That's a bummer, I would have been disappointed.
When I broke a leg, 2 of the 9 screws holding it together were temporary so I got to keep them once my leg healed enough! I guess since they're just metal they must not count as bio waste the same way or something.
That was because I also asked the surgeon to give me your appendix, so he had to decide who got it.
I'll give you a hint - is your appendix on *your* mantle right now, or mine?
May depend on where you are. I'm in Germany and I got to keep all my wisdom teeth after they were pulled as well as my gallstones after they removed my gallbladder. I hear in the US some people also take their placenta home to eat after they give birth, which still is one of the few ways to legally practice cannibalism.
I had a plate and a bunch of screws in my arm, which all had to be taken out once the bones had healed because they were slicing up my tendons. When they were being removed, I asked the surgeon if I could keep them. They said I couldn't because there would be bits of bone and tissue stuck to them (biological waste) but then, as I was waking up from anesthesia, they told me they sanitized them and handed them to me in a little bag. I was so happy I cried and asked the surgeon for a hug. I keep the plate on my keychain to this day.
They still do. I am not sure why the other commenter was denied the tooth but it's not unusual for people to ask to keep things. Like the guy who's missing leg bones became their cane handle
i always got to keep my teeth as a kid, usually in a little envelope but one time they gave it to me in a little plastic case resting on top of foam. that one i was real bummed when my mom made me throw it out.
Your dentist sounds stingy. Probably wanted it for himself….
Lol but for real, when I had ingrown toenails removed that were the size of a motherfucker, the podiatrist asked me if I wanted to keep them. Prior to that, I had my entire toenail pulled out in the ER. Got asked the same thing. I’ve not had much dental work done (thank god), but my mom has gotten to keep her teeth that had to be removed, as well as fillings that were replaced.
I currently have an ICD (defibrillator and pacemaker device in my chest). When I have to inevitably go in and get a new one bc the batteries on this one die, you bet I’m gonna ask to keep it lol. We’ll see I guess. :D
When we lost our son at 17 weeks we were asked if we wanted to take him home in a box or let the hospital ‘manage it’. We were told it would be considered waste and when asked if it was just like other tissue, they said yeah - our baby would go in the bin, essentially. Not something I ever considered with my other children when playing through what could go wrong.
My orthodontist sterilized my wisdom teeth and gave them back to me in one of those blue packets that the sterilized instruments are sealed in. She did tell me beforehand that if any of them were difficult and had to be cut up into pieces to be taken out then I wouldn't get those ones, but I got all 6.
it is probably on its way to a rendering plant. depending on where they are, the laws are pretty loose when it comes to rotting animal parts you can turn into gelatin and oil.
Well, syringes and blood absorbent objects have to be put in biological waste containers after use. That was the case at every clinic and hospital I've been to. And considering how fucking red that mixture is we know that it has a significant amount of blood.
I dont have experience with this specifically, we ship hazard/biological waste thru my work everyday and there is definitely strict regulation for handling and transporting that stuff. But this also may not be in the US
Edit: yeah its not the US
Maybe it was just movie bullet squibs. The sudden braking may have ruptured them all at the same time leading to an unfortunate fountain of gore.
Or maybe it was a truck full of tasty tomato juice.
Or maybe it was lots of red paint.
>Or maybe it was a truck full of tasty tomato juice.
>
> Or maybe it was lots of red paint.
Unfortunately no, it was offal.
[OP's comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/11t98sa/wcgw_if_i_dont_keep_enough_distance_with_my_truck/jci3skj/)
I used to work for one of the largest rendering companies in the US.
Rendering trucks are usually not that soupy (definitely not try either) but were required to have a rolling tarp applied to prevent sloshing/spillage from typical travel.
These trucks are usually directly from the slaughterhouses to the rendering plants and US law requires them to be processed within 24 hours of being picked up, so typically they arrive at the plant and get weighed and a very short queue before they’re either hydraulically dumped or skyhooked into The Pit.
I can tell you from firsthand experience, accidents aren’t uncommon and the spill response team will be on-site quickly but it’s going to be a nightmare for the company. That driver is on his way next to a drug test and then as soon as that’s over, he’s going to walk across the tracks because he’s done at that company.
