I About Shat My Panties

[blas]

I was at Wal-Shart this afternoon to do my biweekly grocery shopping (even though I live at home, the deal has always been with my parents that I buy my own food, unless I eat supper with them, so I buy my own snacks and sodas and my own toiletries, been doing it this way since before I moved out the first time).

This particular Wal-Mart is set up where you walk in the grocery half of the store, and it's produce and whatnot first, then dry/canned/box goods, then you slowly make your way towards the sodas and frozen stuff (the Wal-Mart in the city I used to live in is backwards of that).

Anyway, I was to about the middle, getting my dad a box of baking soda I promised him, and I heard the most thunderous crash. I jumped.

On the end cap of the next aisle over, an associate was stocking either champagne or sparkling water or cider or something in big glass bottles.

And the whole damn shelf collapsed.

There was glass and booze and whatnot all over for nearly three aisles.

I have to say, I didn't offer to help clean up, mostly because I recently just broke a huge candle in my parents' bathroom the other day, and me and glass do not get along well, and I'm no good at helping clean it up.

I hope no one got hurt.

[bhskittykatt]

That's alcohol abuse.

And my mind immediately went to this vid. Was it as bad as this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H17mWrB9RbY

Poor employee. Hope no one was hurt. Glass and me don't get along, either.

[LesserSouthernFroglet]

Years ago I was driving home one afternoon, and I was stopped at a red light.

A soft drink truck was turning in the intersection ahead of me. A home-delivery brand, which at the time was in glass bottles.

As the truck turned, it literally rolled over onto its side. Thousands of glass bottles of fizzy drink ended up shattered in the middle of the intersection. It was spectacular!

It was an interesting trip home.

[Draper Mel]

That's alcohol abuse.

And my mind immediately went to this vid. Was it as bad as this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H17mWrB9RbY

I love that video! I never get tired of it. I bet that guy in the middle of the store never ran so fast in his life.

[PepperElf]

I have to say, I didn't offer to help clean up

Plus, to be honest, they'd have turned you down anyway. They have access to cleaning supplies, and ... they wouldn't want to be liable if you were cut by the glass.


o that's not the booze crash vid i was thinking of
the one i was thinking of was this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3...lh1io1_400.gif

[eltf177]

Years ago I was driving home one afternoon, and I was stopped at a red light.

A soft drink truck was turning in the intersection ahead of me. A home-delivery brand, which at the time was in glass bottles.

As the truck turned, it literally rolled over onto its side. Thousands of glass bottles of fizzy drink ended up shattered in the middle of the intersection. It was spectacular!

It was an interesting trip home.

We once had an egg truck overturn and spill tens of thousands of eggs all over the highway, it had to be closed for hours to get the mess cleaned up!

Made me wish for some sausage...

[Caffienated_Caramel]

And biscuits?

I was thinking of the wine tsunami video too. I hope that employee didn't get in trouble.

o that's not the booze crash vid i was thinking of
the one i was thinking of was this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3...lh1io1_400.gif

Oh my god. That is all...

[Draper Mel]

We once had an egg truck overturn and spill tens of thousands of eggs all over the highway, it had to be closed for hours to get the mess cleaned up!

I'm imagining dump trucks full of salt. Or maybe one of those planes they use to fight fires, only full of salt. It's the best way to clean up raw egg, after all.

[wolfie]

I once saw the results of a sideswipe collision between 2 semis - one had the side ripped off his trailer (and resulting loss of structure caused the trailer's "back to be broken"). His cargo that spilled out all over the road? Packages of microwave popping corn. That would DEFINITELY need to be cleaned up before traffic could use the road again - ball bearings packed in grease.

[Spork4pedro]

Breaking wine bottles is a weekly occurrence at my store although it is usually a bottle maybe three. The most spectacular spillage as when a kid ran down the French wine aisle both arms out and let loose a Bordeaux tsunami. We found shards for years.

[AccountingDrone]

A couple years back when Rob and I were bombing around Germany on vacation, we were off the autobahn for gas and took a wrong turn to get back on, and went around a traffic circle where a truckload of wheat had spilled all over the road. It was a vast sea of gold

[ralerin]

Makes me wonder what happens to the truck drivers, do they get reamed out for it?

[blas]

One of my favorite stories relayed to me by a coworker, on how he grew to be deathly afraid of spiders...

Years ago when he was a kid, he lived out in the country, and a delivery truck with a bunch of rejected bananas from the grocery store (they were covered in spiders) decided to dump all the bananas on the side of the road. Somehow, all the spiders sought refuge all over the side of my coworker's house, and it there were so many and it was so bad, my coworker says he remembered they couldn't leave the house for a day or two while "men in space suits" sprayed the entire outside of their house.

[NorthernZel]

The stories remind me of a story that happened over here in (I think) 1985, perhaps Mikkel remembers and can correct me:

Back then there was a general strike where the local breweries also were on shut-down, so stores and bars had to bring in imported beers from Germany, but not enough to cover the demand.

One of the beer trucks fell over, and all of the beer bottles (no cans at that time, they were prohibited to import) shattered on the street.

A newspaper article quoted: "Never before have so many men been spotted crying in public, as they drove by".

[MadMike]

Last summer, a tractor trailer went completely off the highway and crashed into the river, spilling everything in the water. He was hauling Pop Tarts.