Cleaning it up a bit ...

It gives street cleaning a whole new meaning ... and it's pretty amazing that it has happened in two US cities within a couple of days. The event - soap foam filling streets in cities in both Idaho and Alaska. In Boise, sudsy citrus-scented foam erupted from manhole covers like geysers after a linen company accidentally released 167 gallons of "harmless but concentrated" detergent into sewer lines. Meanwhile, in Wasilla, Alaska, foam spewed from the city's sewer lagoon, due, it was suggested, to ice thawing and the possibility that the treatment plant may have gotten a "good jolt" of soap residue. (For further details - Yahoo US News)