State Police Cause Raid on Spilled Soda to Fizzle

WHATELY, Mass. — Efforts by motorists to snatch up thousands of bouncing plastic bottles of soda dumped from a cargo truck fizzled Wednesday when state police were called in to monitor the cleanup.

A truck spilled the bottles on Interstate 91 shortly before 7:30 a.m., State Police Sgt. Daniel Kavanaugh said. Most of the soda cargo remained intact because it was packaged in plastic bottles.

“We ended up with a problem of people stopping to pick up the soda,” Kavanaugh said. “We sent the cruiser on another call, then we had to send the officer back because people were stopping to pick up the soda.”