Doesn’t it seem like trucks carrying all sorts of things are tipping over on the highway all the time, dumping who-knows-what all over the roadways? I find the items spilled to be entertaining, though I realize the clean-up is far from entertaining. Neither is the traffic that piles up as a result. And obviously none are entertaining if there are any injuries. But you have to admit, you’ve probably giggled to yourself after seeing or hearing a headline about a truck spilling thousands of gallons of beer. If you’re like me you immediately imagine the entire town jumping in their cars and high-tailing it, red solo cup in hand (RIP Toby), to go drink the problem away for their town – aka party with their neighbors.

After the most recent strange highway spillage (which thankfully had no serious injuries) I decided to do a little research and find other weird highway spills so we could get a quick idea of how bonkers our highways can get. Imagine being stuck in gridlock traffic for 3 hours because the road is blocked by broccoli crowns. It happened! And so did these 7 other weird highway spills.

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I’ll give you the weird highway spill and what was spilled, the location of the spill, and a quick funny video about the item that was spilled just in case you’re looking for some random video fun. By the way Modern Survival Blog suggests a bunch of really helpful tips to help prepare you and your car ahead of time – before the next big gridlock – so you’re prepared and it becomes less of an “oh my gosh I can’t handle this” moment. Check out their helpful tips RIGHT HERE!

And now on with the weird highway spills:

• BATTERY ACID

  Auburn, Massachusetts – March 20, 2024: A truck hauling nearly 700 vehicle batteries crashed. Battery acid and sulfuric acid spilled onto the roads shutting things down and causing a challenging cleaning situation. Sounds like the beginning of a Batman movie because I feel like a supervillain must have been spawned at the scene. No serious injuries reported by the way.

• 10,000 GALLONS OF MILK

  Auburn, Massachusetts – A tanker carrying milk rolled over spilling 10,000 gallons of milk onto the Mass Pike, very close to the battery acid spill we just covered, which happened only a month prior. I’ll take the milk over the battery acid any day. But daaaaannnnnngggg the milk spill must have stunk for weeks!!

• CHOCOLATE

  Westönnen, Germany – A road was closed after a tank of chocolate in a factory spilled and poured into the street. Unfortunately the chocolate quickly solidified causing more of a problem as 25 firefighters worked to clear the chocolate using shovels, hot water and blowtorches.

• SLIME EELS

  Portland, Oregon – Oh… my… gosh. This one is NASTY. A truck filled with live eels overturned and covered passing cars in slime after 7,500 pounds of slime eels (also known as hagfish) spilled out onto the highway. You have to watch this:

• SKITTLES

  Wisconsin – Hundreds of thousands of red Skittles were found spilled on a road in Dodge County. Mysteriously nobody reported it happening. Also mysteriously, it was only red Skittles and they had no “S” printed on them but locals say they were definitely Skittles based on the smell…… and hopefully not the taste. No 5 second rule here!

• LEGOS

  West Virginia – Local TV station WDTV reported, “Around 5:15 Sunday afternoon, there was a roadway obstruction of Lego blocks on I-79 around mile marker 117 in Harrison County.” Thankfully clean up workers weren’t barefoot.

• DEADPOOL COMICS

  Colombus, Ohio – A semi carrying a shipment from Diamond Comic Distributors was crashed into by another semi spewing Deadpool comics all over the freeway there. Deadpool is a very Rated R comic so the streets of Ohio were a little dirtier until all the comics could be stacked and tracked out of there.

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