What Is This Neon Green Slime Flowing Into a Texas Creek?
- Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:33pm by
Liz Klimas
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(Photo: WFAA)
Unfortunately for peace of mind of local residents, the neon green substance flowing into a Dallas creek was not in early celebration of St. Paddy’s Day. According to reports, the florescent green goo was spotted on Wednesday and was later traced back to a local hospital after hazmat crews were called onto the scene.
Gizmodo has some speculation as to the source:
Was it a biological attack? Alien bodily fluids? Mutant blood?
(Photo: WFAA)
(Photo: WFAA)
Thankfully, it was none of the above. In fact, it was just plain, completely non-toxic green dye. WFAA reports that the Medical City Dallas Hospital was using the dye in a cooling tower to check for plumbing leaks. According to WFAA, a hospital spokesperson said those working on the leak evaluation didn’t realize the dye would eventually make it to White Rock Creek.
Watch the report:
WFAA reports that those first on the scene dammed the ditch until the substance was identified as non-hazardous. At that point, the green dye was allowed to flow into the waterway.
According to the report, the dye is 99 percent water.
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Comments (127)
cemerius
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:54pmLet’s dam it up before we find out what it is, and oh by the way, let’s NOT wear our Bio suits while we are damming it!!!!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:21pmPink Slime ready for St Pats!
Report Post »starman70
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:09pmDon’t believe a word of the press release! They were discarding Pink Slime, meant for our kids, which came out the wrong color.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:11pmThat’s what money looks and smells like.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:13pmIf we only had an effective EPA, instead of a POLITICAL EPA used as a bludgeon by government to intimidate and destroy business, they could be on site ASAP and maybe lend some expertise. Unfortunately, the EPA “IS” only a ‘figurehead’ organization.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:32pm@jzs
Money looks green and smells like water?
Good God, you get dumber by the second.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:45pmIt‘s green ’bio fuels’ that BHO has been talking about ………….damn; how do we get this into a 747 or my SUV?
Report Post »yankeeboricua
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:55amit looks like the cartel and the administration took the pink slime they feed the school kids and mixed it up with marijuana and algae and turned into the teenage mutant ninja turtle oooze so we can put it in our vehicles…like spock would say..it’s logical ..GOD BLESS AMERICA
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 2:18amLooks like anti-freeze to me………
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 5:46amWhat’s creepy is not that it went into the creek, it‘s that they DIDN’T KNOW that it would go into the creek…What else could seep into waters?
Report Post »lobster
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:00amIt was just fluorescein, no harm no foul.
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:12amNot to fear…it’s just another failed Obama green project.
Report Post »pickupyurcross
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:53amReminds me of an old Haz-mat video they used to show in the Fire Technology classes. It shows a leaking tank car on a train with an unknown substance and the Fire Chief walks up to it without any gear, dips his finger in the substance running out of the tank and then tastes it.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:58pm@kickingback
When there is a cemetary on a hill…..don’t build a domestic home just below the cemetary! Duh! Don’t build a house on the edge of a hill…..earth moves and it can be 7 days from now or 7 yrs from now…common sense seems to be lacking. Ancient island people told generations that when the ocean pulls away from the beach in an extreme-way, head for high-ground. And the beat goes on.EMP happens & people will be walking into poles & the sound/viewing will not be heard or seen!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:10pmMiss Piggy caught Kermit messing with green M&M gal and tossed them into a blender in a fit of jealousy.
Report Post »PRRedlin
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:42pmOh stop with the pink slime crap. McDonalds was using it for years and you all have no problem shoveling happy meals down your fat kids throats. Heaven forbid you walmart scooter riders ever pick up an apple.
Report Post »resme
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:32pmFluber!
Report Post »Cavy from VA
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:43pmAmazinggrace8
If an EMP happens … God help us all … Never has their been a horror movie that could hold a candle to what “may be” should we be attacked this way. “They” would just have to stand by as we kill each other … then … Russia and China would be here for our natural resources … mass chaos all started in 1 billionth of a second … get your guns & ammo ready so you might take out a few as everything goes to hell.
TEA!!
Report Post »jujubmuse
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:53pmIt’s from a hospital? It’s not “dye,” its green Jello.
Report Post »Sr Newk
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:52pmIt’s good the green stuff is nontoxic, but the blow down from any cooling tower should be emptying into a sewer drain system. The Texas State EPA just might make a visit to this hospital to check where the blow down from the towers is draining. Could add up to be one heck of a lot of $$$, $$$.00.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:04pmAccording to WFAA, a hospital spokesperson said those working on the leak evaluation didn’t realize the dye would eventually make it to White Rock Creek.
