Toilet paper

[Peter 315]

A few years ago a tractor trailer with computers rolled over in RI and the chief of the fire dept lost his job for stealing computers.....

 

[Bird]

...the talk of over-turned trailers just reminded me of the few times (full) livestock trailers overturned on/off the interstate in front of my parent's place ..... what a heart-breaking & sickening mess. (guessing the drivers either fell asleep at the wheel, or the livestock got rowdy enough to cause problems).

The first time I saw anything like that was way back about 1962, on US-377 down in south Texas and was a truck load of sheep overturned; dozens of dead sheep.

Many years later, and on my way to work one morning in the 1970's, I saw cattle, dead and alive, scattered on I-35E south of downtown Dallas on a curve that was frequently called "Dead Man's Curve".

And while I didn't see it, personally, I recall Dallas having a truckload of chickens, on the way to a slaughterhouse, that overturned on an exit ramp at I-35E and US-635.

 

[fried1765]

^^^^^^^

I thought in RI. it is commonly believed that you should be shot for even owning guns.
Without a permit....jail... for sure.

 

[/pine]

The last time I heard about a big truck turning over it was from a chicken processing plant and it was hauling "inedible chicken parts"...there was gore everywhere...all four lanes were shut down and hazmat came in to clean it up...someone said the destination was either an animal food plant or the Campbell's noodle soup factory...

 

[Diggin It]

My wife is in the living room laughing so I went to see why. She's watching FOX 4 news on the TV and they're showing an 18 wheeler loaded with toilet paper that overturned on I-30 just east of downtown Dallas.:laughing: Of course I'm familiar with that slight curve, and it ain't bad at all, so I don't know why it overturned.

Somebody dumped a load?

 

[Jstpssng]

A coworker scored several large (farmed) Atlantic Salmon when a tractor trailer turned over. They just wanted to get rid of them before the highway started to smell like dead fish.

 

[jjp8182]

The first time I saw anything like that was way back about 1962, on US-377 down in south Texas and was a truck load of sheep overturned; dozens of dead sheep.

Many years later, and on my way to work one morning in the 1970's, I saw cattle, dead and alive, scattered on I-35E south of downtown Dallas on a curve that was frequently called "Dead Man's Curve".

And while I didn't see it, personally, I recall Dallas having a truckload of chickens, on the way to a slaughterhouse, that overturned on an exit ramp at I-35E and US-635.

The ones I've seen have primarily been trucks hauling live cattle with some killed outright, but many injured trapped in the trailer bellowing throughout the recovery (suspect many were put down later due to the injuries received). ..course was the worst was the time couple snowmobilers ended up scattered across that section of interstate .... about the only way anyone realized it wasn't a deer (or two) that had been hit was because of the snowmobiles that'd run up against the fence which were seen when morning came around. Theory was they fell off while attempting to cross the interstate during the night and knocked themselves out when they hit the pavement, and traffic being what it was......

Makes me thankful I no longer live overlooking an interstate -- and have never worked as a tow truck driver; had a cousin who did that for a few years and the late/over night shifts on weekends eventually made him decide to find a new line of work.

 

[lman]

Somebody dumped a load?

And there was TP to clean it up.

 

[k0ua]

Scored 10 rolls of "rolled gold" today. I won't say where, but suffice to say it was not the Toilet paper isle of Wal-Mart. That is a canyon you could drive a semi into. That should take me out another 3 weeks or so and with what we have left of the original 30 we had when this all started, we should be good for a while. I will say this, the place it was, there was plenty of it, but people don't think to look there. A buddy of mine said to me "hey dummy _____________________ no one looks there!" And he was right as rain.

 

[riptides]

It was a heavy load.

My wife is in the living room laughing so I went to see why. She's watching FOX 4 news on the TV and they're showing an 18 wheeler loaded with toilet paper that overturned on I-30 just east of downtown Dallas.:laughing: Of course I'm familiar with that slight curve, and it ain't bad at all, so I don't know why it overturned.