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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 15 2017, @06:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-slippery-slope dept.

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!

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15969674/slime-eels-hagfish-oregon-highway-truck-accident-slime-mucus-goo


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:18PM (#539586)

    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.