River In China Mysteriously Turns Bloody Red Overnight

[Bigguy_33]

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A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color.

Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday morning. Within an hour, the entire river turned crimson. Residents also said a strange smell wafted through the air.

“The really weird thing is that we have been able to catch fish because the water is normally so clear,” one local villager commented on China’s microblogging site Weibo.

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Inspectors from the Wenzhou Environmental Protection Bureau said they have not found the cause of the incident, although water samples seem to indicate the suspicious color was a result of illegal dumping in the river.

 

“We suspect that somebody dumped artificial coloring in the water because he thought the typhoon yesterday would cause heavy rain, and nobody would notice [the color],” Jianfeng Xiao, Chief of the bureau told China News.

“It turned out there wasn’t heavy rainfall yesterday, so the evidence is left behind,” Xiao said.

Xiao said there is a paper manufacturer, a food coloring company and clothing-maker a long the river. The bureau is still investigating the incident

[Mick]

Believers in biblical prophecy and end times scenarios will have a field day with this one.

[Randy W]

I had a neighbor who did that once, all by himself. Not a river, but the ditch for the whole block. He had brought home a container of methyl purple, a chemical indicator, rinsed it out, and turned the whole neighborhood purple with the runoff.

[Thomas Promise]

Ramesses done it!

[Guest ExChinaExpat]

Green, red, yellow, and always putrid to the point of vomiting. That's China waterways. So, what about this is news? Hell, yesterday, they said this was in Wuxi, 300 Mi south of Shanghai. Of course, Wuxi is less than 70 miles northwest of Shanghai and in Jiangusu province, rather than Zhejiang. A little red water is a nice break from the usual refuse and shit floating down Chinese waterways.

Edited July 26, 2014 by ExChinaExpat (see edit history)