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    Mayonnaise spill paralyses Japanese highway

    http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/10...ighway-pileup/

    Just after midnight on September 25th in Hyogo prefecture in western Japan, a two-lane highway was the scene of a really strange and potentially perilous accident involving a load of mayonnaise (dozens of 500 gram bottles) that fell off the back of a lorry. An eight-car pile-up that left three people injured, the accident involved a motorcycle, two trucks and five cars.
    Fortunately, none of the injuries were serious, but the many bottles were scattered over a 3.5-kilometer (2.2 miles) stretch of a two-lane highway. The mixed ingredients of eggs, vinegar and oil became a huge oil slick more dangerous than snow, causing a shut down for more than five hours.


    “What probably happened is that cars traveling behind the truck squashed the bottles of mayonnaise, spreading it on the road…We are still looking for the driver of the truck,” said police official Masaaki Miyazaki.
    It is believed that the driver of the truck did not realize that the load he was carrying was scattering all over the road, placing all those drivers behind him in imminent peril.

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    I always love it when ordinarily harmless objects cause utter chaos like this. Thankfully no one died. Can you imagine how embarrassing the tombstone would be?

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    The stuff is disgusting IMO, it'd likely cause me to stop driving too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawanja View Post
    I always love it when ordinarily harmless objects cause utter chaos like this. Thankfully no one died. Can you imagine how embarrassing the tombstone would be?

    more like the corner report

    cause of death " man made white stuff " :lol:

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    That little pileup is a small price to pay if you think of all the pizzas saved from mayonaisey death...

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    Quote Originally Posted by rso View Post
    That little pileup is a small price to pay if you think of all the pizzas saved from mayonaisey death...
    I was going to make some joke about a David Cronenberg/Bukakke crossover film, but you hit the nail on the head, mayo and pizza should never join.
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    It would have been funnier if a lorry containing bonito flakes crashed too...

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    What the fuck? Pizza and mayonnaise is delicious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alchy View Post
    What the fuck? Pizza and mayonnaise is delicious.


    Just teasing, everyone's entitled to their disgusting choices in food.

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    Pizza and mayonnaise is better than it sounds.

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    If only the crash was mustard. Funnier jokes from that scenario.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lum View Post
    If only the crash was mustard. Funnier jokes from that scenario.
    Better if it was a jelly spillage. Would've had to put the driver in custardy

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