We’ve written plenty of stories about delicious desserts that can do damage to your system if you overindulge, but here’s one about how these treats clogged up an entirely different kind of artery.
Traffic had to be re-routed today on a section of I-74 West in Illinois after two semis collided. One of them was carrying frozen food and the accident resulted in the highway being littered with chocolate cake and cinnamon rolls.
Our favorite part of the AP story:
Police say troopers were initially told that burritos were among the food on the roadway, but they later determined that was wrong.
Oh, and the two drivers were injured and taken to a nearby hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.
Cinnamon rolls, chocolate cake on roadway snarl traffic after crash on Ill. interstate [Chicago Tribune]
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The cake is a lie?
+100
Nah, in this case the burrito was a lie.
Link to local paper article (Peoria Journal Star) with a picture:
http://www.pjstar.com/free/x897731910/Westbound-I-74-closed-at-Goodfield-exit-after-semi-accident
aw man… i was expecting 5 foot wide chocolate cakes and 34,000 fresh cinnamon rolls covering the interstate.
We got have eaten our way through this problem, ya know ?
I guess it beats getting vienna sausages or salchichon in the mail.
The cake is a lie! Oh wait…
Was the other truck carrying paper plates and plastic forks?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-il–frozenfoodblockstraffic,0,2103424.story
What a rip off! No Pics!
Were any cans of Goya beans found amoung the wreckage?
Wasp, stop setting traps for cake trucks!
MY DEMANDS WERE NOT MET. DELICIOUS CAKE WILL BE MINE.
/end transmission.
Share? 0_0
I am saving it for my Consumerist wedding.
Makes sense … I can wait.
I don’t know why, but all I can think of right now are other semi-collision combinations that might be fun (In fantasy, not in reality).
Like a truck with ice-cream meets a truck carrying root beer.
Or a beer truck meets a pretzel carrying truck.
Or to really see a fast response by the police force, an accident between a truck carrying doughnuts and one carrying hot coffee… =P
they did a skit on Family Guy about a chocolate truck colliding with a peanut butter truck… and then Officer Reese’s comes along
Bacon truck meets maple syrup truck. Bonus: everything gets sticky.
There actually was a collision of a truck carrying chicken and one carry BBQ sauce on the GW Bridge (about 30 years ago); whether or not there was a subsequent fire has been the subject of debate.
A couple years ago there was another truck accident around here (I am in Illinois) that caused beer to spill all over the highway. I guess Illinois is a magnet for delcious things spilling on its highways.
erm… I’d like to volunteer for clean-up please
I think this story is in poor taste.
I don’t think it can be in poor taste if chocolate is involved.
Somewhere, I imagine Jenny Cupcakes driving down the road on a street sweeper with a mulch bag attached to it.
THAT CAKES BEEN ON THE GROUND
I HAVE STANDARDS
“Police say troopers were initially told that burritos were among the food on the roadway, but they later determined that was wrong.”
They later added: “That cake was fucking delicious.”
I hope the insurance companies for the two trucks here are more on top of where and how the contents are disposed of than in this case involving lobsters on the highway from 2008:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080730/NEWS/807300396
The story circulating around these parts is that allegedly a lot of police and first responders that day had lots of seafood on their tables at home after the accident.
This one is going to court sometime in 2012 with charges of larceny for a tow truck owner and the owner of the restaurant where he allegedly delivered the lobsters:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20110521/NEWS/105219983/1246
The tow truck owner’s company also lost its contract with AAA somewhere along the way. Of course there was no connection to this at all.
All I can think of is the Simpsons episode, where Homer finds the sugar truck accident and steals all the sugar (with glass shards).
Quickly! To the beemobile!
First you get the sugar
Then you get the power
Then you get the women.
You mean your Chevy?
I am not far from there! BRB, gonna look into this. /grabs fork and milk on the way out.
Nom.
Truck was going to Aperture Laboratories.
Passed by this on my way to work. All the flashing lights on the dark highway looked like someone had set up a carnival or something. The eerie thing about it was all of the semis behind the accident idling because there was no room to turn around. Looked like an honor guard for a semi funeral.
Also, why has no one posted ‘Let them eat cake!’?
Meh, too far to be fun, saddest part of all, most of that food is simply discarded as noone will sign for it and by the time insurance looks at it it will be full of maggots and inedible
Wait – it was the burrito that was the lie? The cake was not a lie? You mean Internet Memes are WRONG?
The internet can’t be wrong!
Did they also find Mr Mayhem swimming amongst the cakes and cinnamon rolls?
Cool, now I have a new excuse to use when I am running late – sorry there was cake all over the road. We used to use a chicken truck as our excuse (you didn’t hear? chickens everywhere – running around and causing chaos! We tried to help gather them up – one laid an egg on me!)
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a road hazard
I hate to see accidents. These things never happen where I live. Man, I’d love to score some free cake!
Ugh no edit button!! I meant to say that I hate to see accidents, but if they do happen, I wish cake would appear here. It never does. Always pipes or freight of some kind that isn’t interesting or worth helping to “clean up”.
If only they’d then been hit by a milk truck…
The cake is a lie!
I had to deal with this on my way to class today, though fortunately I was headed east. It was pretty terrifying. It’s been a long time since I saw a pair of semis messed up like that. The frozen food one was literally ripped open.
Send candidates out there, they want their cake and to eat it too.
The cake is a lying on I-74 West.
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