{"id":46770,"date":"2019-12-17T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46770"},"modified":"2020-08-12T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:58:10","slug":"o-how-costly-the-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46770","title":{"rendered":"O how costly the losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was just thinking how I hadn\u2019t written anything for a minute; my professional and personal lives have a tendency to get a little crowded at times, and sometimes I can\u2019t find even five minutes for myself to just decompress and relax, much less take the time to write, no matter how important the act is to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I didn\u2019t really have to stretch real far in order to find any inspiration to write; sometimes the world just simply provides.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019d found one of these types of stories, but it doesn\u2019t inspire me any less whenever one emerges to the forefront.<\/span><\/p>\n

Out in McDonough, Georgia, a train collided with a cargo truck<\/a>, obliterating it, and scattering its contents as far as a quarter mile.\u00a0 And because it wouldn\u2019t warrant entry into the brog without certain conditions, the truck wasn\u2019t just any truck, but a beer truck<\/em>, and the contents that were scattered as far as a quarter mile were cases and kegs of beer.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, I would use the term \u201cbeer\u201d loosely, because it was a MillerCoors truck, so the vast majority of the product lost was Miller Lite, along with some Old Style and Redd\u2019s cider.\u00a0 That being said, I would have to estimate that the cost of the lost product amounted to around $78, with at least $50 of it being the cost of the Redd\u2019s, since cider is often considered a specialty beverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing the article does not mention that I\u2019m very curious about, is that a quarter mile is a pretty long distance, when it comes to surface area for scattered cargo to go clattering around on.\u00a0 As is often the case whenever it comes to shit being liberated from their confinement on the roads of America, this often times results in people who happen to be fortunate enough to be in the vicinity when shit goes free, to spontaneously turn into greedy looters who spring into action and try to get away with as much free shit as they possibly can, when pandemonium strikes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t help but imagine that all along this specific quarter mile, people are coming out of the woodwork to try and salvage whatever cans, cases and even kegs of free beer that are strewn along the side of the train tracks.\u00a0 And parts of McDonough are kind of country, so I have to imagine that there are some people literally emerging from the woods, to try and get their hands on some free beer.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also goes without saying that there were fortunately no human casualties in this incident, otherwise I\u2019d try to practice a little decency and not try and make light of an unfortunate incident.\u00a0 But the truck did get basically exploded in half, and I can\u2019t help but wonder how trucks manage to perfectly stall out in the middle of train tracks in the first place.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t there any momentum or are the drivers actually pushing the brakes when they realize their shit is dying?<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, this didn\u2019t actually occur on a highway, so it is up for debate if it\u2019s worth adding to the veritable buffet of food lost to Georgia roads.\u00a0 Which is kind of another way of saying because my shit is still offline, I don\u2019t have the capability to search in the past to get my latest and greatest compilation list of food stuffs spilled onto the highways of Georgia to verify where it would rank on the menu, but I do definitively know that this is not even the first or second time in which a truck containing booze has been destroyed on the roads of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I\u2019m also pretty sure this isn\u2019t the first time that Miller Lite was \u201cwasted\u201d on Georgia roads.\u00a0 Considering the actual beer-to-water content of the swill, I have to imagine the plant life surrounding these accident sites are pretty lush considering how watered the plants must have been after these wrecks.<\/span><\/p>\n

But just when I felt like wanting to write about something, the world provideth.\u00a0 Few things fascinate me more than the dumbassery of people doing dumb shit on the roads, and there being the collateral damage of $78 worth of MillerCoors products.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just thinking how I hadn\u2019t written anything for a minute; my professional and personal lives have a tendency to get a little crowded at times, and sometimes I can\u2019t find even five minutes for myself to just decompress and relax, much less take the time to write, no matter how important the act … Continue reading O how costly the losses<\/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":[97,45,143,52,170],"class_list":["post-46770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-truck-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46770","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=46770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46772,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46770\/revisions\/46772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}