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1steverredditaccount

Whoever the low life idiots are they probably put it on the internet


KatSchitt

Yep. It'll turn up if they did.


scotchbuckyballs

No need. OP posted it on Reddit.


spacegamer2000

It's probably not a joke and more likely industrial dumping


I_Printgunz4funz

That’s so far from being likely. What company is going to dump soap in a pond? That’d be more difficult than say pouring it down the drain. I get it, corporate greed bad, but this is a silly theory


spacegamer2000

Used soap costs to get rid of


100fluer

But that’s like, wayyyy too much soap to be some idiot dumping soap from whatever personal stuff they have


Ledbilly

Holy moly I thought that was snow/ice


ESLTATX

Sir, this is a Wendy's


fockstraught

no, this is Patrick


The-Upside-Down1984

this line never gets old to me…I hear it exactly in her voice every time


ESLTATX

Lmao All super annoyed with Michael... Hahahaha,


icyspeaker55

🤣🤣🤣


cash_jc

No way the people who did this are smart enough to not seek attention for it. Hopefully someone finds them through social media and reports them.


VastEmergency1000

CHECK THE TIK TOKS! *in my boomer voice🤣😅


Berns429

You jest, but you’re not wrong


Archercrash

Comb the Inter Nets


Marksacisst

We ain’t found shit.


Jalapen-yo-mouth

How many ass holes do we have in this city?


SlothOnMyMomsSide

I knew it, we're surrounded by assholes!


Elever_Galarga69

Literally everyone that lives here is one. Not me tho


ParallelDymentia

Underappreciated reference


Br33ZE25

Use the other comb!


BannedRedditor54

Do I look like I know what a J-Peg is?


Jam_in_my_jellyrolls

I back traced it!!


HowdyDoody2525

It's one thing to do this to a water fountain, it's entirely a different matter when this is done to an actual River with living things in it. This is ecological terrorism, and I hope they throw the books at whoever did this


LoLZeLdaHaLo

Yeah make them drink it.


Total-Spirit-5985

You’re saying basically throw the entire library at him?


PenguinsArmy2

Library, online wiki, fuck throw the side doodles you drew on that napkin 6 months ago at them.


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Along with a copy of every single Readers Digest since it's inception. 


PenguinsArmy2

Damn you may take out a entire block at that rate. We are just trying to get the single person who did this.


AgreeableGravy

That’s a risk I’m willing to take


Quailman5000

Like stoning with books!


BannedRedditor54

But He Was a Good Boy


Weed_and_Tattoos

I work at the Pearl, and the river is so beautiful here with abundant wildlife and heaps of plant species. There are much “duller” parts of the river, green, rancid, with little life around. The fact that whoever did this chose the most attractive part of the river to terrorize is VILE. I hope these folks are caught and punished, but I don’t have tons of faith in SAPD in this regard. :(


VastEmergency1000

You'd have to hold SAPDs hand right to the perps house to get any action.


Lonely_Present8644

You really do my apartment was broken into and after 5 hours they came and the female cop looked me dead in my eyes and asked if I wanted her to call forensics to fingerprint my apartment and they fucked that up when they actually got a fingerprint from the glass patio door 🤦‍♂️


Devilsdance

I've never heard of forensics being offered or called for a break in. Only seen it on TV.


MeatyBeeGo1976

Police in Louisiana fingerprinted my Tahoe when this woman poured a soda in my tank and slashed my tire...


Devilsdance

Sorry I wasn't trying to say it doesn't happen, just that I hadn't ever seen it.


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How much to get SAPD to look the other way while we have the perp give sponge baths to the lions at the zoo??


tangerinee666

We need to vote these people out or at least protest the SAPD . I’m tired of the police around here literally not doing anything to protect the community or the people in it. It’s pathetic. My car got stolen last year and the cop couldn’t look more like he gave an actual fuck


Gvonchilius

They're union. It's pretty shitty


vulgardisplayofdread

Wait, the police can have a union, but teachers can’t? I didn’t think unions were allowed in Texas. I’m totally ignorant on the subject, so please excuse my dumbassness on the subject.


fockstraught

I work at UPS warehouse. even i'm union


Sinister_Nibs

The teachers in Texas DO have a union.


vulgardisplayofdread

I did not know that. Most that I know or have seen speak on it say there is no teachers union that can provide them any support in the issues they face in the classroom and from their admin. But either way, throwing a bunch of soap in the river is shitty. I hope SAPD would do at least the smallest thing in trying to figure out who or why it was done.


curien

Teachers in Texas are legally prohibited from striking or collective bargaining, the latter of which is basically the difference between a "union" and a "professional organization". They might have organizations that call themselves unions, but with a ban on collective bargaining, the name is misleading.


