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    The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    This video doesn't play on my Firefox 3.5 browser. And maybe that's just as well.
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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    07/03/09

    @lawyergay: Works!


    Who did the lighting?

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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    We were arguing about this on IO9 yesterday. I still say it's viral video, possibly for that District 9 movie, which seems to have a largish ARG behind it. Also, as His Holiness points out, there does appear to be some kind of string or wire tugging on that last pustule thing at about the 1:55 mark in the video.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    I think I see Dead Lights...
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    Whatever. This is only the second most disgusting thing I've seen this morning.
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    Image of Shivery.McPickles Shivery.McPickles
    07/01/09

    @Ropocalypse Now: Okay, I'll bite, what was the first? I hope it has something to do with Mark Sanford.
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    07/01/09

    @Shivery.McPickles: Three words: Fox. Morning. News.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    Who knew that improperly sealed sewer pipe joints would be end of mankind? I did. It was right there in the job specifications for the Cameron Village Sewer Main Extension. Nobody reads them.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    My dog won't walk over sewer grates-- sometimes she stops, sniffs, peers down, then jumps, shudders and pulls me down the street at a racewalk.


    I will no longer assume she's glimpsed a rat.

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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/01/09

    @City_Dater: My dog wouldn't (RIP) even walk over manhole covers. They've been around much longer than us humans for a reason.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/01/09

    @City_Dater: It bears repeating: Dogs know all.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    The South will rise again. This time, from the sewers.
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    Image of meerkat meerkat
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    This thing totally lacks Monty's charisma.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/01/09

    @meerkat: Also, is NOT DEAD!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    NC needs to import some nutria to handle their biz. Or some NYC rats; this kinda thing would so not go down up here. Foodchain, etc.


    HamNo, we need a better name for these monsters. "Carolina Contracting Clumps" is just not catchy.

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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/01/09

    @BookishLookish: NYC rats would mug 'em and leave 'em lying in...


    well, I guess they're already IN the gutter...

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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    Sweet Jesus. Well, that's just everyone's nightmare come to life.


    Can we kill it with cold, or a Kevin Dillon mullet?!

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    Image of malphigian malphigian
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    According to this link: [deepseanews.com] (currently being murdered with traffic by the entire internet), it's a clump of worms:

    "They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting."


    Sounds science-y and plausible, I dunno.

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    Image of Triphena Triphena
    07/01/09

    @malphigian: I can't relax until I get an explanation for the retractable spike the last one has. Because otherwise I can only assume it's full of a toxin that liquefies its prey for easy digestion.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/01/09

    @malphigian: There's a STRING. PULLING. IT.


    Go look at 1:57 and then tell me this is plausible and science-y.


    Man. People are gullible.

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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    They're tarheels. Simple.
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    Image of DavidWatts DavidWatts
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    We're gonna need a smaller boat.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/01/09

    @DavidWatts: Awesome.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    KILL IT KILL IT
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    Image of Triphena Triphena
    07/01/09

    In reply to The North Carolina Poop Monster Mystery [Solved!]
    For my own peace of mind I'm choosing to believe that this is part of a viral marketing campaign for a remake of The Blob.
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