Stephen Colbert is Scared of You San Jose
Comedian rips city for one stinky fridge
Better keep your fridges clean San Jose, or Colbert might just bust your chops.
San Jose you have been officially dubbed a threat by Stephen Colbert.
The fake news commentator took aim at the backbone of the Silicon Valley by naming it number two in his "Threat Down," a top five list of dangers to America.
San Jose beat out the threat of "Casual Jesus," a mannequin hung by a church in England that depicts the Messiah wearing jeans, and the czar who says America will no longer use the term "war on drugs."
So what is San Jose's crime that is so heinous it was dubbed a greater threat than visual blasphemy by Colbert? Stinky fridges.
Last Tuesday, firefighters and hazmat teams evacuated 325 people from an AT&T building in downtown San Jose because of a combination of rotted food and a chemical cleaner coming from a filthy fridge being cleaned out by a techy, who had no sense of smell because of a nasal condition
Twenty-eight people in the building suffered from vomiting and nausea, seven people were hospitalized and worse, much worse, according to Colbert, hordes of techies ran out of the building to breathe the polluted San Jose air.
"You know the smell was strong when it made people flee into the open air of San Jose," he said. "This just proves that cleanliness is a threat. There's a reason it is close to godliness because when you clean you die."
Colbert said he instead cleans out his rotting fridge by duct taping it and ignoring the problem until it goes away.
You can check out the video for yourself to the left. Just forward to 12:27 to hear what Colbert thinks of San Jose.
Posted Friday, Jul 17, 2009 - 1:29 PM PST
