30,000 pounds of bananas? How about 7,000 pounds of lobster?

Harry Chapin was an enormously talented singer and entertainer.  He could be humorous, too;  he write an entire song about the crash of a truck carrying 30,000 pounds of bananas outside of Scranton Pennsylvania -- an event that actually happened.

30,000 pounds of bananas - Wikipedia

The Banana Truck Crash - 50 Years Later

YouTube video, from Greatest Stories Live by Harry Chapin (the best version)


SO AFTER ALL THAT, all I really wanted to say is that if Harry was still with us today, he could write a sequel of sorts:

Truck carrying 7,000 pounds of live lobster crashes in Maine

"Authorities say the driver drifted off the right shoulder and hit an embankment, causing the truck to roll over. The driver has been hospitalized with minor injuries.  

The truck was carrying 60 to 70 crates of lobster, and traffic was backed up for hours as crews worked to clean up the crustaceans. 

Police say the lobster cannot be eaten because of how long it was unrefrigerated."

So I guess the accident could actually be termed a lobster roll.

 Practically writes itself !!