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.”
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.
Rubber Duckies
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.
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.
Ramen Explosion
Just like in the pizza pie disaster, this truck also veered into the overpass bridge and had its contents ripped out. This time the trucker admitted he had conked out. "I thought I could make it down to the truck stops in Kenly, but I didn't quite. I sort of drowsed off, and next thing I knew I had taken out the guard rail," the driver told ABC the news affiliate.
The Oodles of noodles were not salvageable as diesel fuel contaminated the bounty of Ramen and was instead hauled off to the dump.