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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 03:33 PM
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Traffic Stuck on Freeway, Literally
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
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 03:42 PM
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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.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 03:59 PM
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5. I'll never get here first with the Wile E Coyote reference...
Edited on Tue Jun-15-04 04:06 PM by Richardo
...as long as GOPisEvil draws breath...

WTG, 'yute'! :D
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 04:00 PM
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6. I should have added the police officer as Yosemite Sam.
Damn...didn't think of it until just now. :-)
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 04:06 PM
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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.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 03:45 PM
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2. You read Faux news. How dare you.
:spank:
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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 04:13 PM
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9. Ooooh I like it!
I should read and watch Faux News more often. :7
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 11:24 PM
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10. you like it way to much
So no more spankings.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 03:55 PM
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3. Glue, eh?
I thought it was a jam.:silly:
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Liberal Classic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 03:58 PM
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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.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 04:07 PM
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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."
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 11:27 PM
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11. Were there any rubberneckers STICKING around?
:evilgrin:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 11:38 PM
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12. Interesting that FAUX would report this...
Probably wanted to help good glue-sniffing republicans a heads-up on a free fix.
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