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Traffic chaos caused by 30K pounds of melted chocolate on Bay Area highway (580, of course)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-traffic-chaos-from-melted-chocolate-19964874.php
A big rig carrying chocolate in the East Bay caught on fire Friday morning, causing hours of traffic chaos during busy commute hours.
The fire happened around 6:18 a.m. on westbound Interstate 580, near Grant Line Road, Tyler Hahn, a spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol, told SFGATE.
The blaze happened because of a mechanical issue, which first set the truck’s brakes on fire. The blaze then spread to the tires and the rest of the truck, Hahn said.
Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of chocolate were in the trailer, and nearly all of it appeared to melt, he said. A photo posted on CHP’s X account shows loads of chocolate oozing out of the truck and onto the road.
The fire happened around 6:18 a.m. on westbound Interstate 580, near Grant Line Road, Tyler Hahn, a spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol, told SFGATE.
The blaze happened because of a mechanical issue, which first set the truck’s brakes on fire. The blaze then spread to the tires and the rest of the truck, Hahn said.
Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of chocolate were in the trailer, and nearly all of it appeared to melt, he said. A photo posted on CHP’s X account shows loads of chocolate oozing out of the truck and onto the road.
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A railroad tank car at Alaskan Way and Columbia Street had ruptured a hose and more than 1,000 gallons of corn sweetener spilled onto the street. Haglund, ever the promoter of his Acres of Clams Restaurant on Pier 54 across the street, saw an opportunity. He quickly ordered a stack of pancakes and donned a pair of hip boots. When news photographers and reporters arrived at the scene, they found Haglund squatting in a lake of corn sweetener, spooning the syrup onto his breakfast pancakes.
A railroad tank car at Alaskan Way and Columbia Street had ruptured a hose and more than 1,000 gallons of corn sweetener spilled onto the street. Haglund, ever the promoter of his Acres of Clams Restaurant on Pier 54 across the street, saw an opportunity. He quickly ordered a stack of pancakes and donned a pair of hip boots. When news photographers and reporters arrived at the scene, they found Haglund squatting in a lake of corn sweetener, spooning the syrup onto his breakfast pancakes.
This chocoholic thinks this news story is one of the saddest things she's read in ages. 
Enjoy, bask, relish, savor, delight, revel!.
that was transporting a Bengal tiger. All animals escaped: the tiger and 100 chickens.
Wait, make that 99 chickens. No, 98, 96. 90 ...
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Didn't actually happen. It was for a radio ad I wrote to promote live freeway updates, on the radio, way back before smartphone apps and even smartphones. But HAD IT HAPPENED, you would have heard it first on XXX AM.
