FARK.com: (6995156) Hospital maintenance workers accidentally release St. Patrick's Day into a Dallas creek a few days early. (PICS, Video)

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		Hospital maintenance workers accidentally release St. Patrick's Day into a Dallas creek a few days early. (PICS, Video) (wfaa.com)		35
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jtown		2012-03-14 11:51:14 PM

numbone		2012-03-14 11:52:21 PM

Plumber should have used a snake.

fusillade762		2012-03-14 11:52:39 PM

entirely non-toxic dye

Yeah, that's great, but is no one disturbed that water flow from a F*CKING HOSPITAL has been spilling into a creek for god knows how long?

buzzcut73		2012-03-14 11:52:48 PM

Whoops. Toxic or no, I don't imagine they had fluorescent dye or cooling tower water for that matter included in their stormwater or NPDES permit. But, it is Texas, so there will probably be no fine.

fusillade762		2012-03-14 11:53:53 PM

fluorescent green dye was being used to test for plumbing leaks in the hospital's cooling tower No. 3.

Wait... hospitals have cooling towers?

Genju		2012-03-14 11:55:22 PM

threadjackistan		2012-03-14 11:58:09 PM

fusillade762: fluorescent green dye was being used to test for plumbing leaks in the hospital's cooling tower No. 3.

Wait... hospitals have cooling towers?

For the A/C, I imagine. Plus the morgue and all the refrigerators for perishable items.

newton		2012-03-14 11:58:52 PM

Medical City confirmed to investigators that a fluorescent green dye was being used to test for plumbing leaks in the hospital's cooling tower No. 3.

In other news... Cooling Tower No. 3 is leaking.

dj_bigbird		2012-03-15 12:02:33 AM

fusillade762: fluorescent green dye was being used to test for plumbing leaks in the hospital's cooling tower No. 3.

Wait... hospitals have cooling towers?

Blackbirds flew in and to the cooling towers
I'll pack my bags
Thinking of one of those hours
With you, waiting for you

here to help		2012-03-15 12:07:18 AM

Gonorrhea!!

*clap clap clap*

MacWizard		2012-03-15 12:36:55 AM

fusillade762: fluorescent green dye was being used to test for plumbing leaks in the hospital's cooling tower No. 3.

Wait... hospitals have cooling towers?

It has something to so with nuclear medicine.

Chariset		2012-03-15 12:39:55 AM

dj_bigbird: Blackbirds flew in and to the cooling towers
I'll pack my bags
Thinking of one of those hours
With you, waiting for you

My God, it takes an ocean of trust

emersonbiggins		2012-03-15 12:45:29 AM

Goes so pretty with our pig blood river from a month ago

static1.consumerist.com

/hot like EPA sanctions

Dayglo Brown		2012-03-15 12:53:27 AM

It's people.

Marine1		2012-03-15 01:00:36 AM

jtown: [youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com image 400x304]

I lol'd. Hard.

blackhonda		2012-03-15 01:29:34 AM

They will never hold a candle to Chicago where the Chicago river goes green every year on St Pattys day.

Link

Oznog		2012-03-15 01:41:01 AM

They say it's completely nontoxic tracer dye, so I'm sure it'll be alright.

Goimir		2012-03-15 02:54:43 AM

Actually, the stuff is pretty safe. I've worked with it and aside from the fact that it's green and fluorescent, the worst thing that happens is someone who matches your description robs a bank, as you've got fluorescent dye all over you.

digitalpirate		2012-03-15 04:28:13 AM

Can someone please post a link to the pig blood river article?
Thank you!

Anyone know where I can score some of this dye?

naz-drala		2012-03-15 04:55:42 AM

digitalpirate: Can someone please post a link to the pig blood river article?
Thank you!

Anyone know where I can score some of this dye?

The creek across the street from Medical City Dallas Hospital

HamWBone		2012-03-15 05:18:31 AM

digitalpirate: Can someone please post a link to the pig blood river article?
Thank you!

BLOOOOOOOD (new window)

BumpInTheNight		2012-03-15 06:36:05 AM

Oznog: [users.skynet.be image 640x480]

They say it's completely nontoxic tracer dye, so I'm sure it'll be alright.

Whew, minecraft sure got a sweet graphics update since the last time I played it.

SithLord		2012-03-15 07:44:31 AM

Did my ex have her period again?

\ex works at that hospital.

WorkingInParadise		2012-03-15 08:04:09 AM

First responders dammed the ditch where the tainted water was flowing from in an effort to keep more of it from reaching the creek, but once its exact nature was known, the dam was cleared and the green fluid was permitted to flow into the waterway.

That's some fine writing there, Lou.

MythDragon		2012-03-15 08:23:43 AM

Fritriac		2012-03-15 08:57:36 AM

Mostly harmless (pops)

YixilTesiphon		2012-03-15 08:59:25 AM

Cooling towers generally don't have anything you wouldn't want flowing into a creek in them, but I still doubt the TCEQ is going to be thrilled.

WorkingInParadise		2012-03-15 09:10:20 AM

GOOSE!!!

Fark-N-Noodle		2012-03-15 09:27:49 AM

solyent green pipe busted at the hospital?

Flarn		2012-03-15 09:50:36 AM

/oblig
//can't believe nobody did that yet

I May Be Crazy But...		2012-03-15 09:58:35 AM

First responders dammed the ditch

Damn you, ditch!

DaintySavage		2012-03-15 11:07:49 AM

you can get the dye in capsule form from most plumbing suppliers. it only takes a few to dye a backyard pool

DrRatchet		2012-03-15 11:18:36 AM

Workers used about a quarter of a gallon of the... dye.
Or as professional writers call it, a "Quart."

BradleyP		2012-03-15 12:25:34 PM

"Pick up a flat rock, skip it a-cross the Green River..."

StrikitRich		2012-03-16 12:02:25 PM

They certainly do take their B vitamins in Dallas, don't they.

/wonder if there is a Budweiser brewery conveniently located downstream.

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