If you ’ve ever dropped a perfectly goodice creamcone , then there ’s a strong chance you jazz the shame and heartbreak of watching your precious scoop melt away on the red-hot , unforgiving mineral pitch . A recent truck crash in Southern California , however , took the sweet disaster to an unfortunate new level – by spilling chiliad of dollars deserving of ice cream all over a busy highway .

As excuse in areportbyThe Desert Sun , a pickup truck hauling three refrigerators carry with$5,000 Charles Frederick Worth of fixed treatscrashed into a big rig truck that had stopped behind a stall fomite on Interstate 10 in   Whitewater , CA , previous last hebdomad . The crash spill hundreds of ice cream product all over the road , which rapidly snarled traffic for several hour and , perhaps unsurprisingly , resulted in a sugary current of melt sapidity along the paving . gratefully , nobody was wound in the accident .

The Desert Sunreporter Colin Atagi shared several photos from the unenviable scene via chirrup :

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The melty mess was so huge , authorities had to bus dozens of children to the location to beak up and feed what ice cream could be salvaged . OK , OK , just kidding . As you’re able to see in one of the photos above , they actually brought in a truck with a plough to strip it up , although there were probablyplentyof nearby mass who would have help by eating some .

Unfortunately , this is far from the first fourth dimension a truck accident spilled tons of perfectly good food or drink onto the road . Just last month , a beer motortruck tipped over andpoured a huge shower of the sudsy stuffall over a Denver main road . And another recent collision involving a deli meat hand truck and bread truck basicallyturned a New Jersey highway into a giant sandwich . Oh , and let ’s not forget the time a Florida main road transubstantiate into a fraternity house aftera beer hand truck and a Saratoga chip truck crashed .

Anyway , with a diet like that , it ’s no curiosity our substructure is crumble …

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