Biological and/or Chemical Gas over NYC...

zoanthropy · #1 01-08-2007, 03:28 PM

Message to all Kitty member in NYC. Get out of NY. The Stench over NYC is Biological Chemical attack from an unknown source.

It appears to be some type of time delay release. Meaning you will not get ill until some time later.

Secret Government officials are trying to down play so not to panic New Yorkers.

If you live in NYC or in the area of prevailing winds please take a vacation and get out as soon as possible..

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/nyc.odor/index.html

Ophiel Ophiuci · #2 01-08-2007, 03:31 PM

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Secret Government officials

lol

Wildwoman · #3 01-08-2007, 03:33 PM

Speaking from NYC....the smell has been gone for hours. I hadn't realized Michael Bloomberg was a 'secret government official.' I guess City Hall is as good a place to hide as any.

Eon · #4 01-08-2007, 03:42 PM

kittensKathi2 · #5 01-08-2007, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildwoman

Speaking from NYC....the smell has been gone for hours. I hadn't realized Michael Bloomberg was a 'secret government official.' I guess City Hall is as good a place to hide as any.

If we invoke occamm's razor, then obviously its a leak from a secret research bunker, put in place by the cia, financed by vlad putin, david rockerfeller, and the cia. Since we know any smell is unusual, we look to unusual to explain it. This is obviously unexplained so..

oh. wait. I am not a conspiracist. sorry.

herekitty · #6 01-08-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildwoman

I hadn't realized Michael Bloomberg was a 'secret government official.' I guess City Hall is as good a place to hide as any.

Don't listen to her zoanthropy, she's clearly in cahoots! We here at kr are so lucky that you are able to get these inside scoops you always get.

That being sarcastically said, I wouldn't find any comfort in Bloomberg's assurance that it's safe. Isn't that what they said after 9/11? I mean, it probably is safe but they don't even know what it is yet, how can they know it's safe?

Ophiel Ophiuci · #7 01-08-2007, 04:52 PM

9/11 was a cloud of stinky gas?

You're thinking of Fahrenheit 9/11. 'Sdifferent.

Wildwoman · #8 01-08-2007, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by herekitty

That being sarcastically said, I wouldn't find any comfort in Bloomberg's assurance that it's safe. Isn't that what they said after 9/11? I mean, it probably is safe but they don't even know what it is yet, how can they know it's safe?

Yes, absolutely. They basically have no idea what happened, which is disconcerting. I was changing trains at 14th street when I noticed it - I'm one of those people who finds the smell of gas/petrol rather pleasant, but it was gaggingly strong. Then it reeked in my office, and we were closing windows, opening windows, etc. It was a very strong smell over a pretty wide area, and the fact that no one knows what it was is scary.

herekitty · #9 01-08-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildwoman

Yes, absolutely. They basically have no idea what happened, which is disconcerting. I was changing trains at 14th street when I noticed it - I'm one of those people who finds the smell of gas/petrol rather pleasant, but it was gaggingly strong. Then it reeked in my office, and we were closing windows, opening windows, etc. It was a very strong smell over a pretty wide area, and the fact that no one knows what it was is scary.

I think it was Elvis cruising by in a UFO!

Wildwoman · #10 01-08-2007, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

9/11 was a cloud of stinky gas?

You're thinking of Fahrenheit 9/11. 'Sdifferent.

That was part of it, yes (I realize you're joking, but I'm not sure how much people who weren't here know about it). I don't know for sure that I'm not going to die from 9/11 one of these days - I closed my windows when I saw the black smoke, but I did also go outside.

Ophiel Ophiuci · #11 01-08-2007, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildwoman

That was part of it, yes (I realize you're joking, but I'm not sure how much people who weren't here know about it). I don't know for sure that I'm not going to die from 9/11 one of these days - I closed my windows when I saw the black smoke, but I did also go outside.

Wah wah, booohooo, people die from things all the time, emokid.

Now that's blasé.

Wildwoman · #12 01-08-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

Now that's blasé.

Hee, hee. More seriously, there are people who are quite ill already - first responders and also people who lived or worked (or were in school) closer to the site than me. The goverment did make an announcement that it was safe to go back.

flowersdie · #13 01-08-2007, 05:05 PM

Googling for info I found this lollable 2005 NY Times headline

Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers

zoanthropy · #14 01-08-2007, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by herekitty

I think it was Elvis cruising by in a UFO!

As New York officials continue to evacute hundreds of people, they insist everything is OK and be happy don't worry.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/nyc.odor/index.html

zoanthropy · #15 01-09-2007, 03:58 AM

Well I did it again...

I forgot that NYC always has bad smells. They probably forgot to wash the streets or a group of people forgot to take a bath.

