Indiana 'Poop Bubble' Crisis Comes To An End

Last week, we made note of a Wall Street Journal story that described the way massive, small-house-sized "poop bubbles" which had formed in the waste lagoons at a dairy farm in Winchester, Indiana were threatening the Midwestern countryside. Officials were uncertain how to proceed to prevent said bubbles from bringing terror and destruction to the region, because of concerns that they might explode. Yet dairy farmer Tony Goltstein, upon whose farms the bubbles flourished, was reasonably convinced that the bubbles could be deflated without incident.

Well, the news today is that the matter of the poop bubbles has been resolved.

So, what happens to an Indiana poop bubble? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore -- and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over -- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Click here to find out!

Also, here's a news report on the bubbles:

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Comments

[deepfreezevideo]

09:34 AM on 04/05/2010

As FrankenPC just pointed out, no one seems concerned with the stupidity of just releasing the gas into the atmosphere. We worry about excess CO2, but methane is a super-greenhouse gas.
Not only that, but if the farm had been built with green tech in mind that gas could have been recovered and sold to a utility, or used on the dairy farm itself...it would have at least been USEFUL.
Seeing as how the farm was only recently built, green technology could have easily been implemented.
But noo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o, these are Indiana rednecks, and to them green tech is akin to communism.
Pathetic.

[cincinnati]

01:28 AM on 04/05/2010

Smells like Rep. Mike Pence!

[rf dude]

08:50 AM on 04/04/2010

'
Blazin' Saddles no more...

[rgateman]

05:30 PM on 04/03/2010

oh ppffffft!

[research]

03:19 PM on 04/03/2010

They should have burned the gas, instead the released tons of methane into the air. Methane is 20 times the greenhouse gas that co2 is.

[RealityBaseCamp]

06:24 PM on 04/04/2010

Plus that they should have been set up to harvest the methane anyway, and process the rest. . .

[GeneralDisarray]

10:07 AM on 04/03/2010

Bubbles of poop, Isn't that wall street?

[Garspies]

01:28 AM on 04/03/2010

A grunt and a sigh and it's all over.

[pinkeyelemonade]

12:23 AM on 04/03/2010

The title of an article about the end of a dung crisis beginning with the word "relief." Awesome.

[Deli]

11:38 PM on 04/02/2010

Dear jasonlingus, you left out: "With apologies to Langston Hughes," a basic requirement when using one of the most important poems in American history as comic relief to describe poop bubbles. After all, it is plagiarism to use the published words of another without reference.

[dontpanic1]

11:41 PM on 04/02/2010

exactly.

[Jacksonian]

09:01 AM on 04/03/2010

@Deli

Literary allusions are NOT plagiarism.

If you have to explain the reference, there's no point to it.

No citation is necessary: Either you get it, or you should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

[Root]

10:48 PM on 04/02/2010

Note the newspaper that broke this "story" was none other than the Wall Street Journal. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

[inthedesert]

10:12 PM on 04/02/2010

Frankly, I think this a big stink over nothing.

[shthar]

10:09 PM on 04/02/2010

I'm a little disapointed noone seems to be covering the other part of this story.

"part of a plastic liner that Mr. Goltstein had installed in the pond to keep manure from seeping into the ground. Parts of the liner detached from the lagoon bottom and floated to the surface"

Which means the 'stuff' can seep into the ground just fine now. And the ground water.

[deepfreezevideo]

09:35 AM on 04/05/2010

No problem, this is Indiana. They think anyone who uses big words like "groundwater" is a liberal.

[liberalbug]

09:47 PM on 04/02/2010

The neighbor should be celebrating his neighbor's freedom loving capitalist success. He has no right to complain about the poop bubbles. That's the free market and he should move!!!!

[P A Durand]

11:54 PM on 04/02/2010

I can tell you the green-libertarian argument would be that the poopbubble-maker should be sued for damage to the surrounding property. That may include groundwater issues as well.

Boy, I'd love to shoot them with incendiary shotgun rounds!

[ForVivi]

09:47 PM on 04/02/2010

One less ting for me to worry about today.

[RuffNReddy]

09:22 PM on 04/02/2010

Whew! Thanks god that sh*t's over!

[ElodieStClair]

10:01 PM on 04/02/2010

Fine, I lol'd.