Soaping The Kinko's Fountain Is New Seattle Pastime

We were driving down Broadway at noon and spotted huge puffballs of soapy bubbles blowing across the street from the fountain in front of the Kinko's. Saturday night, Seattle Metblogs reports, there was a whole "foam party." Plus, a nearby resident tells us the fountain was red foam this morning. That's three things, and three things is, scientifically speaking, a trend. But we also have back-up evidence gleaned from the internet: "Foam Parties are the newest craze among Teens and College Students!" Everyone, foam on.

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By MvB in Miscellaneous on August 7, 2007 2:45 PM

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Rockett Singh

Fun! My daughter when she was a denver wedding photographer had a couple take their photos covered in foam! She sowed them to me and they looked amazing!

Ginny Crandall

I see nothing wrong with foaming. I actually think it sounds like fun as long as it is happening in the summer. I just wonder what it would be like to have a foam party in one of those tent rentals. Foam-tastic, I'm sure.

Seth

People, LIVING has a negative environmental impact. Lighten up.

guest

i've been tossing soap in fountains since elementary school. toss in some industrial strength stuff and a dash of RIT coloring and you've got a technicolor wizard of oz remake.

mmbb

Soap suds and soil particles may seem penny ante as pollution sources go. But in the fast growing Puget Sound metropolitan area, small, "non-point" pollution sources add up and they all run downhill into the streams and bays where salmon are having a harder time making a living.

http://www.djc.com/special/enviro98/10043953.htm

guest

Soaping the fountain at Kinkos is not killing any marine life. Being mindful of our ecology is absolutely encouraged and we're all thankful for anyone's vigilance in that regard. I just had to point out that getting upset at some pranksters putting bubbles in a local fountain is precisely why alot of otherwise great assets to the greening of our cities turn a blind eye to our cause.

Letting your babies and dogs play in said fountains is however an actual threat where bubbles are just a perceived threat that is pretty harmless.

...or maybe I just fed the trolls.

guest

"Foam Parties are the newest craze among Teens and College Students!"

haha

Are you guys fucking 100? Foam is nothing new.

Troy Morris

Foam is sexy.

So is heroine.

Kids should switch to save the water though.

Oh, I wasn't being sarcastic... well, with the first bit I was, but honestly, I'd rather have people ODing on heroine than polluting the water and fish.

And if that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

Jeremy

Also this is the second time they've hit that spot in the last five months.

Jeremy

Actually, this shit's not funny. It flows into the drains along the streets and then out into the Sound where it kills fish--drowns 'em, the can't breathe. Remember my rant against Seattle douchebags? This is a case in point.