I smell something,,,,

Eighteen years ago, I found a dead raccoon under the porch of my first house. I had been out of town, in July, for more than a week.

It was pretty rough. After some effort, I finally saw the thing - covered in maggots. I figured out how to pick it up using a contractor's garbage bag like a dog poop bag...

Ugh. It was a completely primeval experience. Like being a caveman.

Fortunately, I don't really remember the smell. But it was one of the most intense and unpleasant experiences of my life.
 
First day in the hangar the wreckage didn't smell too bad.. Second day I spent almost all day sitting in what was left of the cockpit with tweezers clearing the lady's face out of the instruments to see where the needles pointed at impact.. By the 4th day it was absolutely disgusting to smell....






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Then it sat in my yard for 2 months till the salvage yard picked it up..

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It must be me!

I went into the shed in my backyard and found a family of skunks who sprayed my leg with their goodness. That stuff doesn't come off with ANYTHING and I tried it all. You can smell me from California!!!

I hired a trapper to trap them and release them in one of our State parks. Plenty of places to roam for those little critters.
 
Resized those for you, Ben. Wish I hadn't. :(

Is that the accident you were talking about when you helped out the NTSB investigate?


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Thanks for resizing.. I am an old , dumb idiot...:redface::redface::redface::redface:..

There are a hundred more pics, but way too graphic to post... After a few good rain showers while sitting in my yard, most of the smell went away.. The smell after the fourth day in the hangar was beyond discription........
 
N801BH said:
Thanks for resizing.. I am an old , dumb idiot...:redface::redface::redface::redface:..

There are a hundred more pics, but way too graphic to post... After a few good rain showers while sitting in my yard, most of the smell went away.. The smell after the fourth day in the hangar was beyond discription........
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1) I had a really disgusting wino in the back of my patrol unit once.

The sweet but slightly rancid smell of the wine/alcohol was overpowering.

It actually led me to stop drinking for the better part of a year!

2) I had a mentally ill woman in the back of my patrol unit once. Her "personal hygiene" smell was repulsive almost to the point of nausea. I later had homicide contact me, because she had died of an infection a few days later. Yuck!*

3) Finally there was a huge black man who had died in his trailer in the Miami heat. Later found out he had been neither huge nor black. Funny things happen to a body in the heat. Homicide asked me to hold up some plastic from the scene to block the view of onlookers as the examined the body. I felt something moving on my hand. Maggots.

I know a lot like to bash cops, but when you see what they deal with day to day, its not an easy or necessarily pleasant job.


*I later thought about how your smell receptors react to particulate matter you're inhaling. Double yuck!
 
I haven't read the whole thread but here's the worst smell I ever, uh, smelled.
Whole bunch of years ago I went thru a fishing phase. Went and picked up some worms, then a buddy called, and I went to pick him up, then for some reason we went to like the mall or something then like 4 summer weeks went by. The worst smell I ever smelt came in the form of a 10oz styrofoam to-go container of night crawlers that had snuck underneath my passenger seat festering with the stench of 50 compressed little 3 inch carcasses packed in rotting worm soil. It was freakin horrid I tell u.
 
Henning said:
:rofl: That doesn't even make my top 20 anymore.:rofl:
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Yeah,

There are some smells out there that automatically cause you to vomit right away. If that hasn't happened to you then you haven't taken a sniff at the right odor....and it's out there.
 
Margy bought a jug of "Groundhog Repellent" and it inadvertantly discharged onto my flight bag while it was in the car. I couldn't figure out what that odd smell was (it's a mixture of rosemary, cinnamon, mint and putrescent egg solids.
 
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