This happened way back in 1992 but the story goes on. A shipping container of bath toys from China to the U.S. fell off the cargo ship and splashed into the North Pacific during high seas. Some bobbed all the way to the coast of Maine.
Oceanographers have tracked the 1992 cargo spill. Twenty years later, those ill-fated rubber duckies have been found washed up on the shores of Australia, South America, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest. In the Arctic, ducks have been found frozen in the ice. Author Donovan Hohn of Moby-Duck has traced the travels of each duck in his study about ocean pollution.
Not a PR Stunt
On the cusp of the release of the new-at-the-time Deadpool movie, a semi-truck spewed boxes of Deadpool, Vol. 9: Institutionalized all over I-71 in Ohio. Other titles were strewn amongst the wreckage and readers were notified of the delay.
Though it seems like a clip from a movie, it was a legitimate accident. The Diamond Comics Distributors truck driver had pulled off to the side after breaking down and dozed off. His nap was interrupted when another truck slammed into the back of his rig.
Party Pooper
The party is over when 35,000 pounds of ice cream is ruined. Kroger was shipping pallets of their assorted "deluxe brand" flavors when the driver lost control on the exit ramp and overturned the trailer. The ramp was closed, and traffic halted.
The driver suffered minor injuries but the 2013 crash in Indiana decimated the shipload of frozen dessert.
Free Money?
A half-million dollars in cash escaped a Brinks armored truck and people raced to the scene, scooping up the cash and, many, running away with it. Police said shortly after the incident that $188,955 was still missing.
Many good Samaritans turned in the dough, and others were scrutinized on police videos for identification. Police Capt. Phillip Taormina said, "If you turn the money in on your own before we identify you, you won't face charges."
Crab Cook-Off
No one was able to capture the wreckage, but here's what it must have been like when a truck carrying 75,000 pounds of crab meat dumped its load. The driver veered into a signpost that gutted its side open before tumbling over.
The 37 tons of products that were lost cost the company $176,000. The driver miscalculated a turn and over-corrected, sending it into the guardrail, and the signpost, this happened just outside of Salt Lake City.