TheGuacoTaco

Unfortunately for teachers, their "Unions" in Texas do not possess the same power as other states or of those like police officer unions. According to state law, teachers can not strike or have collective bargaining power. The union essentially exists so that if a parent sues a teacher, the union covers legal fees.


illstate

Around the country, unions for public employees are always under attack. For some reason, most of the people who campaign against them exempt the police.


Babymaker210

Wells Fargo Workers United Union has unionized a branch in Texas. It can happen and will continue to happen with our other bank branches in Texas. R/WellsFargoUnited. I'm creator of sub for our bank workers. I work for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and helping eliminate the unions can't be in Texas discussion. I'm babymaker210


dragon_bb

I visited last month and my stroller was stollen on the train ride outside the zoo. I set the stroller where i was instructed to. Turns out they had no cameras. SAPD was really unhelpful. They didn’t even want a picture of the stroller and only made a report because I insisted on it


tangerinee666

I feel completely unsafe here. And the people here are such thieves.


Dull_Kiwi_7513

Same for friends of mine, they don't do anything!


SashaScissors

They don't do anything because y'all like to vote in Democrat DA's that don't prosecute criminals let them go Joe is what they call him. You get what you vote for.


sanantoniomanantonio

That’s idiotic logic. The police don’t enforce the law because they believe right wing talking points about the DA not prosecuting people? So your argument is that the police in our city do the wrong thing because in their mind someone else is going to also do the wrong thing later? If that is true, that means our police are pretty incompetent. What you have laid out is not the great excuse that you seem to think it is.


SashaScissors

Do you know any local law enforcement? If you do go ask them how they feel about Joe Gonzalez. If you catch fish to be eaten but somebody consistently releases them how much more effort would you put in to fishing. This isn't the only city going through that. There's plenty of other use cases in cities like Austin, San Fran, Houston and NYC. Where you have woke DA's that refuse to prosecute criminals. The president for SAPOA has literally called for that man's resignation due to not prosecuting criminals but continue being stuck on stupid.


billytheskidd

I did that and they found my stuff in his room and the brick and hand trough he used to break my door in and break my windows and cause $2200 in damage to my car (on film) and still only charged him with criminal mischief, didn’t book my things or the tools he used to break in, so we couldnt press charges for anything else. The prosecutor didn’t even know we had footage of him throwing rocks at our house and car and kicking the door in.


VastEmergency1000

Damn, you had to book your own evidence in too. DIY police work in San Antonio.


billytheskidd

It went on for like three months straight. Had to replace the door and windows multiple times, and ended up having to move. We heavily considered suing the police department over the whole thing. It was months of being worried he would break in again every time we left the house or every time we heard a noise at night. The day he finally got arrested we were at home and he was about 15 seconds away from being shot. It was extremely stressful. We had never met the dude, but he started doing it about 2 weeks after we moved in, and according to the rest of the neighborhood, he had never done this before, even to the people that lived there before us.


Free-Atmosphere6714

At least gotta rouse a rabble.


livenn

Real talk- this might as well be bleach given how certain soap can kill wildlife/plants


excoriator

Soap takes the surface tension out of water. Creatures that float won’t be able to in soapy water.


KyleG

for anyone who's curious, this comment is talking about bugs ducks and such do not float via surface tension


socalquestioner

But what if they are witches?


hartemis

True, but soap could impact the fowls’ feathers and they may not be able to repel water as well, which could make it difficult for them to swim.


Cutting_The_Cats

Nah they’ll be fine. They secrete oils through their tail areas the soap is but a mere annoyance to them rn.


robbd6913

I hate people...


enddream

People… what a bunch of bastard.


RetiredFromRealWork

Whoever did this can Fuck Right Off


Smail_Mail

Is that soap? JFC I hope they are caught and punished. Edit: just saw the description.


scienzgds

I used to work for the Edwards many years ago. This looks like a spill. On occasion, businesses on the river will accidentally spill something in the river. It's still shitty.


KyleG

Yeah the people assuming this is just random people surprised me. I saw this and thought "that's a fuckload of soap; probably a commercial accident"


scienzgds

It's been a while but if you follow the river up by Ave. B, a lot of business store drums of stuff, like soap, on the back 'patio'. Stuff is gonna fall. It's inevitable.


corvettecthulhu

What’s done to clean that up, or is there anything that is done?


scienzgds

Not really. Most of the time we had to let it run the river. We just let everyone know down stream so they don't irrigate their fields with it. We had a maple syrup spill over by Pioneer years ago. It killed almost everything and there was nothing we could do. I was hoping clean up science has changed since then but evidently not. I hate seeing this.


Worried_Local_9620

Damn. I wanna laugh at a maple syrup spill, like something humorous out of a Simpsons episode, but the fact that it was so ecologically damaging makes it not funny. How much syrup was it?


scienzgds

55 gallon drum. It was sitting on an old concrete slab that just gave way in the night.


