Traffic Stuck on Freeway, Literally

[Champ]

It's bad enough when an overturned truck spills milk or beer onto a freeway. It's worse when it spills glue.

One thousand gallons of carpet glue 3-inches thick covered the northbound lanes of I-15 near Mesquite, Nev., all day on June 2, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

A tractor-trailer driver fell asleep at the wheel at 2:15 a.m., went off the road and flipped his rig on an embankment, said Angie Wolff of the Nevada Highway Patrol (search).

"He's fine," she said. "He's really feeling bad about falling asleep. He's lucky he's alive."

A few other big rigs managed to navigate around the mess, but authorities quickly closed the northbound lanes after it became clear the glue fumes posed a safety hazard.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122639,00.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. One driver, a Mr. Wile E. Coyote, reports seeing a mystery roadrunner

making an escape from the scene. An all points bulletin has been issued for said roadrunner. Police have spotted the roadrunner, but he has evaded capture thus far.

[Richardo]

5. I'll never get here first with the Wile E Coyote reference...

...as long as GOPisEvil draws breath...

WTG, 'yute'! :D

[GOPisEvil]

6. I should have added the police officer as Yosemite Sam.

Damn...didn't think of it until just now. :-)

[Richardo]

7. I was thinking something along the lines of the eerie steel guitar sound

...as the tires tried to stretch their way through the glue.

[texas1928]

2. You read Faux news. How dare you.

:spank:

[Champ]

9. Ooooh I like it!

I should read and watch Faux News more often. :7

[texas1928]

10. you like it way to much

So no more spankings.

[Tom Kitten]

3. Glue, eh?

I thought it was a jam.:silly:

[Liberal Classic]

4. This is nothing compared with the Great Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919

Which killed 21 people, knocked down a fire station, and caused a sticky brown tidal wave which covered the city in sugar.

[Bertha Venation]

8. Wilson Bridge, June 28, 2001: TAR

An aggressive driver cut off a hot tar tanker. The tanker jacknifed, overturned, and spilled its load of hot tar across the width of the westbound lanes on the Virginia side of the bridge.

It was a miserable hot day. No one could move for hours. I cut a photo out of the Washington Post that showed two women sitting in beach chairs, their feet on the bumper of their car, holding up signs that read "NEED BEER."

[Endangered Specie]

11. Were there any rubberneckers STICKING around?

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Interesting that FAUX would report this...

Probably wanted to help good glue-sniffing republicans a heads-up on a free fix.