Oregon police found themselves in a bit of a slimy situation when a huge truck carrying roughly 7,Watch Fast & Furious 7 Online500 pounds of eels overturned, spilling them and their uhh....excretions?...all over the road and nearby cars.
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The eels are technically a type of fish called "hagfish," which are an eel-shaped fish with no jaw or vertebrae that produce slime when distressed (hence the nickname "slime eel"). And they look like this.
A Hagfish is displayed in Portsmouth, N.H., . The virtually blind and eel-like creature, which measures about 30 inches, and which features small tentacles around its jawless mouth and pincher-like teeth on its tongue, is the world's oldest vertebrate. Credit: STEVEN SENNE/AP/REX/Shutterstock AH! SHIT!
According to police, no one was injured. But pictures and videos of the incident look like they're straight from some apocalypse horror movie where a natural disaster destroys society.
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One eyewitness said Paul Thomas Anderson showed up with a film crew before clean up efforts were underway in an attempt to "save money on special effects" for his sequel to Magnolia.
(Just kidding.)
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