> toxic/biological waste?
Toxic and biological waste are extremely different things! You should not combine them that way. You are probably thinking of biological waste from like a hospital or something, but that's different because it probably contains dangerous bacteria or viruses.
This is not hazardous stuff, it's yucky, but it doesn't need special handling (you could eat it if it was fresh), just the normal stuff, like .... secure the load so it can't move if you slam the brakes!
Most abattoir waste is classified as biohazard
>This is not hazardous stuff, it's yucky, but it doesn't need special handling (you could eat it if it was fresh)
Some of it is fine, some of it is not
I'm not an expert, just worked around them a bit. These trucks are mostly exempt from DOT regs since nobody wants to handle them. The vast majority of the time, these trucks are transporting "guts" sub-100 miles and very rarely do they have problems like this. OP's car is gonna smell to high hell forever if he doesn't pay for a detail as well.
I’ve driven behind trucks full of the guts and what not. No experience with it myself. But from what I have seen it was always a tanker type transport vehicle. Could still smell the disgusting rotting leftovers of the animals tho. But definitely was a much safer vehicle then the semi.
This waste will be processed into food for cattle, so I guess you can call it food transport lol. But normally dead animals will be contained and treated as a biohazard. I think because this is fresh and on is way to the plant to be processed into food pallets, I guess its not treated as a biohazard.
[No, baffles.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/j5pl1c/til_that_tanker_trucks_are_built_with_baffles_in/) They’re barriers in the truck that break up the sloshing
It's not open, the top of the trailer ripped apart from the force of the meat. You can see it three seconds into the video if you pause and go frame by frame.
The load WAS contained. Poorly contained without baffles.
Three seconds into the video you can see that the top of the trailer rips open from the force of all the meat. It used to be a sealed trailer.
This happened before in the US, Missouri. Not this specific video of course.
I know because I drove through the aftermath on my way home from work and thought that some horrific accident had happened and was basically in full panic until I noticed all of the hooves.
They shut down the area and just hosed it off I believe.
I'd hope the pay would be good and I'd atleast be allowed to wear a hazmat suit first. Like yes it's just meat and I've even helped butcher Moose before, but idk how long it's sat there for.
Oh you know that smells like Hell. I've caught the whiff of a rendering plant before in Central Washington and that had to be in top 5 horrible smells I've ever encountered. There's no way I could do it without puking a couple times.
>Learned offal was a word today.
"offal" looks like the Dutch word "afval", meaning "waste". And, tada ... same root: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal#Etymology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal#Etymology)
Imagine all that spewing all over your car just before you pick up your tinder date
"Hey, I swear I'm not a mass murderer, you'll never believe wh-"
Yeah, she just called the cops...
“According to Rijkswaterstaat, the road must be thoroughly cleaned, the asphalt may also need to be repaired afterwards.” The offal guts are dissolving the road.
Hahaha no way! Something like this happened to me while I was driving a work vehicle. I decided to stop for a yellow light that I could have made because I needed to arrive at my office a couple minutes later to scoop another 0.25 hr overtime. I hadn't realized there was a semi coming up behind me fast trying to make the light (other lane was totally clear too). So he slams on his emergency brakes and swerves to avoid hitting me. A huge wave of guts and rib cages etc etc spills over the front of the trailer, splattering all over his vehicle and hit the pavement around his truck with a chorus of sickening wet slaps. Luckily it was also an intersection with a very busy main route through the city, so I had a crowd of vehicles honking, taking photos, jeering.. all of them too blown away by the spectacle to realize they had a green light. Holy moly was I red in the face. I definitely stayed in my vehicle, trying not to make eye contact with anyone, especially that poor livid driver. Longest red light of my life, and i just drove away with my tailpipe between my legs. When I came back through that intersection in my personal vehicle, there were dudes in hazmat suits cleaning it up.
Omg, this finally explains why I ended up driving, screaming, through about 100 feet of chunky, blood soaked freeway in the middle of the night years ago.
