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A Truck Full Of Slime Eels Spilled Into The Highway And It Was The Stuff Of Nightmares- Review day 21

"#Cleanup on Aisle 101" happened to be the statement of the day in Oregon yesterday. A truck carrying 7500 pounds of slithering fish in 13 different containers over turned on US Route 101 after the 59-year-old driver was unable to stop the truck for construction work. There were no major injuries to humans but many of the creatures were lost. Initially the authorities thought that they were eels, but they are actually Hagfish, which are commonly know as slime eels. The road was closed for a few hours but reopened by 4pm.
Honestly this is slightly terrifying. There are so many different things about this that just give me the creeps, a lot of them not even mentioned in the article. For instance, a truck carrying 13 containers cannot stop and spills HAGFISH all over the highway, that was traveling to Korea for consumption...
  1. 13, the most unlucky number that almost every culture has superstitions on, is the number of containers being carried. Who ever loaded this truck, you're stupid! You never do things in 13s!
  2. Hagfish, creepy af fish! They are a slimy fish that look like eels. They are also the only known animal to have a skull but no vertebral column.
  3. HMM... traveling to Korea... for consumption... I'd say Karma had a small part in this.

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