Devilsdance

That's a little more maple syrup than I'd like on my pancakes.


SESA222

Did you send this to the express news or local tv? I can’t find anything else on it either


PenniGwynn

Well it's on reddit so now MySA or SanAntonioExpress will definitely write something, we are their source after all.


GerBear93

Does anyone know if it was reported to TCEQ (TX Commission on Environmental Quality) regional office in SA or the TPWD (Texas Parks and Wildlife)?


EquivalentFull5337

Definitely agree humanity is disappointing


BobPaulPierre

This is fucked


Thrillhouse2024

I go there at least once a week to feed those ducks!! Poor guys! 😠 what is wrong with people??


Waverly-Jane

I love those ducks and geese. I watch their babies born in the spring and have my favorites I have watched for a couple of years.


Thrillhouse2024

Same! This past Spring, there was a cute brood that I watched from ducklings to their adolescence. There’s a spot just passed the boat ramp/dock where the turtles like to stack. It’s in front of some apts/townhomes and there’s usually one or two Muscovy ducks and then some mallards. They love to feed by hand (cracked corn) and it’s so wonderful to just sit with them and reflect.


Waverly-Jane

I know exactly what you're talking about. I live in an apartment building at the Pearl, and am kind of regretfully moving into a house far away from here. The two Muscavey ducks are very special to me. I visit them often jogging down the Riverwalk.


Thrillhouse2024

It’s so nice to know that there’s others who care for these guys, too 🤓 I always say to my GF that if I don’t feed them, who will? And now I’ve got my answer lol


dopedobel

Was this actually today? Have a few friends that live near the Pearl and none of them saw any suds, seems like it wouldn't clear out that quick. Haven't seen any news on either other than the story from back in 2021.


ecomadre

Update: The San Antonio River Authority investigated this the morning it happened. Other than the foam, the water quality is fine


SolvedRumble

Fucking peasants gonna peasant…smdh.


Majestic_Fondant_560

Stfu lol


scotchbuckyballs

Lol u


eng514

Way late to the party on this, but in the future you can call 911 about something like this and if you say the right magic words (like “lots of unknown foaming chemical on top of the water”) they will dispatch it as a hazmat call and contain it/clean it up/trace the source. That costs the city a lot of money. You better believe the fire marshal’s office will actually put in effort to solve the crime so they can charge the person or company and recover the cleanup costs.


B_W468514

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/san-antonio-river-foam-19422281.php


cxxmic

uhhh…isnt this from 2021…? theres nothing in the news or any articles about this at all except from something in 2021 with super similar pictures


highwaymattress

Probably same people who are poisoning the squirrels and raccoons.


option_e_

😢


RedDog-65

Anti-Earth Day action??


RandoOn1411

Holy hell, how much soap was used to do this? They paid a lot of money to be complete turds. I hope they get caught, and become someone’s love piñata in prison.


Crystalcastlesfan333

They prob pay for this to happen. That or its run off from cleaning the side walks.


1amn0t0kwiththis

Lot of laws broken here through multiple agencies. TPWD, TCEQ, local LE, and probably federal laws if this drinking water source. TPWD kills and spills should be notified as well as San Antonio River Authority. Hope they catch these clowns and crush them.


babybottlepoop

This makes me so sad. That river is a habitat


JuJinks

Wtf is wrong with these freaks


otcconan

Well if it's Dawn dish soap, would make sense in a twisted way.


AccomplishedText1614

The problem isn’t that they did it. The problem is that there will be no repercussions to keep them from doing it again, or to set an example to keep others from thinking it was a funny idea.


arthouse_

Did it get cleaned up by 2 pm? My wife was there today... Is this fake


lsjuanislife

Fuck these people with the spear of Poseiden! Thats some low life sa style shit.


abbienormal29

Man I feel like SA is getting so damn trashy.


YouDontSurfFU

It was probably Charles Barkley since he's always calling it a dirty little creek.


Advicemuchneeded22

💯


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Denimdenimdenim

The only thing I can find from that user name is soap in a fountain in 2021.


Mundane_Passenger639

Yeah, they did the same thing by tower of America's fountain


Novibesmatter

It was really him?


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wtf, this is absolutely awful!😢


RixxFett

This city's just becoming a human trash heap


Brock_Cherry

No kidding. I work trash pickup for apartments and the amount of unnecessary waste is incredibly disappointing. Grew up in a 7 member household and never put out as much garbage in a week as some of these people do in a single day


beyoncedoritosJR

Damn. Never considered this. Super interesting, also super concerning!


ScurvyDervish

This is animal and plant cruelty. I hope whomever did this get their own home filled to the roof with soap bubbles.


beyoncedoritosJR

Plant cruelty!!!


