‘Squid has a distinctive odor to it’: Seafood truck crash in Rhode Island creates ‘Squidpocalypse of ’26’

Narragansett’s “Squidpocalypse of ’26” shut an intersection from 9:27 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. as crews removed spilled calamari in summer heat.

The Narragansett Police Department said the town is still recovering from the “Squidpocalypse of ’26 — the spill that put ‘slippery when wet’ to shame.”

Truckload Of Squid Spills Into The Street In Rhode Island -- And, Boy, Does It Stink!  HuffPost

A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat

A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat

The Rhode Island town of Narragansett was left with a very smelly cleanup over the weekend after thousands of squid spilled over the highway. The incident happened on Sunday morning when the driver of a tractor-trailer transporting the squid failed to make a turn and the vehicle fell on to its side, the town’s police d

A tractor-trailer tipped over and spilled two tons of squid onto a Rhode Island roadway, prompting an hours-long cleanup of what local police dubbed the “Squidpocalypse of ‘26,” officials said Wednesday.