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20 comments to "The Mysterious Sewer Blob"
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Geoduck
January 28th, 2008 at
4:22 am
It could be worse; instead of just /a/ blob it could be /The/ Blob.
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MoonCake
January 28th, 2008 at
5:50 am
it looks like clay…
and i like how they basically said “well, we poked it with a stick, but it just won’t go away!”
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Lasse
January 28th, 2008 at
6:13 am
Well, i for one welcome our new blob overlords.
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Paul
January 28th, 2008 at
6:30 am
They better get that unplugged before the legendary synchronous half-time flush on Super Bowl Sunday….
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NIck Post
January 28th, 2008 at
8:19 am
Biodegradable toilet paper and baby wipes which were stuck on something that still allowed water flow. Cracks, which are obviously present due to pipe fragments visible in the “blob” and leaks in the joints of the sewer line allowed water to escape at a rate which kept the upstream manholes from overflowing into the street and alerting the population while causing the blockage to increase.
From the looks of it this is some hokey 12 inch line with a waterproof seal only on the lower portions. I’m guessing this is a very low flow line or the paper came down in a very rapid time period.
The quality of the municipality’s sewer department is evident as they don’t have a rodding machine and hydrojetter to fix this.
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smfr
January 28th, 2008 at
11:48 am
If you read the article, there’s a pizza restaurant close by. The blob “looks like uncooked dough”. The pizza restaurant owner “refuses to comment”. No mystery here.
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heather
January 28th, 2008 at
12:04 pm
RE: Nick Post’s statement:
<>Have you ever been to Lewiston, ME? Apparently not since you state the obvious. lol
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VonSkippy
January 28th, 2008 at
12:51 pm
Apparently they’ve never heard of Analytical Chemistry?
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matt
January 28th, 2008 at
2:04 pm
…when did i eat corn?
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Christophe
January 28th, 2008 at
3:14 pm
How many pounds of pressure behing this thing? I wouldn’t dare poking it for a million bucks.
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Ali S.
January 28th, 2008 at
5:12 pm
@ Christophe
Ride the wave! *grabs surfboard and gets a cocktail of various antibiotics*
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Jimbo
January 28th, 2008 at
5:41 pm
It looks like dough…but taste like chicken
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Leah
January 28th, 2008 at
6:51 pm
hmmm… maybe it’s time to call the ghostbusters?
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Chris Johnston
January 28th, 2008 at
7:22 pm
Uh oh, perhaps somebody flushed some nanobots!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo -
Merkabrew
January 28th, 2008 at
11:49 pm
I am just wondering if this has happened before? I did a little research and couldn’t find anything. There has to be another reason then dough from the pizza place. If the pizza dough was the culprit it would seem like every “Little Italy” across the nation would have major sewer problems. Lets not forget about Italy itself. I am sure France would have had major sewer problems also. I can just imagine what some Baguette dough would do if this where the case. Seems to me like insufficient sewer lines. Unless the people at the pizza place where shoving massive amounts of Pizza dough down a man hole. It would be much easier just to chunk it in the dumpster. Not everyone uses common sense though.
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lucky
January 29th, 2008 at
12:39 am
i saw this and my first thought was “who you gonna call……..GHOSTBUSTERS!”
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amanderpanderer
January 30th, 2008 at
2:52 pm
They tried punching through it? Don’t make the blob angry…RUN!
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Alex
January 31st, 2008 at
3:51 am
Pizza dough? No wonder my colon feels very cleansed after eating pizza….
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vanessa
January 31st, 2008 at
2:52 pm
someone Naired their flock of sheep?
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Becky
April 6th, 2008 at
3:34 pm
i’m always leary of “unidentifiable” things in the sewer. even if i do have a big stick.
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