Bonner Springs — A truck full of cattle drove off an embankment of an interstate near Bonner Springs, Kan., and burst into flames, killing several cattle and closing one lane of the interstate.
The accident happened about 2:30 a.m. Thursday on westbound Interstate 70 near 110th Street in Bonner Springs.
Police say one lane of the interstate could be closed for most of the day as cleanup continues.
The driver of the truck has been hospitalized but the extent of his injuries was not immediately known.
About 30 to 40 cattle either died in the accident or had to be euthanized, while officials were rounding up several other cows.
Comments
Crazy_Larry 1 year ago
Mooo-ment of silence for the bovine lost in this tragedy...
jehovah_bob 1 year ago
When life hands you 30 to 40 incinerated cattle, make BBQ.
KSense 1 year ago
Can't. They're incinerated.
jehovah_bob 1 year ago
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G8Z3xDVFTas/TVhieUeGHaI/AAAAAAAAAQE/QdvR5indrKE/s1600/fuuu.png
jehovah_bob 1 year ago
Aww geeze, nevermind.
somedude20 1 year ago
medium well or well done is aight wit me, yo yo yo yous gots the beefs, I be bringsing the sauces, oh hells yeahs
rockchalker52 1 year ago
whatever goes with burnt ends
tomatogrower 1 year ago
Aren't you glad you don't live near there? Eww.
oletimer 1 year ago
You people are a bunch of morons. Driver in serious condition. Road closed. Cattle killed. And all you can do is make jokes? REALLY? Just goes to show you that society is going to hell in a handbasket. For all of you who don't understand that saying, ask someone who has been around more than a few years.
Crazy_Larry 1 year ago
Do you have any idea of how many drivers are injured, and cattle are killed, daily in Kansas.
OonlyBonly 1 year ago
Fewer than the number of inane or inappropriate comments published by people on the LJ-W website.
Pywacket 1 year ago
Would their making reverent, solemn comments bring the cattle back or improve the driver's chances of recovery? It wasn't local. It's unlikely the driver's family will be scouring all the online news outlets and come across anything here that's going to offend. (And no one has said anything bad about the driver, anyway.) People are just trying to lighten up their day a little. Cattle crash & burn in the area of Kansas City? Who DIDN'T have a few thoughts about BBQ?
OonlyBonly 1 year ago
And how do you know where the Driver's family resides or the driver? Interesting choice of handles: "The name of Pywacket creates a restless, creative nature that takes you into many ventures, but does not allow you to see things through to a satisfactory completion." so you use this "creative nature" to make fun of others misfortunes......
none2 1 year ago
I'm not a vegan, but I have to agree with oletimer.
While these cattle would have been eventually killed for food, the method of killing would have been some kind of instantaneous method -- not some slow method such as burning to death. There isn't anything funny about suffering -- human or animal.
We also know nothing about the driver. For all we know he could have been from Lawrence.
cattletruckersdaughter 1 year ago
actually its not unlikely for the drivers family to be online looking at the comments that people post. im that mans daughter. I think that all you people who have no idea what really happened need to stop talking bad about the driver and blaming him for things that are uncontrolable. To all the people who are keeping him in your prayers thank you. But to the people who wanna hate bc "cows died" get a life. There will be plenty more cows.!
JayhawksandHerd 1 year ago
Says the guy who refers to "oddballs" in the thread following the SB 142 article. I somehow doubt that was meant to be taken as a term of endearment.
JayhawksandHerd 1 year ago
Well, speaking as a white, heterosexual male, you and I will probably have to agree to disagree on that issue, but that isn't the point. I simply find it ironic that one - unprompted and unsolicited - would disparage an entire group of people, yet turn around less than a day later and call out others for essentially doing the same. Oletimer didn't argue his/her opinion; s/he was just being mean spirited.
FWIW, I'm not a fan of the comments either, as I don't take serious injury or death lightly.
OonlyBonly 1 year ago
+1 Typical inappropriate comments.
RoeDapple 1 year ago
Pink slime?
jehovah_bob 1 year ago
Good sir, how dare you call me a hypocrite? Who said anything about civility? I don't believe I have ever written the word before now, and I scoff at it. SCOFF at it I tell you! Hell in a handbasket indeed, and I'll be making a stop at the haberdashery upon my way. To even suggest that I be civil in this maligned world is enough to bring me to fisticuffs. I say, "Embrace the chaos!" it is the bee's knees.
RoeDapple 1 year ago
"ignorant" and "rude" don't bother me, but why'd you have to go and call me a "leftist"?
RoeDapple 1 year ago
;-)
RoeDapple 1 year ago
Hey, I saw a train load of wind turbine props come through yesterday. Tried to convince the wife we should have a couple on the property. We would eventually get used to the "womp, womp, womp, womp, womp, womp, . . . "
Wouldn't we?
Of course, there's this . . .
Windmill/Wind Turbine Explosion by Kourinsu
pace 1 year ago
My gosh, the headline is wrong, this is not about a bad wreck, cattle burned alive, an injured trucker. it is all about i j math, featuring snide remarks about one of his pet hates.
Commenting has been disabled for this item.