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NEWS: Blob Attacking Downtown L.A.

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ninjatoes

Newport, KY

August 2005

FEB 22, 2006 01:33 PM

CULTURE: Blob Attacking Downtown L.A.

Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It!

That was the tagline from the original 1958 movie "The Blob".

And I'm sure that is the movie that came to mind when a mysterious goo began oozing up from the streets in Los Angeles, causing hundreds of residents to be evacuated.

Firefighters were alerted at 3 a.m. by complaints of a sewer-like smell at an apartment house at 1220 S. Olive St. near Pico Boulevard, but found nothing.

They returned at 1 p.m. to find a Slimer-like ooze lurking beneath central Los Angeles.

"We were called back because there was a gooey substance, a tarry-type substance, coming out the underground electrical vaults, out of manhole covers in the street, through the sidewalks and possibly in one older apartment building," Myers said.

A 120-foot stretch of Olive buckled 1 1/2 feet, he said. The pre-1933 unreinforced masonry apartment building shifted one foot from its foundation. Sidewalks were as hot as Jacuzzis. And a pressurized liquid shot from every street orifice located above what used to be a historic oil field downtown.

ICY

Ireland

March 2005

FEB 22, 2006 07:15 PM

Oh no! "The blob has got me! Don't touch me or it'll get you too"

FreakPirate

Canada

November 2002

FEB 22, 2006 07:17 PM

No pictures? What a fucking copout...

SnakePlissken

Corvallis, OR

December 2002

FEB 22, 2006 07:20 PM

Wasn't this a mediocre movie from a few years back starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche?

MessyJessy

Fort Myers, FL

August 2005

FEB 22, 2006 07:21 PM

turns out it was just the contents of Paris Hilton's stomach...

SnakePlissken

Corvallis, OR

December 2002

FEB 22, 2006 07:25 PM

MessyJessy said:
turns out it was just the contents of Paris Hilton's stomach...

Blow and man-juice alone couldn't wreak that much havoc.

Moonrabbit

Vancouver, BC

February 2005

FEB 22, 2006 07:29 PM

What the heck was it?

BatAttaK

Tacoma, WA

OLD SKOOL

FEB 22, 2006 07:36 PM

I bet these guys have something to do with it though. Here they are checking out the last batch of slime they found oozing under city streets.

kingoftown

Cleveland, OH

October 2005

FEB 22, 2006 07:51 PM

that is the craziest thing i've heard on some time.

Jeff_Fries

Humptulips, WA

September 2003

FEB 22, 2006 07:57 PM

Nothing moves the blob

NinjaTech

Minneapolis, MN

November 2003

FEB 22, 2006 08:03 PM

When I was very small, around 3ish, my father showed me "The Blob." Apparently I was too young to see it because it gave me nightmares. Specifically I believed that "the blob" lived under my pillow and if I put my hands under my pillow, the blob would consume me.

A couple of years ago I found out that wasn't the case.

Shal

Los Angeles, CA

October 2002

FEB 22, 2006 08:06 PM

Moonrabbit said:
What the heck was it?

It was a fuck-up by an oil company. Believe it or not, there are active oil extraction operations in downtown Los Angeles:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ooze21feb21,1,4368975.story

Authorities remembered that there's a petroleum drilling site two blocks from the apartment building. When they checked there, they discovered that workers were injecting high-pressure hot water into old wells to extract leftover crude oil.

When the St. James Oil Co. halted the hot water pumping, the bulge in the street began to subside and the flow of oily liquid quickly slowed.

Quirky

Birmingham, AL

October 2005

FEB 22, 2006 08:06 PM

NinjaTech said:
When I was very small, around 3ish, my father showed me "The Blob." Apparently I was too young to see it because it gave me nightmares. Specifically I believed that "the blob" lived under my pillow and if I put my hands under my pillow, the blob would consume me.

A couple of years ago I found out that wasn't the case.

Yeah, it was only Al. She'll consume you, too, though.

Cassiel

Aurora, CO

September 2004

FEB 22, 2006 08:14 PM

NinjaTech said:
When I was very small, around 3ish, my father showed me "The Blob." Apparently I was too young to see it because it gave me nightmares. Specifically I believed that "the blob" lived under my pillow and if I put my hands under my pillow, the blob would consume me.

A couple of years ago I found out that wasn't the case.

he's still there y'know....

Motionboy

Vancouver, BC

January 2004

FEB 22, 2006 08:24 PM

who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!

whitepuma

Australia

March 2004

FEB 22, 2006 08:25 PM

NinjaTech said:
When I was very small, around 3ish, my father showed me "The Blob." Apparently I was too young to see it because it gave me nightmares. Specifically I believed that "the blob" lived under my pillow and if I put my hands under my pillow, the blob would consume me.

A couple of years ago I found out that wasn't the case.

Yeah, it was only Al. She'll consume you, too, though.

Yes but being consumed by Al is a good thing that nobody would say no to

arcsnsparks86

Huntingtown, MD

September 2005

FEB 22, 2006 09:35 PM

"It some sort of MONster!"

Pwndcake

Portland, OR

October 2004

FEB 22, 2006 09:39 PM

I think if someone told me there was goo oozing from their manhole I'd have to laugh - a lot.

SonOfAPunk

Maple Ridge, BC

January 2006

FEB 22, 2006 09:50 PM

I JUST watched Ghostbusters II two days ago on DVD (and two animated episodes !). I fucked during half of the movie, but it's sooooo rad!

I wanna know all bout this goo! Consistency, colour, ectoplasmic-bonus-side-effects, etc.!

DrNecessitor

San Jose, CA

January 2003

FEB 22, 2006 11:43 PM

Steve McQueen's dead, so I guess LA is flat-out fucked.

turbox

Oakland, CA

November 2003

FEB 23, 2006 01:34 AM

Non toxic petroleum makes a wonderful ham glaze

turbox

Oakland, CA

November 2003

FEB 23, 2006 01:35 AM

Non toxic petroleum makes a wonderful ham glaze

umanam

San Francisco, CA

October 2005

FEB 23, 2006 01:50 AM

buffy will know what to do

ikcsmiley

Asheville, NC

July 2003

FEB 23, 2006 01:54 AM

Pictures!! We need pictures people!!! Someone has gotta have some pics of this event....

Stasiss_Levine

Mountlake Terrace, WA

October 2005

FEB 23, 2006 01:57 AM

psychoholicagogo said:
Wasn't this a mediocre movie from a few years back starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche?

no hun that was volcano not the blob lol.....

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