Dead Birds found In Austin, NYC Smells Of An Odd Gas, and A Bomb Found In Mimai: Strange Days

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But it's all Harmless?

Jacob Sanders (LolVStein), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Video/070108/n_nycgas_bloomberg_070108.300w.jpg

TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Meanwhile, RI schools in 3 counties were shut down for 2 days to investigate an encephalitis outbreak.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=2773149

END TIMES ARE NEAR

Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I blame Hstencil.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

don't forget O'Hare UFO sightings

Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

i had nothing to do with any of this, you freaks.

reposted from elsewheres:

Mystery smell settles over Manhattan
POSTED: 4:08 p.m. EST, January 11st, 2007


NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York officials evacuated a number of buildings and shut down some trains after a mysterious gaslike odor was reported Monday. And that smell is hipsters. Gross people who spend all their money on records, coke, dancing, and dirty websites. And I fuckin hate em.

A New York Police Department spokesman said an air quality test determined that the air is not hazardous, but those fucking fuckers STIIIINK. They smell like shit. Seriously i will kill hipsters. And the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said there is no indication terrorism was involved.

The city's Office of Emergency Management reported no injuries, and spokesman Larry Nabisco said early Monday afternoon that the number of hipsters is astonishing. Astonishingly gross. And into the office had dwindled since the smell was first reported Monday morning. "Smells like Devundra Bunharps" said some guy.

In New Jersey, seven people went to hospitals complaining of symptoms they said were related to the odor, but none admitted of glorious coke use, thrift store clothes, and doing that dumb pose thing, said Nathan Clarktower, spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Health and Diseased Youth Services.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomcanyon called the smell "unpleasant" but said it posed no harm. But man those kids are fucking ugly. I will punch.

"One thing we are very confident of, it's not dangerous," he said. "Just gridsy."

The pervasive odor was reported throughout Manhattan and as far away as Newark, New Jersey, 10 miles west of the Big Apple. Probably kids waiting to get Animal Collective tickets. Hippies.

Bloomberg earlier spoke of a "small gas leak" near Brooklyn and Bleecker Street but said he didn't believe it could account for the smell being reported in New Jersey. Nope just probably kids getting into Springstein "ironically". Because he's, sadly, from New Jersey.

"We're all working together to pinpoint the nature of the leak," he said. "But it's probably just these ugly smelly dancy kids."

Someone told officials there was no drop in gas pressure in the city, according to police. Probably just dumb kids who once liked Interpol. But then they weren't cool, so they liked them ironically while pretending they didn't like them, but slowly began to like them. Ironically.

hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Poor Austin grackles, they're the birds no one loved in the first place. I am pouring a 40 for you now grackles, I'm your only fan.

Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

i love the grackles and their noise!

hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

The grackles in Austin are fearless. Many of my muffins and bagels were lost to them, with me still eating.

Jacob Sanders (LolVStein), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Bring on the zombie grackles!

Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Wherever they may roam.

Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

So the grackles situation has moved northward. Hm. (Grackles were dying out mysteriously near a shopping center about three miles away from where I live. It made the local news.)

Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

funny, i thought that the gassy smell in manhattan were from the rotting corpses of the jets and giants returning to town after getting their asses beat.

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

i found a dead bird in columbus today!

nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Killer bees in New Orleans!

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://media.bestprices.com/content/dvd/30/194735.jpg

m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

we had 100 mph winds today!

i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

I work at a hotel just outside downtown austin and I've had people calling me all day freaking out OMG IS IT SAFE TO GO DOWNTOWN I HEAR DER ARE DEAD BIRDS. Apparently everything's been cool since around 1 pm central.

On another note: GRACKLES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

no bomb in mimai, sorry

friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

blast.

Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

the majesty of the seas was delayed a couple of hours, though, really fucked up the system

friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007A0F4O.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

disappointed that that movie only has one dead bird in it

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

I agree with Edward III.

Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

lightning spotted in honolulu for the first time in a year.

mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

Cheap laffs to be had:

"The concentrations of the gas aren't strong enough to be harmful but the smell of mercaptan certainly is unpleasant and our suggestion is that people should do the best to ventilate areas... until this gas passes," he said.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/251370/1/.html

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

I love the racket of grackles too!
This is really freaking me out, because I'm in the middle of reading "Underground," Haruki Murakami's account of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks, perpetrated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

complete text of email from my dad:

Did you kill all the birds on South Congress???

Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

BIENVENIDO A MIMAI

A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 03:53 (eighteen years ago)

gettin' jliggy wit it

friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd,
nd nd nd nd nd nd nd!

friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

Mimai = sister city of Dubai?

A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

dubai is the sister city of mimai, duh

friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

Mimai or miami, duder? whachhhoutt... yo fake tan depens onit!

Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Hoosteen

'ola! Austin be poppin' up all over ILX these days.

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Poor grackles. A 40 and some chee-tos for them!

I was out of town where the big news was the chemical leak in Sugarland:
http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou070108_jj_swleak.1e540959.html

my favorite bit from this:
" Ethylene diamine can cause severe burns to the eyes and skin and severe breathing problems. It can also harm the kidneys and the liver.
It is widely used in paints and coolants, and is a food and cattle feed additive. "

patita (patita), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

i think i know who killed the grackles.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Oi! We're invading!

Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

miami, if you must know

friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

i thought this would be one of those rolling city threads

You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 06:55 (eighteen years ago)

except with three cities stuffed together to economise server space and perhaps promote some interesting cross-state small-talk.

You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 06:55 (eighteen years ago)

oh my roffle.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

awesome:

http://www.austinist.com/attachments/matthewodam/bigbird1.jpg

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)


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