New Jersey Blob

Smells gross, looks mysterious Apparently the stinky mass in Little Egg Harbor's lagoon was not some rotting carcass or a mass of sewage, it was just algae or vegetative waste. With the blob at about 8-feet by 10-feet and smelling like rotten egg (and it's Little Egg! ha!), the NJ township called in the state's Department of Environmental Protection to remove it, and the Times detailed the team's efforts, including one intrepid man's lassoing of the blob.

Gothamist guesses that the town ruled out the possibility it was a rotting whale carcass, the way it was in South America.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 13, 2003 4:50 PM

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lia

"When large brown gaseous bubbles began to appear on the surface above the blob, Mr. Savino suggested that "maybe it's mad at us."

I want to go to Little Egg! Such a cute name! Even if it is in (blech) New Jersey.

Glenn

Speaking of rotting whale carcass, that reminds me of the classic video of a beached whale being blown to bits on the Oregon coast. An Internet classic. All that flying blubber...oh, the humanity!

http://www.snopes.com/critters/disposal/whale.htm#add