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Black Blobs Appearing In Camden, NJ

Posted by michael on from the do-not-worry-about-the-industrial-pollutants dept.

Ieshan writes "Strange alien scares or just New Jersey Pollution? Occam's razor points towards the latter, but still, odd black blobs are appearing in a New Jersey city - no joke. CNN has the story - apparently, no one can identify them yet. Investigators say that they're not petrolium based, and that's about all anyone knows. On the plus side, at least they don't have stalks with green eyes?"

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  1. A vote for gum by yasth · · Score: 1, Funny

    They are everywhere in populated areas. They are gum.

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  2. it's fallout... by Galahad · · Score: 3, Funny

    from Bruce Springsteen's latest album.

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  3. How is this possible!? by quantax · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a resident of NJ for the last 20 years, I can say that there is no way this could possibly happen. As my fellow residents can vouch, NJ is the cleanest place of all the places in the world. Where else in the world can you wake up to the the beautiful view of a smoke-stack filled skyline, emitting fluffy plumes of green tinged smoke. Or perhaps the placid lakes and ponds, that maintain their rainbow colored, slick surfaces all year around. No sir, you cannot be more in tune with nature unless you live in NJ.

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  4. WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Drug related? What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, it's those druggies and their terrorist friends! They're going to use the blobs to resurrect Stalin and infiltrate America with communists, as shown the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers!"

    What have you been smoking, friend?

  5. Well, i always wondered... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Bob Lentine, assistant commissioner of the county health department, said he thinks the stuff might be ... discharge from the jets that fly directly overhead from nearby Philadelphia."

    Ahhhh, so that's where they empty the toilets in planes.

  6. No cause to worry? by Atzanteol · · Score: 2, Funny
    Bob Lentine, assistant commissioner of the county health department, said he thinks the stuff might be industrial pollutants or fuel discharge from the jets that fly directly overhead from nearby Philadelphia. In any case, it's probably nothing to worry about, he said.
    Yeah, Nothing to worry about at all. Just chemical waste or something. Nothing to see here...
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  7. The black blobs... by Muad'Dave · · Score: 3, Funny

    don't need to "take over" Camden, NJ - they can have it, for all I care.

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  8. STORY UPDATE!! by Veramocor · · Score: 2, Funny

    The black blob has been found to be very dangerous. A woman, Denise Crosby, 45, was killed mysteriously when trying to walk pass the blob. Police are warning New Jersey residents to stay away while scientists determine how the blob caused her death.

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  9. bubble burst by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is all the falling dots from the dying dot-com's

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