The HumboldtCHP twitterbot has been kind of hit-and-miss, because Twitter sucks. Tweets go mysteriously missing, hashtag searches fail, all without rhyme or reason. Things will be running smoothly for a day or so, then the service starts to hiccup.

Everything's working swell on our end, which is why I can bring you this sad little story of death and misunderstanding from about an hour and a half ago. It vanished into Twitter's maw and might never have been seen again had not our faithful little bot recorded it. You'll want to read it with the CHP glossary in hand.

Traffic Hazard, US101 JNO INDIANOLA CTO. #Aug24CHP0198

SEMI TRK TC D AN EGRET. #Aug24CHP0198

1144/1125 EGRET. #Aug24CHP0198

CHP Unit Assigned. #Aug24CHP0198

REMOVED 1125 PELICAN #Aug24CHP0198

US101 JNO INDIANOLA CTO: Incident closed. #Aug24CHP0198