MYSTERIOUS PAIL OF SOMETHING DUMPED IN CONNECTICUT RESERVOIR

FOX NEWS HARTFORD CONNECTICUT ^ | 03/25/02 | RACEBANNON

[RaceBannon]

A SUSPICIOUS PAIL WAS SEEN THROWN INTO HIGBEE RESERVOIR. CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE RETRIEVED IT AND SENT IT TO THE LAB.

[Diddle E. Squat]

More likely they were endangered "Lynx Hair Minnows" to stop a planned expansion of the water authority.

[Koblenz]

If it's just a pail, and the reservoir serves more than five houses, then there's no danger. A pail of even the most toxic stuff is going to be so diluted that it couldn't do any harm. I guess if the pail was filled with Plutonium it could do some harm, but if that's the case, you don't need to dump it in the water...

[Free Trapper]

Your theory is the most likely so far.

[demnomo]

LOL. Don't ya mean POOL POOPY?

C'mon, lets not be too hasty. This may be serious. Better safe than sorry. If it turns out to be a false alarm or something truly silly like fishbait, we can all have a laugh or two with Race Bannon who happens to be one of my favorite FReepers. (Throwing the pail into the reservoir is rather suspicious. I can see some jerk throwing out some dead minnows; but why waste a perfectly good pail?)

[bluefish]

I basically agree with you and would want someone to check this out too. I don't think it needs to be news however unless they figured out that there was something there. This kind of reporting leads to a "boy who cried wolf" mentality. I will continue to laugh at the "suspicious white powder" in the doughnut shop.

[RangeRatt]

...or possibly Northeast Tree Octopus eggs...

[concerned about politics]

Why bother to dump it in the water? Why not just open the car door and pour it out? I can see where someone would report it. Better safe than sorry.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Like Plutonium maybe?

[piasa]

sections of the water are separated from the rest of the water by some method they didnt reveal.

Seen Charleton Heston around there lately wearing a robe and carrying a staff?

[piasa]

No, much worse than that. A bucketful of the dreaded intake pipe clogging zebra mussels...

[piasa]

Could be Congressman Gary Condit with a bucket of watch boxes!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Gee, you don't think some deranged terrorist group would be brazen enough to dump some
mind-numbing, road-rage-inducing neurotoxin into our drinking water supply?

[Hank Rearden]

Even the warm spots in a swimming pool eventually spread.

I saw that on South Park once.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

To introduce poison into our precious bodily fluids - why that would be
"the most diabolical plot ever concocted by the International Communist Conspiracy!"

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Something Wrong with the Water

[MadRobotArtist]

Not funny. I have two phobias. One is shark attack, the other is being eaten by zombies. I live in Minnesota, so I'm safe from sharks, Zombies on the other hand...

Luckily I live nowhere near any cemeteries. My art studio is on the 2nd floor in a secured building. I'm safe at least for the time being, if there is ever a zombie holocaust.

Not to mention I did a sculpt for a toy company of one of the Resident Evil characters. It's on my website.

[happygrl]

Culprit identifed -- Billy Joe McAllister from Choctaw Ridge. -- ;)

LOL !! Nominated for post of the day.

[happygrl]

OK Dad... (grin)

[Ciexyz]

So they're still looking for those four Pakistanis? Yikes.