Mark Bowman, the sommelier at Pure Wine Cafe, the upscale wine bar in Ellicott City, woke up Sunday to a striking aroma — and it wasn't the bouquet of nouveau Beaujolais. It was liquid manure, dumped over a mile-and-a-half stretch of Main Street sometime early Sunday. "It was disgustingly epic," said Bowman, who lives on Main Street. Howard County highway crews spent nearly three hours cleaning up the manure, according to Howard County Fire Battalion Chief Eric D. Proctor. He said the spill ran from Main Street in Ellicott City east onto Frederick Road in Baltimore County, causing street closures while crews cleaned the pavement. The source of the manure was not known.
'Disgustingly epic' manure spill in Howard County
Cleanup takes nearly three hours
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PeterEdelen at 11:32 PM September 19, 2011
Fact check: The spill actually ran from Baltimore County to Howard County unless the truck driver was British and driving on the left side of the road.
S.G.5853 at 12:47 PM September 19, 2011
Did obama's limo pass through there?
sunspotter5 at 12:28 PM September 19, 2011
Stuff occurs.
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