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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Growing up the neighbor paid the oil company to spray oil on the gravel road in front of his house to keep the dust down. At first it was new oil, then it became too expensive so he switched to used oil. This was into the 80s. A government run facility local to me poured so much oil down their garage drain that oil was seeping out of a hillside and someone caught it on fire. Took weeks to get it all dug out and extinguished.
gpt
There’s a story where an entire town was sprayed by one business who bought some shady industrial waste and mixed it in to save costs.

Turns out it was radioactive and the entire town was evacuated and leveled