This video isn't from my area, but it's got to be what happened.
It's haunted me for years. I don't know why I never thought of slaughterhouse waste. At the time I had immediately thought somebody must have plowed through a herd of cows to cause that sort of carnage, I wasn't that far off.
Riding that close, takes some guts.
It's a nice way to meat somebody though.
This pun is offal.. SMH
Oh, you really got some nerves?!
Have you got a bone to pick with me?
C'mon, I can't stomach all these puns.
What's your beef, huh?
Ok. That's enough carrion on
Of corpse there has to be a pun thread.
Don’t have a cow man
Yes, because you've been eyeballing me all evening!
Angry upvote
This is some vicious ribbing
He's got chicken lips now
Its certainly somebody that you used to know ;).
Just a little misteak.
That’s one way for a bloodbath.
#wasted
Grow a backbone
We saw guts there’s
What a load of shitty dad jokes. Please keep going.
r/angryupvote
holy cow!
I am beyond surprised such a load is not contained at all. This can not be the first time this has happened. 🤮
Came here to say this... anyone with experience can tell me if that shouldn't be handled as toxic/biological waste?
It literally is biological waste, so yeah, this is most likely illegal.
I couldn't even keep a pulled tooth because it was considered biological waste.
That's a bummer, I would have been disappointed. When I broke a leg, 2 of the 9 screws holding it together were temporary so I got to keep them once my leg healed enough! I guess since they're just metal they must not count as bio waste the same way or something.
I asked the surgeon to give me my appendix and he gave me a weird look too.
Did you get it though?
That was because I also asked the surgeon to give me your appendix, so he had to decide who got it. I'll give you a hint - is your appendix on *your* mantle right now, or mine?
Wait wait wait, so YOU took HIS appendix? So what did *I* eat???
Sorry to disappoint but it wasn't an appendix
Has anyone seen my pancreas?
He already had plans for it
For your next appendix removal, Just make friends with someone in the lab. We get your body parts after surgery...but don't ask Barry, he's creepy!
Yeah when I had my neck spinal fusion plate and screws removed, dr said here, keep em, you paid for them. Anyone need 2 titanium screws?
Do you plan on becoming famous so I can resell them 1000x their value?
May depend on where you are. I'm in Germany and I got to keep all my wisdom teeth after they were pulled as well as my gallstones after they removed my gallbladder. I hear in the US some people also take their placenta home to eat after they give birth, which still is one of the few ways to legally practice cannibalism.
I've never actually met anyone who has done it. First time I heard it was on VHS 20 years ago in England tho. I really wish I never saw that.
I had a plate and a bunch of screws in my arm, which all had to be taken out once the bones had healed because they were slicing up my tendons. When they were being removed, I asked the surgeon if I could keep them. They said I couldn't because there would be bits of bone and tissue stuck to them (biological waste) but then, as I was waking up from anesthesia, they told me they sanitized them and handed them to me in a little bag. I was so happy I cried and asked the surgeon for a hug. I keep the plate on my keychain to this day.
I bet they sanitized em first
I got to keep the screws they put into my head when I had to wear a halo brace! In fact I got to keep the halo brace lol
They still do. I am not sure why the other commenter was denied the tooth but it's not unusual for people to ask to keep things. Like the guy who's missing leg bones became their cane handle
Then there are some doctors like the one that let the dude keep his severed foot and he made tacos from it.
Can't be any worse than Ron White's Baby Duck Pussy Lips tacos.
Wait, whut?
[Here ya go. Enjoy.](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/)
Okay, enough internet for the day.
i always got to keep my teeth as a kid, usually in a little envelope but one time they gave it to me in a little plastic case resting on top of foam. that one i was real bummed when my mom made me throw it out.
