
Keith Meyers/The New York Times
Today was supposed to be moving day for a bad-smelling globular mass that came to be known among revolted residents of this Jersey Shore town as the Blob. But the blob proved to be a slippery customer.The uproar over the blob began about 10 days ago, when a local boater noticed a giant blue and white sulfurous formation floating in a narrow lagoon...
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When large brown gaseous bubbles began to appear on the surface above the blob, Mr. Savino suggested that "maybe it's mad at us."