BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — City officials on picturesque Bainbridge Island are dealing with a mystery. A smelly, gooey mystery.
City spokeswoman Kellie Stickney says someone is filling plastic produce bags with a gooey liquid that appears to be foul-smelling food waste, then placing those bags in paper bags and leaving them on top of trash cans.
KOMO-TV reports that animals are getting into the bags, creating a mess.
Stickney says officials are also worried about human health hazards and possible runoff into Eagle Harbor.
She says authorities don’t know exactly what the substance is — just that it “kind of resembles soup” and “has a very foul smell.”
Maintenance workers and city employees have found dozens of the bags since March 12 — at City Hall, a waterfront park, even at playgrounds.
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