Tue
Feb 21 2006
11:33 pm
By: F-Stop
No, it's not an obese stranger at some buffet downtown; it's an actual blob in downtown L.A.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3529716
A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said investigators had yet to identify the ``black tarry substance'' more than 24 hours after it erupted at Olive Street and Pico Boulevard. But he said there might be ``a correlation'' with a petroleum company drilling operation nearby.
Anybody seen Batboy lately?
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