Highway drivers in Lake County, Indiana, today, May 15th, were stuck in traffic due to a situation you don’t see every day. A semi-truck carrying 41,000 pounds of honey lost control. It tipped over and sent five containers worth of the sweet liquid gold leaking down the road. The photos of the incident are pretty wild.
Luckily, no one was injured in the ordeal. The driver was able to escape the cab after the truck tipped. Let’s just hope the bees that made this honey don’t find out it’s been compromised, or else someone is bound to get stung.
According to local news station WTHR, the driver had just refueled with diesel before the accident, thus most of the fuel mixed into the honey, which made the spill a lethal concoction. We don’t know about you, but we like our honey diesel-free.
We can’t even begin to imagine how cleanup crews attempted to remedy this situation. But, as reported by the Indiana Department of Transportation: Northwest Facebook page, the crews got to work with sand, and the situation is already looking a lot better.
And don’t you worry — the internet got to work with the honey puns within minutes of the first news post. Let the “sticky situation” tweets commence.
STICKY SITUATION: A semi-truck carrying containers of honey overturned and blocked lanes on a highway after the front axle of the truck broke, causing major traffic and spilling the honey and fuel on the road. No injuries were reported. https://t.co/QMLA3iddVk pic.twitter.com/3rbgm95wm3
— ABC News (@ABC) May 15, 2019
The honey that came oozing out of the truck looks more like an oil spill than something you’d want to put on your toast. We hope some of the remaining containers in the truck were salvaged.
Who needs cleanup crews when one could have simply called Little Bear to the scene? He would have tackled that mess like a pro.
Somebody plz call Little Bear pic.twitter.com/EKOXHrONXI
— Emily Whalen (@WDawg53) May 15, 2019
And if he had gotten help from Winnie the Pooh, the road would look good as new in no time. Hindsight is 20/20, we suppose.
We’re glad the situation is almost over. The puns are really getting out of hand.
Imagine bee-ing stuck in traffic because of this!
— KPopKougar is waiting for the First Snow ❄️🧶❄️ (@DmvSc2) May 15, 2019
“It’s going to suckle?” That’s a stretch, my friend.
It’s going to suckle to have to comb through all that traffic. Hope there’s a buzz alert cc: @caro
— Darius Amiri (@SuperDario) May 15, 2019
Even when you’re stuck in traffic due to a honey spill, there’s nothing “sweet” about being in bumper-to-bumper. Don’t try us, dude.
Some of us are just counting our blessings. Phew.
“Cleanup crews are using sand to help clean up the spill and the lanes will remain closed for an undetermined amount of time,” INDOT: Northwest wrote in a follow-up post around 1:30 p.m. EST. “After cleanup, the road will need to be inspected to ensure safety of the motoring public.”
Is it just us, or is there some sort of food-spill conspiracy afoot? Just last month, a Coca-Cola leak completely flooded a neighborhood in El Paso, Texas.
This is a new one: Cook Drive in East El Paso is flooded with Coca-Cola that leaked from the plant up the street.
— Keenan Willard (@KeenanNBC5) April 3, 2019
A crew is throwing dirt on the sugary sludge to try and stop it from spreading any further. pic.twitter.com/Bl0aOXLQLm
Crews there also used dirt and sand to clean up the sugary-sweet mess before some serious ‘ish went down. Can you imagine?
And in March, over 8,000 bottles of ranch dressing ended up in Maryland’s Little Conococheague Creek after a semi-truck crashed into the water. That’s almost more tragic than when this poor restaurant employee dropped 22 quartz of the stuff all over the floor.
So a couple days ago, one of my coworkers accidentally let 22 quarts of ranch dressing slip out of her hand... pic.twitter.com/cMDwUAqfOZ
— G (@BorboaGrant) March 18, 2019
Oof. The Kevin vibes have never been stronger.
In January, a truck in Arizona spilled 3,500 gallons of liquid chocolate onto the highway. What is going on with 2019 and people spilling massive amounts of liquid foods?
3,500 gallons of chocolate spill onto interstate in Northern Arizona https://t.co/5JkW6NgvzB pic.twitter.com/cDnX4ezz4Q
— Arizona Daily Star (@TucsonStar) January 14, 2019
Something is definitely up, folks. Leave it to us to get to the bottom of it.
Fine. Accidents happen, we suppose. Let’s just bee grateful that more honey wasn’t wasted in this most recent catastro-bee.
We tried.
