The Mysterious Sewer Blob

It could be worse; instead of just /a/ blob it could be /The/ Blob.

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!"

Well, i for one welcome our new blob overlords.

They better get that unplugged before the legendary synchronous half-time flush on Super Bowl Sunday....

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.

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.

RE: Nick Post's statement:
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Have you ever been to Lewiston, ME? Apparently not since you state the obvious. lol

Apparently they've never heard of Analytical Chemistry?

...when did i eat corn?

How many pounds of pressure behing this thing? I wouldn't dare poking it for a million bucks.

@ Christophe

Ride the wave! *grabs surfboard and gets a cocktail of various antibiotics*

It looks like dough...but taste like chicken

hmmm... maybe it's time to call the ghostbusters?

Uh oh, perhaps somebody flushed some nanobots!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

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.

i saw this and my first thought was "who you gonna call........GHOSTBUSTERS!"

They tried punching through it? Don't make the blob angry...RUN!

Pizza dough? No wonder my colon feels very cleansed after eating pizza....

someone Naired their flock of sheep?

i'm always leary of "unidentifiable" things in the sewer. even if i do have a big stick.

it looks like godzilla ate at marios last night. lol.

It's a shoggoth.

My wife does Maine wastewater engineering work, she says it's grease and bakery waste. I'm not allowed to name the bakery that it's from.

Looks like godzilla ate at marios. LOL!