Poop creature in sewers

[Shakermaker]

Probably a hoax, but quite a good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vXumcM8Ok

Aliens have taken over the sewers?

 

[Azner]

Fungus? Really bad ones

 

[Felix]

Sewer obviously fake.

 

[NeptuneUK]

I, for one, would welcome our poop fungus overlords!

 

[bbson john]

The water is so clean in that sewer.

 

[Lucid]

What the shit.

 

[Krynn72]

What the shit.

lol i get it

 

[ThunderDawg]

Those are my offspring.
I flush them because they are a nuisance and a burden.
And frequently cross-eyed or six-fingered.
I'll auction off their naming rights in another thread.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

The Shit Demon Lives!

 

[Raziaar]

(WSAz) MILTON – An underground mystery is finally over. After a drenching rain caused several pump stations to stop working, Public Works Director Kreth Sink was forced by the PSC to contract with the Pea Ridge PSD to bring in their robotic camera to check sewer lines from Milton Heights to New Milton.

Video images revealed a brown slimy organism that seemed to be alive. The discovery was made near the Georgia Avenue and James River Tpk. intersection. Sink called in an aquatic specialist from the DNR, who said this was the first time he’d ever seen an image of an underground mucilaginous Bryozoan in a sewer line. Bryozoans are an extremely primitive life form said to be over 300 million years old. They prefer warm, shallow wet areas and are known to occur worldwide. There are about 8,000 living species, and several times that number of fossil forms known.

A Bryozoan is a collection of smaller organisms that filter nourishment from the sewage. Bryozoans are not harmful, but as they grow in size they can clog sewer lines. Bryozoan colonies range from millimeters to meters in size. The zooids that make up the colonies are actually very tiny. They assume different functions within the colony. The autozooids gather food for the colony. Heterozooids depend on them. Kenozooids are devoted to strengthening the colony and the vibracula clean the colony.

It is believed the Bioxide, the chemical used to abate sewer odors at the pump stations, may have killed the vibracula, causing otherwise dormant zooids to go into an active feeding state. As the colonies grew in the Milton sewer system, pieces broke off and continued to grow, forming new colonies. Since the zooids are hermaphroditic, it is theorized that the colonies expanded and clogged the entire Milton sewer system.

The DNR aquatic specialist said the Bryozoan colony caught on film was, in scientific terms, the largest sewer monsturd he’d ever seen.

When asked what the Milton Utilities planned to do about these organisms that have been clogging pipes and causing sewage and toxic sewer gas to back up into people’s homes, Sink said, “We’re going to do what we’ve always done about serious matters such as this. NOTHING!”

Aha...

Here's some idiots shooting one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOip1BOPeQ

 

[MJ12]

^That is why a dumb hick is always the first to die when an alien comes to earth.

"Wut dis do"

 

[Remus]

Those things give me the creeps. Looks like something out of The Thing. Or that hive biomass from Prototype.

Kill it with fire!

 

[Shakermaker]

Thanks for that story Raz. I am kinda amazed it isn't a hoax.

EDIT Looked for that story online and I could only find a cached version. Conspiracy??
*tightens tinfoil hat*

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Oh god. It's the Monsturd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon8a3j2elU

 

[Raziaar]

Thanks for that story Raz. I am kinda amazed it isn't a hoax.

EDIT Looked for that story online and I could only find a cached version. Conspiracy??
*tightens tinfoil hat*

I found that story on a forum.

 

[Warped]

I'd bet $10 that those guys ate some as a dare

 

[MJ12]

Lameass made the video private.

 

[joule]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNGm5W5qNO8

 

[Warped]

yeah i didn't see this first video and holy crap, that would probably scare just about anyone if they were trapped down there. i hate how they move

/shivers

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Huh. Those are pretty damn scary. No wonder they took them out of HL2.

 

[Tyguy]

flushed testicle

 

[bam23]

a little sickening the way they tense up like that. gghhh..

 

[mindless_moder]

what Biozeminades are real ?

 

[Warped]

now do you see what happens when you flush your boys down the drain?? tissues people!! tissues!!

 

[OmegaX]

what Biozeminades are real ?

...:E

 

[Adabiviak]

Wow - we have those here in at least one of our local reservoirs, and I never knew what they were. Neat!

 

[lefty]

So it's a colony of teensy organisms? Then why does it move like it's one big organism. It's ****ing eerie.

 

[Naph]

Why does it throb...

 

[MJ12]

So it's a colony of teensy organisms? Then why does it move like it's one big organism. It's ****ing eerie.

Why does it throb...

Well, they are the freshwater version of these fellas you often see on sea floors and rocks-

Spoiler

Most bryozoans feed using tentacles that emerge from the body and gather food particles from the water. To the naked eye these tentacles often give bryozoans a hazy or fuzzy appearance. When the animal is disturbed or threatened, the tentacles quickly retract into the relative safety of the body shell. This picture shows the structure of a typical individual or zooid.

http://crd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=519

 

[-Psy-]

That's disgusting. Eurgh.