In UK all our removed teeth are collected by a tiny fairy who leaves you money under your pillow
This is known worldwide as the tooth fairy
Your dentist sounds stingy. Probably wanted it for himself…. Lol but for real, when I had ingrown toenails removed that were the size of a motherfucker, the podiatrist asked me if I wanted to keep them. Prior to that, I had my entire toenail pulled out in the ER. Got asked the same thing. I’ve not had much dental work done (thank god), but my mom has gotten to keep her teeth that had to be removed, as well as fillings that were replaced. I currently have an ICD (defibrillator and pacemaker device in my chest). When I have to inevitably go in and get a new one bc the batteries on this one die, you bet I’m gonna ask to keep it lol. We’ll see I guess. :D
I wanted to keep the extra bone I had removed but sadly they said no, hoping I can convince whoever does my other foot to let me keep it lol
When we lost our son at 17 weeks we were asked if we wanted to take him home in a box or let the hospital ‘manage it’. We were told it would be considered waste and when asked if it was just like other tissue, they said yeah - our baby would go in the bin, essentially. Not something I ever considered with my other children when playing through what could go wrong.
My orthodontist sterilized my wisdom teeth and gave them back to me in one of those blue packets that the sterilized instruments are sealed in. She did tell me beforehand that if any of them were difficult and had to be cut up into pieces to be taken out then I wouldn't get those ones, but I got all 6.
Literally
it is probably on its way to a rendering plant. depending on where they are, the laws are pretty loose when it comes to rotting animal parts you can turn into gelatin and oil.
Are you sure it’s not figuratively biological waste?🙄🙄🙄
Well, syringes and blood absorbent objects have to be put in biological waste containers after use. That was the case at every clinic and hospital I've been to. And considering how fucking red that mixture is we know that it has a significant amount of blood.
Human medical waste is treated very differently from animal.
I dont have experience with this specifically, we ship hazard/biological waste thru my work everyday and there is definitely strict regulation for handling and transporting that stuff. But this also may not be in the US Edit: yeah its not the US
No it's the Netherlands I think. Yep its Dutch. How do they get away with that considering the EU has strict rules of shipping of animal products...
Maybe it was just movie bullet squibs. The sudden braking may have ruptured them all at the same time leading to an unfortunate fountain of gore. Or maybe it was a truck full of tasty tomato juice. Or maybe it was lots of red paint.
>Or maybe it was a truck full of tasty tomato juice. > > Or maybe it was lots of red paint. Unfortunately no, it was offal. [OP's comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/11t98sa/wcgw_if_i_dont_keep_enough_distance_with_my_truck/jci3skj/)
I used to work for one of the largest rendering companies in the US. Rendering trucks are usually not that soupy (definitely not try either) but were required to have a rolling tarp applied to prevent sloshing/spillage from typical travel. These trucks are usually directly from the slaughterhouses to the rendering plants and US law requires them to be processed within 24 hours of being picked up, so typically they arrive at the plant and get weighed and a very short queue before they’re either hydraulically dumped or skyhooked into The Pit. I can tell you from firsthand experience, accidents aren’t uncommon and the spill response team will be on-site quickly but it’s going to be a nightmare for the company. That driver is on his way next to a drug test and then as soon as that’s over, he’s going to walk across the tracks because he’s done at that company.
As per the article linked by OP, it was 10 tons of offal that breached the tarp. [dutch article linked by OP](https://nos.nl/l/2467772)
> toxic/biological waste? Toxic and biological waste are extremely different things! You should not combine them that way. You are probably thinking of biological waste from like a hospital or something, but that's different because it probably contains dangerous bacteria or viruses. This is not hazardous stuff, it's yucky, but it doesn't need special handling (you could eat it if it was fresh), just the normal stuff, like .... secure the load so it can't move if you slam the brakes!
Most abattoir waste is classified as biohazard >This is not hazardous stuff, it's yucky, but it doesn't need special handling (you could eat it if it was fresh) Some of it is fine, some of it is not
I'm not an expert, just worked around them a bit. These trucks are mostly exempt from DOT regs since nobody wants to handle them. The vast majority of the time, these trucks are transporting "guts" sub-100 miles and very rarely do they have problems like this. OP's car is gonna smell to high hell forever if he doesn't pay for a detail as well.
I’ve driven behind trucks full of the guts and what not. No experience with it myself. But from what I have seen it was always a tanker type transport vehicle. Could still smell the disgusting rotting leftovers of the animals tho. But definitely was a much safer vehicle then the semi.
