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.
More Money Than We'd Expect
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.
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.
Flaming Avocados
That's a real hashtag created by the Texas cops who were in charge of the cleanup effort. It was the second time 40,000 pounds of avocados went to waste by tractor-trailer spill.
The same thing happened in 2017, in the same state, too! The 2017 wreck was an even bigger disaster. Losing tons of California-grown avocados is a tragedy in itself. But this time they went up in flames. Driving on Texas I-35E, a suspected malfunction on the driver's rig caused a fire. Grilled avos are delicious, but this was neither the time nor the place.
A Truck Spill That Did Not Go to Waste
Two trucks spilled a load of waste. Tons of treated human waste oozed out onto the roadway after two trucks, both carrying a total of 16 tons of sewage from a treatment plant, managed to lose their loads on Hwy. 27 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
First responders were greeted with a stinky mess. The piles of treated sewage would not go to waste, but it took all day to clean up the disgusting mayhem. A private contractor hauled it away for its original purpose, to be used as fertilizer by farmers. Motorists who had to drive through it were not pleased. "A crappy way to start my Friday," resident Bradley Robinson said. Both drivers were cited for "unsecured loads."