England: Massive pea spill (18 tons) blocks highway

New.Com. AU ^ | June 19, 2003 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Massive pea spill blocks highway

June 19, 2003

A truck which spilled 18 tons of peas on a busy highway in eastern England brought traffic to a standstill for more than 12 hours on Monday night.

Police said the truck overturned after it collided with a bus near Grantham in Lincolnshire. The 23 people on the bus were not seriously hurt, but traffic was diverted while authorities cleaned up the millions of peas. The road reopened early Tuesday.

The Associated Press

[dfwgator]

All we are saying is give peas a chance.

[bedolido]

lol... no great loss. Does anyone REALLY like peas?

[Semper Paratus]

Does anyone REALLY like peas?

Throw in some butchered pigs and ya got split pea soup with ham.

[bedolido]

All we are saying is give peas a chance.

lol... Brillant!

[areafiftyone]

Okay you KNOW someone has to say this - ANYONE FOR SPLIT PEA SOUP? Sorry just had to!!! ;-)

[Constitution Day]

[csvset]

[Frapster]

I LOVE peas - with lots of butter and salt. Give peas a chance! ;-)

[dfwgator]

Imagine whirled peas.

[freedomcrusader]

Reminds me of a childhood rhyme:

I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life.
It makes them taste quite funny,
but it keeps them on the knife.

[Dog Gone]

Peas on earth?

[bedolido]

I LOVE peas - with lots of butter and salt. Give peas a chance! ;-)

I'm sorry to hear that... someone really does like peas.

note to self: check to see if hell has frozen over.

[scouse]

I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife

Ogden Nash

[Frapster]

Well - I don't like black-eyed peas. Does that help?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Massive pea spill blocks highway

Talk about taking a pea by the highway.

[bedolido]

Imagine whirled peas.

I've seen hurled peas... remember the Excorsist?

[csvset]

And now, for something completly different, (re: highways & pee)

Urine bottles call for hazmat teams -- Caltrans workers won't pick them up

[EggsAckley]

".....the cause of the accident was determined to be pea soup fog...."

[w_over_w]

Once upon a time in Houston, a overturned 18 wheeler dumped a load of corn on I-10W. By the time crews got there to clean it up the local radio stations changed the report to "corn tortillas". Believe it or not . . .