Chain-Reaction Crash With Minor Injuries, Except for the Slime Eels<br />We’re signing off for the evening, but I doubt we’ll sleep tonight because...#eels<br />Hagfish have been documented escaping from sharks by choking them with “enormous amounts” of slime, Dr. Thaler wrote, adding<br />that the slime is so tough that scientists are exploring ways to use it to create natural Lycra.<br />A truck hauling 7,500 pounds of hagfish, also known as slime eels, was traveling on Highway 101 around<br />noon, transporting the fish to be exported to South Korea, where some diners consider them a delicacy.<br />Picture the scene from the 1984 “Ghostbusters” movie in which Dr. Peter Venkman, played by Bill Murray, complains about being “slimed.” Then multiply<br />that a thousandfold, and you’ll get some idea of what happened on a coastal highway in Depoe Bay, Ore., about 100 miles west of Portland.<br />By CHRISTOPHER MELEJULY 14, 2017<br />If you thought you were enduring a “summer of hell” commute, consider the repulsive mess created<br />on an Oregon highway on Thursday in a collision of modern transportation and prehistoric fish.<br />The truck’s load shifted, causing one of the containers carrying the hagfish to “fly across the highway,” the Oregon State Police said.<br />Workers used bulldozers and hoses to clean up the wriggling fish, which coated the road and cars in a slime<br />that they produce copiously for protection and when they are stressed.
