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muriel_volestrangler

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Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:36 AM Nov 2017

Massive meatball accident closes Swedish road

Swedish meatballs are always a welcome sight on the dinner table, but less so when 20 tonnes of them block the road in front of you.

This is the spectacle that faced unwary drivers on 15 November along the Skara-Lundsbrunn road in southwest Sweden, when icy evening conditions meant that the trailer of a lorry skidded into a ditch, taking the meatball mountain with it, Skara Lans Tidning reports.

The lorry itself remained on the road, but all the meatballs needed to be first offloaded onto the carriageway before the trailer could be hauled out of the ditch.

"The trailer was heavier than the lorry itself, and it is very slippery out there," police officer Tommy Emriksson told Swedish TV.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42027986

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Massive meatball accident closes Swedish road (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 OP
Mama! Mia! underpants Nov 2017 #1
Despite the ABBA song, Momma Mia is an Italian expression... Thor_MN Nov 2017 #3
Ah, the hazards of Scandinavian cuisine ... eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #2
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