Saturday, May 3, 2008
2:12 - 5:30 PM

Nathan Little went into Whitman's to get something to drink. When he  came out he thought someone had stolen his truck. Looking across  Highway 195, he saw the top of the red freezer in the back of his Ford  pickup. Barely visable, the truck was in a ditch next to Phil's  Restaurant but not just in the weeds. His truck from which he sells  meat for the Hickory House Custom Cuts of Russellville, apparetly had  rolled away from Whitman's, crossed the road  and down an enbankment  into the fence around an Alagasco natural gas line pumping station.  The impact broke a pipe and started a leak. Haleyville police and  firemen blocked the highway and evacuated the immeadiate area and  waited for the gas company. Coming from Birmingham, repairmen quickly  cut and plugged the pipe to stop the leak. The road was reopened and  Whitman's was able to  get back to business without another  misforunate incident following the holdup earlier in the day and the  runaway truck.