Comments on: Video: Freaky blue blob darts around gas station

By: soundingboard

soundingboard — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:00:26 +0000

It’s Criss Angel’s impersonation of Picasso.

By: 91Veteran

91Veteran — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:12:32 +0000

This isn’t even a good optical ~~illusion~~ delusion.
JackOfClubs on November 13, 2007 at 4:22 PM

Fixed it.

If it was floating about looking for cheap gas or something, why didn’t the guy walking behind the car notice it?

By: Merovign

Merovign — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:32:42 +0000

It’s a bug. It’s too close to the CCD and the lens and severely out of focus, probably sidelit.

It might even be an interesting bug, who knows, could be a rare translucent or transparent bug.

By: JackOfClubs

JackOfClubs — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:22:05 +0000

Jeez. Slow news day?

The “cloud” never foreshortens or alters its shape as it moves around. Neither is it ever occluded by the gas pumps, cars or other objects in view. It is clearly moving in 2 dimensions in the same plane as the lens.

This isn’t even a good optical illusion. Whoever wrote that it was “seen floating and darting around customers” clearly didn’t watch their own damn video. Insulting.

By: Helloyawl

Helloyawl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:47:03 +0000

This must have been a very slow day for fluff news articles.

Next they will be reporting the face of Jesus or Mary in an oil spot on a gas stations driveway.

By: clghitis

clghitis — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:49:21 +0000

FAKE! Why is the camera following the object? If it’s a surveillance camera shouldn’t it be stationary? Or shouldn’t it follow other objects?

By: Maxx

Maxx — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:12:15 +0000

…. it passes behind a portion of the canopy.

Creepy.

natesnake on November 13, 2007 at 1:28 PM

It doesn’t pass behind a portion of the canopy, that’s the edge of the monitor your seeing… for heaven sake. Put your glasses on nate !

But I admit… it could be Kucinich.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:07:37 +0000

It moves around like an out of focus little fly (or some kind of bug) on the camera lense or on the camera cover.

By: Kensington

Kensington — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:39:43 +0000

It doesn’t appear to be a lens smudge/bug/etc. because when it exits the frame, it passes behind a portion of the canopy.

Are you sure you aren’t mistaking the edge of the security monitor with a canopy? I don’t see a canopy.

By: natesnake

natesnake — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:28:23 +0000

It doesn’t appear to be a lens smudge/bug/etc. because when it exits the frame, it passes behind a portion of the canopy.

Creepy.

By: GoodBoy

GoodBoy — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:09:33 +0000

It’s obviously a LeAnn Rimes fan.

By: OBX Pete

OBX Pete — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:45:32 +0000

I have never seen a security camera at a gas station move and follow an object. Has anyone?
I’d say this is the “hoax of the Day”.

By: Kensington

Kensington — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:43:17 +0000

Ron Paul

Dr. Ron Paul appears blue on the tape because blue is the color of water which is the color of life;

Dr. Ron Paul appears like a bug because he gets under your skin and you can’t ever get rid of him;

Dr. Ron Paul flies like the American eagle, sacred totem of liberty and freedom;

Dr. Ron Paul is fuzzy and shifty like his ties to Nazi groups and anti-semitism;

Dr. Ron Paul resembles a ghost so as to demonstrate his chances of winning the Republican nomination;

Dr. Ron Paul — doesn’t have a ghost of a chance!

By: Kini

Kini — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:41:25 +0000

Nemo!

By: Dr. Charles G. Waugh

Dr. Charles G. Waugh — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:40:10 +0000

Casper, no. Gasper, yes.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:36:20 +0000

It’s Ron Paul.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:15:49 +0000

Looks like a fish. Moves like a fish. Steers like a cow.

- The Cat

By: Asher

Asher — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:00:59 +0000

Bug.

Since there aren’t any such thing as ghosts, I’m not sure exactly what else it could be.

By: mikeyboss

mikeyboss — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:59:20 +0000

Either the comments to this thread have been especially good, or I had a stroke while asleep last night.

By: Rugged Individual

Rugged Individual — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:50:11 +0000

Why can’t it just be a ghost, with a message or just killing time…? I love ghosts etc…

By: j_ehman

j_ehman — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:41:17 +0000

It’s so obviously a bug with wings… when it turns around it flicks its wings out for a moment

By: RMCS_USN

RMCS_USN — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:35:22 +0000

Someone needs to flick that blue feather off of the camera lens.

By: taznar

taznar — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:48:24 +0000

Its blue, but only the camera can see it. I saw an investigation of something similar a while back. It turned out to be a spider. Being right on the lense does a pretty good job of distorting the outline and the color.

By: Attila (Pillage Idiot)

Attila (Pillage Idiot) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:33:37 +0000

Further fallout from the writers’ strike.

saint kansas on November 13, 2007 at 10:16 AM

Good one.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:33:13 +0000

It moves like a fish. That’s much weirder than a ghost.