It's a New York state of mind thing.

boomboxboi · #16 01-10-2007, 06:49 PM

this sounds absolutely freaky.

herekitty · #17 01-10-2007, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by boomboxboi

this sounds absolutely freaky.

well I think they determined it was coming from some swamp in New Jersey? Aren't you in New Jersey? and dead?

Wildwoman · #18 01-10-2007, 07:39 PM

They're still not sure. From today's New York Times:

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What’s Next for a Mysterious Stench? Theories, Punch Lines and Cyberspace

By JAMES BARRON
Published: January 10, 2007

They could no longer smell it, but they could still talk about it.

The mysterious stench that settled over Manhattan on Monday was long gone yesterday. But city officials were still trying to figure out where it had come from, and it led to an extraordinary round of speculation in which no theory seemed too implausible to consider, no possibility too flaky to imagine. Rotten eggs? A chemical added to natural gas?

Commuters, Internet bloggers and standup comedians filled a trove of ideas, some wacky, some sinister, some even believable.

“It was good theater for you,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told reporters in Washington, where he testified before a Senate committee on domestic security.

“And for Jay Leno, but after that — ” he added, interrupting himself as he tried to keep those late-night talk show hosts and their punch lines straight. “Or was it Letterman? One of them.”

Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri who appeared with the mayor at a news conference, was no help. “It might have been Leno or Letterman,” she said.

On the Internet, bloggers complained that officials could not find the odor’s source. “The ‘authorities’ likely lack the capability to identify things that people think smell like an industrial chemical, which are actually gases from nearby swamps released due to peculiar sequences of weather conditions and trapped by an atmospheric inversion,” one blog reader at nytimes.com/empirezone declared. “I’d be hard pressed to think of a sensor algorithm that says, ‘Aha! Swamp gas!’ ”

Others recalled smoggy clouds that had descended on New York in the 1950s and ’60s. They mentioned secret Army experiments in the 1950s that they said had involved releasing bacteria in San Francisco. They wondered about the weather.

So did El Niño have something to do with the odor? One person posted a message on a blog on nytimes.com saying that he had smelled the same odor while driving through Louisiana and wondered if a weather front had carried it to the New York area.

“This weather front had strong northerly flow and was pulling warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and channeling it north-northeast,” he wrote.

Or what about stars — the celebrity, not the celestial, kind? There were bloggers who blamed Rosie O’Donnell, the talk show host who has been feuding with Donald J. Trump over — well, that is another story.

And then there was the explanation from someone who identified himself as George S. on the Empire Zone blog: “The animal that has taken residence on top of Donald Trump’s head, masquerading as hair, has finally died.”

Others brought up geopolitics, referring to the long-running tensions between New York and New Jersey and the reflexive tendency of New Yorkers to blame New Jersey for things like smells that drift across the river.

“There has always been a war between New York and New Jersey,” Dave Frieder, who lives in West Milford, N.J., and specializes in photographing bridges in the New York region, said in an interview.

“I don’t know why the two states should hate each other. New York needs New Jersey and New Jersey needs New York. I can’t understand why they’re always fighting. Look at the Statue of Liberty. It’s physically in the State of New Jersey on the map, but it’s in New York Harbor. It’s like a 50-50 deal. I can’t understand why they’re always bickering.”

But the bickering went on yesterday. The blog Say Uncle observed, “Seems that NY can never take responsibility for anything that happens to it. Their gun problem? Blame Georgia.” And the smell? “Blame New Jersey.”

That drew a response from someone identified as Ben, who said: “I’m going to have to side with NY on this. I blame everything on NJ, it just makes life simpler.”

Evelyn Margolin, a restaurant manager who lives in Weehawken, N.J., said in an interview that she had heard the smell originated in a swamp. Even though she said she had heard this on television and the report was serious, her first reaction was, “That must be a pretty big dead body.” Bah-dum dum.

That was yesterday. On Monday, when she opened her door and smelled the smell, she figured there was a gas leak on her street. That had happened before, she said. So she called the gas company.

“The guy said, ‘Oh, yes, it’s everywhere. We know about it. Don’t worry,’ ” she said. “He said, ‘It’s all over the news,’ as if to say, how stupid am I to call the gas company.”

And all the brouhaha about whether New Jersey was the source left Mark Sceurman, an author of “Weird N.J.: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets,” sounding unexcited.

“To me, it’s just swamp gas,” he said in an interview. “I smell it all the time. I could have told you right away.”

Sewell Chan contributed reporting.

Mecklenburg-Strelitz · #19 01-10-2007, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by boomboxboi

this sounds absolutely freaky.

why you still hacking baldy's account?! he's "dead" let him RIP