Commuters on I-5 found themselves blocked up in Santa Clarita. The culprit? Toilet paper.
It's no secret that too much toilet paper can clog your pipes. But now there's proof that it can clog a freeway too. On Monday, commuters passing through Santa Clarita on the southbound 5 Freeway found themselves backed up behind hundreds of rolls of toilet paper. The incident occurred around 1:30 p.m., when a pickup truck going south dropped cases of the stuff onto the road, blocking the lanes merging onto Interstate 5 from Lyons Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.
' Officials reported that there were five to six industrial-sized boxes that had split open, unleashing the cascade of bathroom tissue . Overhead footage from a local Fox News station shows three officers picking up the stray rolls by hand and tossing them over into a closed section of the highway to remove them from traffic lanes. Some rolls could be seen unraveling in the wind and bouncing down the highway into oncoming cars.
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