SHREWSBURY, Pa. — A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.<\/p>\n
Crews were stuck with a job they did not relish \u2014 rolling up the scattered tube steaks for disposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce those leave the truck and hit the road, that\u2019s all garbage, and it\u2019s still pretty warm,\u201d Shrewsbury Fire Company Chief Brad Dauberman said.<\/p>\n
State police said the tractor trailer had an unspecified mechanical problem on Interstate 83 a few miles north of the Maryland line as morning rush hour was wrapping up, causing it to push into a passenger vehicle. When the truck scraped along a concrete divider, its trailer was ripped open and the contents scattered.<\/p>\n
Four people required medical attention, Dauberman said, for injuries that police said were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n
A front-end loader was used to scoop up the hot dogs and drop them into a dump truck. <\/p>\n
Dauberman said emergency crews couldn’t help but see the humor in the situation, and his daughter texted him a photo of a hot dog-themed T-shirt.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you personally, hot dogs are very slippery,\u201d the fire chief said. \u201cI did not know that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHREWSBURY, Pa. — A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[41216,23,966,793,3,2031,795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-54217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-41216","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-oddities","14":"tag-u-s-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}