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Strange Odors Reported Across the District (DC)
WTOP ^ | September 28, 2005 | AP

Posted on 09/29/2005 10:21:34 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough

WASHINGTON - A bizarre day for D.C. Fire & EMS after several dozen phone calls have been received about unexplained odors all across the city.

Spokesman Alan Etter says between midnight and 1 p.m. Wednesday, they have received 36 calls. Firefighters have responded to 11 schools, as well as the fifth and sixth district police stations.

What the odor is and where it's coming from remains a mystery.

Washington Gas is confident that natural gas is not the source of the problem. Company spokesman Tim Sargeant says they're still working on it.

Etter says it's possible that storm drains could be to blame, since the lack of rain has kept them from being flushed.

Here is the list of schools affected:

Smothers Elementary School, 4400 Brooks St., NE

Orr Elementary School, 2200 Minnesota Ave., SE

Eliot Junior High School, 1830 Constitution Ave., NE

Kenilworth Elementary School, 1300 44th St., NE

Spingarn High School, 2500 Benning Rd., NE

Young Elementary School, 829 26th St., NE

Hine Junior High School, 225 8th St., SE

Maury Elementary School, 1250 Constitution Ave., NE

Cooke Elementary School, 2525 17th St., NW

Randle Highlands Elementary School, 1650 30th St., SE

Hamilton School, 1401 Brentwood Pkwy., NE


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: dc; odor
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Didn't see this posted, and according to a Google search, it wasn't published anywhere else. WTOP story keeps getting "updated" from 2 days ago.

I can think of many explanations of "strange odors" in DC, most of them laughable.

However, ending the account with a list of "affected" schools is worrisome.

1 posted on 09/29/2005 10:21:35 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Ted Kennedy has been eating Mexican food again, I take it.


2 posted on 09/29/2005 10:22:18 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
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To: LurkedLongEnough

It's the smell of Tom Delay's indictment.


3 posted on 09/29/2005 10:22:20 AM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

You would think that they would have this complaint Saturday and Sunday when they had all the "anti-war" bozos there.


4 posted on 09/29/2005 10:23:23 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: LurkedLongEnough

rotting souls of the Democrat party


5 posted on 09/29/2005 10:23:26 AM PDT by jw777
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To: LurkedLongEnough

That would be just the normal smell of corruption from the government office building in that town.


6 posted on 09/29/2005 10:23:31 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Could the noxious odor be emanating from the cesspool known as Capitol Hill????


7 posted on 09/29/2005 10:23:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: July 4th

Maybe it's the Blue Plains Water Treatment plant in Anacostia? I smelled it on the way home last night - from across the Potomac.

On the other hand, maybe Marion Barry had beans for dinner last night?


8 posted on 09/29/2005 10:24:35 AM PDT by RexBeach ("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Hillary has a yeast infection????......


9 posted on 09/29/2005 10:24:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Please notify the Threat Matrix folks.


10 posted on 09/29/2005 10:24:54 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: July 4th

Maybe it's from all those unwashed liberals in town.


11 posted on 09/29/2005 10:25:38 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: LurkedLongEnough

I think Hillary airs out Ol' Crusty around this time of year.


12 posted on 09/29/2005 10:25:53 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (PIAPS.)
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To: freedomson

Homeland Security has just raised its threat level to Baby-Sh*t Brown.


13 posted on 09/29/2005 10:26:18 AM PDT by RexBeach ("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
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To: Chi-townChief
Hippies smell bad!


14 posted on 09/29/2005 10:26:32 AM PDT by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
simple...Overload of Hot Air from Liberal Democ'RATes...sanitary sewers?
15 posted on 09/29/2005 10:26:35 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: Red Badger
Hillary has a yeast infection????......

I could have gone all day long without that image in my head.

But nooooooo......

16 posted on 09/29/2005 10:26:40 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

The anti-Roberts people's intestines are backing up.


17 posted on 09/29/2005 10:26:40 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: Red Badger

eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!


18 posted on 09/29/2005 10:26:57 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Probably the democrats soiling themselves waiting for GWB's next SCOTUS nominee.

Lando

19 posted on 09/29/2005 10:27:07 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (The general public doesn't pay attention enough........to care enough.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

This one writes itself.


20 posted on 09/29/2005 10:27:31 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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