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Old 04-08-2007, 09:52 AM   #1
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April 8, 2007: Red road in Massachusetts



Kind of a fun one. There was a bit of an accident with red dye in Littleton, MA last week.

You know how some mulch is a kind of red color that doesn't match nature, exactly? That mulch doesn't start red; it is dyed. They color it so that it can match your landscaping, or offset it, I guess. Because some people feel that the outdoor is not pretty enough without sharply delineated lines of colors that nature doesn't normally spit out.

Turns out a truck lost four barrels of the dye used to color that mulch, and three of the barrels burst open. Which wouldn't be so bad except that the barrels were 400 gallons each: thus putting 1200 gallons of red mulch dye onto I-495.

It happened at 10 at night, but the whole thing was still a mess in the morning.



Some cars found they were picking up the color and had to be washed using a through soaking, but luckily it isn't permanent.



Of course some photographers couldn't resist running out and turning up their color saturation.
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Old 04-08-2007, 10:54 AM   #2
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Quick, someone register the domain dyedyedye.com and profit!
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Old 04-08-2007, 11:26 AM   #3
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That actually looks really cool.
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Old 04-08-2007, 01:46 PM   #4
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red roads. can rivers red (with blood!) be far behind?!
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Old 04-08-2007, 03:23 PM   #5
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Old 04-08-2007, 08:17 PM   #6
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Now I know what "blood alley" looks like.
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Old 04-08-2007, 09:01 PM   #7
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Was that last picture from Al-Jazeera?
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Old 04-08-2007, 09:54 PM   #8
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Was that last picture from Al-Jazeera?
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Old 04-09-2007, 12:02 AM   #9
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they should do that on purpose with other colours as well. why cant a road be colourful? who care if its distracting and causes accidents
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Old 04-09-2007, 06:02 AM   #10
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Old 04-09-2007, 09:28 AM   #11
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Looks like another case of road rouge.
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Old 04-09-2007, 10:14 AM   #12
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uh oh, wait'll Christo sees this...
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Old 04-09-2007, 11:48 AM   #13
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Looks like another case of road rouge.
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Old 04-09-2007, 01:50 PM   #14
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Looks like another case of road rouge.
That was a good one.
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Old 04-09-2007, 01:55 PM   #15
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It looks like a nightmare road full of blood.
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