Radioactive Road Rage: DUI Driver's Nuclear Nemesis on Highway 16

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You know the old saying, “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”? Well, today my curiosity nearly required a defibrillator. Because let me tell you about something you absolutely did not need to know, and yet, in the spirit of podcasting, I am legally obligated to share it. Buckle up, because this… is the story of a radioactive highway hiccup involving absolutely zero superheroes.

Yesterday in Washington State, traffic on State Route 16 ground to a halt for hours—not because of an overturned tofu truck, or because someone spotted Bigfoot hitchhiking, but thanks to a crash involving a perfectly ordinary car and… a piece of equipment with a radioactive core. That’s right, it was just your classic “guy slams into a construction zone, hits several vehicles, and—surprise!—radioactive material everywhere.” Now, somewhere, there was probably a safety inspector sighing deeply and swearing to never buy gas station sushi again, because who plans for this on a Thursday?

Naturally, authorities scrambled a hazmat team, and part of the highway was closed for what I’m guessing is the only time in history motorists were happy to be in a traffic jam. I mean, imagine explaining to your boss, “Sorry I’m late, radioactive core on the loose.” Not a dog-ate-my-homework situation, is it?

But here’s where it gets impressively anticlimactic. No one glowed. The authorities assured everyone there was no danger to the public. The only real casualties? Dry cleaning bills and maybe a few people’s underwear. But wait, there’s more. To make things even more delightfully unnecessary, the driver was apparently arrested for DUI. Because nothing says “bad life choices” like combining impaired driving and radioactive heavy equipment.

So, for your next trivia night, you can amaze your friends: “Did you know a guy in Washington got arrested for crashing into a radioactive core while allegedly drunk last Thursday?” If you want to win, bet that the driver’s mutant superpowers are just an enhanced ability to regret his decisions.

The highway has since reopened, and I’d like to think there’s now a crew member with a Geiger counter who has “Not All Heroes Wear Capes” stitched onto his vest. Godspeed, hazmat teams. If only that radioactive core could remove the memory of this story from our minds… but alas, that’s not in the nuclear playbook. And to the rest of us: let’s try to keep our construction zones both accident- and Chernobyl-free.

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