FARK.com: (1817839) Today's "speeding semi truck driving off of a bridge, plunging 100 feet into a river and spraying Chinese food everywhere" brought to you by the Tennessee (Chicken Flavored) Raman River

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(News Channel 5)		Today's "speeding semi truck driving off of a bridge, plunging 100 feet into a river and spraying Chinese food everywhere" brought to you by the Tennessee (Chicken Flavored) Raman River (newschannel5.com)		47
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mrCasual		2005-12-19 07:25:36 PM

That river's going to want another truck about an hour later.

clueyee		2005-12-19 08:21:36 PM

OH NO!! WHAT should we do!! Will there be a shortage? what of the sacred worship of TFSM???

is it a sign?

SilentStrider		2005-12-19 08:31:57 PM

SOMEBODY must've pissed off FSM.

Mike_Bolton		2005-12-19 09:08:03 PM

if you can find an eddie in the river - enjoy some

nicodemus055		2005-12-19 09:09:18 PM

The driver was traveling eastbound on I-40, apparently at a high speed, when officials say he lost control of the truck.

The trucks on 1-40 still scare the shiat out of me, and I've spent the past 3 years driving in Boston. Truckers like Tennessee because we spend our tax money on roads instead of, you know, schools and stuff.

TheOther		2005-12-19 09:10:17 PM

Eddie's in the river?

Honest Bender		2005-12-19 09:10:45 PM

Call the college kids and break out the forks!

skinink		2005-12-19 09:13:29 PM

Brenda Meeks: "I just got a weird feeling something bad is heading my way. Like when you see an Asian person behind the wheel of a car."

TheCharmerUnderMe		2005-12-19 09:13:40 PM

I was going to come into the thread and complain about how the use of the

tag seemed pretty insensitive, considering a guy probably died, but then I saw mrCasual's post, and I laughed and laughed, and now I'm all better.

Bronto Saurus		2005-12-19 09:14:32 PM

Spiffy? It appears at least one guy may have died if you RTFA.

sylaak		2005-12-19 09:14:55 PM

Ramen is Japanese...

ubermensch		2005-12-19 09:17:13 PM

Yeah, I think the Spiffy tag was a little too cold hearted. Really, the only thing the driver did wrong was go a little too fast. It's not like he was killed by a mob for diddling little boys or killed by a prematurely exploding suicide bomber vest.

Gosling		2005-12-19 09:17:34 PM

Chinese food in the Raman River, huh? Sounds about right.

oukewldave		2005-12-19 09:18:27 PM

im sick of all these damn truck drivers going so fast all the time. they seem to go even faster in bad weather for some reason. i laugh everytime i see a truck overturned going around a bend in the freeway. asshats

TheInflicted		2005-12-19 09:18:52 PM

TVA has already hired an outside contractor for the cleanup.

MrkMiddle		2005-12-19 09:19:57 PM

I know that stretch of 40, there is s steep downgrade just before the bridge. I wonder if the driver lost his brakes?

Wildhare5		2005-12-19 09:23:17 PM

I'm reading on another local news site that officials are worried about hazardous materials in the trailer.

...what kind of Chinese food was in that truck again?

MrNeutron		2005-12-19 09:25:23 PM

Bah! The only difference between beef and chicken flavor is one is saltier than the other.

/but which one?

ornithopter		2005-12-19 09:27:11 PM

And mrCasual wins the thread with the Boobies...

And yeah, not really spiffy. Maybe amusing for the name of the river being Raman, though.

/Chinese food on the way even as I type
//fortunately no rivers between here and the Chinese place

ricodued		2005-12-19 09:28:15 PM

Wildhare5: Chinese.

/doesn't like any -ese foods

crypt0z0ic		2005-12-19 09:28:16 PM

oukewldave:
im sick of all these damn truck drivers going so fast all the time. they seem to go even faster in bad weather for some reason. i laugh everytime i see a truck overturned going around a bend in the freeway. asshats

Perhaps the reason they seem to be going faster in bad weather is because you are going slower. Most professional truck drivers that I know are aware of the limitations of their vehicle and know what is "too fast"; they have too much to lose by being careless.

all_you_need_is_porsche		2005-12-19 09:35:20 PM

ornithopter
And mrCasual wins the thread with the Boobies...

Ah, and the filter owns another one. Let's hope mrCasual's wife/girlfriend was posting for him.

Man boobies are no good.

Huggermugger		2005-12-19 09:36:36 PM

I'd still rather drive 100 miles on I40 than one mile on the Capitol Beltway.

