A Moment Of Silence For The $325,000 Dollars Worth Of Whiskey We Lost In Missouri

Please bow your heads in a moment of silence..

…..

Thank you.

According to USA Today, a semi-truck carrying 12,000 bottles of Templeton Rye whiskey overturned in a highway in Missouri last week. The truck, the whiskey, which was estimated to retail at about $325,000 dollars, everything… a total loss.

Templeton Rye co-founder Keith Kerkhoff shared his all too relatable thoughts on the matter:

“It makes you wonder: What else can go wrong in 2020? Thank God, nobody got hurt.”

2020: It sucks for you, sucks for me, and sucks for Templeton Rye. Processing manager Kevin Boersma also added that he’s never seen anything like this before:

“It’s definitely the strangest thing I’ve ever had happen with a truckload or shipment. You could see on the video that maybe some cases might have made it… but I haven’t heard anything official.”

It just breaks your heart…

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOSE 40K WHISKEY. Delays US-71 SB traffic Mo to Ark for 6+ hours Wed AM >>> CLICK https://t.co/hha7CKq5mV Driver not injured. @MSHPTrooperD @shanbecker @KSNLocalNews @KODEnews #whiterockfiredistrict #McDonaldCoMoSheriff @JoplinNewsFirst pic.twitter.com/CpjBLecoX4

— Joplin News First (@JoplinNewsFirst) July 26, 2020

Absolutely devastating.

In the words of Lainey Wilson, “what a waste of good whiskey.”

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MCDONALD COUNTY, Mo. — Just before 5:00 AM on Wednesday morning McDonald County Sheriffs office and White Rock Fire were dispatched to reports of a semi tractor trailer rollover near the state line on US-71. Upon arrival a semi hauling 40,000 lbs of alcohol had rolled traveling south, blocking the southbound lanes. Traffic is narrowed to one lane to the right shoulder as the clean-up will take hours. Trooper J.S. Baird of the Missouri State Highway Patrol tells us the driver from Georgia was not injured. Plan for southbound US-71 delays at Janes until about 10:00 AM. Thousands of broken of broken bottles litter the ditch. Missouri Dept of Natural Resources are working on the clean up. Decatur Towing will remove the semi tractor trailer. More information as it is released from Troop D of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. For news on IG, click @joplinnewsfirst then our profile URL. #shannonbeckerreporting #semirollover @mshptrooper #mcdonaldcomosheriff #janemo #WhiteRockFireDistrict #DecaturTowing #NWAhomepage #nexstarnation @ksnf16 @action12news

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