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What's That Smell?
1010 WINS ^ | Oct 28, 2005 7:39 am US/Eastern

Posted on 10/28/2005 6:52:39 AM PDT by Calpernia

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) The calls and emails started coming into the 1010 WINS newsroom late last night and they all wanted to know the same thing - what is that odor hanging over the city?

Most described it as smelling like maple syrup, although at least one person thought it was more like peanuts.

So, what is it? The official answer at this hour is we don't know and neither apparently does anyone else. There's speculation that whatever it is drifted over from New Jersey.

The NYPD, the City Office of Emergency Management, the City Department of Environmental Protection, even the Coast Guard investigated. The air was tested, but nothing sinster was found and the search for the source continues.

One listener who emailed from Cliffside Park, NJ said he's been smelling the same aroma in his neighborhood for the past 14 years, but it seems more pervasive lately. He did not know the source.

Keep it locked in to 1010 WINS for the latest.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 1010wins; airtesting; cliffsidepark; coastguard; newjersey; newyork; newyorkcity; nj; njfarts; nypd; smell
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To: alarm rider
New Jersey smells bad on any given day

I think the report I heard said it was a pleasant smell.

And BTW, there's never any problem anywhere near where I live (half hour west of Manhattan). You need to stop hanging around the oil refineries.

ML/NJ

41 posted on 10/28/2005 8:47:46 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

Well, chemicals are not really weapons of mass destruction. They are more area denial. The fruity smell is a characteristic of a chemical; but we aren't in a closed in area. If you are really concerned, you can read up about chem on my webpage:

http://goexcelglobal.com/NJ_DefenseForce/chembio.html


42 posted on 10/28/2005 8:48:19 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: ml/nj

I don't hang around oil refineries, I was but an innocent soul trapped on the turnpike. I had no choice at the time. And anyway, it wasn't oil I smelled, it was more like spoiled pork.


43 posted on 10/28/2005 8:51:13 AM PDT by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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To: Calpernia
We were in Cliffside Park two weeks ago and noticed nothing unusual at all.

Is there no end to the complaining.

44 posted on 10/28/2005 8:58:22 AM PDT by OldFriend (G-D IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION)
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To: OldFriend

I can't understand why anyone would call 1010Wins to report a smell anyway.


45 posted on 10/28/2005 9:05:36 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1510956/posts
Strong Sweet Smell Reported in Manhattan


46 posted on 10/28/2005 9:08:51 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia; Coleus; Cagey; freeperfromnj; genefromjersey; OldFriend; LonePalm; frithguild; ...
>>>>There's speculation that whatever it is drifted over from New Jersey.

The turnpike? >>

No, sorry, it was me, I had just too much chili and rippers with all that garlic-laden relish washed down with some brew at rutt's hut last night....I'll try to control myself in the future. You can tell the hazmat to go home now.
47 posted on 10/28/2005 9:12:36 AM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Coleus
::coffee splat!::

Pardon me while I clean my screen.

48 posted on 10/28/2005 9:14:33 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Coleus
When in Linden, don't light a match!

BTW: Hope to "Hit the Hutt" in the "Horseshoe City" by December.

49 posted on 10/28/2005 9:14:33 AM PDT by Clemenza (Gentlemen, Behold!)
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To: Calpernia

They want the gummint to fix it? Make it go away?


50 posted on 10/28/2005 9:46:43 AM PDT by OldFriend (G-D IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION)
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To: Coleus; OldFriend

We can easily make it go away by denying Rutt's Hut visits to Coleus :)

::send him the clean up bill::


51 posted on 10/28/2005 9:48:39 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494800/posts?page=4435#4435


52 posted on 10/28/2005 1:10:53 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Calpernia

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494800/posts?page=4484#4484


53 posted on 10/28/2005 1:54:40 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thanks for the link


54 posted on 10/28/2005 2:03:42 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

You're welcome.


55 posted on 10/28/2005 2:08:01 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: LaserLock

Cliffside Park ping


56 posted on 10/28/2005 2:09:27 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: alarm rider

You weren't near Secaucus, by any chance, were you?


57 posted on 10/28/2005 2:13:45 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Calpernia

I often smell a kind of brown-sugar smell on the streets of NY. I wonder if there is a chemical that creates that smell. Like the rotten-egg smell--used to be around 49th and Seventh.


58 posted on 10/28/2005 2:16:22 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand

Cindy posted some info about that in 53. See her comments at her link.


59 posted on 10/28/2005 2:31:37 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia
I hadn't gone to the link. Thanks.

There's a characteristic smell of a cadaver when the person has been poisoned by cyanide--almonds, I think. Pat Cornwell uses it in one of her books, and it was Jonas Salk's early claim to fame among his peers: he smelled it on someone brought into the emergency room. From then on, the other doctors would call him over to smell the patients when they came in so they could make the diagnosis.

60 posted on 10/28/2005 2:36:10 PM PDT by firebrand
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