{"id":39214,"date":"2014-05-29T01:25:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39214"},"modified":"2020-07-12T01:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T05:26:04","slug":"the-carnage-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39214","title":{"rendered":"The carnage continues!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-39215 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eggcrash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eggcrash.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/eggcrash-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Another day, another truck full of food overturns, crashes, and dumps its contents all over the place.\u00a0 First, there were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/truck-carrying-christmas-hams-overturns-i-85-ramp\/ncPcn\/\">hams<\/a>, then there were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/40000-pounds-of-chicken-spill-onto-dekalb-intersta\/ncnCF\/\">chickens<\/a>, and then\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38211\">beer<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/gallery\/news\/photos-truck-load-eggs-overturns-dekalb-interstate\/gCK9c\/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_homepage#5299600\">now we\u2019ve got eggs<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m not sure why this fascinates me as much as it does, but I guess I think it\u2019s hilarious to see the roads and surrounding area covered in food.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s horrible that so much food goes to waste, and that these incidents have tons of collateral victims from the drivers themselves, the GDOT people who have to investigate and clean things up, and the thousands of commuters who get slammed in traffic as a result, but the visuals amuse me regardless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Ultimately, the fact that three of these wrecks have occurred in the exact same spot over the span of the last five months means that the DeKalb County I-285\/I-20 interchange definitely needs some consideration of reconstruction to make things easier on tractor trailers, there had been a freak coincidence of the dumbest truckers in the world to have had to have gone on this interchange, or maybe it\u2019s both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Perhaps GDOT should consider putting a thousand rumble strips and flashing lights over a quarter mile before the turn, like they do on the I-285\/I-75 interchange in Cobb County; there doesn\u2019t appear to be catastrophic truck accidents on almost a monthly basis over there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Just some\u2026 FOOD FOR THOUGHT PUN INTENDED.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another truck full of food overturns, crashes, and dumps its contents all over the place.\u00a0 First, there were\u00a0hams, then there were\u00a0chickens, and then\u00a0beer, and\u00a0now we\u2019ve got eggs. I\u2019m not sure why this fascinates me as much as it does, but I guess I think it\u2019s hilarious to see the roads and surrounding area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The carnage continues!<\/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":[45,56,15,143,10,170],"class_list":["post-39214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-food","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta","tag-traffic","tag-truck-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39216,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214\/revisions\/39216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}