River In China Mysteriously Turns Bloody Red Overnight

Posted by mkozicki 11 years, 3 months ago to News
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But it's fine they say that they can catch fish.... <sigh>

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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "the uploader has not made this video available
    in your country." -- where are you, K??? -- j

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  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You picked up on that? Great memory!
    Preserve our natural racehorses?
    No, Emily, natural resources.
    She was a comedic genius.
    Then there was Rosanna Rosannadanna.
    Or Baba Wawa.
    Really miss her.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do! She was funny. She was married to Gene Wilder. I just saw him co-hosting a week or two ago on TCM with Robert Osborne. He is still quite a character.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    remember Emily Litella (Gilda Radner)? "violins on
    television?"

    "No, Emily; violence on television."

    "Oh. Never mind." -- Gilda was great! -- j

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  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wouldn't it be ironic if China became the beacon of capitalism, and America became a communist state. You'd have people from America fleeing to China, and crossing over their borders illegally.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My university's president and provost came back from a trip to China a couple of years ago where they formed a couple of partnership agreements for their students to come to my university for their last couple of years. When they came back, they invited me to play golf, and the major topic of discussion was how China seemed more capitalistic than America. I was doing most of the listening.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    is this like the green river in chicago? I drank some
    "green river" there, once, and it wasn't bad!!! -- j

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  • Posted by Notperfect 11 years, 3 months ago
    I also read the comments: like the one about frogs and locusts.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 3 months ago
    It is obvious. Since the Chinese population is becoming more capitalistic, their government decided to put on a demonstration in order to emphasis their communist form of government. What better symbolism than turning a river red? Soon you'll see the return of the little red books, red flags, red-eye flights, and an abundance of red fruits and vegetables. Can a rhubarb festival be far off?
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    huh?

    There are manufacturing facilities all around here. When it rains, the streets run red... because of the red clay, not manufacturer dumping.

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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 3 months ago
    Didn't the Rouge in Michigan have the same phenomenon from dumping about 70 or so years ago?

    Paper plants use all kinds of fun hazmat, and who knows what they're using for the red food coloring? Depending (notice the residents detected a "smell") on what's in that water, I wouldn't eat a fish caught in it. IIRC... Some sulfur compounds combine with Mercury and turn red. Since paper mills use sulfuric acid, well...

    Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of rivers of China...
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  • Posted by DaveM49 11 years, 3 months ago
    Okay....there's a food coloring company and a clothing manufacturer (which may work with dies) upstream. I wonder who "dumped".

    Then again....it may have been a protest. John Galt may well have walked off the line at the food coloring factory.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is a bad miss marple. There are three manufacturing facilities. One is a food coloring plant.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 3 months ago
    The shade of red is disturbing.
    The area where the river turned red... what kind of clay is in the soil upstream?
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