Monday, July 23, 2012
Sardine-related traffic
Have you ever been driving along, heard a rattling noise and thought – which door isn’t closed properly?
Well I know I have, and luckily every time it’s happened I’ve found a safe place to pull over, get out of the car, and close the door firmly before continuing my journey. One delivery truck driver in Poland wasn’t so lucky though, since he failed to close the rear doors correctly, and didn’t notice in time.
This resulted in 24 tonnes of sardines spilling out onto the road, reportedly covering several hundred meters of the highway and bringing other road users to a standstill for hours while the fish were cleared up.
The truck driver was fined £50, and also had to pay £5,000 for the clearing of the road.
One motorist caught in the traffic stated, “At first we thought it was some sort of divine judgement – like a plague of locusts or frogs.”
I may very well have thought the same thing had I encountered thousands of tiny fish on the road – it can’t have smelt particularly divine through…
Hopefully the driver will be more careful next time. What a waste of fish!
Photo © rockyeda via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, closed, door, driver, driving, fish, highway, journey, Poland, rattling, sardines, traffic, truck
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posted by Fuse @ 1:15 AM 
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