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Found a creepy doll head in a Denver alley dumpster last month
I used to just grab stuff like that for my collection, but this one had a weird red liquid inside that smelled like old medicine. I left it alone and called the city's non-emergency line, and they sent a hazmat truck. Anyone know what that liquid might have been?
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hunt.jana3mo ago
Whoa that's wild lol. Did the hazmat people tell you anything after they took it? I'm so curious if they figured out what the liquid was or if they just treated it like a mystery biohazard.
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hannahs7110d ago
actually it wasn't a red liquid at all, it was more of a greenish brown color. I know the original post got that wrong but i was there so i remember. the hazmat guys didn't say much at the scene, just bagged it and took off. but i asked the property manager later and he said the county lab tested it and it turned out to be some kind of old transformer oil that had leaked from a buried cable. still nasty stuff though, full of PCBs probably. so yeah not a biohazard but still toxic enough they had to do a soil test after.
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faith_schmidt3mo ago
Smart move calling it in. That red liquid could have been anything nasty, from old chemicals to something seriously toxic. You definitely made the right call not touching it.
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