You never know when an armored bank truck is going to crash and spill its loot, it happens a lot. In 2019, $175,000 poured out of a Garda truck on an Atlanta interstate, fluttering into the woods and falling on the shoulder. Some of the money went down the gutter with the rain.
In 2018, $600,000 fell out the backdoor of a Brinks armored truck while driving in Indianapolis. In the same year in New Jersey, a malfunctioning armored door released at least $6,000 onto the highway.
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.
Hungry Jack Syrup
Yes, it happened. Thousands of gallons of pancake syrup oozed down the I-71 at Buttermilk Pike in Kentucky. The sticky mess took hours to clean up. Crews removed the maple-colored syrup by adding sand to it so that a front loader could shovel it up. The semi was totaled, the entire side of the trailer ripped off, laying behind the rest of the truck. Breakfast was officially canceled.
The only saving grace is that those hundreds of bottles of maple-flavored syrup were not actual maple syrup, that delicacy of sweet sap tapped from the tree. However, the bottles of flapjack syrup consisting of caramel-colored, high-fructose corn syrup was still a waste.
A Sticky Situation
News media was a-buzz when 14 million bees, along with a truckload of honey, crashed in Idaho in 2011. A river of honey flowed down the road. Needless to say, the bees were buzzing mad, resulting in many emergency responders getting stung. In all, 400 hives were thrown to the asphalt.
You probably will not want to hear this, but many of the honeybees were sprayed with insecticide foam by the responders. All told, $400,000 worth of bee product was lost. Fire Chief Kenny Strandberg worried about another problem, namely, grizzly bears being lured to the area.