“Dear PoPville,

Totally random but why does DC water have NY license plates? Found that odd.”

Update: Mystery solved. From DC Water:

“Ah! We have contractors who work for us that rent or use their own vehicles. We give them a decal so the community knows the truck is working with/for us.”


“Dear PoPville,

Be interested if the hive-mind have any guesses what’s going on here. Stolen car? Vandalism? Someone with a gripe against MD drivers?”


“Dear PoPville,

As seen at 1pm on Delafield and 8th st NW, this creature was NOT a cat without a tail and was trying to go up the stairs to houses.

Beaver with a fuzzy tail?
Honey badger misplaced?
Someone’s obese ferret escaped?

What is this?!”

According to my expertise, and obviously I had to post this video, it’s not a honey badger. (more…)



Photo by PoPville flickr user Phil

Sam, and others, ask: “does anyone know why it has smelled like the zoo outside of the p street Whole Foods for the past month???”

Back in April 2015 the malodorous mystery first reared its ugly head on P Street. At that time DC Water told us it was due to a “clogged sewer line” and took a few days to fix. Perhaps the same issue?


1440 P Street, NW


Thanks to Lucia for sending:

“In light of the “Poverty” vanity plate post….Spotted on Sherman Ave. on my commute home yesterday.”

Let’s try to flip this around – what are the best vanity plates you’ve ever seen?


A reader spots this ‘POVERTY’ plate Friday night in Chinatown and is just as gobsmacked as I am. What are they thinking with a plate like this on a BMW?



Photo by PoPville flickr user Joseph Gruber

Sadly no photo but Abigail Twittahfield messaged us around midnight:

“Anybody else see that meteorite just now fall & burn out (looking west from #DC)?! From Logan Cir it looked like it was right over Georgetown! It was nuts. And so bright out of the corner of my eye, it caught my attention.”

Anyone else see this – by chance snap a photo?


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