14 Tons Of Spilled Oreos Snarl Traffic

MORRIS, Ill. — Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway.

Illinois State Police Sgt. Brian Mahoney says the truck's driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on Interstate 80 around 4 a.m. Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median.

"The boxes came out of the trailer and boxes were ripped open," he said.

The crash about 50 miles southwest of Chicago remains under investigation.

Mahoney says no charges have been filed but both lanes of traffic remain closed while authorities remove the cookies.

Comments

[DaBuddy]

11:29 AM on 05/20/2008

How appropriate that a truckload of cookies is spilled so close to "Fat Denny" Hastert's house. Bet he could smell them all the way up in Plano!

[Pippilangstrumpf]

10:08 AM on 05/20/2008

I hope that the truck driver doesn't get into trouble with his bosses, because if you think about it, this is a LOT of free advertising for Oreo.
How many people, upon reading this story, wanted to eat a stack of oreos and a big glass of milk?

[ErnestineBass]

12:36 AM on 05/20/2008

QUICK! Somebody wreck a tanker full of milk!

[loki]

12:36 AM on 05/20/2008

To bad most milk these days are hydrated into powder for transport and then re-hydrated and put in the jugs we buy at the store. Because this would have been a great place for a milk tanker to fall over!

[Sciguy]

09:54 PM on 05/19/2008

Oh, yum yum yum. I have no shame - if I'd been anywhere near there, I'd have gladly helped clean up the mess. Diet? What diet?

[theidaexpress]

09:14 PM on 05/19/2008

Well there will be a lot less fat people now. J/k

[iBgood]

05:56 PM on 05/19/2008

I always preferred Hydrox. : p

[SwingingFromCenter]

05:37 PM on 05/19/2008

Why oh why must I be thousands of miles away when Oreo's rain down from the heavens.

[realityisbetter]

04:32 PM on 05/19/2008

I'll drive over and help them clean them up. We can use my back seat and trunk to transport them to a location where they can be properly disposed of.

[BitterRoot]

03:59 PM on 05/19/2008

Wonder if Clarence Thomas was among the spillees?

[ErnestineBass]

12:35 AM on 05/20/2008

How rude...LOL!!!

[dadw5boys]

02:13 PM on 05/19/2008

Thats one way to get rid of excess stock and still break even.

[InofTouch]

01:59 PM on 05/19/2008

apprently you just can't have one

[RezidentBivrip]

01:49 PM on 05/19/2008

I wonder if the price of Gas will go up again because of the great Oreo Spill of 2008

$5 a gallon gas! Here we come!!!

[MaracaKabob]

01:39 PM on 05/19/2008

The site of those sea otters and pelicans covered in thick black oreo was too sad to watch.

[bmermaid]

01:10 PM on 05/19/2008

Police reported "It wouldn't have been a problem, but too many wanted what was in the middle first."

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

04:21 PM on 05/19/2008

Honorary HuffPick!