Follow The Yellow Drip Road
Have you seen this sticky yellow-brown trail of an unidentified substance trailing through campus? Of course you have! This ish runs from 34th all the way past 39th, which is actually pretty impressive. We’re currently taking bets on long it’ll stay– a day? A week? Nah, probably a month. Gross.
[Update: Turns out the offensive goo is actually an eco-friendly deicer made up of either molasses and salt or beet juice. Neat, eh?]
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By Obvi on January 20, 2012 at 2:53 pm
The substance, otherwise known as de-icer? They’re prepping for the winter weather forecasted. Do Ivy League students really work here and couldn’t figure that one out?
It’s a mix of molasses and salt water to prevent ice forming, snow manana!
@Obvi: in UTB’s defense, I grew up in a place where it snows till June, and I have NEVER heard of or seen this concoction.
IT smells like SHIT!
Yeah, this isn’t that obvious. I grew up in a lot of snowy places on the east coast, and I never have seen or heard of this stuff. Also, seems like it hasn’t worked too well. No substitute for good old salt.
Too bad it doesn’t seem to have worked. At all. Paths are frozen over everywhere.
it actually worked well saturday morning, but then snow melted yesterday afternoon and refroze last night.
The snow that melted on it was yellow and hideous. The substance itself smelled pretty nasty.