Las Vegas Officials Worried About City's Foul Stench

WFTV/AP via Drudge ^ | 5/24/2004

[lainie]

City officials, fearful that the smells emanating from downtown alleys is hampering the area's economic resurgence, have launched an assault on stench.

"People are walking downtown and holding their noses," said David Semenza, Las Vegas' neighborhood response manager. "What good is redevelopment when you have this stench?"

The stinky problems involve everything from rotting food to people relieving themselves wherever they please.

[lainie]

The one and only time I've been in Manhattan (July, 1994) it was the same there. Gross!!

[Monty22]

There was a spot outside the Flamingo that nearly made me hurl. Smelled like concentrated rotten shrimp.

[theDentist]

Hmmm... you'd think that the DNC was in town holding a Convention.

[Semper Paratus]

"What smells here stays here"

[tractorman]

Is Clinton in town?

[steplock]

the foul odors are coming from socialist/communist/democrat/homosexual/perverts...

[GaltMeister]

The stinky problems involve everything from rotting food to people relieving themselves wherever they please.

Seems to me that they need to attack the problem at it's source - the stumblebums pissing everywhere and the 'street people'.

[headsonpikes]

I'm afraid the stench is simply the smell of fear and loathing - that's Vegas!

;^)

[RightWhale]

Just like LA. Does any city smell good anymore?

[kittymyrib]

Flamingos stink because they must be fed shrimp to keep their pink color...honest!

[Monty22]

And I just meant the hotel by the name. Funny :)

[bondjamesbond]

The one and only time I've been in Manhattan (July, 1994) it was the same there. Gross!!

New York has come a loooooong way in the last 10 years. You should come again.

[billorites]

[robertpaulsen]

"Since April, crews from the city's Rapid Response Team have spent thousands of dollars a week clearing out debris from alleys and spraying them with an odor-eating, enzyme-producing bacteria."

One night a careless janitor knocked the vat over. Crash!
lub-dub
He went to get a rag to clean it up.
lub-dub
The chicken heart grew.
lub-dub
The janitor returned with a rag.
lub-dub
The heart ate him.

[danneskjold]

City officials, fearful that the smells emanating from downtown alleys is hampering the area's economic resurgence, have launched an assault on stench.

sulfer???

[goldensky]

Sounds just like New Orleans, only they're doing something to fix it.

[Salamander]

Cibola! Bumpity-bump!

[Peter vE]

Are you implying that they're responsible for the stench? That's really not very nice.

[rightazrain]

Well, I was in the French Quarter last November. They still have a lot of work to do. Definitely smelled like the morning after the night before.