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10-28-2005, 06:10 AM
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/nyregion/28odor.html?oref=login" target="_blank">from NY Times</a>
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<tr><td><strong>Quote</strong> </td></tr><tr><td><br /><br />October 28, 2005<br />Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers<br />By KAREEM FAHIM<br /><br />An
unseen, sweet-smelling cloud drifted through parts of Manhattan last
night. Arturo Padilla walked through it and declared that it was
awesome.<br /><br />"It's like maple syrup. With Eggos. Or pancakes," he said. "It's pleasant."<br /><br />The
odor had followed Mr. Padilla and his friend along their walk in Lower
Manhattan, from a dormitory on Fulton Street, to Pace University on
Spruce Street, and back down again, to where they stood now, near a
Dunkin' Donuts. Maybe it was from there, he said. But it wasn't.<br /><br />Mr.
Padilla was not alone. Reports of the syrupy cloud poured in from
across Manhattan after 9 p.m. Some feared that it was something
sinister.<br /><br />There were so many calls that the city's Office of
Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire
Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental
Protection to look into it.<br /><br />By 11 p. m., the search had turned
up nothing harmful, according to tests of the air. Reports continued to
come in from as far north as 112th Street shortly before midnight. In
Lower Manhattan, where the smell had begun to fade, it was back,
stronger than before, by 1 a.m.<br /><br />"We are continuing to sample the
air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing
hazardous," said Jarrod Bernstein, an emergency management spokesman.
"What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know."<br /><br />There
were conflicting accounts as to its nature. A police officer who had
thrown out her French vanilla coffee earlier compared it to that. Two
diplomats from the Netherlands disagreed, politely. Rieneke Buisman
said it smelled like roasted peanuts. Her friend Joris Geeven said it
reminded him of a Dutch cake called peperkoek, though he could not
describe that smell.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><strong>Quote</strong> </td></tr><tr><td><br /><br />October 28, 2005<br />Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers<br />By KAREEM FAHIM<br /><br />An
unseen, sweet-smelling cloud drifted through parts of Manhattan last
night. Arturo Padilla walked through it and declared that it was
awesome.<br /><br />"It's like maple syrup. With Eggos. Or pancakes," he said. "It's pleasant."<br /><br />The
odor had followed Mr. Padilla and his friend along their walk in Lower
Manhattan, from a dormitory on Fulton Street, to Pace University on
Spruce Street, and back down again, to where they stood now, near a
Dunkin' Donuts. Maybe it was from there, he said. But it wasn't.<br /><br />Mr.
Padilla was not alone. Reports of the syrupy cloud poured in from
across Manhattan after 9 p.m. Some feared that it was something
sinister.<br /><br />There were so many calls that the city's Office of
Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire
Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental
Protection to look into it.<br /><br />By 11 p. m., the search had turned
up nothing harmful, according to tests of the air. Reports continued to
come in from as far north as 112th Street shortly before midnight. In
Lower Manhattan, where the smell had begun to fade, it was back,
stronger than before, by 1 a.m.<br /><br />"We are continuing to sample the
air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing
hazardous," said Jarrod Bernstein, an emergency management spokesman.
"What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know."<br /><br />There
were conflicting accounts as to its nature. A police officer who had
thrown out her French vanilla coffee earlier compared it to that. Two
diplomats from the Netherlands disagreed, politely. Rieneke Buisman
said it smelled like roasted peanuts. Her friend Joris Geeven said it
reminded him of a Dutch cake called peperkoek, though he could not
describe that smell.</td></tr>
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<font color=black>This message was edited by TheJays on 10-28-05 @ 10:15 AM</font>