Pepper Pop Plasters Poor Portales

From last week's Portales NM pntonline:

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Dr Pepper truck spills load

Diet or regular — Portales clean-up crews had plenty of choices Tuesday after a Dr Pepper truck dumped its load at Avenue A and First Street.

Police said a flatbed Dr Pepper truck was west bound on First Street when its load shifted while attempting a lane change.

The intersection was down to one lane in all directions, while clean up crews hosed off the sticky mess. The clean up took about 45 minutes.

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45 minutes to clean up the entire mess?

I heard the clean up crews had to go back at 10, 2 and 4 to finish it all off.