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Manatee Poo Forces Fla. Beach Closing

'It was disgusting, but mystifying,' one resident says

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(Newser) – A Florida beach has reopened after a deluge of manatee poo forced it to close. Vero Beach city employees spent hours burying what may have been a mile-long stretch of dung. Environmental officials blamed the mess on unusual wind patterns. “I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’ve lived along beaches all my life,” one Vero Beach resident told the Press Journal. “It was disgusting, but mystifying. It looked like Great Dane poop all along the beach.”

A young manatee floats upside down among an estimated over 300 other manatees gathered in a protected warm water canal in Riviera Beach, Fla. on Feb. 5, 2009.
A young manatee floats upside down among an estimated over 300 other manatees gathered in a protected warm water canal in Riviera Beach, Fla. on Feb. 5, 2009.   (AP Photo/Florida Power & Light Company, Doug Murray)
A manatee swims at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Fla., in this 2006 file photo.
A manatee swims at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Fla., in this 2006 file photo.   (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
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We did a feel and smell test, and based on the description we gave to Florida Fish and Wildlife, they told us it was manatee droppings. I’ve never followed a manatee closely enough to know otherwise. - Charles Vogt, Indian River County Environmental Health Department

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TheSniperZero
Oct 9, 09 1:39 PM CDT
I guess they got the news about Obama's Nobel Prize and crapped themselves. Can't say I blame them. Reply
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Oct 9, 09 2:09 PM CDT
Wondered how long it would take for some Repub Troll to blame this on his as well. still upset GW didn't get the award I see; and after all he did to eliminate world hunger by killing thousands, what a shame
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Oct 9, 09 5:50 PM CDT
yep - thz was just waiting to drop his load of crap on newser.
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Oct 9, 09 5:51 PM CDT
meant TSZ
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Derni
Oct 9, 09 1:54 PM CDT
Vero is a great place -glad it was a sea creature and not humans dumping waste in teh ocean...that happens everyday Reply
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