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Smelly Foam Oozing From Chinese Street Leaves Commuters Baffled (PHOTO)

Is Flowing Out Of That Street?!
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Chinese commuters got a shocking surprise earlier this week when gallons of putrid foam started oozing out of the street.

The photo was reportedly taken in the city of Nanjing around 9 p.m. on Monday and the substance covered an area of "forty or fifty square meters," according to a translation of news outlet Longhoo. Firefighters and police quickly cordoned off the area and washed the foam away.


Uploaded by user alongyourfuselage.

Officials say the only explanation so far is that it could be the byproduct of subway construction in the area. But an in-the-know reddit user who said they used to work for a medical device company said the substance looks "identical" to the byproduct of blood and concentrated hydrogen peroxide.

Either way, ew.

A similarly shocking photo was posted to reddit last month that showed a fluorescent green substance flowing from a pipe into a waterway.

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Top 10 Most Polluting Countries (2011)
Top 10 Most Polluting Countries(01 of10)
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In the following slides, find the top 10 countries with the greatest carbon dioxide emissions in 2011. Figures are estimates from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), a joint project of the European Commission and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.(Photo Getty Images)
10. United Kingdom(02 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 470 million(Photo Getty/AFP/MIGUEL MEDINA) (credit:Getty Images)
9. Indonesia(03 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 490 million(Photo Getty/AFP/ROMEO GACAD) (credit:Getty Images)
#8 - Canada(04 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 560 million(Photo MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
#7 - South Korea(05 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 610 million(Photo CHOI JAE-KU/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
#6 - Germany(06 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 810 million(Photo JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
#5 - Japan(07 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 1.24 billion(Photo YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
#4 - Russian Federation(08 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 1.83 billion(Photo KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
#3 - India(09 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 1.97 billion(Photo ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
#1 - China(10 of10)
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Estimated 2011 CO2 Emissions in metric tonnes: 8.7 billion(Photo PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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