Filed under: Etc., Commercial Trucks
Cleanup on I-80: Oreo spill snarls traffic in IL
Snacks should be readily available for crews cleaning up an overturned tractor trailer 50 miles south of Chicago on Interstate 80. The rig in question was hauling fourteen tons of Oreo cookies, and when it tipped, the trailer's roof ripped open, spilling cases of the cookies onto the median. As you can see in the video we've embedded after the jump, a traffic backup thicker than a Double Stuf's filling ensued. Local authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident, but Autoblog has received unconfirmed reports that Keebler elves were spotted fleeing the scene. [AP via Breitbart]
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jon 12:38PM (5/19/2008)
"Autoblog has received unconfirmed reports that Keebler elves were seen fleeing the scene. "
hilarious
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Franz 12:45PM (5/19/2008)
Damn those Keebler elves...
Yar 2:34PM (5/19/2008)
I know, those bastards stole my underwear last night, mumbling something about "profit".
My Car Runs on Water 12:38PM (5/19/2008)
"unconfirmed reports that Keebler elves were seen fleeing the scene." - Autoblog
LMAO
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John Johnson 12:40PM (5/19/2008)
Road trip anyone?
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rouse42 12:45PM (5/19/2008)
they could be helping the world food crisis but noooo, there proably gonna pull a mazda and send em all to shreader.
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Don 12:50PM (5/19/2008)
If only a tanker truck full of milk would have shown up...mmm!
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Eddy Alvarez 12:57PM (5/19/2008)
too bad the cookie monster has "reformed.." clean up would've been easy.
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tanooki2003 1:55PM (5/19/2008)
Dude didn't you hear? Apparently the Cookie Monster has diabetes and is wstill in rehab for missing his "meetings"
Eddy Alvarez 2:08PM (5/19/2008)
lolololol. oh man! thats so sad. if the Dems get hold of office he'll have to wait 3 months for an insulin pump under socialist universal healthcare. do you know how many times he can go into diabetic shock in that time? lolol. we may have a legless cookie monster "on our hands" (get it?) soon. lololol
Torrent 1:00PM (5/19/2008)
With Gas prices at 4 bucks a gallon, and Oreo cookies at 2.50 a pack, I might just get a job with an Illinois cleanup crew.
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Ben 1:10PM (5/19/2008)
Cleanup=eat all the thrown packages =]
Torrent 1:14PM (5/19/2008)
lol- exactly!
pmiddle5 3:06PM (5/19/2008)
Do you think there is any chance, we could make our cars run on Oreos?...
Richard 1:05PM (5/19/2008)
Notice that the trailer was unmarked.
A very smart move, I expect.
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rouse42 2:37PM (5/19/2008)
it was a schneider trailer.
they ship just about everything.
the move almost all of walmarts crap.
John P. 1:08PM (5/19/2008)
Mmmmmm oreos. craving some right now. Once I happened across a tractor-trailer accident while riding my bicycle, and just my luck, the truck was only full of a million paperback romance novels. Complete with the "I can't believe it's not butter!" guy on the cover.
Oreos woulda been so much better.
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stanger_missle 1:30PM (5/19/2008)
Got Milk?
http://www.truckspills.com/milk_spill_2.jpg
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Bungle 2:46PM (5/19/2008)
This is a lot more pleasant than what I saw driving through Las Vegas last year... an overturned tractor trailer full of (previously) live pigs.
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pmiddle5 3:09PM (5/19/2008)
We have the main Tropicana juice factory near here so everynow and then you see an orange truck that has over turned. Pretty f'n hilarious
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