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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Talk about your entry-level positions ... that one's gotta be right up there with the poor schlub that has to collect bull semen for breeding operations.
Ortho makes an insect control product called Orthene®.
If you can get a half pint bottle and squirt a few drops onto the carpeing of said vehicle, it will do as good a job. The odor of undiluted Orthene® is hell-spawned. No lie.
What a great product to leave around porn bookshops/video stores/sex toy stores! It might help reduce their business.
I thought that was a powder, used on fire ants. I've used it - it kills the little buggers but only for spot treatments. (I ended up switching to Logic to control them semi-permanently). And I never noticed a bad odor - Orthene actually smells kind of sweet to me.
Yeah.
True enough!
I remember back in the early 80's when I was a kid, you could still be a kid!
You could black powder the backyard into oblivion in feeble attempts to send plastic army guys to the moon, or at least teh neighbor's swimming pool, and no-one would mind much.
(Except my hyper-liberal neighbor who insisted that anyone who had a chemiostry set was bound to be a psychotic mass murderer.)
And then there's the people who should be kept away from even potato peelers.
Yes, I know I am lucky to be alive, as numbers of my friends and co-workers didn't make it out alive of some situations, which were not immediately recognized to be dangerous.
'Accidents' give you a much more healthy respect for safety. Protect people too much and they get into trouble because they don't know how or when to protect themselves.
Look at what 'no spanking' has caused - kids don't recognize that there are 'consequences' for their actions. (Thanks to Dr. Spock - we have the 'hippies' and we are still stuck with them, except today they are called Democrats.
We had a teacher put a condom over a beaker of acid (can't recall which offhand) in which limestone had just been dropped.
The condom inflated, and a match applied sent this white fireball rushing ceilingward.
Being a class of mostly boys, we were all duly impressed with the Science teacher's actions, even if she was a 'girl'.
yep.
I live in fear of the day someone decides to inform (whatever Child Welfare Agency meddles in such affairs) of my methods for teaching the young of the species about firearms.
Yeah, the comment of "they musta done sumptin" probably did it.
Anyone who's read history knows better than to say that.
I believe you are thinking of Malathion powder.
It's been a few years...but it used to come concentrated in a half pint bottle for use in a diluted solution in a tank sprayer. Not sure if they sell it in small quantities anymore. Probably not since the lawyers and the CPSC have seen fit to limit what we, the morons, can and can't buy. We might hurt ourselves by drinking the stuff you know.
yeah, I had just posted 281 and was scanning down and saw 150 and my jaw hit my desk, it was soooo bad.
I saved that post, by the way, for posterity (or in case Patriot"_" re-retreads)
165 - "(Except my hyper-liberal neighbor who insisted that anyone who had a chemiostry set was bound to be a psychotic mass murderer.)"
So, that's what happened to me. :)
Uuuuggghhh....(shudder)
Yeah, that post just blew me away.
It was so out of wack with reality that it just had to go.
Sounded and typed like a 15 or 16 year old girl.
And she would have been interestin gto debate IF she'd been willing to listen and learn.
But.. being that 15 year old girls these days think they are the center of the universe and know everything...
My chemistry set was taken away.
It had Sodium Cyanide, and that was considered too dangerous for me to have.
actually, I got the vibe it was a guy... a mid-20's metrosexual "enlightened" (meaning "neutered") urban male.
Nope. Definitely Orthene powder (put out by Chevron if I recall correctly). I sprinkled a ton of the stuff on fire ant mounds until I found this new stuff that works well. Can't remember the name, but its little blue granules about the size of Malt-o-Meal and you broadcast it then wet it down.
please find out what it is and tell me - we have those nasty little [unprintable]s here in South GA, too.
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