Noxious gas all over NYC!!

[Dustdevil]

Windsong: Im sure it has to be a bunch of gassy cannucks traveling south to pollute our beautiful beaches. Its always easy to spot a Cannuck male in Myrtle Beach SC. They are fat and wear speedos....

And dragging their feral kids in tow!

[Jess]

lmao! thats funny! Last I heard, the smell was coming from Jersey and they think is coming from some industrial plants along the waterfront. Oh and about a dozen people went to the hospital but we're released.

[somedic]

Dustdevil: ThanksI forgot about the feral children though that seems to be less of a problem. I'd also add that other stand out charactaristics in Kanadian male tourists are in no paticular order: Hairy backs and flabby bellies to go with the speedo. They to to que up at discount "all you can eat" restaurants and they often try to trick businesses by using kanadian currency..I can always predict when I will find kanadian pennies in my change!

Back to gas in NJ/NYC. I figure it is a large release of Marcaptan that no one will admit to. Marcaptan is toxic on its own but to be spread out (assuming it was Marcaptan) over such a large area would disperse it from being too harmful a concentration.

Any one know what it was yet?

Somedic

[Medic2588]

This was from one of the North Jersey papers. Still no resolution, but it does sound like it orginated in NYC after reading the patient loads. Anything released in Secaucus, NJ as NYC claims, would have gathered along the base of the hills of North Bergen and Jersey City and you would have had more patients in Hudson County, NJ.

Hey, NYC, what's that smell???

No, you stink!

At least one Hudson County official took a shot across the Hudson

today aimed at silencing the Big Apple bigmouths trying to blame New

Jersey for yesterday morning's foul odor.

"With the winds coming from the southeast yesterday morning, it seems

to me that the smell would have come from the vicinity of Brooklyn,"

said Jack Burns, coordinator of the Hudson County Office of Emergency

Management in Secaucus, told The Jersey Journal. "They were emptying

buildings (in New York). The smell was much weaker over here."

Burns' comments came in response to authoritative-sounding statements

from New York City officials — uttered without much proof.

Charles Sturcken, a spokesman for the city Department of

Environmental Protection, said that his agency was pretty sure the

source of the smell was along New Jersey's industrialized waterfront,

just across the Hudson River from New York.

"The way we tracked the dispersion of the smell and the prevailing

winds indicates that it came from New Jersey, somewhere near

Secaucus," Sturcken said.

But in Secaucus, the only odor complaint came from near a Best Buy on

the outskirts of town.

"At no point in the day did anyone complain of a smell," Town

Administrator Anthony Iacono said. "We got a bum rap on that one."

Complaints about the odor, which could have been caused by mercaptan,

an additive to natural gas, came from Bergen and Hudson counties as

well as New York City. However, Hudson County hospitals did not

report admitting anyone for odor-related complaints -- although two

people went to the Jersey City Medical Center complaining of

respiratory problems -- while a dozen people in New York were

admitted to hospitals for respiratory difficulties.

New Jersey Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson also

defended New Jersey's honor, stating New York City officials

were "jumping to conclusions."

Speculation abounds, Burns said.

"There have been a lot of suppositions and postulations, yet no

definitive answer as to what happened," Burns said.

Ali Winston (Star Ledger)

Devin