Chicken truck burns in Chili, NY

Forty thousand pounds of chicken meat were engulfed in flames last week after a tractor trailor's fuel tank ruptured.

The chicken-filled 18-wheeler, which originated in Mississippi, ignited and was engulfed in flames just a few miles from its intended destination, the Wegmans Distribution Center, in Chili, said Chili Fire Department Chief Kevin Steeves.

• [Max Amerongen]

  Well they blew up the chicken man in Chili last night.

• [EH]

  I want my 18-wheel 18-wheel 18-wheel…

• [Beth Cravens]

  down here we call that a bbq

• [Jack Feerick]

  I live the next town over, and this mess is why my daughter was 20 minutes late for her kung fu lesson on Thursday.

  I hate to make this less funny, but the name of the town is pronounced locally to rhyme with “bye bye,” not like the foodstuff. Still plenty bizarre without the puns, though.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    That makes it more funny.

• [Snig]

  “Oh, the avianity”

• [Jelly Bean Raider]

  “I need: salt, pepper and paprika STAT!!!”

• [Wingnut]

  God-tier irony:
  Truck collided with a waffle place.

• [Felton / Moderator]

  Where’s Super Chicken when you need him?

• [trackofalljades]

  This probably smelled either really great, or really horrifying.

  • [ldobe]

    Cooking with Diesel Considered Harmful

  • [mccrum]

    I had been thinking that it went through three main stages:
    1 – Feathers.  Horrifying.
    2 – A perfect chicken x40,000 pounds.  Astonishing.
    3 – Burned.  See 1.

    • [Antinous / Moderator]

      It was meat, not whole chickens.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    It could hardly smell worse than KFC.

• [relawson]

  Sir, i’ll have the flame’n hot chicken in Chili, pls

• [civilguy]

  cookin’ with diesel is fine in Texas….

• [Michael P Marchetti]

  the wack-nuts in upstate NY pronounce the city chy lie
  and a nearby town spelled
  charlotte is pronounced shar lot
  go figure