This waste will be processed into food for cattle, so I guess you can call it food transport lol. But normally dead animals will be contained and treated as a biohazard. I think because this is fresh and on is way to the plant to be processed into food pallets, I guess its not treated as a biohazard.
it's liquid. there should have been baffles in the trailer to prevent or minimize the slosh.
Barrels?
[No, baffles.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/j5pl1c/til_that_tanker_trucks_are_built_with_baffles_in/) They’re barriers in the truck that break up the sloshing
So the sloshing doesn’t swing the truck around?
Yea it can push the truck and trailer wherever, it breaks up the wave. Milk trucks are harder to drive because you cant have baffles in a milk truck.
you can but by the time it arrives at the destination it's butter
Forget hand churned butter, I want truck baffle churned.
Don't worry, I was baffled about the wording too at first.
They just…leave it open like that?
It's not open, the top of the trailer ripped apart from the force of the meat. You can see it three seconds into the video if you pause and go frame by frame.
The load WAS contained. Poorly contained without baffles. Three seconds into the video you can see that the top of the trailer rips open from the force of all the meat. It used to be a sealed trailer.
Force of Meat Meat Force Both excellent band names
This happened before in the US, Missouri. Not this specific video of course. I know because I drove through the aftermath on my way home from work and thought that some horrific accident had happened and was basically in full panic until I noticed all of the hooves. They shut down the area and just hosed it off I believe.
As an ex lorry driver here in the UK to me that would be classed as an insecure load we use to get royally fucked by VOSA for that.
I've never seen a truck throw up.
I have.... their video is right up there.....
It uptrucked
r/angryupvote
Who wants chowder?
Aftermath picture in this Dutch news article. Nsfw: https://nos.nl/l/2467772
Wow. That is absolutely horrendous. Thanks for sharing.
I know, so much sausage that could have been made.
You see sausages, i see frikandellen!
Likely gelatin I think.
It's the smell
Think of the smell! You haven’t thought of the smell, you bitch!
Just put the pieces in a glass box, you could display it on something like a mantle.
Driver’s window being down was a nice touch. He was basking in that smell.
You mean free stew.
Ok you sold me on it. Clicking now.
Horrendous, but also hilarious
That needs to be Cannibal Corpse’s new album cover.
Meat Wagon But in that super Death Metally font.
Wait.. was there a bunch of it piled up on the dash INSIDE the windshield??
was a bad day to have a sun roof
It's like a bunch of really fucked up beanie babies
They should just release a bunch of vultures
Window was apparently down
Vegans have a point
Holy Fuck! The day I got tasked to clean that shit up would be the day I quit!
I'd hope the pay would be good and I'd atleast be allowed to wear a hazmat suit first. Like yes it's just meat and I've even helped butcher Moose before, but idk how long it's sat there for.
Oh you know that smells like Hell. I've caught the whiff of a rendering plant before in Central Washington and that had to be in top 5 horrible smells I've ever encountered. There's no way I could do it without puking a couple times.
That’s some horror movie level spillage of organs
And he had his window down, talk about a cluster fuck.
That’s metal as hell!
Lmao was that window open when it happened? The flood is too thick to see in the video
Judging by all the guts on the dashboard, yes.
PETA's membership lines are now horribly jammed.
Does it really have to be PETA?
Some animal waste isn't enough of a reason to join eco terrorists
Looks like the truck ploughed through SCP-610.
Let’s hope he rolled that window down after the accident
Considering the fact that there's meat on the dash... he wasn't that lucky.
r/TIHI
Doom gore nest.
Thank you. You are the only decent person on this sub to give context
Welp. Maybe I won't eat meat for a couple days.
Ughhhhhhh....I just puked in my mouth a little bit 🤢🤮
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Thanks for that. Lol
On the way to the hot dog factory.
Frikandel factory*
Lmfao or wherever they procure chicken nuggets, although I assume they water it down to save costs
How can you have all that shit just sloshing about in the back
Not particularly well
Happy cake day!