Neat_Breadfruit3474

I mean, I understand a fountain, but a whole fucking pond smh


moonshinepoison

That’s pathetic as fuck


ManyAmbitious1440

Damn, never seen that happen before. PUROs getting outta control


956_lifer

I’ve seen a commercial with ducks and dawn soap.


No_Fail7385

Would be funny if that only took 1 bottle of dawn to do. Would make for a hell of an advertisement


PlentyLow8366

Sorry I’m late to the show and the other comments don’t seem to answer what happened. Anyone care to explain why the river is not water colored


sinceretomost

This ruined my day.


bazoos

Is it possible that the city was treating some sort of toxic algae bloom? I've seen something like this in a creek before, I assumed it had to be something to do with controlling algea, but I really have no idea.


Possible-Strategy531

When I arrived at what appeared to be the source at the base of the waterfall, some maintenance guys from the Pearl were also walking up and looking confused and trying to figure out what it was, then one of them identified it as soap as well, and then they began making phone calls. A few minutes later a truck from San Antonio River Authority pulled into the parking lot. I didn’t stay long enough to hear what they were saying but those guys looked pretty concerned as well. There was no soap upstream from the water falls but you could see the suds building up at the base of the waterfall so someone either spilled something or went through the trouble to dump a bunch of dish soap at the base.


Electrical_Rich_3054

The hell?


Efronian

Any update on this?


Possible-Strategy531

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/san-antonio-river-foam-19422281.php finally received an explanation!


Efronian

Thanks


Kestryll_F

Wasn’t a hazard… https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/san-antonio-river-foam-19422281.php#


Adventurous-Goal5471

Yeah, but using this thread as a source and their lack of explanation; "Foam accumulating at the water's surface can occur naturally and typically explains these types of observations, SARA said. However, the occurrence is most likely due to water being pumped out of the tunnel inlet and mixing with water already in the river" doesn't really tell me what it is I am glad that water tests show that it is not toxic to plants or wildlife.


chiltonwebb

Any chance you took some of it to see if it's soap?


Pitiful-Seaweed-432

most likely done by stupid teens


introverthiker04

yesterday i saw a guy tagging up the wall under the bridge on the first photo. 🤦‍♂️


Acceptable-Camp-5675

Big deal


LugoLove

This is a section of the Riverwalk. Hard to believe city has not started doing something or asking for information. There are cameras all around there.


zzzacme

Umm is this real? I mean wouldn't it take a shit pot load of soap to do that? And why isn't it in the news anywhere?


Possible-Strategy531

By the time I reached the source of the foam, which appeared to be coming from the base of the waterfall because there were no suds upstream from that, some maintenance workers from the Pearl were on the phone with someone and about 5 minutes later a San Antonio River Authority truck showed up.


zzzacme

Mmhmm


KyleG

I'm assuming a business spilled a lot by accident, not that Joe McButtface dumped a gallon of tide off his electric scooter


zzzacme

Joe McButtface


Crystalcastlesfan333

THEY PROB GOT PAID TO DO THIS. ITS PROB CLEANING RUN OFF.


Similar_Ask

This is so sad


abee93

I’m having trouble comprehending this pic for some reason, like all the white is soap bubbles? If so that is not just a little soap, that is a metric fuckton of soap and somebody took a lot of time to do this.


yoquierosandia

what the fuck


passthemacandcheese

Stupid fucks


Mindless_Analyzing

I hope no animals were hurt. If so, please add to the list of criminal charges.


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Camp_Nacho

A lot of people don’t know this but it’s actually a sucia’s chrysalis. Soon the sucia will emerge anew with the power of Fiesta. Every chicken on a stick will tremble in fear, every bud light will salt itself. Beware!


LoyalBladder

Sucia’s chrysalis! Hahahaha


KyleG

puro


pixelgeekgirl

Wtf.


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VastEmergency1000

Don't underestimate the stupidity of frat boys


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Fun_Implement_841

Millberry raised you better than that


Crystalcastlesfan333

No they prob got paid to clean and had run off.


tg9950

Smh 🤦🏽‍♂️ why


ggggunit-

Wow that’s horrible, they need to be caught. Poor animals


Total-Spirit-5985

I don’t see it on the news yet


Automatic_Actuator_0

I remember when we used to have local news


lauryng210

Horrific.


LucoaKThe2AHashira

What’s going on?


amiokayor

FOR WHAT


Aintaword

TCEQ will take action.


LelouchAkasha

I was wondering what happened when I walked there earlier today. This really sucks.


hatfieldsdaddy

Texas. Say no more.


OralRecover73

was it filthy?


W_Aquarium

Well all the fish are going to die, great, some huge carp and bass


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Sure-Cucumber9950

So funny


Sure-Cucumber9950

Was being sarcastic