lol stupid driver.. article -
A spill of frozen bull semen bound for a breeder in the state of
Texas triggered a scare on Tuesday that temporarily shut down a U.S.
interstate highway during the morning rush hour.
The incident began when the driver of a Greyhound bus carrying the
freight alerted the fire department he had lost a part of his load while
negotiating the ramp on a highway near Nashville.
"We didn't know what it was, but we were told (the canisters) were
non-toxic," said Maggie Lawrence, a fire department spokeswoman.
When firefighters arrived on the ramp, they saw "four small
propane-sized canisters (that) began to emit a light vapor," Lawrence
said.
In addition to the vapor, the canisters also let
off an unpleasant odor and the ramp was closed while emergency
personnel tried to determine what was in the containers.
The bus driver turned around to retrieve the canisters. Once emergency personnel learned the smoking canisters were nothing hazardous and that they simply contained frozen bull semen that had been stored on dry ice, Tennessee Department of Transportation and fire department workers cleared the ramp.
"It was no different to us than if a mattress fell off a truck," said transportation spokeswoman B.J. Doughty.
A spill of frozen bull semen bound for a breeder in the state of
Texas triggered a scare on Tuesday that temporarily shut down a U.S.
interstate highway during the morning rush hour.
The incident began when the driver of a Greyhound bus carrying the
freight alerted the fire department he had lost a part of his load while
negotiating the ramp on a highway near Nashville.
"We didn't know what it was, but we were told (the canisters) were
non-toxic," said Maggie Lawrence, a fire department spokeswoman.
When firefighters arrived on the ramp, they saw "four small
propane-sized canisters (that) began to emit a light vapor," Lawrence
said.
In addition to the vapor, the canisters also let
off an unpleasant odor and the ramp was closed while emergency
personnel tried to determine what was in the containers.
The bus driver turned around to retrieve the canisters. Once emergency personnel learned the smoking canisters were nothing hazardous and that they simply contained frozen bull semen that had been stored on dry ice, Tennessee Department of Transportation and fire department workers cleared the ramp.
"It was no different to us than if a mattress fell off a truck," said transportation spokeswoman B.J. Doughty.
the pic is totally unrelated to the article
