Posted on 09/29/2020 6:50:34 AM PDT by Gamecock
They sure don’t build ‘em like they used to.
Entrepreneur Michael “Matt” Maroone moved his family into a brand new $3.75 million townhouse in Williamsburg in 2018, only to discover that his dream home was a proverbial “pig in a poke” that smells to high heaven because of shoddy bathroom ventilation, court papers allege.
The family discovered major plumbing problems at the 131 S. 1st St. home, including “substantial” rain and shower leaks that required walls to be torn down, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Worst of all was an “awful odor” that turned out to be bathroom exhaust piping that is venting behind the walls and ceilings instead of to the outdoors, the court papers say.
“The odor condition is so severe that plaintiff’s home is uninhabitable,” the suit claims.
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Could have been worse.
They could have been Norwegian..................LUTE FISK!.............
Projectile vomit alert...
Union city. ‘Nuff said.
That episode reminds me of a friend who left their car windows down during a summer rainstorm that soaked the interior. They dried it the best they could but the moisture combined with the summer heat festered into something awful that stunk to high heaven.
It was so bad you didn’t want to ride in the vehicle. Fixed it by running an ozone machine run at full blast for 24 hours with the windows rolled up.
“...They left it full of food when they moved out ... 3 years earlier, and the power had been off that entire time”
I was in base housing on Guam and across the street was a single mom, Navy Petty officer who went on leave (AWOL) back stateside and never came back.
Public works showed up months later (after securing power to the unit) emptied the house and discovered a fridge full of rotted food (oops).
So the fridge gets hauled over to a playground lot next to the house opened up, this is in the housing area... and for about a week or so we got to watch the monitor lizards feasting on rotten meat, as there was quite a lot meat in the freezer compartment. It was macabre... and that refrigerator sat out in that playground for months, despite complaints to the command.
The whole affair was totally bizzare.
Any stench can be easily removed by running an ozone machine for a few days.
The dealer took him seriously and told him two old people had driven it out into the desert, got lost, and died. They were found in pretty ripe condition three days later. The prospective buyer passed.
In one of the Kenda episodes, he said you could always tell when a person had died and decomposed in a room - the damned smell permeated everything.
In some WWII article, a guy who repaired Shermans during WWII said you could never get the smell of burned bodies out of the tank, even when freshly painted. Those new crew members who asked about it were told it was crappy government paint that made it smell so bad.
I worked with a Vet(Black) from WW2, that had a job finding and bagging KIA, on Okinawa. To overcome the odor they wore a bandana, dipped in kerosene. Said it helped but not much!
I worked with a guy who was a Medic in 'Nam. Said after his first battle, with all the gore and goo, he told 'em he wanted out. They put him in Graves Registration. He said they found purple bloated bodies that spewed out decomposed fluid when you barely touched the skin. The Come to Jesus moment was when he pulled on a body and half of it came away. He BEGGED to be put back in a combat situation.
I can't imagine what this Civil War burial team went through: 
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