Inspectorjoe Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 I encountered this ..... this, ugh, ... this thing on a roof today. Needless to say, I never saw anything like it before. It looked wet and sticky. I wasn't about to smell it or touch it. Any ideas out there? Image Insert: 118.78 KB Image Insert: 158.81 KB Image Insert: 151.52 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bain Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 It almost looks like some sort of auto-aborted animal fetus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dirks Jr Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Maybe some kind of regergitated biological mass? One that is infested with worms? Got any large birds of prey in those parts? Only other thing I can think of is; beam me up scotty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Shit. I think it means THEY're here. I wasn't about to smell it or touch it.Katen would've tasted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlieb Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 My wife and daughter both said about the same thing - it looks like one of those balls with all the spikes that has melted onto the roof. I on the otherhand disagree. Was it wet? Any smells? Aborted -- I doubt it. No trail. CSI time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian G Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 It looks like somebody puked-up a bad, yarn-decorated hippie hat from the 60's. Yecchhhh![:-yuck][:-sour] Somebody should keep an eye on Joe. A thing might burst out of his chest in a week or two. [:-alien] Brian G. You've Never Seen It All in This Business, There's Always More [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exploreparadise2 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Some kind of slime mold growing from the wood roof sheathing. Similar to "dog vomit slime mold." (Yeah, there is such a thing.) Blair Home Inspection Seattle Bellevue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Whitmore Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 It looks either like one of those koosh balls that melted to the roof, some prank rubber vomit that is melted, or an alien fetus ...... take your pick. The ball is my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Image Insert: 36.57 KB Bad pufferfish flushed by a fugu chef on Daisuke Matsuzaka's private plane while flying over PA on his way back to Fenway Park. Easy! Next! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfSwamp Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 I think it is a puffer fish. You can see a pretty convincing representation of the mouth in photo 2. Or, it could just be melted plastic, which would explain why there are no bugs eating the thing. WJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Fugu Chef is a Philadelphia, PA punk band founded in May of 2008.Coincidence? Actually, I do have a second guess (although the first was brilliant enough [:-party]). It looks eerily similar to some photos of bacteria in my wife's microbiolgy texts. With Three Mile Island only about 100 miles away from Nazareth, it could also be a giant mutated amoeba from the cooling ponds there. Possibly dropped by a two-headed heron with six legs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspectorjoe Posted June 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Gee, I'm glad there's a consensus of opinion as to what it is.[:-boggled I'm going with the Koosh Ball explanation (I had to Google it). Contemplating any other scenario scares the crap out of me, and I'm not even a science fiction fan. I didn't mention it to the buyer yesterday. I'm just finishing the report and it's not going into it. I'm going to try to forget all about seeing this thing. I just hope it doesn't come back to me in a nightmare. Now if only the noises and movement that I feel in my chest would go away ........... [:-alien] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Huh, If it were a ball, wouldn't it have rolled off the roof and ended up in the gutter or on the ground? [:-magnify Pretty gross looking though. It's probably not extra-terrestrial; looks like what I'd imagine the afterbirth of a demon - maybe a succubus - might look like. [:-jump] Better start wearing some garlic; you're probably marked now. [:-devil] ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Originally posted by hausdok Huh, If it were a ball, wouldn't it have rolled off the roof and ended up in the gutter or on the ground? [:-magnify Better start wearing some garlic; you're probably marked now. [:-devil] ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike I agree it would roll off the roof. The garlic is a good idea. It is a flying pet belonging to one of the people under the stairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfSwamp Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 A little Googling tells me that some pufferfish live in fresh water. Bird snags fish, flies over house, drops fish corpse. And before anybody brings it up: I know, I know, since I didn't walk on any roofs, I would've missed the pufferfish. WJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian G Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 So Joe, you didn't mention it to your client? Why not? I would have told him and showed him the photo. He might want to get that....