Chinese commuters got a shocking surprise earlier this week when gallons of putrid foam started oozing out of the street.
The photo was reportedly taken in the city of Nanjing around 9 p.m. on Monday and the substance covered an area of "forty or fifty square meters (http://mynews.longhoo.net/thread-527634-1-1.html)," according to a translation of news outlet Longhoo. Firefighters and police quickly cordoned off the area and washed the foam away.
(http://i.imgur.com/sSHODz5.jpg) (http://imgur.com/sSHODz5)
Uploaded by user alongyourfuselage (http://www.reddit.com/user/alongyourfuselage).
Officials say the only explanation so far is that it could be the byproduct of subway construction in the area. But an in-the-know reddit user who said they used to work for a medical device company said the substance looks "identical" to the byproduct of blood and concentrated hydrogen peroxide (http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1edlwu/this_foul_smelling_stuff_started_oozing_out_of_a/c9z753r).
Either way, ew.
A similarly shocking photo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/green-dye-photo_n_3085129.html) was posted to reddit last month that showed a fluorescent green substance flowing from a pipe into a waterway.
Via: HuffingtonPost