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    NY: Hey Jersey you stink!; NJ: It was the dog!

    I got a story on my pager about this but I laughed when I read the pager's version.

    "Gas-like odor gone from New York, officials eyeing New Jersey as source"

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/09/nyc.odor.ap/index.html

    NEW YORK (AP) -- The gas-like odor that hung over Manhattan's streets was gone Tuesday, but city officials were still trying to pinpoint its source -- and eyeing New Jersey.

    Charles Sturcken, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection, said Tuesday 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.

    The strong odor, detectable from Manhattan's southern tip to well past Central Park, led to some precautionary evacuations, and about a dozen people were taken to hospitals complaining of difficulty breathing, Fire Department spokesman Tony Sclafani. (Watch how officials are baffled by the odor )

    There was no indication that the air was unsafe, though, and no indication of terrorism, city and federal officials said.

    Complaints about the odor also came from Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey, but no air sampling was done there because the state Department of Environmental Protection had no specific locations to test, spokeswoman Elaine Makatura said.

    New Jersey Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson said Tuesday that her agency was reviewing Monday's emission records of plants in the area.

    She said the area has some oil refineries -- and that a natural gas pipeline problem could be a culprit.

    "We may not be able to find it," she said.

    Jackson bristled at New York officials' finger-pointing at her state, saying she wished that New York instead would help New Jersey look for the source. "It looks an awful lot like jumping to conclusions," she said.

    Sturcken said that the odor could have been caused by mercaptan, the chemical added to normally odorless natural gas to make it easily detectable, but he added, "Nothing has been confirmed."

    "We're left with a mystery, although we know it's not harmful," he said.


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    Re: NY: Hey Jersey you stink!; NJ: It was the dog!

    I think the NJ Govenor gave it away when she asked at a Dinner Party in East Rujthorford, "Did someone just step on a duck?"
    Nothing to see here. Please disperse.

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    Re: NY: Hey Jersey you stink!; NJ: It was the dog!

    "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.
    Probably caused by loud orange and brown striped curtains that haven't been changed since the 1970s.

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    Re: NY: Hey Jersey you stink!; NJ: It was the dog!

    I was once driving through glorious Elizabeth, NJ in the middle of the night on the way down to the beach and suddenly my eyes, nose and mouth began to feel like someone dumped acid on them. You could tell one of the plants/refineries was letting something nasty through the smokestacks in the hopes that no one would notice at 3:30 a.m. There were a few other cars on the road and I could see them swerving a bit during the 30 seconds where you could really feel the burn.
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    Re: NY: Hey Jersey you stink!; NJ: It was the dog!

    Quote Originally Posted by deltachi8 View Post
    I think the NJ Govenor gave it away when she asked at a Dinner Party in East Rujthorford, "Did someone just step on a duck?"
    NJ's governor is a dude. Jon Corzine.

    Drive past the Meadowlands complex, and you'll smell things you never thought possible.

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    Re: NY: Hey Jersey you stink!; NJ: It was the dog!

    Eh...wasn't me.


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