43,500 POUNDS Of Hot Dogs Catch Fire On Highway

[matcom]

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DES MOINES, Iowa -- There was a giant weenie roast on Interstate 380, but there was no mustard for many a mile marker.

A truck carrying 43,500 pounds of Oscar Mayer turkey hot dogs caught fire about 10 p.m. Tuesday, said Trooper Tom Estrada of the Iowa State Patrol.

Instead of the aroma of roasting meat, troopers and firefighters had to endure black smoke and the acrid smell of burning rubber.

"Some type of mechanical problem caused a wheel to overheat," Estrada said. "The driver pulled over and opened the hood of the refrigerator power unit. That exposed hot oil to the air and helped ignite the fire."

The truck driver, Wayne A. Mathison, 60, of Cherry, Ill., was not injured.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2003/11/06/weenies_roast_after_hot_dog_truck_catches_fire/

[SoCalDem]

1. Was this guy sighted anywhere near???

[EV1Ltimm]

9. whoa! is that the german hamburgular?

[Guaranteed]

2. That's a helluva cookout!

I'm droolin'.

[foxy]

3. I wonder what that smelled like--rubber and pork--yum

Glad I didn't have to help clean it up.:hi:

[smallprint]

4. And they were TURKEY dogs too

That's 43,500 lbs of healthy alternative snack meats!

[Catch22Dem]

5. Damn

That must have been the greatest smell on EARF!!!

[Throckmorton]

6. Big light is Sky slated to appear in east,

sonic booms scare minority groups in sector F; and there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut."

"Good evening. Those are the headlines; now, the rumours behind them."

[Hubert Flottz]

7. "But It's Really Great Shit, Mrs Presky!"

They should persecute that turkey to the fullest extent of the law!

[Throckmorton]

8. Not "Mrs. B.Q. Presky of Pine Barren NJ",

"My husband is a Policeman, and you wouldn't beleive how dirty he gets my clothes"


I'm late for todays eddition of 'Hawaiian Sellout"

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Stuff like that only happens in ..........................................

Sector R!

EDIT}}} Shoes for Industry!

[XNASA]

10. Hmmmm.......Char-Dogs.

Sorry I missed it.

[Throckmorton]

12. MMMM, Char Dogs

With spicy brown mustard mmmmmmm.

[ProudGerman]

11. Turkey dogs?

Good riddance, blech!

[BrotherBuzz]

15. You got that right!

Turkey Dogs? There ought to be federal law against calling them things 'dogs'. The next thing you know they'll be putting tofu or some other PC junk in them and calling them 'dogs', too.

[corarose]

13. It must have been a hell of a Weenie Roast

:kick:

[MountainLaurel]

14. And dogs miles away

Put their sensitive noses in the air and breathed in deeply, then tried their damnedest to jump the fence and find that smell.

At least, that's what my parents' chowhounds would be doing. They can smell a backyard BBQ blocks away.

[curse10]

16. Ick! Could you imagine the smell?

Nasty!

[JM]

18. Surprised Bush didn't...

...fly right out on AF1 with a C130 following filled with graham crackers, Hershey bars, and marshmallows.

Later,
JM