Posted on 07/24/2004 6:48:32 PM PDT by NCjim
Drug users and prostitutes are turning up their noses at the condemned buildings they once frequented in Richland County. Deputies here have begun using a chemical spray that makes the places smell like a skunk has come calling.
Skunk Shot, made in New Zealand, contains synthetic skunk oil in a gel-like substance and was originally intended as a cat and dog repellent.
It's a stinking solution for a disturbing problem in some neighborhoods. Vagrants' use of the buildings has taken a nose dive, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
"In the 11 places we've used it, it has been very successful," said Lott, who ordered 10 tubes of gel at $14.95 each in January.
Richland County sheriff's Cpl. Danny Brown spends part of his time spreading the stink in buildings that owners say they want to stop trespassers from visiting.
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what a creative idea.
Know anybody in Boston that could treat the place where the convention is being held?
I don't get it. If the building can't be used -- to the point of spraying it with skunk spray, why is it still standing?
I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a few ounces of this stuff. Some moron keeps parking in my reserved space at work, and I'd pay real money to see him open his car door at the end of the day and catch a whiff after it had all day to bake in the sun.
Same reason we have to tolerate idiots: bureaucratic red tape.
"I wonder if it works for Democrats?"
Feel free to try it on them. The recipy for similar gel follows (I stumbled upon it accidentally during my grad school years):
Ethanedithiol, or any C3-C6 mercaptan is mixed with laboratory grease (Corning(tm) silicon grease would do wonderfully; one could use industrial greases, too) in the proportion 1-2% mercaptan to 99-98% grease. The resulting mixture is smeared on the surface. The grease serves as long-term storage reservoir for the malodorous mercaptan and will continue releasing it over weeks; also, grease removal is not that easy, particularly from porous surfaces.
If you find yourself on the receiving end, Hyamine 1622 (TM), sold by Fluka, or other cationic surfactants, applied as 1-2% aqueous spray, are said to neutralize the stench, at least to some extent.
Try "Tinks 69" Doe in heat urine.
Available at any self respecting "sporting goods" store.
Please see post #8
Buy a parrot, a bag of dates and a short tether; tie the tether to the antenna and go on in to work.
That stuff will do the trick. I once bought some fox urine at a hunting store as a repellant against squirrels that were eating our flowers. Worked like a charm, (this was far from the house, BTW) and the smell would knock you over. In college, my cousin once just took the top off of a bottle of it, and they had to evacuate the room. Believe me, it will get the attention of the guy who parks in your space. Highly recommended.
Mind you, I would NEVER advise anyone to get caught doing this...
A poster after my own heart. (And I have several big hypodermics around here, for livestock use).
LOL
Brings back memories. Years ago I worked as an operator in an oil refinery.
One of our favorite tricks was to purloin a bit of ethyl mercaptan. Skunk Pi$$.
The refinery's use for it was to odorize gas but we found a lot of amusing uses for it.....
Will go no further but I think you can imagine.
...oh, and someone trying such a reprehensible deed which I would NEVER recommend would be the sneaky, shifty SOB who would remember to look for security cameras first...
Granny's African Grey would work just fine. And he works for peanuts (and sunflower seeds) :)
New Zealand has no snakes and no native land mammals—no raccoons, no coyotes, or skunks.
(All much better suggestions than my original idea, which was to get some of that yellowjacket attractant used in wasp traps and smear some on his door handle and driver's side of the vehicle.)
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