greenfreak
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Jersey mystery blobs partially explained
CAMDEN, New Jersey (AP) --The blobs that have mysteriously shown up on the city's streets and sidewalks were at least partially explained Friday.
State and county officials said the stuff is paraffin wax and poses no risk, but they won't venture a guess as to how it reached the Waterfront South neighborhood.
Paraffin wax is used in industrial processes and for making candles.
Camden County Health Department spokeswoman Lorraine Hynes said hot weather probably made the goo more noticeable, melting dabs of it into dark, waxy, half-dollar-sized splotches in an area with industrial facilities and homes.
Solving the mystery became a near-obsession for Bonnie Sanders and other neighborhood residents who feared the stuff was harmful. Sanders said she thinks she still doesn't know the truth.
"I believe they're covering it up. I really do," she said
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/03/camden.blobs.ap/index.html
Anyone ever hear of Camden? I was there a few weeks ago, it's not a very nice neighborhood. A picture of depression-era row houses is below. It still looks like that, just worse.
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