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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Duque de Bragança on February 13, 2012, 03:16:27 AM

Title: Frozen Sauerkraut Causes Massive German Traffic Jam
Post by: Duque de Bragança on February 13, 2012, 03:16:27 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/frozen-sauerkraut-causes-_n_1259993.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/frozen-sauerkraut-causes-_n_1259993.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false)

QuoteFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Piles of sauerkraut tumbled out of a truck on a busy German motorway and quickly froze to the autobahn surface, causing a massive traffic jam near Frankfurt during Tuesday's morning rush hour, police said.
A truck carrying hundreds of packages of the famous German pickled cabbage delicacy crashed into another vehicle before dawn near the western town of Friedberg near Frankfurt and scattered its contents across the motorway.
With temperatures far below zero for the last week, the sauerkraut froze almost instantly and created impassable obstacles, causing traffic to back up for 10 km. The motorway was completely shut down for four hours while authorities struggled to scrape the frozen sauerkraut away.

Thankfully, I missed it. It's not as Frankfurt needed any more traffic congestion, anyways. Yay for public transportation!
Title: Re: Frozen Sauerkraut Causes Massive German Traffic Jam
Post by: Barrister on February 13, 2012, 01:56:37 PM
Now there's a headline you don't see every day...