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Disaster in New York!

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Now this is news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_ ... e_disaster

Imagine recounting to the grandkids how you had to flee for higher ground on the day of the Great Popsicle Disaster of 2005.

I know. New Yorkers wear expensive shoes.
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Beware of food disasters. Boston was the site of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

http://edp.org/molasses.htm
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This may be urban myth, but supposedly years ago a few weeks before Thanksgiving a semi hauling frozen turkeys overturned on the Cross Bronx Expressway (NYC), spilling turkeys all over the road and causing a riot.
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All we seem to get are rendering trucks on the ship canal bridge. You are soooo lucky!
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"Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods New York Park... "

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"As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly..."
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beowulf573 wrote:"As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly..."
One of my all-time favorites!

Found this on the molasses page--the infamous Lake Peigneur disaster: http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/t ... exaco.html
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More importantly, oldtimers in Montreal still recall the day of the great Stanley Tavern beer flood.

The taps wouldn't shut off, and a valiant crew of old men were forced to attempt to drink the tavern dry, lest all that beer go to waste.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

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Yeah like NYC doesn't have freezing cold winters.
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s1m0n wrote:More importantly, oldtimers in Montreal still recall the day of the great Stanley Tavern beer flood.

The taps wouldn't shut off, and a valiant crew of old men were forced to attempt to drink the tavern dry, lest all that beer go to waste.
Canada has waaaay better refreshment-related disasters.

And universal health coverage. I'm moving. . .
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Fr Emmet wrote:This may be urban myth, but supposedly years ago a few weeks before Thanksgiving a semi hauling frozen turkeys overturned on the Cross Bronx Expressway (NYC), spilling turkeys all over the road and causing a riot.
Does anyone else remember the episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where they dropped frozen turkeys from a helicopter on a shopping mall parking lot for Thanksgiving? :D

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djm wrote:Does anyone else remember the episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where they dropped frozen turkeys from a helicopter on a shopping mall parking lot for Thanksgiving? :D

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beowulf573 wrote:"As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly..."
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Unseen122 wrote:Yeah like NYC doesn't have freezing cold winters.
No kidding. Apparently the event planners weren;t paid enough to think "Gee, maybe January would be a better time of year. . . . ."
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that TV show where some radio station tossed turkeys out of helicoptors.
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djm wrote:
Fr Emmet wrote:This may be urban myth, but supposedly years ago a few weeks before Thanksgiving a semi hauling frozen turkeys overturned on the Cross Bronx Expressway (NYC), spilling turkeys all over the road and causing a riot.
Does anyone else remember the episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where they dropped frozen turkeys from a helicopter on a shopping mall parking lot for Thanksgiving? :D

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Flyingcursor wrote:I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that TV show where some radio station tossed turkeys out of helicoptors.
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