Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village

[Dr Dave]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Authorities say a mysterious orange-colored substance has washed up on the shores of a remote village in northwest Alaska.

Tests have been conducted on the substance on the surface of the water in Kivalina. City Administrator Janet Mitchell told The Associated Press that the substance has also shown up in some residents' rain buckets.

Coast Guard Petty Officer David Mosely tells KTUU that it's not a petroleum substance and it's not man-made. Mitchell says the village is requesting that an algae expert from the University of Alaska Fairbanks investigate.

Pictures taken by resident Mida Swan show an orange sheen across the harbor and on beaches in the village about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage.

Swan says she didn't smell anything odd when she dipped her hand into the substance.

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Why would you touch it?!

 

[Loktar]

Worst case of diarrhea I ever had.

Sorry. My bad.

 

[CaptainWacky]

BRISTOL PALIN ABORTION JUICE LOL (I know that makes no sense.)

 

[Dr Dave]

You mean it's not a melted traffic cone?!

 

[Cassie]

Someone should scoop some up and drink it, FOR SCIENCE.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

It's the effluence that resulted when the Sarah Palin homunculus was created with a philosopher's stone.

 

[Dr Dave]

Someone should scoop some up and drink it, FOR SCIENCE.

Do you have any names in mind?

 

[Loktar]

Do you have any names in mind?

I'LL DO EET!

(Just as soon as someone buys me a roundtrip plane ticket to Alaska)

 

[Gagh]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BARRY MANILOW HAS MELTED.

 

[Dr Dave]

A tragic day for Humanity to be sure.