A semi-truck loaded with an estimated $400,000 worth of Jack Daniel’s overturned off Interstate 24 in Rutherford County Wednesday.
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When I was 16, we were headed from California to Pops' new duty station at Ft Benning and got hung up in traffic there on 99 between Fresno and Bakersfield after a flatbed truck hauling pallets of Budweiser flipped.
It wasn't the truck causing the holdup, it was in the median, it was everybody stopping and snatching a couple cases. We got to the accident site just as the CHP showed up and I'm not sure what was funnier - watching the freeloaders slipping and sliding in the foam trying to run from the cops or seeing the two cops trying to run off 20 or 30 thieves by themselves.
In Vietnam I was running a convoy to a forward base. A semi trailer load of beer tipped over. I called a unit about 2 km away and told them I couldn't stop. 3 hours later, on the way back, not a beer to be found. They even took the tires off the trailer.
ReplyDeleteAny military branch is basically a tribe of vandals: disciplined vandals when necessary, but a tribe of savages all the same.
ReplyDeleteDon't call me names--I'm part of the tribe as well, and my family is anyway (with less discipline).
--Tennessee Budd
Meh. The Irish know how to take advantage of this type of opportunity.
ReplyDelete"The night a river of whiskey ran through the streets of Dublin
The 1875 Chamber Street fire claimed many victims - each died from alcohol poisoning"
" 13 people are understood to have died as a result of the fire. None of the deceased perished in the flames, nor did they die of smoke inhalation - each succumbed to alcohol poisoning from drinking “freely of the derelict whiskey”.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-night-a-river-of-whiskey-ran-through-the-streets-of-dublin-1.2743517