What else is leeching into the creek.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:20amBlowdown water from a cooling tower is nothing more than water with high mineral content. There is no requirement that it be disposed of in the wastewater system. Many farmers use the stuff to help replenish the mineral content in their soil.
Report Post »SR1911man
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:50amThis is how the ninja turtles were made. It’s the green ooze.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:51pmtornadoes michigan
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:51pmPink slime,green slime, thats it, they are sliming us to death! Who would would have thunk it………….
Report Post »garylee123
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:47pmIt’s what happens the day after you eat PINK slime.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:44pmGreen slime artificial salad filler.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:35pmSolent Green in liquid state.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:59pmLOFL! Awesome…or maybe Soylent-Green baby formula?
Report Post »TwoLazy
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 7:54amAre you saying ….. “Green Slime … is People”
Report Post »9111315
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:02pmMust be where old body parts go.
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:32pmAll the push for clean water. How it that sewage and this is sewage, get into the surface water? If this can get into the water what else from the Hospital can?
Report Post »FishLung
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:13amDepending on the jurisdiction and pollutants in cooling tower blowdown (usually a concentration of metals found in the water or leaching from metals in the system), it is probable that the hospital has a discharge permit allowing non-contact cooling water to discharge to surface waters.
Report Post »Reaganite71
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:23pmI thought Obama was down there working on his Algea gas.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:35pmyou took the words reight out of my mouth
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:43pmright
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:23pmNotice the number of ‘leaks’ that are growing near our nations major cities? The fact I now have to wonder about is this – could someone be checking out how the waters do flow and are distributed by these methods, and prepare for something larger down the line?
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:39pmAbsolutely. The gay (killed his partner to shut him up) marxist illegal alien, illegal president, secretely muslim, caliphate wanting, setting up fema camps to hold repubes, won’t allow a vote in november, trying to bring a new world order with America at the bottom, forged his birth certificate, uses a fake name, testing the internet to secure a shut off switch, forcing gas prices to rise artificially, using drones to spy on Americans, terrorist loving, Oblama really DOES want to know how the waters flow. There is no way he can know that unless he turns rivers bright green. Rivers and streams are sneaky like that.
whatthecrazy
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:56pm@ex i think it was three lovers that bought the farm, anyhoo you sound like you have the great one figured out,wonder why others don’t see it?
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:17pmI dnn’t care if its non toxic or not..lets see these people drink it and then tell me its non toxic.. Bets on whether these morons would do it.. Where are the outcrys of those liberal screamers who raise holy hell if its not right.. you know the tree huggers who love the forest more than America’s people! Lord help us!
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:42pmkool aide anyone?
Report Post »neidermeyer
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:03pmNo different than what they do to the Chicago river each St. Patty’s day. This is a non-story.
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:17pmDid ET take a leak in the river?
Report Post »StrongViolentType
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:09pmWhere in the hell did they think it would go!?
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:37pmMaybe they can put it in ground beef and call it green slime instead of pink slime
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:06pmIf they look close, they will find a really big catfish, with a cold.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:51pmYou made me laugh!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:30pmAm I a clown, do I amuse you. How am I funny?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:01pm@Momrules
Report Post »Thanks, by the way.
momrules
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:20pmNo Darmok, thank you. With all the bad news we get every day I appreciate the chance to laugh, any time, anywhere.
Report Post »luckyme
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:03pmyeah, and we, all of us, should just trust them!… OH LORD..
Report Post »Stewie
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:03pmComing soon to a public school cafeteria near you.
Report Post »yanki161
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:02pmIt’s official. There are two too many slime stories on the Blaze. I wonder what color slime the next story will be?
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:06pmThe color red & thick….60′s movie “The Blob”!
Report Post »Ducky 1
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:02pmIsn’t that the stuff that Obama wants to turn into energy??
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:01pmWas it originally spotted by a private UAV? Because this looks a lot like that case involving the meat packing plant.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:58pmDiscarded leftovers from a school lunch? It‘s possible I’m getting my slime colors confused.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:57pmNickleodeon’s slime dump….
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:05pmI don’t know.
Report Post »applehill
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:50pmRat poison is 98% real food. Don’t let the high percentage full you. What is the 1% made up of?
Report Post »Br@dley
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:19pmsodium fluoride, the same stuff they put into municipal drinking water.
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:49pmObama’s bile.
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:40pmlooks like all the curbs in downtown Chicago on St Patrick‘s Day evening as the ’free green beer’ bars are emptying out!!
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:38pmAh, Happy St Paddy‘s Day to all God’s little creatures along the creek!!
Report Post »nice they dyed it green.. for St Patrick’s Day!!