Exploding Beer Kegs

With the holidays fast approaching, many of you will have thoughts that turn to beer. This is a story for all of you.

Exploding Beer Kegs Close Interstate
Driver Heard Noise, Saw Smoke, Pulled Over, Police Say
POSTED: 11:12 am EDT June 18, 2008

LAS VEGAS -- The Wednesday morning commute was delayed thanks to hundreds of exploding beer kegs. During the early-morning hours, a truck driver was carrying 278 kegs of beer on Interstate 15 southbound near the Flamingo Road exit when he started to hear noises from the bed of the truck, said Bob McKenzie with the state's Department of Transportation.
When he looked in his rearview mirror, McKenzie said he started to see smoke. The driver pulled over to the side of the freeway and exited the vehicle, just before the kegs started to explode, reported Fox 5 News in Las Vegas. Police closed the southbound onramps at Flamingo Road and Spring Mountain Road to clean up the spill. The carbon dioxide in the kegs caused the explosions, police said. No one was injured during the incident.


Bob and Doug McKenzie, of Second City fame
Are back out on the roads again (but they only gave Bob’s name)
Somewhere out near Vegas with a truck of their “Strange Brew”
These Canadian misfits were simply driving through
But the truck that they were driving shook the beer that they were tottin’
And all at once – explosions – which are everywhere verboten
Hundreds of the kegs were popping off their top
Bob pulled the big rig over and brought it to a stop
Motorists all around them stopped to volunteer
With containers that they had on hand, they tried to save the beer
But even out in Vegas, the house will always win
Bob and Doug were losing beer; they had to call it in
The cops closed up the interstate to clean up what was spilled
No mention of the cost was given or who in fact was billed
But Bob and Doug McKenzie made it safely through the fray
When interviewed on camera all they had to say was “eh”

Mdailey
06/19/08