On Thursday afternoon, a photograph of a car trailing a massive stream of snot and also possibly eels began appearing on Twitter. It was a horror show — and the people had questions. Like, what in the world happened? And does insurance cover slime damage?
[...] The car sliming happened in Oregon on Thursday afternoon. And it turns out, the eel-like creatures are not, in fact, eels. They’re Pacific hagfish — primitive jawless fish that are sometimes called slime eels for the mind-boggling quantities of goo they produce when they feel threatened — like, say, when the truck transporting them tipped over in a five-car crash. The accident sent 7,500 pounds of hagfishes sloshing over an Oregon roadway, dousing nearby cars.
Note from submitter: The pictures in the article are definitely worth a look!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @12:17PM (1 child)
If you follow the link to http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1002&alert=1 [flashalert.net] (oregon police news flashes) and do a quick scan through them, you start to wonder just how stupid are US drivers.
Flash after flash is "man/woman killed in single/multiple vehicle wreck. victim not wearing seatbelt, child in proper restraint survived with minor/no injuries".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:18PM
The real shame is they've already bred. Though perhaps their kids will think twice about just how inconvenient a seat belt really is or whatever the problem is.