Jelly Sparks Toxic Waste Alert

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Jelly sparks toxic waste alert

A pile of jelly left by a road in Germany caused a major security alert after it was mistaken for toxic waste.

A large area near the town of Halle was cordoned off after a "flabby red, orange and green substance" was found by the road, Reuters reported.

Fire officers in protective suits spent two hours inspecting the substance before concluding it was jelly.

"The fire brigade always has to assume a worst-case scenario," a fire brigade spokesman told the news agency.

"We conducted a variety of tests and figured out it was jelly."

The spillage was traced to a wedding party. The newly-wed groom, who was woken up and informed of the alert, promised to clean up the mess.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6035821.stm

[RobinGreenwood]

That's hilarious! I would love to see the videos of this operation!

[HumanePain]

The jelly was left behind after a wedding? What a waste! Now if *I* had been a newly wed groom, I would have taken the jelly with me on my honeymoon...I guess they changed their mind about the red, orange and green jelly and opted for a... white weddinnnnnnnnnng.

[korinna5555]

something like that happened about 13 years ago in DC. i was there with my dad.

[Alaizabel Cray]

Haha, that's great! I can just imagine the guys in their haz-mat suits, inspecting a glob of jelly, waiting for it to crawl off, or to explode or something at any given moment...