Ossining soap bubbles

[Guest seanc]

Gator, bubbles: Ossining police search for clues to water weirdness

By NICOLE NEROULIAS AND MARC EPSTEIN

THE JOURNAL NEWS

(Original publication: July 25, 2007)

OSSINING - There's something in the water in Ossining. Something weird.

It started with reports yesterday that an alligator was splashing around a Route 133 pond.

This morning, as state environmental officers and town police continued their unsuccessful gator hunt, village police were called about a Dale Avenue stream overflowing with soap bubbles up to five feet high.

Both highly unusual cases appear to be unrelated, police said, but have prompted a slew of calls from concerned or curious residents.

A Journal News reporter saw the alligator briefly rear its head and splash before going back under water shortly after 2 p.m. today. A television reporter also witnessed the creature surface.

In the meantime, the soap suds in the stream dissipated on their own.

The suds appear to have been caused by laundry detergent, possibly from a broken pipe in one of the multifamily homes in the neighborhood, said Lt. Michael McElroy, village police.

"If something backs up or someone has an illegal pipe somewhere, it's going to cause problems," he said.

The stream flows from an Ossining hilltop down toward the Hudson River, and does not impact any drinking water, McElroy added. Village police do not plan to turn the investigation over to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

"I don't think the EPA would be too happy with me if I call them up for soap suds," McElroy said.

The water weirdness gave Ossining residents plenty to chat about over lunch downtown today. Several residents said they planned to keep their eyes peeled around local bodies of water the rest of the week.

"I think I'm going to look out for the gator and watch out for my ankles," said Jeff Susman, 38.

Katrina Scott, who celebrated her 42nd birthday today, said she feared something more sinister had happened when she first saw officials searching the pond this morning.

"Is there a body in there or something?" she asked, then wondered, after hearing the news, "How did an alligator get way out there? I don't understand."

Chris Martinez, 17, said the events had made the long summer before his senior year at Ossining High School much more interesting.

"Ossining is usually just boring. Stuff started happening out of nowhere," he said.

wow bubles up to five feet high....

[RescueKujo 130]

tiny bubbles, in the wine...

Edited July 26, 2007 by RescueKujo

[tunaFish 0]

wow bubles up to five feet high....

Well, the news is now saying that the gator is an Otter!

Hmmmmm seems like it came "OTTER NOWHERE !"

[xfirefighter484x 234]

Hmmmmm seems like it came "OTTER NOWHERE !"

Oh please, that is so bad.

The whole situation seems to be OTTER NONSENSE

Get it?? OTTER NONSENSE. Sounds like utter....oh nvm

[tunaFish 0]

Oh please, that is so bad.

The whole situation seems to be OTTER NONSENSE

Get it?? OTTER NONSENSE. Sounds like utter....oh nvm

Well, if its nonsense, I'm just gonna turn the OTTER CHEEK!

[xfirefighter484x 234]

Well, if its nonsense, I'm just gonna turn the OTTER CHEEK!

Well, now that this has all been publicized, he seems to be famous. See if you can go out and get his OTTER-GRAPH!!!

[Guest seanc]

well this is all getting otter hand.. first alligators then otter nowhere rivers overflowing with bubbles, i think its time to get otter here before something else happens