*whatever it is* off of his shingles (with a stick or a shovel, for sure). Total disclosure, my brother. Brian G. Damn That Looks Nasty [:-blindfo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Looking beyond the thing... what be the slope o'that roof? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspectorjoe Posted June 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Originally posted by Brian G So Joe, you didn't mention it to your client? Why not? I would have told him and showed him the photo. He might want to get that....*whatever it is* off of his shingles (with a stick or a shovel, for sure). Total disclosure, my brother. Brian G. Damn That Looks Nasty [:-blindfo I was afraid somebody was going to call me on that. It can't be seen from the ground. The only person at the inspection was the wife with a newborn. She wasn't too interested in the process and left pretty early into the inspection, saying her husband would read the report. I didn't mention it to her, figuring when I find out what it is, I'll put it in the report, but that didn't happen. To be honest, I just don't know what to write about an unidentified blob or what course of action they should take take (consult a certified blobologist to identify it?). It doesn't seem to be affecting the shingles where it is touching them. Yeah, I know, I ought to have told them. Originally posted by Bill Kibble Looking beyond the thing... what be the slope o'that roof? Not much- 4/12, maybe 5/12. Yeah, I know the chimney is low. Image Insert: 115.06 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian G Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Okay, five lashes with a wet noodle and don't let it happen again. [] What was the attic like? It looks reeaaaalllly shallow in that last photo. Don't you wish they all used a medium pitch? Not steep enough to make you fear for your safety, but steep enough to have plenty of room in the attic. [:-thumbu] Brian G. Never Gonna Happen [:-weepn] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspectorjoe Posted June 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Originally posted by Brian G What was the attic like? It looks reeaaaalllly shallow in that last photo. Don't you wish they all used a medium pitch? Not steep enough to make you fear for your safety, but steep enough to have plenty of room in the attic. [:-thumbu] Brian G. Never Gonna Happen [:-weepn] There was no attic to speak of. This was a cape cod that was expanded to a two story. The second floor had a cathedral ceiling up to a flat ceiling at the collar ties. It's a good thing the roof wasn't steeper, because there were no rafter ties to keep the top of the walls from being pushed out. I hope an honest to goodness architect designed it, because the roofing, siding and interior finishes looked like it was done by beer drinkin' buddies on weekends. Even though that roof had a really shallow pitch, I still couldn't get up the nerve to look down this chimney: Image Insert: 124.23 KB I gotta turn this computer off for good. It's 8:40 pm. My wife and I are leaving for a camping vacation in Lenox MA at 7 am and I haven't begun to even think about getting the stuff together, let alone finding it and packing it in the van. Gotta find all this stuff tonight. Where's the coffee???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Lewis Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 There was no attic to speak of. This was a cape cod that was expanded to a two story. The second floor had a cathedral ceiling up to a flat ceiling at the collar ties. It's a good thing the roof wasn't steeper, because there were no rafter ties to keep the top of the walls from being pushed out. I hope an honest to goodness architect designed it, because the roofing, siding and interior finishes looked like it was done by beer drinkin' buddies on weekends. Could there have been a structural ridge beam that was not visible, instead of the rafter ties? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Originally posted by Richard Moore Image Insert: 36.57 KB Bad pufferfish flushed by a fugu chef on Daisuke Matsuzaka's private plane while flying over PA on his way back to Fenway Park. Easy! Next! No More Fugu! My vote is for some sort of melted toy. Those ain't worms, but they sure is nasty looken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_ran Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Looks like something from another world to me. Have you contracted NASA yet? Give me the address and I'll do it for you! Seriously, I think that it was an orange Koosh Ball (the very soft plastic balls with all of the tentacles) that someone threw up there and due to the low slope and the softness of the ball, it never rolled off. Add the heat of the sun against the reasonably dark shingles and you have an orange glob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randynavarro Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 I think this is one of the coolest and strangest phenomenon I've seen to date on any inspector board! Congratulations Joe!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 Look for a glued shingle above it maybe the caulk gun got stuck open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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