When trucks full of stuff flip, they sometimes spill their contents on the ground. Sometimes it’s chicken nuggets. Sometimes it’s a ton of skittles. This time it’s warm, brown goo.
The truck on its side. Photo: AP
A truck spilled a ton of liquid chocolate along a highway in western Poland on Wednesday, initially blocking six lanes of traffic, the Associated Press reports. This might be a dream of yours, until you actually see the caked sludge littering the highway. According to The New York Times:
It was not immediately clear why the truck, which local reports said had been carrying 12 tons of chocolate, overturned. But it ended up lying across the road, obstructing lanes in both directions.
As the chocolate dried under a mild spring sun, long lines of traffic grew on either side of the spill, and the authorities said it would probably be hours before the road was usable again.
Here are some photos of the spill and cleanup, which required bulldozers and hoses full of hot water to melt the solidifying chocolate.
#A2 zablokowana między Wrześnią, a Słupcą. Przejazd blokuje… czekolada. foto: Sławomir Brandt. pic.twitter.com/fEH1MXUgf3
— MotoSygnały (@MotoRadioPoznan) May 9, 2018
Na #A2 Poznań-Warszawa przewróciła się cysterna z czekoladą. Trwa sprzątanie jezdni ???????????????? #czekolada pic.twitter.com/EnSNT8ri1q
— MotoSygnały (@MotoRadioPoznan) May 9, 2018
Inspektorzy WITD #Poznań pomagają ustalić przyczyny wypadku ciężarówki przewożącej płynną czekoladę, która przewróciła się dziś na autostradzie #A2 pomiędzy węzłami Września i Słupca. Autostrada #A2 zablokowana w obydwu kierunkach. Objazd DK92 @PolskaPolicja @GDDKiA pic.twitter.com/mdqldJMi97
— ITD (@ITD_gov) May 9, 2018
There’s probably nothing to be learned here, aside from the fact that a chocolate swamp would probably be just as gross as the Candyland board game imagined it.