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Friday, September 07, 2007

Be nice in Winona or you'll find poop on your car!!!

Yesterday Jese told me that there was a truck that spilled poop all over by campus and got all over cars, hehe!!! Here is the article on it that was in the paper today!!

Truck dumps load: Possible manure spill leaves road slippery when ‘wet’
By Kevin Behr Winona Daily News
There are so many ways to begin a story like this, but few are suitable for print.On Thursday afternoon, passersby on Main Street were greeted with an interesting and an unpleasant sight.A brown slimy substance that looked (and smelled) an awful lot like manure was spilled in the southbound lane of Main Street from downtown to the Winona State University campus. Cars parked along the street for about 10 blocks were splattered with the stuff.Winona Police officer Ryan Walski said his department got the call about 2:45 p.m. that a truck carrying “something” spilled its contents all along the road.“We don’t know what it is,” he said. “But we got a mess.”Police were working to track down the offending truck. As of Thursday afternoon, they didn’t know what kind of truck it was, where it came from, what company it belonged to or what it was carrying, said Winona Police Sgt. Eric Engrav. He said the substance appeared to be ground-up agricultural waste products possibly from poultry.Engrav said the material looked and smelled similar to the material dropped in another spill earlier this summer on Mankato Avenue. The police department is checking to see if the two spills are related.The fire department helped block off the intersection of Main and Broadway and began the initial cleanup at about 3 p.m. Captain Kim Bartleson said the road would have to be flushed and swept to thoroughly clear off the slick substance.To avoid creating a possibly hazardous situation, the material won’t be hosed off, Engrav said. He said sand was laid down to soak up the goo so it could be swept away.Even with the sand in place, the southbound lane was slick as black ice, and the danger was as invisible. Walski said three car accidents occurred there before traffic could be diverted away from the mess.The only evidence of those crashes was a crumpled license plate covered in refuse lying near the intersection of Main and Broadway Streets.Many people drove through the spill, spraying parked cars and giving them new, brown polka-dot paintjobs. There will be a lot of angry people returning to their vehicles, Bartelson said.“This stuff is hard on paint,” he said. “It’s pretty nasty at this point.”One person returned to his black pickup truck with a look of confusion and disbelief on his face.But a red Jeep parked near Broadway Street probably got the worst of it. It had a soft top and no window on the driver’s side. The driver’s seat was splashed and the dashboard and steering wheel were caked with the stuff.

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