I-494 ramp shutdown in Bloomington was because of... a blood spill?
Bloomington Fire, Twitter
Well, if you didn't know tanker trucks drove around carrying gallons and gallons of blood, you do now.
One such tanker just happened to disrupt traffic on the I-494 Friday afternoon, when its crimson cargo somehow leaked onto the highway.
As a result, authorities closed a ramp in Bloomington near Nicollet Avenue while crews worked to contain the blood spill:
The above tweet from the Bloomington Fire Department describes the stuff as "rendering blood" from an animal rendering company; in other words, it's nothing weird. The blood here is simply a byproduct of the slaughtering process, which ends up being used in a wide variety of industrial and consumer products.
Authorities did not disclose how exactly the tanker sprung a leak.
