44 tons of rotting meat stink South Dakota town

[Lyon_Wonder]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33165124/ns/us_news-life/?GT1=43001

BRIDGEWATER, S.D. - Behind the freezer doors at a meat plant mysteriously abandoned by its owner, the 44 tons of bison meat managed to hold its own for months, masked by the brutal chill of two South Dakota winters.Once the power was cut and spring thaw arrived, nature took over. And enough rotting meat to fill a high school gym did exactly what you'd expect: It stank.
It stank at the bank. It smelled at the law office. It reeked at the cafe. Even the jewelry store wasn't immune. Everyone in this tiny town could smell it, everywhere they went. A putrid odor so downright nasty the cleaners sent to mop up the gooey mess of liquefied meat — topped by a blanket of swarming white maggots and buzzed by a legion of flies — gave up after two days.

 

[Joshua Howard]

Oh man, that's nasty. If that happened in my town, it would be nigh unto the last straw. The point when I unfold my escape plan, say "enough of this place," load up my truck, and head for the other end of the country.

And to top it off... the dude who did it says "It wasn't ever a health hazard..." ...yep. I wonder if he would still be saying that if somebody made him eat some of that meat.

The world is made of a few extraordinary people, and alot of folks who are just average. There is, however, a small pecentile of individuals who just don't have anything upstairs at all, and this meat-storage-plant owner appears to be one of them. I feel sorry for whoever his residential neighbors are.

 

[Lindley]

See, this is where the "nuke it from orbit" philosophy really starts to pay off.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The building is still there?!?!? Who the hell would want to set foot in that place ever again? They should burn it to the ground.

 

[Joshua Howard]

The building is still there?!?!? Who the hell would want to set foot in that place ever again? They should burn it to the ground.

The point you make reminds me of the California big box store that used to be home to Electronics retailer The Good Guys, where at one point an entire store full of customers was captured and held hostage by asian terrorists, a 12+ hour standoff occurred, and ultimately 6 people died. Presently, the unit is home to a Dollar Tree. I was reading about that incident the other day, and couldn't help thinking... why would anybody in their right mind want to set up shop in that piece of real estate?

It is probably safe to say that a very sweetly priced lease is going to enter into the scenario. As it is, they're lucky that 50% of the town's population didn't move out.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

At the very least I hope they managed to get rid of the smell. If it was that bad, though, it's probably still lingering around...

 

[apostle83]

You guys fail to understand what types of smells small towns will put up with. My hometown had a sugar beet plant that... released some very nasty smells. Rather than complain about it, we were thankful for the jobs the beets provided.

Of course, none of my family worked there.

 

[Trekker4747]

You guys fail to understand what types of smells small towns will put up with. My hometown had a sugar beet plant that... released some very nasty smells. Rather than complain about it, we were thankful for the jobs the beets provided.

Of course, none of my family worked there.

Seriously.

Drive through a small town sometime and see if you ever get the smell of cow-shit out of your nose.

 

[Deckerd]

A few years ago a group of seals chased a school of sprats up the Forth and into the naval dockyard at Rosyth. Unwittingly the dockyard closed the gates to the drydock and all the fish suffocated.

Hooeee Musky.

Edinburgh was downwind. It took them a week to shovel all the rotting carcases out.

 

[backstept]

I live in Syracuse which is next to Onondaga Lake.
Onondaga Lake is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the country.
There's still life in the lake, but you can't eat the fish you catch because of the chemicals, and there's no swimming allowed in the lake. In summer algae grows on the lake which makes a horrible stench.

 

[apostle83]

Hey, it will get better when you guys stop dumping raw sewage into the lake in 2012!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

My mother used to leave near a Seagram's plant. You could smell yeast all day and night. Can't say I ever really got used to it, when I visited.

I can hardly imagine how bad 44 tons of rotting bison meat must smell. Ugh.

 

[Plecostomus]

This thread just begs for a comment from the 40,000 Year Stench.

Anyway. Can't they hit it with some kind of liquid fire or Chlorox Bomb? I fail to think that "going in and shoveling it out" is the only option... Science should provide us with the ability to fix this or at least blow the ever-loving fuck out of it with a gigantic bomb.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

This thread just begs for a comment from the 40,000 Year Stench.

Anyway. Can't they hit it with some kind of liquid fire or Chlorox Bomb? I fail to think that "going in and shoveling it out" is the only option... Science should provide us with the ability to fix this or at least blow the ever-loving fuck out of it with a gigantic bomb.

Well, I suspect the people in the surrounding area would rather smell rotting meat than end up being showered with it (along with toxic chemicals.)

 

[Kirby]

Send in the Mythbusters I'm sure they could do all sorts of fun stuff in there.

 

[Plecostomus]

This thread just begs for a comment from the 40,000 Year Stench.

Anyway. Can't they hit it with some kind of liquid fire or Chlorox Bomb? I fail to think that "going in and shoveling it out" is the only option... Science should provide us with the ability to fix this or at least blow the ever-loving fuck out of it with a gigantic bomb.

Well, I suspect the people in the surrounding area would rather smell rotting meat than end up being showered with it (along with toxic chemicals.)

Ok tunnel under it and let the building implode then cover over it with cement.

 

[Lindley]

The Chernobyl treatment seems appropriate at this juncture.

 

[apostle83]

My mother used to leave near a Seagram's plant. You could smell yeast all day and night. Can't say I ever really got used to it, when I visited.

I can hardly imagine how bad 44 tons of rotting bison meat must smell. Ugh.

How did she handle the constant yeast infections?

 

[Plecostomus]

The Chernobyl treatment seems appropriate at this juncture.

Enormous amounts of heat to oxidize the offending waste or some kind of chemical reaction. No need to go nuclear on an offensive stench.

Give me $2 million dollars and a round-trip ticket and I'll solve the problem in a few hours.

I'm thinking THERMITE.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

My mother used to leave near a Seagram's plant. You could smell yeast all day and night. Can't say I ever really got used to it, when I visited.

I can hardly imagine how bad 44 tons of rotting bison meat must smell. Ugh.

How did she handle the constant yeast infections?

If that was a joke, it wasn't very funny.