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Truckload of Eggs Closes Texas Highway; Trucker Injured in Accident
AP ^
| May 31, 2004
Posted on 05/31/2004 4:41:29 PM PDT by nuconvert
Truckload of Eggs Closes Texas Highway; Trucker Injured in Accident
The Associated Press
May 31, 2004
BELLAIRE, Texas (AP) - A truck carrying 30,000 pounds of eggs spilled its contents off a Houston-area overpass early Monday, shutting down a highway and leaving a smelly mess behind for cleanup crews. The accident happened about 2:30 a.m. when an 18-wheeler ran into some plastic barrels along the Interstate 610 loop. As the trailer went up onto the rails of the overpass, the eggs were sent tumbling onto an unoccupied Transportation Department truck parked at a construction site below.
Police believe the truck's driver may have fallen asleep. The driver, whose name was not immediately released, broke his nose, but other injuries were reported.
"There must have been 50 cases of eggs that landed on that (parked) truck, crushed the cab and broke the windshield," said Gary Babb, a supervisor in charge of the cleanup.
Environmental workers spent the day cleaning up the mess, trying not to slip on egg yolks as they worked. A special substance was used to battle the smell and soak up spilled fuel.
It took more than 14 hours to clean up the spill and reopen the highway. Babb's co-workers brought food to keep the crew's energy up, but he didn't exactly appreciate it.
"They brought us scrambled eggs, you believe that?" Babb said. "Sick sense of humor, these people."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eggstx; oops; truck; tx
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posted on
05/31/2004 4:41:29 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
So why did the Chicken cross the road?
2
posted on
05/31/2004 4:42:44 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( It Puts The Lotion in the Basket or it gets the Hose Again........)
To: cmsgop
3
posted on
05/31/2004 4:45:00 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Every morning is the dawn of a new error...)
To: nuconvert
EGGS CLOG TEXAS ARTERY
Women & Minorities Hit Hardest
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posted on
05/31/2004 4:49:12 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(And I never see the IDF 'til it's way too late! Now I'm dyin' in the Gaza Strip in the blazin' sun.)
To: cmsgop
"They brought us scrambled eggs, you believe that?" Babb said. "Sick sense of humor, these people." Egecellent quote. ;)
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posted on
05/31/2004 4:49:49 PM PDT
by
kAcknor
(That's my version of it anyway....)
To: nuconvert
Scrambled eggs, eh? The yolk's on them!
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posted on
05/31/2004 4:50:39 PM PDT
by
JAWs
To: nuconvert
How about adding 30,000 lbs of bananas?
7
posted on
05/31/2004 4:50:40 PM PDT
by
dts32041
("Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity" George W Bush 28 Jan 2003)
To: nuconvert
He passed a sign that he should have seen,
saying "shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend."
He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman
who was waiting at the journey's end.
He started down the two mile drop,
the curving road that wound from the top of the hill.
Ohhh wait.. that was 30,000 lbs of Bananas.
To: dts32041
How about adding 30,000 lbs of bananas?God bless Harry Chapin.
To: nuconvert
There must have been 50 cases of eggs that landed on that (parked) truck, crushed the cab and broke the windshield Gotta make the Gennis Book for a "One man egging of a vehicle".
To: nuconvert
The driver was eggstraordinarily lucky!
11
posted on
05/31/2004 4:57:24 PM PDT
by
mombonn
To: b4its2late
12
posted on
05/31/2004 4:57:36 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(............Al Gore: I rant, therefore I am............)
To: GreenHornet
Yeah he wrote three of my favorite songs, Sniper. Bummer, and Mercenaries.
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posted on
05/31/2004 4:58:18 PM PDT
by
dts32041
("Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity" George W Bush 28 Jan 2003)
To: EggsAckley
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posted on
05/31/2004 4:58:28 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(And I never see the IDF 'til it's way too late! Now I'm dyin' in the Gaza Strip in the blazin' sun.)
To: EggsAckley
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posted on
05/31/2004 4:58:54 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: mombonn
Lucky if it didn't scramble his brains.
16
posted on
05/31/2004 4:59:37 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: nuconvert
I think that this article is eggsagerated big time...
To: nuconvert
To: nuconvert
To: JAWs
Scrambled eggs, eh? The yolk's on them!Oh what the shell!
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posted on
05/31/2004 5:11:28 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(Me, too!--Weinie)
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