Tanker truck carrying 3,500 gallons of chocolate spills onto Arizona's I-40

[riversedge]

Source: Fox 19




Updated: Jan 14 2019 03:20PM MST

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (FOX 10) - Talk about a sweet cleanup!

The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a tanker truck carrying 3,500 gallons of liquid chocolate has spilled onto the westbound lanes of Interstate 40, east of Flagstaff at milepost 211.

The river of chocolate is blocking the lanes until crews can clean up the delicious mess..................................

Read more: http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/tanker-truck-carrying-40k-gallons-of-chocolate-spills-onto-i-40

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ah, what a waste!!

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[Ilsa]

1. Mmmm. Chocolate-covered roadkill!

Actually, I'd show up only if it's dark or semi-sweet.

I hope no animals are made ill from eating it.

[LakeSuperiorView]

2. Where's Augustus Gloop when you need him?

[cstanleytech]

12. Just point Trump at the wreck as I am sure he would be happy to swill it down.

[IronLionZion]

13. Here you go

I can see Trump doing it.

[SpankMe]

3. Good thing there's snow on the ground

If it was spring time, they'd have a massive ant problem on their hands.

[doc03]

4. Now if a truck load of peanut butter would wreck that would be cool. Or how about

bananas.

[rickford66]

16. Moosic St Hill is steep and long and dangerous.

I grew up nearby and lived in the area half my life. Many accidents because of lost brakes. Houses line both sides and some have been hit.

[area51]

17. Peanut butter, you say?

[Tobin S.]

5. I hope the driver is okay and no one else was injured.

[wellst0nev0ter]

6. A headline writer's dream

[marybourg]

7. I can be there in a coupla hours!

With a spoon.

[FuzzyRabbit]

8. Ivar Haglund eats pancakes in Seattle waterfront syrup spill

A railroad tank car at Alaskan Way and Columbia Street had ruptured a hose and more than 1,000 gallons of corn sweetener spilled onto the street. Haglund, ever the promoter of his Acres of Clams Restaurant on Pier 54 across the street, saw an opportunity. He quickly ordered a stack of pancakes and donned a pair of hip boots. When news photographers and reporters arrived at the scene, they found Haglund squatting in a lake of corn sweetener, spooning the syrup onto his breakfast pancakes.

With a photo at the link.
http://www.historylink.org/File/2507

[BigmanPigman]

9. Don't forget the Boston Molasses disaster

that washed people, horses and buildings away on Jan 15, 1919 (100 years ago tomorrow).

http://mentalfloss.com/article/27366/bostons-great-molasses-flood-1919

[BumRushDaShow]

20. I've seen a bunch of stories about this in the past

and was hunting around to see what the actual tank looked like - it was like an oil refinery tank (but obviously not to spec of such)!





An up close pic -



Loveland, CO seemed to have had a similar, but not as disastrous situation almost 30 years ago - http://www.reporterherald.com/news/loveland-local-news/ci_27538585/lovelands-sticky-situation-reaches-25-year-anniversary

[BigmanPigman]

29. That is massive!

I saw the middle photo before but not that one. Now I can see how it was able to happen.

[tonekat]

33. Albany, NY had a similar, smaller incident in 1968

12,000 tons of the material, and it resulted in one death, and one injury at The Port of Albany.


http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2014/06/05/the-albany-molasses-spill-of-1968

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Ack!

[area51]

30. Mentioned in the Mental Floss article

is the Dark Tide book, which I enjoyed reading.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Here's the pic

[jmowreader]

10. This is no laughing matter

Twenty tons of melted fat - chocolate is half fat, half sugar - is going to make the road slick as hair oil for a very long time until it wears off. I hope (1) the driver's okay, (2) everyone else is okay and (3) no one slides out in that crap before it wears off the road.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. There are industrial hazmat containment/absorbant materials that can be used to mop that up. nt

[jmowreader]

24. Once it hits 80 degrees, it's going to become solid

Thinking out loud, I’d bring in a truckload of sand and a street sweeper, Dump the sand on the chocolate, then go over it with the sweeper to sand the chocolate off the road.

[2naSalit]

11. LOL, Ruh roh...

made me think of this (I don't know about the graphics in this vid but listen to the song)

[Marie Marie]

14. And nobody called me?

I would have cleaned that up all by myself.

[LongtimeAZDem]

15. Sweet!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. The Smothers Brothers: "Chocolate"

Their Mom always did like Dickie best.

[True Blue American]

22. Piglets in wreck here.:)

https://www.whio.com/news/local/tractor-trailer-with-pigs-aboard-overturns/nfoMy7FmSImO5cKeYKMLQP/

[LiberalArkie]

23. DiGiorno Pizzas Spilled on Interstate 30 in Arkansas

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[Recursion]

25. At least it's not molasses

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/great-boston-molasses-flood-1919-killed-21-after-2-million-n958326

100 years ago today.

#Jan15 #ResistMolasses #NeverForget

[notdarkyet]

26. I just live a mile or so from the spill but don't have a truck or anything to put it in.

[AndJusticeForSome]

27. Dogs beware, don't eat it. nt

[MineralMan]

28. What a mess.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

31. One of my co-workers lives in Flagstaff

Now he knows why he hasn't seen his wife for two days.

[Stuart G]

32. Now, if no one noticed this is A VERY SPECIAL ..."NEWS STORY.." VERY SPECIAL

I NEED TO POINT THIS OUT...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. nothing to do with politics
2. No one was hurt or injured
3. No corruption of any kind
4. Minor accident.
5. Something everyone knows about ( chocolate )
6. Something most of us have seen ( a truck along the side of the road, truck not going, minor accident..just stuff on the road)
7. No one shooting at each other
8. It is not about ..SEX !!!
9. Relatively simple solution to the problem...(clean the mess up)
10 The police and the state workers handle the problem relatively easily.
11 THE STORY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH .........TRUMP OR ANY OF HIS GANG !!!!