07-09-2013, 12:39 PM
The story only manages to surface a few pages deep in some newspapers, and only a few broadcast networks even note it in their late night supplements. The predictable tabloids pick up and put forth such theories as government chemical weapons testing or religious events foretold in this revelation or that uncovered scroll written by Nostradamus' third cousin's pupil. Crude shock jocks make jokes about Mother Nature having her time of the month.
But the story, to those curious enough to actually piece it together, is:
Shots were reported fired near Duck Lake in City Park late Monday evening.
This is considered tied to the mass hysteria caused when the lake was, for a short while, tinged a dark red color and bubbled violently in a manner eyewitnesses compared to a hot spring.
"Blood? No. I don't know. Might've been a prank. Everyone had their cellphones out," and the eyewitness on camera shows a clear picture of the lake on the screen of his own mobile, but it certainly looks more orange than red. Some Kindred might recognize the man as a ghoul often seen frequenting Elysium.
A number of the park's waterfowl population have also been reported fatally poisoned by the natural occurrence.
Authorities have so far responded to wild accusations the lake had turned to blood by citing the sink hole that opened under the primate habitat and recent seismic instability throughout the region as the cause.
In 2010 Duck Lake was drained in a joint effort by municipal workers and Denver Zoo officials in order to improve the water quality and remove a buildup of sediment. They suggest that possibly the color was due to release of natural or man made gasses or the disruption of mineral deposits, further disturbed by tremors, and inviting the public to come and visit Duck Lake, now returned to its former glory.
But the story, to those curious enough to actually piece it together, is:
Shots were reported fired near Duck Lake in City Park late Monday evening.
This is considered tied to the mass hysteria caused when the lake was, for a short while, tinged a dark red color and bubbled violently in a manner eyewitnesses compared to a hot spring.
"Blood? No. I don't know. Might've been a prank. Everyone had their cellphones out," and the eyewitness on camera shows a clear picture of the lake on the screen of his own mobile, but it certainly looks more orange than red. Some Kindred might recognize the man as a ghoul often seen frequenting Elysium.
A number of the park's waterfowl population have also been reported fatally poisoned by the natural occurrence.
Authorities have so far responded to wild accusations the lake had turned to blood by citing the sink hole that opened under the primate habitat and recent seismic instability throughout the region as the cause.
In 2010 Duck Lake was drained in a joint effort by municipal workers and Denver Zoo officials in order to improve the water quality and remove a buildup of sediment. They suggest that possibly the color was due to release of natural or man made gasses or the disruption of mineral deposits, further disturbed by tremors, and inviting the public to come and visit Duck Lake, now returned to its former glory.