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A truck carrying 9,000 gallons of pig’s blood was rear-ended and spilled its entire cargo on the German autobahn Wednesday, forcing the highway to close for several hours.
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At least this would never happen in the Middle East. ;j
What I want to know is: how do they dispose of 9,000 gallons of pig’s blood, anyway?
Carrie remakes?
Mosquitofest.
30,000 lbs of bananas away from a smoothie.*
420,000 boxes of Maxipads?
A friend of mine used to be a railroad wreckmaster, and he got called out to a derailment where one of the boxcars rolled down an embankment into a river. They had 2 200 ton derricks, working from opposite ends of the wreck site, when they decided to tackle this car in the river. They checked the manifest, and saw the lading for that car was manhole covers.
OK, he thought and rigged the two cranes so they could drag the car out of the drink. They started to pull, and nearly overturned both derricks. They couldn’t figure out why a boxcar loaded with steel plates would be so heavy. Some schmuck from the crew had to wade out to the car, slide open a door, and look inside.
What he found was that the ‘manhole covers’ were actually a car full of Maxipads, which immediate absorbed as much water as they could. The boxcar they expected to weigh 100 tons with load was now about 500 tons once the water was figured in, and was beyond the capacity of the derricks to handle. The car, on it’s side, had to be manually unloaded before the crew tried again to recover it.
The story then went on to report that the clerk who thought he was being clever by renaming the lading went looking for a new job soon after.
Pig’s blood is pretty harmless, as industrial spills go. You can just was it off the roadway with water. There would be some extra traffic in flies and mosquitoes, but once it’s in the soil, no sweat.
Vunderbob’s tale of the manhole covers=maxipads seemed a little too vundrous. I’m not sure if I’ve been whooshed, or if V-bob was. 
I’m just reporting the tale as it was told to me. It does sort of sound like one of those ULs that are so funny that you want them to be true no matter what…
:dubious:
Well, that’s nice…if you’re into that sort of thing.
A lovely crimson shade?
*harmless editing
Angel and Spike are going to be VERY displeased that their shipment won’t make it on time. They’re getting hungry, you know!
Scranton. Pig’s blood. Bananas.
Scranton + pig’s blood + bananas =…banana pig’s blood smoothies in lovely downtown Scranton?
Ok, I’m stumped. 
[homer] Ohhhh, I get it. Heh heh…I get jokes. [/homer]
But maybe a few tears?
Um, polite tips of the fedora to **harmless & beelzebubba, ** and a good joke from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Animal blood is not hazardous waste. If it had been human blood, hoo boy! That’s a whole different story. Tyvek suits, bleach, mops, paperwork, etc.,etc. :eek:
Heh.
Ya gotta wonder what they’re doing with 9,000 gallons of pigs blood. Some new kind of weapon for Iraq?
Don’t ask, and don’t look too closely at your breakfast sausage.
For one use, animal blood goes into culture media for microbiology. I used to get shipments (considerably smaller than 9,000 gallons though) of sheep’s blood back when I worked in a micro. media kitchen.
Acutally, after thinking about it: off to a sausage plant to make blood sausage with, perhaps? I have no clue what kind of blood blood sausage normally calls for though, and that article doesn’t tell us anything that’ll help.
Or maybe it was for some artist’s new project: pigs blood flung upon models, who then fling themselves upon canvas. :dubious:
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