Mystery dung spatters neighborhood

CHICAGO, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A Chicago neighborhood west of O'Hare airport has been getting plastered with some kind of feces from the sky, the Chicago Sun-Times said Thursday.

Because it is beneath a busy airport flight path, many residents of the subdivision believe planes have been dumping excess lavatory waste on landing approach since Friday.

But after the fly-by pooping was reported to police, officials at the Federal Aviation Administration became involved, and pooh-poohed the notion it came from an aircraft.

FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said if a plane was involved, the waste probably would be in frozen chunks, and "it's going to be a blue-ice type of product."

Accounts vary from household to household on whether birds could be involved. A local pond is home to several geese, and others reported seeing large flocks of blackbirds and starlings on the weekend.

Others said there were no birds.

Oswego police Detective Jeff Burgner said he hopes to get to the bottom of the mystery.

"It hasn't been confirmed if it was from an airplane or not, and currently it's still under investigation," he said.