(a chocolate truck, only vaguely related to this story
because I can’t find a picture with the news story)
A truck filled with 19 tons of chocolate overturned on a German autobahn. The chocolate hardened upon contact with the air – where’s an ice cream truck when you need it? There are so many good jokes and puns with this news story, I think I may just let you add your own to the comments. First one to add a “Hershey highway” comment loses.
From Expatica:
ALLERINGERSLEBEN, GERMANY
German highway-maintenance workers were struggling Monday to clear a hard chocolate coating off an autobahn after a truck overturned, emptying 19 tons of oozing liquid chocolate on the road.Saxony-Anhalt state police said the driver was seriously injured Sunday night when the truck careered off the A2 highway, connecting Braunschweig and Magdeburg in the centre of Germany, and crashed. The chocolate set in contact with the air.
An alert motorist used his cellphone to call the local fire department, where he informed them the truck was ablaze. He then stood by the wreck yelling “Fire! Fire” until the firemen arrived.
When asked why he was yelling fire,
he replied: “Schweinhundt! If I yelled “chocolate” no one would have shown up!”
RESPONSE: LOL! At least you avoid the Hershey Highway jokes :)
August 14th, 2006 at 4:17 pm–Brian