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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @06:33AM
Oregon you say. Picture a bald middle aged man with a shovel, shoveling slime eels into a bucket, while muttering to himself, "I'm gonna be rich." Now imagine the man is Michael David Crawford.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by caffeine on Saturday July 15 2017, @07:24AM
I had a car stolen years ago, the police found it in a dam that someone had been illegally storing some sort of industrial waste in. Police refused to go near it as no idea what it was in.
EPA was called to test waste and arrange safe disposal of the car, insurance company just paid me quickly. Think everyone wanted to keep away from that one. I guess the thieves just rolled it in for a laugh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @07:32AM
...for the Oregon Highway Division. [snopes.com]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @07:59AM (3 children)
I recommend that persons watch the scene from the movie, "The Tin Drum". Nothing like fishing for eels with a horse's head, and then pulling it up, full of eels, that have been feeding on horse brains: Much like jmorris, on SoylentNews, in the Morning, before the editors are awake. Hello? Anybody here? I have some eels for sale, that I just found laying about in jmorris's brain. Top quality, for jmorris brain eels, you know.
(Score: 2) by lx on Saturday July 15 2017, @11:58AM
That scene has put me off eating eels for life. (Smoked eel is quite tasty too)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @12:13PM
It's "lying" not "laying," you dolt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @05:25PM
Yeah but like these hagfish those aren't eels either. They're just big worms.
A co-worker showed me some pictures and we determined that it was actually a focused non-terminal repeating phantasm, possibly a class V full roaming vapor and a big one at that. The eel story is a coverup.
jmorris is probably more a case of past life experience intruding on the present.
(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.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @01:01PM
no hovercraft nearby.
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Sunday July 16 2017, @10:44AM
"He turned to the driver and said,
'You picked a fine time to leave me loose eel' "