Tanker Spills Liquid Chocolate on Highway

[Champ]

GROVELAND, N.Y. - Part of a highway in the Finger Lakes region was closed for five hours Thursday evening after a tanker truck crashed, spilling 45,000 pounds of slippery liquid chocolate that hardened.



State Police said there were no serious injuries in the crash shortly after 5 p.m. A road grader was used to scrape the northbound lanes of Interstate 390.


Truck driver Bert Nestlrode, 46, of Ephrata, Pa., swerved to avoid a deer, the truck rolled over and the tanker split, police said. He was treated at a hospital for cuts and bruises and no tickets were issued.


The syrup also covered a bridge and a car on another road below. The truck, from M&M Mars. Co. in Elizabethtown, Pa., carried liquid used to make milk chocolate.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=4&u=/ap/20041105/ap_on_fe_st/chocolate_highway

[samwisefoxburr]

1. Oh, baby!

Sweet, sweet chocolate.

[happyasaclam]

2. Ack!

Now that is a tragedy

[short bus president]

3. *snarf*

It hardened on the Hershey Highway.