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Anyone driving through Narragansett, Rhode Island in the past few days has likely caught the whiff of something foul in the air. That is because over the weekend a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of raw squid overturned and spilled the contents onto the hot Summer road.
The semi-truck had been attempting a tight turn on Pt. Judith Road in Narragansett, Rhode Island when the trailer dislodged from the cabin and flipped over, causing a disaster scene in the process.
40,000 Pounds Of Raw Squid Spilled Onto Rhode Island Road After Accident
Anyone who has ever cooked with or been around raw squid knows the stench to be particularly potent. Now imagine 20 TONS of raw squid dumped onto a beach town road in the middle of August.
Crews worked tirelessly to clean up the 40,000 pounds of squid dumped onto the street but the damage was done. They are slimy outside of the water and that slime certainly left its mark on the asphalt.
CBS Boston sent a crew out to report on the accident:
The accident occurred around 9:30am on Sunday morning and the road was reopened to public traffic by 5:15pm the same day. So they were able to do considerable work cleaning up all that Rhode Island squid.
The driver of the semi-truck was given a citation for “failure to secure a load” according to ABC News. Neither the driver or the passenger of the truck were harmed when it was overturned but surely their egos took a slight bruising.
As a fisherman born and raised in Florida the stench of squid in the sun is one that haunts me. Fishing off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge with cut up chunks of squid as bait, cooking in the Florida Summer sun, is a smell that lives with me forever. I feel for the people of Narragansett, Rhode Island but thankfully for them the temperatures are much more favorable this time of year than they are here in Florida.