Injakra		2005-12-19 09:36:43 PM

Am I the only farker who read the headline and started to think of that massive clusterfark on I75 in cincy this afternoon?

Karma Chameleon		2005-12-19 09:42:55 PM

Did anyone else think of the fantastic fight scene between Peter and the chicken in Family Guy? 'Cause I sure did.

Chicken...gave me a bad coupon..

xterraguy		2005-12-19 09:47:26 PM

Hello, the river is NOT named "Ramen"
It's the Tennessee River, RTFA folks, don't buy the submitter's joke.

izi ifil		2005-12-19 09:47:48 PM

submitter is heartless and i'm hungry.

LoonieCobber		2005-12-19 09:51:52 PM

What's a semi-truck driver? Is that a short guy? Maybe it's a guy who only completed half the course? - George Carlin

crazy_gaijin		2005-12-19 09:56:59 PM

SilentStrider: SOMEBODY must've pissed off FSM.

maybe it's the only begotten son of FSM: Flying Ramen Monster

shadowself		2005-12-19 09:58:58 PM

I get it now! If I submit a headline that reads "Today's ______ brought to you by _______", it is automatically greenlit!

RedheadGrrl		2005-12-19 10:01:56 PM

Was I the only person in college never to eat ramen noodles?

I mean maybe like once?

/snot

8bitwizard		2005-12-19 10:12:14 PM

/in other news, you can buy brick ramen from amazon.com ... WTF?
//they want twice what I can get it for at the local HEB
///and "Oriental Flavor" means "extra garlic"

InflatableJesus		2005-12-19 10:14:08 PM

RedheadGrrl: Was I the only person in college never to eat ramen noodles?

No, ramen noodles suck. People only buy them because they cost virtually nothing.

SwiftFox		2005-12-19 10:23:39 PM

xterraguy

Hello, the river is NOT named "Ramen"
It's the Tennessee River, RTFA folks, don't buy the submitter's joke.

It's now become the Glutamate River.

postwood		2005-12-19 10:33:47 PM

We all die one day. Would you rather a guy get to go out in a blaze of speeding-semi-exploding-chinese-food-100ft-drop, or slowly wither away as he pisses on himself in his bid in a state run old folks home, waiting for the nurse to wipe the slobber from his chin.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? WHAT. WOULD. YOU. DO?

Lampmonster		2005-12-19 10:33:59 PM

InflatableJesus

No, ramen noodles suck.

I'm gonna pretend I didn't read that.

Shameful Tuna		2005-12-19 10:34:51 PM

Really, the only thing the driver did wrong was go a little too fast.

He went through a concrete barrier...

texasbob		2005-12-19 10:42:54 PM

AH SO!!
Me rikey Lamen

No Such Agency		2005-12-19 11:13:50 PM

postwood: We all die one day. Would you rather a guy get to go out in a blaze of speeding-semi-exploding-chinese-food-100ft-drop, or slowly wither away as he pisses on himself in his bid in a state run old folks home, waiting for the nurse to wipe the slobber from his chin.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? WHAT. WOULD. YOU. DO?

"How could I have gone from the king of rock'n'roll to this? An old guy in a restroom in East Texas with a *growth* on his pecker."

lordargent		2005-12-19 11:28:41 PM

Someone has been playing too much burnout takedown/revenge.

/what was his score?

amfv		2005-12-19 11:41:53 PM

Insurers estimate the loss at approximately $10.

shirtsbyeric		2005-12-20 06:29:45 AM

I can honestly say that when it comes to ramen, I'm in the 10,000 club

Wonko Fortytwo		2005-12-20 07:22:33 AM

Rapture

/they'll never find the body

theolinc		2005-12-20 08:57:47 AM

i was drivin through the smokey mountains one time and i passed a 3 semi truck crash where one of them broke through the guard rails and plunged 1000 feet into a ravine

horrifying thing to see

Kickzter		2005-12-20 10:28:11 AM

nicodemus055
a TN boy turned Cantabridgian (Central Sq. down Western Ave. near the river - 5yrs) turned GA boy the past 3 years...

how goes those brutal winters as of late!? when i was there, it was smooth-sailin' mild winters.

don't miss having to move my truck from one side of the street to the other or finding off-snow route parking...

Links		2005-12-20 11:30:46 AM

Don't eat the fish. MSG and all, you know.

/Ramen is hella Japanese

io619		2005-12-20 11:38:02 AM

It's one of those 'Asian Food, St. Paul MN' tucks. ya' know, the ones you see at every generic Americanized Chinese food place that has the same menu pictures.

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