“The final resting spot of the once glorious glazed donuts.”
The police department in Brookhaven, Georgia openly shared their grief in this social media post, honoring a load of tragically fallen donuts.
A surprising act of carb kindness followed.
The Facebook post screengrabbed above details a scene of “total carnage” on Tuesday morning, when dozens of donuts fell off a Krispy Kreme delivery truck in the Georgia town.
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Oh God, it's hard to even type about this tragedy.
All those donuts, crashing into delicious sugary cakey crumbs onto the unforgiving curb, and into a gutter, like so many dunked crullers.
Smashed up into bits.
Uneaten.
But not forgotten.
📷 Brookhaven, GA Police Department
📷 Brookhaven, GA Police Department
📷 Brookhaven, GA Police Department
From the Associated Press:
Police say their response time to the call was stellar, but they missed the five-second rule. The post asked for thoughts and prayers as the total loss of the doughnuts deeply affected all the department’s officers.
Police later added a comment with an update to the so-called tragedy. It says officers in Gainesville sent a batch of sympathy doughnuts to Brookhaven police in their time of mourning.
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