Pasta, steel -- same thing

You know how hard it is to pick up just some noodles from the bowl, when all of them come up in the fork? And you wind up trying to shake apart the tangled mess so you wind up with a bundle that you can eat? I'm observing an amusing variation of that across the street right now.

The backhoe has been neatly separating and stacking all the pieces of the demised warehouse, and is now trying to shove them into the trucks to haul away. But the pile of now-twisted 2"-thick steel girders are behaving like an extremely large, heavy, upside-down version of a bowl of noodles. The backhoe is desperately trying to shake them apart so it can pick up a modest number at a time...