Aww... sad....

MARSHALL, Texas -- A truck transporting zoo animals overturned early Tuesday, spilling about two dozen penguins, an octopus and tropical fish along a highway north of Marshall, authorities said.

"We had a penguin wreck," said Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Buchanan. "They were thrown out into a ditch and in the roadway."

Three penguins that landed in the highway were killed by oncoming traffic and one died in the crash, authorities said. Another penguin suffered a broken wing.

The driver, Kelly Hodge, 34, and passenger Tammy Root both sustained minor scratches and bruises, police said. Root was taken to a local hospital for treatment and released, authorities said.

Most of the fish lived and the octopus appeared unharmed, officials said. The octopus and fish were traveling in plastic bags, and some fish died when the bags burst, Buchanan said.

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The penguins were traveling in heavy tubs which broke open the truck's trailer. Troopers succeeded in corralling most of the penguins in a roadside ditch, Buchanan said.

Workers from the Caldwell Zoo in nearby Tyler assisted officers in chasing down the penguins and rescuing endangered fish.

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AND eat one bite from every single donut given to my family upon my grandfather's death.

What the hell? Sophia, how do you meet these people?

Me: "Emmett, do you want some pie?"
Emmett: "Pie! Apple, please."
Me: "Do you want a big slice or a little slice?"
Emmett: "I like big pie and I cannot lie, you other brothers can't deny."
Me: ::hands him slice::
Emmett: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's like....a quarter of the pie.
Me: "It is exactly a quarter of the pie."
Emmett: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Aimee, what's an OBC?

I think I'm going to have to save that big pie line and use it later.

My ten year HS reunion will be next year. I don't know if I'm going to go or not. Like Strega, most of the people I hung with were in other grades. Maybe I'll crash the one in '08 and confuse everyone.

In case Aimée isn't around to answer, OBC=Other Biological Contributor. Used for them that don't rate the term "parent".

AHHHH. It's a term that I like. From the tone, I guessed, but I couldn't figure out what it could stand for. The B kept being "bastard."

Which probably isn't too far off the mark.

wrod. Dude, Emmett, that's a lot of fricking pie. I love the stuff, but it is.

Ailleann, nope. NOt far off the mark at all. On their class' reunion site, he has, under #of children, "1 - Elizabeth". Every oncein awhile, when I'm feeling particulary angry, I want to post, Liar! He has two." But, it's enough to know that everyone who looks at that sites knows that he is a ginormous dirtbag.

I skipped my 10 year reunion. None of my friends were able to make it and outside of 1 or 2 people, the only folks I lost touch with that I'd like to see again were in a different grade. (I was a theatre nerd, and the only other theatre nerds in my grade I'm still friends with now.) The rest of my class I was pretty much neutral with, or they made my life hell, so not so much with the wanting to deal with them again, even if they've probably matured into okay people for the most part.

Mmmm, pie.