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[ghoulsis]

They brought in the Emergency Backup Team, aka The Guy With The Bigger Equipment. He's pulled out some roots, but thus far has not managed to punch through whatever it is out there. He's run 100 feet of snake all the way out, and... nothing.

I'm hoping that whatever this is, it is in the street. Because at that point, it ought to be the city's problem, not ours. (Zip thinks maybe Jimmy Hoffa is out there. I'm not willing to rule anything out at this point.)

Now? They're calling in something called a Jet Truck (whee! doesn't that sound exciting?) which can exert five thousand pounds of pressure on whatever this thing is. o_O *imagines shit geyser that is likely to result if this thing were used for evil rather than good*

We are so screwed.

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[jay1022.livejournal.com]

*imagines shit geyser that is likely to result if this thing were used for evil rather than good*

AHAHAHAHAH! SO CAN I!!

[ghoulsis.livejournal.com]

All I know is, when the Jet Truck gets here later tonight? I am not going to be anywhere near a drain. Ye gods.

[jay1022.livejournal.com]

Put anything that is stain-able at least 20 feet from all drains, take X outside with a video camera and make sure you have on a raincoat!

You'll have shit-works early instead of fireworks!!

[ghoulsis.livejournal.com]

If this happens? I will make a fucking shit-geyser icon.

[jay1022.livejournal.com]

It's good that you still have your humor intact (little twisted, but there!) I bet it's going to wind up being the city's problem.

Maybe it'll be like that commercial on TV where the couple are in the garage with a light switch they don't know about and the neighbors garage door keeps closing on her car when the flick it on/off - all of your neighbor's drains get shit geysers!

[ghoulsis.livejournal.com]

It's gotta be the Zoloft, man. Otherwise? Normally I would be coming completely unglued. Now I just... keep laughing. For no particular reason.

And man, what a great way to introduce ourselves to the neighbors. "Hi! We're the Hendirezes, the ones who turned all your homes into hazmat scenes? Nice to meet you!"

[jay1022.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's not the Zoloft and just the material. Because me? I can't stop laughing either! Oh, I'm gonna keep my figers crossed that all is okay and that the Hendirezes block doesn't have the biggest concentration of hazmat teams in one spot!!

[ghoulsis.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. Shit never stops being funny, does it? ;)

I'm trying to teach X how to say "Jet Truck". No luck yet.

[brooding-soul.livejournal.com]

I am begging you to please take picture if a shit geyser should happen.

[ghoulsis.livejournal.com]

Fuck pictures. We'll get video.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Now that's what I'm talking about.

Good grief. You have a heavy duty problem that requires intensely powerful machines! This would be cool if it wasn't, you know, your house and your problem.

[ghoulsis.livejournal.com]

If we get video of a shit geyser? It's SO going on YouTube. Srsly.

This would be cool (from the awesome, powerful machines standpoint), even being our house and our problem, if we didn't have to pay for it. That's really the only part of it I'm stressing about.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

::hopes it belongs to the city:: Because yeah, having to pay for it is just too much.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking of Seattle, which basically owes its ongoing existence to the flush toilet, because before that it was gravity that carried the shit down to the water, and every time high tide came in, there were toilet geysers. May you fare better than Seattle. :-)

[ghoulsis.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. Flying. Spaghetti. Monster.

That's just... wow.