The Minor Superpower of Boston

Recent research indicates that in addition to people, cities have minor superpowers as well. Boston's minor superpower is the ability to drown it's enemies in arbitrary substances.

Witness: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919. Boston had been growing wrathful at those who disobeyed it. But water would have been far too good a death. Instead, 2.3 million gallons of molasses were released, flooding the north end.

They say you could smell it for years after.