HugeGrossBurrito posted:

This is the story of when they had to evacuate a city block in Baltimore because of a smell I made.

We were starting construction on a new restaurant location they were expanding and I was the GM for the new location so we got to work clearing out the mess left by the last restaurant. They were a bakery and out back there was a dumpster. They closed two years before. Not sure why it was there considering this alley basically has no street access other than a tiny door for I assume fire code reasons. Honestly I don’t know how they got it in there we had to cut it up with a torch to get rid of it.

It was full of dough and water we figured we could use the dumpster for something so we got to work tipping it over to get the water out. It was not water it was liquified rat. Hundreds of liquified rats. The three of us all began projectile vomiting immediately, before my brain could process the smell. It was a smell so strong you could feel it deep inside your chest and no amount of vomiting made it go away.
There were so many goddamn rat bones. They snuck in to eat the rotting dough and got stuck and drowned in what I’m assuming was a combination of rain water and soup made of their friends.

Covered in vomit and rat juice we did our best to regain our composure we went to the front of the building and tried to smoke cigarettes but they just tasted like death. It had been about a minute since we tipped the dumpster over and we heard screaming from around the corner. You see we weren’t the only ones projectile vomiting in fact most of the people on the street were and those that weren’t were running and screaming. Everywhere you looked people were wrenching I watched a little old lady get down on her knees and just erupt into a planter.

Then the fire department and the police and ambulances showed up. They cleared out everyone they could so they could hose down the streets and eventually came to the scene of the crime. A firefighter vomited into to his respirator. This got everyone including us into a vomitous fervor again but at least we were in the alley behind the restaurant to hide our shame.

“I’ve been a cop in Baltimore city for 30 years and I found a dead body that had been sitting in a vacant house for a month last week and this smells worse”

After a day of professional cleanup the city didn’t blame us because it was the trash of the previous owner. My wife made me take the train home instead of my car because I had a stench that literally woke nodding heroin addicts and made them move to another car. My wife made me strip in the yard and sprayed me with a hose. The clothes were destroyed, I even had to buy a new phone because it always carried the faintest hint of death smell. That was the worst thing I have ever smelled and I pray to god I never smell anything worse.

My personal theory is that there was still active yeast in the dough and it was fermenting the sugars from the rat corpses.

SubponticatePoster posted:

Back when I worked animal control we were serving a search warrant on a dogfighting compound. It was in the city but on the outskirts, really out in the middle of nowhere. There was this huge plywood-walled area where the dogs were kept, and then an old mobile home on the property. After waiting for like 4 hours to get the warrant telephonically we started going through the place. By the time we got it, it was dark. Dogs were easy enough: just unchain them, take pictures, log the details and then get them on the trucks. I think there were maybe 6 or 7 of them. The guy who owned the place was a notorious piece of poo poo who'd been popped for cruelty on several occasions but we'd never got him on the felony dogfighting charge. Just having dogs in an obvious setup like that wasn't necessarily enough to secure a conviction so we set out to search the trailer for more evidence.

It didn't have power itself, somebody had run an extension cord from a power pole. The only light in the place was in the kitchen area. It didn't have running water or anything. I was at the back, going through a bunch of poo poo in one of the bedrooms. This was in the early 2000s, so I had to seize all of these VHS tapes with labels like "SNOW WHITE" on them in case they'd recorded fights on them and home-recorded DVDs weren't really a thing at that point. Plus a bunch of notebooks and poo poo since it was too dark to read them. There were a bunch of cops wandering around. They were the ones who got the warrant and were making sure we didn't get shotgunned to death in case the owner or one of his lackeys showed up. From the kitchen area I hear one of them say "I wonder what's in here?" Then I hear my Lt. say NOOOOOOO like Vader in Revenge of the Sith. Then the clear sound of running footsteps and puking. About 10 seconds later the smell hit me. I blinked twice, shook my head, and went back to work because you get to be the champion of ignoring disgusting smells when you work AC.

Finally I went up front to see what the trouble was. There was a cooler on the kitchen table that the cop had opened. Inside there was a slurry of what used to be fish. We figured at some point someone went fishing, caught a bunch, threw them in the cooler and then brought it to the compound and forgot about it. No maggots as it had been sealed up pretty efficiently, but it was also summer so imagine what a 30qt cooler full of rotten fish glorp smells like. The cop opened it, the smell hit him in the face and you could follow the trail of vomit outside. Every other cop in and around the place was going like a fire hose. The noooooo from my Lt. was him trying to stop the cop from opening the cooler because he knew nothing good could come of it. We just shook our heads and went back to work in the effluvia. It's kind of hard to describe - the obvious stench of decay, but also this weird sharp kind of alkaline smell. We didn't bother closing the cooler since we figured the owner would have to come by some time and we wanted to leave him a surprise.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/IYf5NQt.gifv

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/IYf5NQt.gifv

iroc.dis posted:

18 year old kid hired by a company to help demo the roof off his high school. They just told him to get up there and start tearing poo poo off. He was trying to pull up a nailed down piece of wood when it broke loose, he stumbled backwards and fell off the edge. Landed face first. Per the other workers, EMTs had a body bag ready when they rolled up.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

If power was off for an extended period of time, they did you a favor by emptying the fridge. Unless a kitchen full of maggots and flies blotting every window was a goal. And once food spoils like that, good luck ever getting the smell out of the fridge.

BBQ Dave posted:

I get with and agree with everything yall are saying but...

I went back and emptied it when I found out the power was going to be out for a week two days after the fire. Two days later they entered to clear the fridges. Entering our place was unnecessary and they'd have known that if they'd taken the time to call or email my wife or me, instead we got an email after the fact.

Log082 posted:

Virtual Railfan caught a train derailment live, and the aftermath is still there. I'm looking forward to seeing how they manage the cleanup. No injuries, thankfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNvU59Ld8aA

(Go to 7:49 local time for the derailment.)

biracial bear for uncut posted:

To unmute, or not to unmute:

https://i.imgur.com/5F3yzKh.mp4

zedprime posted:

Gender reveal getting weirder every day.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

taco night

Der Kyhe posted:

Its never the nice things that leak through the ceiling.

Nenonen posted:

Malfunction at the upstair brewery?

Kith posted:

That's a torn rotator cuff for sure.

Sirotan posted:

Half barrel keg is only about 30lbs empty (which those appear to be), so I'm sure he's fine.

Definitely should have been shrink-wrapped together though.

ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qgppmqBlsw1r0uzl6.mp4

The White Dragon posted:

idgi

Cartoon Man posted:

I missed the Elk posting from th other day. You definitely move outta their way.

Cartoon Man posted:

I missed the Elk posting from th other day. You definitely move outta their way.


https://i.imgur.com/HX4sE4D.gifv

Cartoon Man posted:

I missed the Elk posting from th other day. You definitely move outta their way.


https://i.imgur.com/HX4sE4D.gifv

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Would be pretty hard to resist reaching out and petting this guy. Kind of a conundrum.

Bacon Taco posted:

I hope he sued that company into bankruptcy, and that the local DA looked into criminal charges.

Winklebottom posted:

Nenonen posted:

That's a moose.

agrielaios posted:

Ain't moose got different nose? Not to talk poo poo bout moose nose, but