Local News Cliche Watch: Molasses Truck Overturns On Highway

It’s the kind of story bitter, sarcastic local news writers live for: a molasses truck overturning on a California highway. You know there’s no way you’re getting through the story without somebody–actually, everybody–describing it as a “sticky situation.”

Eight thousand gallons of molasses hit the road, and sure, that “sticky stuff” is indeed “thick as molasses,” as a Sacramento reporter tells us. He adds the “sweet smelling stuff” left drivers caught in the resulting traffic jam “feeling sour.”

And yet, I must admit I felt there was plenty more that could’ve been done with this one. Sure, it wasn’t as good as a beer truck hitting a pretzel truck, or a peanut butter tanker colliding with a jelly wagon, but sometimes, kids, we’ve got to work for our cliches.

A competing station nailed it with: “talk about being stuck in traffic!” Now that’s what I’m talking about!

Watch it here, from CBS:

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