Photo by Bence Balla-Schottner
Cynthia Brandon-Slocum
21 Roadside Spills
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A semi driver swerves around a herd of deer, and just like that, molasses oozes onto the streets of Wagontire, Oregon. |
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A truck turns over in Amarillo, and bottles of Vitamin Water rattle across the road. |
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In Indiana, a semi holding honey pours its sweet cargo. |
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Egg yolk in Pennsylvania streaks concrete like sand art in a glass frame. |
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Beer kegs roll from a truck that falls off an overpass—driver miraculously okay. |
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Twelve tons of chocolate paint a Polish highway. |
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Boxes of red, S-less Skittles burst over a rainy Wisconsin road before reaching the cattle they are meant to feed. |
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Potatoes drop into ditches in Michigan, Kansas, and South Carolina. |
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Forty thousand avocados. |
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Thirty tons of oranges. |
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Miniature bottles of Fireball whisky—nearly as much plastic as there is product. |
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$800,000 dollars in dimes ring out onto a road in Nevada. |
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In Washington, dough rises in a hot tuck, swelling out onto the freeway like a bulbous tumor. |
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Forty thousand pounds of Popeyes’ biscuits drop like pillows. |
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Ramen noodles untangle themselves from their single-serve, plastic foam. |
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A dead whale explodes over the streets, cars, pedestrians of downtown Taiwan. |
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Thirty million bees swarm from their broken hives on a Texas interstate. |
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Hagfish, with their eel-like bodies, slap against windshields of oncoming traffic. |
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Chicken feathers drift through the air on the way to becoming pet food and soap. |
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A sea of green marbles—thirty-eight thousand pounds of glass orbs—floats over an Indiana highway. |
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Crates of lobsters longing for the sea. |