‘Enjoy the weirdness’: Steel balls sent hurtling down Seattle street after truck sheds load (VIDEOS)
A driver transporting massive steel balls may be regretting his GPS choices after the heavy cargo fell out the back of his truck as he attempted to scale a steep hill in Seattle.
The bizarre incident saw a city street showered with forged steel ball bearings. Captured on camera by locals, the sheer weight of the cargo appears to have broken the back doors of the 18-wheeler, which was delivering bags of the 2,000kg balls.
According to the driver, he took a wrong turn and his GPS then recommended a – disastrous, as it transpired – different route up the steep incline of Genesee Street.
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Truck is gone — SW Genesee Street still closed as city finishes cleaning up. LIVE 11p on @KIRO7Seattle w/ new video a family took from inside their car as it was pelted by the metal balls, their windshield cracked. On TV or📲 https://t.co/NyrmuY3h0npic.twitter.com/4kCjRJvXa5
— Michael Spears (@MichaelKIRO7) October 18, 2018
NEW VIDEO: This is why @SeattlePD has shut down 30th Ave SW and SW Genessee. Truck carrying metal balls loses its load, sending the two pound balls tumbling down hill. #KOMONewspic.twitter.com/zjxuY1UAfE
— Morgan Chesky (@BreakingChesky) October 18, 2018
UPDATE: Just got on scene. Hundreds of these steel balls poured out of this truck and rolled down Genesee Street. Some cars damaged. About the size of a shot put. #komonewspic.twitter.com/w7PCaLrDsp
— Patrick Quinn (@PatrickQuinnTV) October 18, 2018
A total of six vehicles were damaged in the incident as the ball bearings hurtled down the street at high speed, reported Seattle’s Kiro 7 news. Images from the scene show balls smashing into car bumpers, as well crashing into a windscreen.
“I got home from work and I couldn’t park on my street because of hundreds of thousands of steel balls on it,” Genesee Street local Luke Gill said. Seattle police closed the street while a clean-up operation was carried out.
Another eyewitness, who managed to film the cargo as it plowed down the center of the road, expressed his shock and the strange satisfaction of seeing scores of metal balls hurtling towards him.
“Don’t see this too often – steel balls rolling down the street by the West Seattle golf course. Had to stop and enjoy the weirdness,” Mark Gunlogson said.
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