Life History Repeats Itself
posted by on January 10 at 9:55 AM
Six and a half years ago—on Thursday, August 9, 2001—Last Days shared a story sent in by Hot Tipper Kate:
This afternoon on I-5, an errant meat truck dumped what Hot Tipper Kate described as “a huge, red, glistening pile of rendered meat smack dab in the middle of the freeway,” clogging traffic for over an hour. Even ickier, after removing the carnage, the road folks had to cover the area with sand, to prevent cars from sliding on the remaining blood and grease. Thanks, Kate, for this thrilling Hot Tip (and highly effective appetite suppressant).
Over half a decade passes before I hear from Hot Tipper Kate again. At the start of the new year, I found an email from the long-lost tipper in my inbox:
Well, I never thought I’d have the pleasure, but it’s happened again. That’s right! I got stuck in traffic on I-5 due to a giant pile of rendered meat.I was headed north on I-5 on Thursday the 27th on my way back to Seattle from Oregon. Dark, driving rain, etc. I wasn’t at all surprised to get stuck in traffic near Tacoma—nothing out of the ordinary there. When I saw the blinking arrow, I expected road work… then when I saw cop cars I expected a fender bender. I didn’t see (or smell) the pile of gelatinous, grey squishiness taking up the two left lanes until I was actually driving through it. By then it was too late.
Moments later came the following on KUOW: “Traffic on I-5 is backed up near Tacoma due to a rendering truck spill in the two left lanes… This traffic report brought to you by Kaopectate.”
Heh. Bon appetite!Hot Tipper Kate (yes, the same one)
Thanks again to Hot Tipper Kate, who is clearly a rendered meat magnet.
This epidemic of meatspills is a blight upon our society. Isn't there some way we could deploy our surplus pit bull terriers to dispose of these freeway hazards?
No, they'll just sell it to McDonald's at a discount.
That's kind of disgusting.
Too much red meat clogs major arteries. It's clearly a PR stunt for a cholesterol blocking medication that the spam filter won't let me name.
I didn't even know there were rendered meat trucks.
@5
I don't know if you're joking or not, but I honestly had no clue. I'd rather not think about it, too.
That's so weird, because several years ago I got stuck in traffic on I5 because the right two lanes were blocked after a truck accidentally dumped a bunch of poultry on the road. The worst part was when I saw some cars trying to drive over poultry to get by. Is this some sort of epidemic?
Our surplus pit-bulls are being used as bomb sniffing dogs at the ferry terminals....
http://www.pitbulllovers.com/pitbull-rescue-neville-bomb-dog.html
Rendered meat, aka your next Whopper.
I just found my dream job.
I wish I was hot tipper Kate. I love meat piles
Happy hour meat snax at Moe's?
What if we stopped murdering animals? No? Don't want to do that? OK. Enjoy.
Remember, the vegetables scream when you murder them ...
(actually, they do, scientific fact)
I got stuck behind a rendering truck accident in Skagit County a few years ago - apparently the truck hit its brakes too hard and the rendered meat, in this case horses, rode the wave over the top of the trailer and all over the truck. Not to mention the highway. I promptly swore off horse meat.
This is an epidemic. Several years ago, driving north to Canada from a concert in Minneapolis, we were seconds from avoiding a collision with a large animal carcass of some kind. It was unidentifiable at highway speed, but clearly did not have any skin ...
@ 5 and 6, I'm with you. If I'd heard that radio announcement, "rendering truck" would have meant nothing to me. And according to @15, they just have open tops that could let the meaty, viscous matter slosh over the top? That's unacceptable. Furthermore, the name "rendering truck" makes i sound like the truck itself does the rendering, like they lead the poor beasts into the truck only to be pureed within its bowels.
#14 - I love you Will in Seattle for bringing that up!!
Living is living...
(:=
There is no fucking way they intended to cook/serve/sell the meat if the top was open and they let it just slush around. As much as vegetarians and vegans want you to think what you're eating is treated like that, it's not.
Heh heh -- Poe's getting grossed out. Apparently he can't handle the slimy, grey, disgusting truth sloshing around inside him right now.
Mr. Poe would like nothing more than something grey sloshing around inside of him.
A-ugh!-men! WOOT!
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