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Graham cracker bonanza fuels frenzy on Dallas freeway (thug looters)
WFAA ^

Posted on 06/04/2010 1:08:48 PM PDT by Sir Gawain

by CYNTHIA VEGA

WFAA

Posted on June 4, 2010 at 12:38 PM

Updated today at 1:06 PM

DALLAS — It was a free-for-all on a Dallas freeway: People flocked to a busy intersection Friday morning to scoop up boxes of graham crackers spilled in an accident Thursday night.

Dallas County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine what caused an 18-wheeler to overturn in the northbound lanes of Interstate 35E at Colorado Boulevard. The wreck snarled traffic for hours overnight. last night.

After the sun came up Friday, rubberneckers turned into cracker collectors.

Deputies had their hands full trying to prevent motorists from rushing in collect hundreds of packages of Honey Maid graham crackers that had been dislodged from the semi-trailer when it turned over.

"I got enough for all my grandkids and my house," said Dora Richards, one of the snack-seekers. Just out of the hospital, she was all smiles after spotting the mountain of graham crackers on her way home.

Like so many others, she instantly pulled over and loaded up.

"This is what I give my kids for snacks, because they have ADHD and bipolar, and I don't give them no real sweet stuff, so it's a blessing for me," Richards said.

By 7:30 a.m., the free-for-all had triggered a traffic jam on I-35 headed into downtown Dallas, the same place where the 18-wheeler had crashed on its side on Thursday evening, spilling its cargo of tasty treats.

The 44-year-old truck driver was taken to a hospital and listed in stable condition Friday, but his load was left behind — a secret until sun-up.

"They were stopping, literally, 10 to 15 at a time, causing not only a traffic hazard, but people were crossing the highway here and could have gotten hit," said sheriff's department spokeswoman Kimberly Leach.

The graham cracker-grab came to an abrupt halt at 10 a.m., when county health officials ruled that the snacks had spent too much time in the sun and were no longer safe for consumption.

Richards appeared to be unconcerned about whether the boxes she grabbed had been tainted. "I'm going to make a graham cracker pie," she said.

An insurance adjuster for the trucking company was also at the scene Friday morning trying to tally the extent of the loss.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
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To: Sir Gawain
county health officials ruled that the snacks had spent too much time in the sun and were no longer safe for consumption.

Hilarious.
21 posted on 06/04/2010 1:32:56 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: I Buried My Guns

Before you get all excited, you might want to read up on the effects of civil wars. Ours was probably the least destructive to the society of all great civil wars, with by far the fewest atrocities.

Taiping Rebellion

Spanish Civil War

English Civil War

French Wars of Religion

Russian Civil War

Etc.

And you really shouldn’t take it for granted your side will win.


22 posted on 06/04/2010 1:33:29 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (When buying and selling are legislated, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.)
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To: Sir Gawain

I bet the average weight of these thieves is in the high twos.............


23 posted on 06/04/2010 1:36:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (There can be a fine line between having a vision and having a hallucination........)
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To: Sherman Logan

And you should never underestimate the cost.


24 posted on 06/04/2010 1:38:33 PM PDT by benewton (Life sucks, then you die)
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To: Sir Gawain

That area is infested with obama voters!


25 posted on 06/04/2010 1:40:23 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: Sir Gawain
"This is what I give my kids for snacks, because they have ADHD and bipolar, and I don't give them no real sweet stuff, so it's a blessing for me," Richards said.

um....what?

26 posted on 06/04/2010 1:40:32 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Why should I feed pirates?"--Russian officer)
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To: Sir Gawain

Bunch of @$#%& crackers - BTTT.


27 posted on 06/04/2010 1:41:12 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Sir Gawain

“S’Mores for everyone!”


28 posted on 06/04/2010 1:41:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sir Gawain
""This is what I give my kids for snacks, because they have ADHD and bipolar, and I don't give them no real sweet stuff, so it's a blessing for me," Richards said."

Don't know how many she has ... but this tells us that she is getting about $856 per child per month from the generous working taxpayers. There is a segment of the community that has nothing but 'slow' children.

29 posted on 06/04/2010 1:42:13 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Sir Gawain

A thief with kids with every phony “disorder” in the book (which will no doubt result in higher welfare receipts). Anybody still wonder how Hussein got elected?


30 posted on 06/04/2010 1:43:26 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: IrishPennant

This may be the only example in zero’s presidency where his supporters gave instead of took...although that’s not what they had in mind. They cleaned up a mess that the state would have been required to do and cost the taxpayers money...but the obama voters did it for them. Damn nice of them, don’t you think?


31 posted on 06/04/2010 1:43:36 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: IrishPennant; windcliff; onedoug

LOL


32 posted on 06/04/2010 1:45:01 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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To: benewton

Yup. IMO there is far too much loose talk on FR about rebellion and civil war.

Such drastic measures are sometimes the only measures left to defend freedom, but as long as elections are still taking place I don’t think we’re there yet.


33 posted on 06/04/2010 1:48:08 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (When buying and selling are legislated, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.)
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To: nuconvert

34 posted on 06/04/2010 1:51:26 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

Yes. South Dallas. The neighborhood was probably as much a threat to the life of the driver as was the wreck.


35 posted on 06/04/2010 1:52:03 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

The goggles, they do nothing!


36 posted on 06/04/2010 1:55:24 PM PDT by BenKenobi (I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
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To: stylecouncilor

“My grandmother is elderly, and she uses he wrist...alot.”


37 posted on 06/04/2010 1:56:30 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Sir Gawain

Looked like they were picking through a landfill of garbage—which is basically what it is at this point. Imagine if the truck was carrying Kools, 40’s, or KFC.


38 posted on 06/04/2010 2:04:22 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: trisham

God saw her kids needed graham crackers so He overturned a delivery truck and tied up the freeway just for her.


39 posted on 06/04/2010 2:19:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Sherman Logan
IMO there is far too much loose talk on FR about rebellion and civil war.
I do not say it loosely, or with glee. I do not promote it or look forward to it, and if there was any way to avoid it, I would be amenable to it. If a peacable solution to the destruction of my nation and people was available I would support it 100%. Sadly, we are hurtling toward our demise and the masses care more about Dancing With The Stars than the abridgement of their liberty and the wholesale ransacking of of their country. The remainder who have awareness are getting mad.

As a (nascent) student of history I do not see any other possible outcome than civil strife as the old values and ways are destroyed and the people are saddled with an oppressive, totalitarian regime. This would have been complete kookery even 5 years ago to say this stuff, but every day it appears to be the inevitable result of the leftist takeover of the reigns of government, society, and culture.

So: do I advocate violence? No. Do I see it as a growing inevitability if we continue on our current course? Sadly, yes.

...as long as elections are still taking place I don’t think we’re there yet.
But what happens when elections become a sad farce? What happens when voters are intimidated at the polls and the Attorney General contends not only that no malfeasance exists, but if it did it is understandable "black rage" from years of white oppression? How about a complicit media that vocally panders to one side and suppresses the other?

There were plenty of elections in the Soviet Union too, but they meant nothing. Like them, voter fraud is becoming the norm to the point of being institutionalized.

And of course the race-based policies that formally and legally disenfranchise conservatives and white people, in the name of "social justice". Or hate crime laws designed specifically to put more white people in prison. If that is not Orwellian, then Orwell never existed.

So yeah, your sacred elections are still taking place. Yay for that. I hope it works out for you, but the odds are, it won't.

I apologize for the rant.

40 posted on 06/04/2010 2:19:33 PM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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