I don't know what it is but it sure is nasty looking. I think I have seen that downtown by the Maumee river.
Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer!
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Looks like a couple gallons of Preparation H should shrink it.
posted by ilovetoledo on Jul 02, 2009 at 12:46:25 pm #
what have those North Carolinians been eating?
posted by ilovetoledo on Jul 02, 2009 at 12:54:17 pm #
Interesting and entertaining comments at YouTube on the video:
- "They are a colony of sewage worms who have created a bacteria ball and are feasting on it they are common to sewers in the United States."
- "Tubifex tubifex worms. Bryozoans are slow moving/doesn't do anything like the thing in the video. The worms can survive with little oxygen by waving hemoglobin rich tail-ends to exploit all available oxygen. They can also survive in areas so heavily polluted with organic matter that almost no other species can endure. By forming a protective cyst and lowering its metabolic rate, T. tubifex can survive drought and food shortage. Encystment may also function in the dispersal of the worm."
- "That's what you get for only eating at McDo, BK and Hardees North Carolinians! Your poop is now alive and it will eat your children!"
- "it's hemroids, i should know becuase i have them."
Jul 2, 2009 - Mashable.com - Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer: A Monstrous YouTube Hit:
With 3.3 million+ YouTube views in the past two days, the video “Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer” is taking the web by storm, becoming the most viewed video this week and beating out a performance of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The clip, which shows an alien-looking life form living in a North Carolina sewer, was posted along with a claim that it was extra-terrestrial life.Today mainstream news has taken notice and corrected the myth: the video is indeed real, scientists say, but the strange creature is very much a terrestrial phenomenon.
Ed Buchan, environmental coordinator at the Raleigh Public Utilities Department, said staff biologists have confirmed that the “creature” is actually a colony of tubifex worms. The colonies attach themselves to roots that gradually work themselves into weak points in the pipes. “They seem to respond to the light from the camera,” Buchan said. “That light is pretty hot.”
The worms naturally occur in sewage and pond sediment and are actually sold both live and dried as fish food in pet stores. He said other staff members in the department have seen it before, although sightings aren’t particularly common. “I’ve seen a lot of sewer TV before and I’ve never seen them,” he said. “We were surprised. We didn’t know immediately what it was.”
Stay tuned next week for Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern who will taste a North Carolina delicacy known as the sewer tit...
That is quite possibly the worst thing I have seen on the internet. Please remove that from here.
posted by hockeyfan on Jul 02, 2009 at 12:35:04 pm #