are a vital part of the natural environment. However, their stingers can be quite intimidating to deal with, and especially so when there’s a whole hive full of bees. So imagine what it felt like for those near the Interstate 405 interchange near Lynnwood, Washington when this truck carrying approximately 14 million bees just spilled. Understandably, lots of people in the area got stung, not to mention the fact this happened during the spring when hotter temperatures could potentially aggravate bees (as it does humans). The driver was okay after it all and a warning was issued for those driving past to keep their windows closed.
2. Cheese and Fire
Once, a truck full of goat cheese was caught on fire through a road tunnel in Norway. That’s a real sentence that a lot of people had to read, hear, or say back in the winter of 2013 when that exact incident happened. Around 27 tonnes of a type of goat cheese was stored and transported in a truck driving through the northern town of Narvik when it had caught fire. And not only that, but the fire lasted for about 4 days. The length of the time the fire was on is probably due to the fact that goat cheese is rife with fats. Bet the air smelled liked toasted cheese, at least.
1. Money
Surely, unless you’re super rich, lots of people have thought they could really do with a day where the money just falls from the sky. Well, this is as close as it got for those driving through the US 41 in Fort Myers, Florida in January of this year. A side door had apparently just popped open, leaving all the green bills inside to go blowing in the wind. When Scott Nielson and his wife tried to flag down the driver of the truck to let them know that money was literally being thrown out the door, he apparently wouldn’t hear any of it or didn’t notice, as it took a while to let the armoured truck operators know that they were losing valuable time to keep hold of their valuable cash.