Three miles of a Massachusetts highway was painted red in April of 2007. The red ribbon formed as the morning commute drove through the spill of red dye and tracked it into a perfect crimson strip.
The faces of drivers turned the same crimson color when they saw the damage to their vehicles. But it was a windfall for the local carwash. It happened on the I-495 near Boston when a container of dye on a tractor-trailer ruptured, spilling its contents.
Doggone Dream Come True
The I-5, stretching almost the entire West Coast of the nation, sees a lot of truck spills and this one was for the dogs. The Washington state crash involved a semi-truck overturning and spilling its load of dog food into the ditch. Once again, the driver conked out behind the wheel.
Thousands of pounds of 50-pound bags of dog food piled in the ditch, a virtual feast for our canine companions. The driver was lucky he wasn't crushed by one of the bags after he crashed, according to authorities at the scene who charged him with negligent driving. This pet food calamity happened in Fife in November of 2014.
Gobble Gobble!
Seven hundred turkeys were set free after the truck that was transporting them flipped over and dumped them out. Butterball owned the birds. A few of them perished in the crash, but, astonishingly, most of the birds just chilled near the overturned truck waiting for recapture. They're not known as the smartest bird!
The accident happened in North Carolina in January of 2018, the driver was cited for unsafe speeding.
An M&M Travesty
A KLM truck packed with a precious load of M&Ms, 17 tons of the candy to be exact, was destroyed in a spectacular wreck. The semi swerved off the exit ramp, clipped another tractor-trailer that happened to be pulled off to the side, rammed into the concrete barrier, and flipped onto its side.
Many of the candies managed to stay packaged but the company said it was unsalable. "Due to our strict quality and food safety standards, none of the product has been salvaged," according to the Mars Wrigley spokesperson. Cleanup crews must have found sweet success.
Chickens on the Run
One last chance of escape was foiled as a truckload of chickens heading to the slaughter were rounded up by local officials. The lorry carrying 3,000 chickens jackknifed, snarling the A80 near Glasgow. A witness said, "I've never seen anything like it. There were dead chickens all of the roads, live chickens running around everywhere, and policemen along with 'chicken catchers' trying to grab them and place them back into containers."
The flapping and squawking flurry of feathers was reduced by 400. Police officers, vets, and trained handlers from the chicken company chased and captured 2,000 birds. It took them five hours.