{"id":43111,"date":"2013-06-18T17:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/radioactive-looking-sinkholes\/43111\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:07:23","slug":"radioactive-looking-sinkholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/radioactive-looking-sinkholes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRadioactive-Looking\u201d Sinkholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Stamm<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/weird\/Green-Flourescent-Water-Hole-Philly-211843641.html?dr\">NBC Philadelphia<\/a><br \/>June 18, 2013<br \/><!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p>A hole opens up in the street and a fluorescent green fluid appears inside.<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph2\">What is that stuff?<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph3\">It sounds like a scene from an episode of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a Nickelodeon slime show or a toxic waste dump.<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph4\">But this isn\u2019t science fiction, this sinkhole filled with fluorescent green goo is reality and it\u2019s located on a Philadelphia street. Steven Reitz can prove it. The Northern Liberties resident shot a photo of the\u00a0\u201dradioactive-looking\u201d sinkhole\u00a0along Randolph Street near Girard Avenue last week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph5\">Reitz\u2019s photo was then shared around the world after he posted it to the social discussion site, Reddit. Since then, hundreds of Reddit users weighed in on what exactly was the green liquid in the sinkhole. More than a few mentioned the Ninja Turtles as a possibility.<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph6\">There would be no \u201cSplinter\u201d in this story however even if there was still a mystery.<\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph7\">It seems the mystery of what caused the bright green water and who was responsible might be answered by Philadelphia Gas Works \u2013 since their name \u201cPGW\u201d\u00a0is stamped on the traffic barricade \u2013 or the Streets Department \u2013 since this is a hole in the street \u2014 but a few phone calls revealed that the radioactive-looking water came from the Philadelphia Water Department.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/weird\/Green-Flourescent-Water-Hole-Philly-211843641.html?dr\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013  at  11:02 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/radioactive-looking-sinkholes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u201cRadioactive-Looking\u201d Sinkholes\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan StammNBC PhiladelphiaJune 18, 2013 A hole opens up in the street and a fluorescent green fluid appears inside. What is that stuff? It sounds like a scene from an episode of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a Nickelodeon slime show or a toxic waste dump. But this isn\u2019t science fiction, this sinkhole filled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}