WORSE SMELL EVER ....

[desertlilydarla]

I thought I would start a new thread on the worse smell's we ever smelled. 

When I was doing maintance work for a real estate co. here in town , about 15 years ago.  One of the houses that I was taking care of had a broken 2" water line in the back yard.  That had been broken for a couple of days we figured.  Anyway, I had to shut off of the water main to fix the break, and I dug by hand shovel in the hard rocks for a couple of hours.  The whole I dug was almost 5 ft. long and a 1 1/2 wide,and 2 ft. down,  but digging in the desert rocks is not to easy.  Anyway, where I had to dig was right where the owner had been dumping all of his cooking oil,  cat litter, motor oil and cat poo. Thoses four ingredients stunk to high high heaven.  I had to go get my painters mask to cover my face, it was so foul.
And here I  though dirty diapers and septic systems were bad.  They didn't hold a candle to that smell.

Needless to say I got the water line fixed and back filled.  The water bill was just short of $200.00.

[Jo McDonald]

The number 1 stinko  is  SKUNK  !!!!  Of course that is only my opinion

[Diane Amberg]

 Long dead bodies are pretty bad. My sense of smell isn't too good, but I could never be a medical examiner. We always carry a jar of Vicks on the ambulance. And for looking so innocent, the Durian fruit  tastes wonderful, if you can get it past your nose. Bad stinky feet x10 !

[kdfrawg]

I think I'm going to have to go with Diane on the worst smell. She's dead right. (Sorry, there I go again. Puns!) Although I remember when I worked at the Allied Mills elevators in Omaha when I was a youth, I was selected by lot to go down under a small feed ingredient tank that had leaked into the concrete base, gotten wet, and rotted. It was fish meal. That was pretty nasty, too.

[Janet Harrington]

A urine soaked bathroom! 

[Diane Amberg]

          PEE-U

[emptynest]

dirty hair and musty clothes

[MarineMom]

 Cattle feedlots

[Dee Gee]

The little house out back in the summer.

[Rudy Taylor]

Four years ago, a semi truck turned over on the cloverleaf intersection north of Caney, emptying its load of bone meal (ground up animal bones).  Nobody was hurt, the truck was up-righted and the next day everything was cleaned up.

Or so we thought.

Two weeks later, that intersection stunk so badly I couldn't stand to drive by. It had rained after the accident, then the hot sun started working and the decaying bone meal became the prey of maggots --- billions of them. The KDHE and EPA both were called in for a major clean-up. They actually dug out all the dirt and hauled it away. I remember standing near the site and looking at a large embankment where the bone meal and maggots had turned into a moving mass.  I've never seen or smelled anything like it.

But then, I don't drive ambulances either --- I'm sure there are some awful sites and smells that these fine folks find.