{"id":45562,"date":"2017-12-13T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45562"},"modified":"2020-08-04T20:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:41:32","slug":"florida-gets-all-the-good-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45562","title":{"rendered":"Florida gets all the good shit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-45563 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/scavengers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/scavengers.jpg 510w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/scavengers-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/local-news\/train-crashes-into-stalled-tractor-trailer\">Lakeland, Florida<\/a> \u2013 a semi stalls on train tracks, and is decimated into two pieces when a CSX train plows into it, sending its cargo consisting of a variety of meats flying all over the place. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and a lot of people went home happy after scavenging the remains for free meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So obviously this isn\u2019t a story of a tractor trailer overturning on the highway, nor did it happen in the state of Georgia, typical criteria in which I try to integrate these stories into the highway buffet.\u00a0 But a train slicing a stalled semi full of meat into two pieces??\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Yeah, that\u2019s brog-worthy alright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Talk about a chaotic story.\u00a0 Sure, it sucks for those involved in the accident, from the truck driver to all persons on the train.\u00a0 But thankfully nobody was hurt, which means the rest of the story is fair game for ironic humor and criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So when the train basically splits the truck into two, sending all of its cargo flying everywhere, that\u2019s some imagery that I could only wish I could have paid to see.\u00a0 The metaphor of seeing a train wreck was quite literal here, and if we as humans can\u2019t take our eyes off them in metaphor, imagine the draw of seeing an actual train wreck happen in real time?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But then the story becomes all the discarded cargo, which was tons of frozen meat.\u00a0 Whether Colorado Meat and Seafood Company decided to keep the food or not was irrelevant; when free shit is laying all over the place, it would take UN forces to keep scavengers from trying to score said free shit.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good thing that Colorado Meat and Seafood Co. decided to call the carnage a wash, because otherwise, there would have been some even more tragic fisticuffs when law enforcement would have to fight with the scavengers all trying to get some free meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">As much as I like free food, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019d be willing to scavenge shit that had quite literally been hit by a freight train.\u00a0 Those who are, I\u2019d surmise are either in some unfortunate financial circumstances, are <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn1.alloy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/extreme-cheapskates-kate.png\">extreme cheapskates<\/a>, or are both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Either way, as the holidays arrive, this is prime example of a Christmas miracle.\u00a0 Truck full of food stalls on the tracks, gets annihilated by a train, numerous hungry and needy people go home happy with free meat.\u00a0 Nobody is hurt, insurance kicks in, everyone is happy!\u00a0 Happy holidays!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeland, Florida \u2013 a semi stalls on train tracks, and is decimated into two pieces when a CSX train plows into it, sending its cargo consisting of a variety of meats flying all over the place. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and a lot of people went home happy after scavenging the remains for free meat. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida gets all the good shit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,52,170],"class_list":["post-45562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-food","tag-owned","tag-truck-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45564,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45562\/revisions\/45564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}