For years now, Flat Rock, Michigan, has been receiving truckloads of shit from Toronto, with many local residences turning a blind eye, accepting their place in the economic pecking order. But their pride was put to the ultimate test early Wednesday morning when a 50-ton truck loaded with Canadian shit dropped its load in a downtown intersection [1] after skidding to a stop.
"I looked at this and said, 'Oh, shit,'" said Steve Tallman, Flat Rock's police chief. "It smelled unbelievable."
The foot-deep pile took more than five hours to clean up, at an estimated cost of $10,000.
Michigan's state motto is Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice -- "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you."
Look about you, indeed.
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