He slimed me!

Day 34

After losing their jobs at Columbia University, a trio of misfit parapsychologists—Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler — establish their own paranormal exterminator service, "Ghostbusters." The business, operating out of a retired fire station (located at 14 N. Moore St. in TriBeCa), gets off to a slow start, and they run out of money. Fortunately, their secretary Janine Melnitz gives them the news that they have been contacted by the upscale Sedgewick Hotel to investigate a haunting. At the hotel, they successfully (albeit chaotically) capture their first ghost and deposit it into a "containment unit" of their own design located in the basement of their office.

Paranormal activity soon begins to increase across the city, and business skyrockets for the Ghostbusters, who become local celebrities in the process. As their workload continues to rise, the group is forced to hire a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore, to keep up with the demand for their services.

One day the Ghostbusters office is visited by Walter Peck of the EPA, who arrests the team for supposedly housing dangerous chemicals in their basement (though in reality Peck is a sceptic who believes the Ghostbusters are dangerous frauds), and orders their ghost containment grid shut down, unleashing hundreds of ghosts onto New York City.

The containment unit in question, albeit useful for multiple purposes, was never designed to contain rogue spirits and plasma based entities. A new, nuclear based method of containment is currently under construction by Mr. Spengler.