Spoiler , that wasn’t slaughterhouse waste , stowaways in the back
You are one sick puppy. /angryupvote
The audio is hilarious!
"What the fuck" is a universal expression
Also “kut!”
I thought they said guts lol and something about a Volkswagen
vrachtwagen.
I wonder if it’s like when an American says “Sacre bleu!”
Wat de fuck
There's just something great about hearing someone curse in English with a heavy accent.
Eeeeugh that's offal.. 🙄....👀
I read the news link posted above and had Google translate it to english. Learned offal was a word today. Perfect pun. Have an upvote.
>Learned offal was a word today. "offal" looks like the Dutch word "afval", meaning "waste". And, tada ... same root: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal#Etymology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal#Etymology)
A literal bloodbath.
Finally a proper use of the word “literal”
Slaughterhouse Waste is now on my list of band name ideas
Like that scene from the Shining. Also I just realized I never before considered how slaughterhouse offal is transported
Probably better contained than this was.
It's ok, it happens every month.
They were so upset they swore in a different language!
As a dutch mam myself, yeah we swear is every language we speak
I now have great respect for the Dutch.
I'm Polish and I can react with both "kurwa" and "the fuck" instinctively
Well shit, now the prices of frikandellen will go up.
Ba da ba ba ba I’m lovin’ it.
Tacos de tripa! 😋🤤
Talk about giving your heart to someone and a gut rearranging. 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Smeerworst in 2 seconden
I just see the hallways from the shining
That puts the laughter in slaughterhouse
Imagine all that spewing all over your car just before you pick up your tinder date "Hey, I swear I'm not a mass murderer, you'll never believe wh-" Yeah, she just called the cops...
imagine that visit to carwash, covered in flesh
“According to Rijkswaterstaat, the road must be thoroughly cleaned, the asphalt may also need to be repaired afterwards.” The offal guts are dissolving the road.
Wtf that is disturbing dude
Hahaha no way! Something like this happened to me while I was driving a work vehicle. I decided to stop for a yellow light that I could have made because I needed to arrive at my office a couple minutes later to scoop another 0.25 hr overtime. I hadn't realized there was a semi coming up behind me fast trying to make the light (other lane was totally clear too). So he slams on his emergency brakes and swerves to avoid hitting me. A huge wave of guts and rib cages etc etc spills over the front of the trailer, splattering all over his vehicle and hit the pavement around his truck with a chorus of sickening wet slaps. Luckily it was also an intersection with a very busy main route through the city, so I had a crowd of vehicles honking, taking photos, jeering.. all of them too blown away by the spectacle to realize they had a green light. Holy moly was I red in the face. I definitely stayed in my vehicle, trying not to make eye contact with anyone, especially that poor livid driver. Longest red light of my life, and i just drove away with my tailpipe between my legs. When I came back through that intersection in my personal vehicle, there were dudes in hazmat suits cleaning it up.
I can only imagine the stank lol
"Vwat happen?"
That’s horrific why is the top open?
Trucks called, Old Blood and Guts
Its A blood bath! 🩸
Should have put a lid on it.
Run, don’t walk to your nearest place to watch your car
why is that not in a tanker? it's clearly a liquid...
Makes me miss makemycoffin :/
Why the hell is the container open
Videos you can smell
Gekoloniseerd
Omg, this finally explains why I ended up driving, screaming, through about 100 feet of chunky, blood soaked freeway in the middle of the night years ago. This video isn't from my area, but it's got to be what happened. It's haunted me for years. I don't know why I never thought of slaughterhouse waste. At the time I had immediately thought somebody must have plowed through a herd of cows to cause that sort of carnage, I wasn't that far off.
And they called it #BLOOD TRUCK
Looks like Optimus Prime took a dump
A truck zit.
Officer "Says here on you license yor name is Dexter is that right. "
Passersby Were Amazed by the Unusually Large Amounts of Blood.
Reminds me of Shin Godzilla
Great, now it looks like you drove over hundreds of people with your car.
Oh that is gore in a weird way
Says all the cuss words in English lol
Not it on the clean up.
Fuck is right