Screws and tires don't mix -- just ask the drivers of more than 40 cars on Interstate 25 in the Denver area, whose journeys ground to a halt yesterday. More than five-thousand screws went flying from a truck. The driver said the belt that kept the boxes of screws in place on his truck broke, and when it did, the liberated screws went in all directions. He proceeded to hand out business cards to everyone with flat tire, called in a tow truck and paid for all the repairs at a local tire shop.
As someone who reported on this during my traffic reports, I can tell you that this did indeed screw up traffic. I'm actually surprised that the news department thought this was a news story...but then again, they've been known to have screws loose as well.
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