Pig Cooker Led To Logging Truck Wreck On U.S. 64 Bypass

WRAL-TV [Raleigh, N.C.] ^ | April 1, 2004 | WRAL.com

[Constitution Day]

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- A pig cooker led to an accident involving a logging truck on the U.S. 64 Bypass at the Centura Highway exit just after 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

Billy Ray Daniels, 66, of Rocky Mount, was driving a 1978 Ford Pick-up truck carrying a pig cooker when it broke free from the truck and traveled into the roadway.

[Constitution Day]

BBQ ping.

Let's be careful out there.

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[cinFLA]

"Billy Ray Daniels, 66, of Rocky Mount, was driving a 1978 Ford Pick-up truck carrying a pig cooker when it broke free from the truck and traveled into the roadway."

Poorly worded sentence bump.

[dirtboy]

Adds a new meaning to "highway pork."

[Constitution Day]

So true!

[dirtboy]

Michael Elliot, 30, of Williamston, was driving a logging truck when he lost control of his vehicle while trying to avoid the pig cooker.

I bet his tires were squealing.

[Constitution Day]

Big news day in my neck of the woods.

[LisaMalia]

Glad nobody was injured......

Too bad that it wasn't a livestock truck. That would make for one hell of a BBQ!!!!!

[FourPeas]

I hate it when that happens. Stop pig cooker hauling NOW. How many more logs must suffer!?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I can't decide which is more dangerous, preparing Southern Cuisine of being a colorblind Hamas bomb maker.

[alancarp]

Really: and there's something for almost all Leftists to like -- a logging truck accident (Sierra Club); pig cooker probably destroyed (PETA); and a closed highway (the anti-gas guzzler crowd).

But seriously - once a logging truck gets shifted, it's all over. Kinda hard luck that the guy got a ticket for 'failure to secure'... that pretty much sounds like it was induced!

[TommyDale]

Yeah...this will be the lead story on all the local newscasts tonight. Well, maybe the second one, following another Duke basketball story.

[ClearCase_guy]

When pig cookers are outlawed only outlaws will eat BBQ -- and that will make them easier to spot (catch 'em red-handed).

[Constitution Day]

Should I ping you with Final Four updates? :)

[Toddsterpatriot]

Daniels was charged with failure to secure load.

That's the pig cooker guy, not the logger guy.

[eastforker]

Nope, the pig cooker hauler got the ticket, not the log hauler. Good think he wasn't a hog hauler .

[TommyDale]

Oh, yes -- please do -- NOT!

[alancarp]

Ah! Right - my bad.

[TommyDale]

When Christ returns, on local North Carolina TV stations it will be a secondary news item, behind some off-season ACC story in the lead.

[theDentist]

PETA: "If the world were strictly vegetarian and eco-friendly, this accident would have been avoided." {/smirk}

[r9etb]

Poorly worded sentence bump

Oh, I don't know ... I kinda like the wording. It raises so many fascinating possibilities.....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ron-on sentences are allowed in the broadcast journalism fraternity.

[Constitution Day]

Them Hamas boys have it easy, bud.

[billbears]

When Christ returns, on local North Carolina TV stations it will be a secondary news item, behind some off-season ACC story in the lead.

That is so not true. Well except for WRAL maybe....

CD, this is a travesty. I hope the pig cooker was not damaged...

[WestTexasWend]

Combine this with Southern Living Magazine's (recalled)
exploding biscuit recipe and you're in bidness...

[stainlessbanner]

how boutcha?

[Kenny Bunk]

Suggest you take lessons in America's newest non-hispanic language:

Nascarbro

1.e. don't make no difference to me if it was the pig or the truck or the logs. Shhiiite it shorely was a bigdamm mess out there. SOB oughta learn how to drive pig-cooker. Like missing hypen was problem all along damn log truck brakes.

[Rebelbase]

I saw parts of a pig cooker scattered all over the side of the interstate over this way last year.

I'm thinking its the homemade jobs with lousy welding or they've rusted to the point of failure.

[cinFLA]

but it's a business decision on their part.

Sort of like paying the terrorists ...

[beelzepug]

OK, I'm gonna stick my neck out here and ask, "What on God's green earth is a pig cooker?" I'm from Washington state and all we do is barbeque salmon.

[Revelation 911]

whew - at least you werent asking about Carolina pulled pork

[Rebelbase]

This one's a nice one. A lot of times they are homemade by taking a 275 gallon oil tank, splitting it longways and mounting it on an old work trailer.

[Rebelbase]

A homemade one.

[Constitution Day]

That's the kind you often see around here.

[CDHart]

"Too bad that it wasn't a livestock truck."

That's a pretty heartless thing to say--

Carolyn

[beelzepug]

WOW!! Party time! Thanks for the pix. A Geo Metro wouldn't stand a chance at 70 mph.

[Constitution Day]

Really: and there's something for almost all Leftists to like -- a logging truck accident (Sierra Club); pig cooker probably destroyed (PETA); and a closed highway (the anti-gas guzzler crowd).

I just went to Parker's BBQ for lunch. Take that, Greenies!

[LisaMalia]

That's a pretty heartless thing to say--

Ummmm, if it was a livestock truck, they would have probably been headed for slaughter anyway.

But then I'm one of those weird types who put human lives over animals. So get ahold of PETA and sue me.

My protective lab would probably not let them near my house, though.

Lisa

[NCjim]

Reminds me of the time when a truck carrying watermelons turned over going down the mountain to Saluda, NC. The curve in the road was as slick as if it were icy, and cars were sliding into other cars parked along the side of the road by folks hunting through the weeds for watermelons that weren't broken...

[Rebelbase]

Yeowza!

[Constitution Day]

Daggone, man!

Whoever built that is SERIOUS.

[An.American.Expatriate]

First it was those evil SUVs, and now Pig Cookers. Whats next?? Mini Coopers?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Dual stacks !

[Syncro]

At first I couldn't find anyone in that picture that fits the description of a "man."

I see a Terrorist, a Politician that used to let his male lover run a Homosexual "dating" service in his basement, and a Traitor that used to be President of the USA.

Then I looked to the far left...far FAR left...LOL

Don't Click Here!

[HenryLeeII]

Billy Ray Daniels, 66, of Rocky Mount, was driving a 1978 Ford Pick-up truck carrying a pig cooker...

Is this news outlet insinuating that there is a man living in North Carolina whose name is Billy Ray and he drives a 1978 Ford pick-up? Incredulous! This is obviously just flat-out wrong! Next, they'll be telling us he's got a soft-pack of Red Man in his shirt pocket, knows more about NASCAR than Keynesian economic theory, and is probably fond of fee-shin' and hunt'n'.

[Syncro]

Man there ain't nothing like gutting and scraping down one of those critters and throwing 'em on the Barbie.

That is some of the best eatin' around.

[HenryLeeII]

When Christ returns, on local North Carolina TV stations it will be a secondary news item, behind some off-season ACC story in the lead.

We all know that He will only return during the ACC tournament - its got to be something really important like that! /now preparing for lightning bolt to smote me from cloudless (non-Carolina) blue sky...>

[stainlessbanner]

Where's the driver's seat?

[Constitution Day]

There is no way that God is a Tarheel.

I've always thought that Carolina was in league with Satan himself.