Oregon
Related: About this forumAt the scene of the slime, hagfish clean-up continues along U.S. 101
Firefighters, road crews, police and heavy equipment operators tackled the cleanup of thousands of slime eels that fell out of bins and slithered onto Oregon's coastal highway, leaving a gooey white wake that inspired choruses of "ewwww" across the nation.
And that's where most of the dead creatures remained Friday shoved into ditches along U.S. 101 near Cape Foulweather about 3 miles south of Depoe Bay.
A truck carrying them crashed a day earlier, sending bins of the hagfish, as they're more properly known, careening off a flatbed and onto cars and the highway.
"Everyone was kind of like, what do we do, because we've never seen anything like this," said Lt. Eric Leonard, a firefighter who was one of the first on the scene Thursday. "It looked like something out of 'Ghostbusters.'"
Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/07/thousands_of_slime_eels_still.html
Rhiannon12866
(223,450 posts)And of course I feel bad for the eels...
TexasTowelie
(117,269 posts)even if the insurance company paid for it. There would always be that memory which would make me want to .
Rhiannon12866
(223,450 posts)And would that show up in a CARFAX?? No accidents on this one - just eel slime!
Rhiannon12866
(223,450 posts)If anyone wants to see more...
http://www.kgw.com/news/truck-overturns-spilling-slime-eels-on-highway/456616768
NBachers
(18,169 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)watching them all try to slither away...poor things. I mean I know they were going to be food...but still.
Historic NY
(37,983 posts)"Good Lord that's going to be ripe".