LA being attacked by blob!!

Run BB models! Run Forrest and Amelia... Run for your liiiiiiiiiiiives!!

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3529716

Mystery blob eating downtown
By Dana Bartholomew, Staff Writer

A mysterious black blob attacked downtown Los Angeles on Monday with a tar-like goo that oozed from manholes, buckled a street and unmoored a Raymond Chandler-era brick building, firefighters said.

About 200 residents were forced to flee as a hazardous materials team and dozens of firefighters worked throughout the day to identify what was first deemed "a black tarry substance" and later morphed into a "watery mud."

While outside temperatures struggled to break 60, sidewalks in the vicinity steamed at 103 degrees, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Ron Myers said.

"It's worrisome in the fact that it will keep the street closed and residents will be evacuated till the building is considered safe," Myers said.

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.

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liquid shot from every street orifice located above what used to be a historic oil field downtown.

No one was injured in what amounted to a black lagoon. Hazmat and Urban Search and Rescue crews determined that the mysterious substance wasn't flammable, Myers said.

"Incident commanders are evaluating some form of drilling operation one or two blocks away as the possible cause," he added.

"They told us to get out from the building, because, probably, I don't know, anything could happen. The basement was flooding," resident Mary Robles told KABC-TV, Channel 7.

By late afternoon, the American Red Cross had set up an evacuation center for the 150 adults and 50 children forced to flee the stuff of nightmares.

"We're opening a shelter," said Nick Samaniego, spokesman for the Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles. "We're looking for a place to put them."

So my choices are mysteriouse black blobs that eat carbon based objects and guys killing one another over toilet paper? I'll take my odds with the TP.

K

come to NY. where I am the only use for the TP is to clean up the black blobs.

that... is... really gross.

hmmm....

Now here's a little story about a man named Jed... A poor maountaineer, berley kept his family fed, then one day he was shooting at some food....

ROFL

HAHAA jeebus... that is AWESOME!!
i watched that show awhile ago... it was wicked.

Cool! It's too bad that no people got stuck in the Pico Tarpits, though- that'd rock.. haha :D

hahaa yeah in a million years theyd have exhibits of them like with the dinosaurs...

"and this is primitive human..." of course they would just THINK that, cause in a million years everyone would be telepathic and stuff.