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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Click on the link in my Post 180. The stuff's amazing - I've not seen a single fire ant in the area I treated, and they advertise season-long control. Wally World carries it.
THANKS!
Ammonia and bleach are not to be mixed together - what results is that oily nitrogen trichloride [NCl(3)] separates. The stuff is EXPLOSIVE AND SENSITIVE; in 19 century Friedrich Wohler, one of the greater German chemists, lost an eye in work accident with it. On another hand, if care is taken that NCl(3) is always in dilute solution, one could do some work with it, but has to work fast, with light protection and cooling. This kind of work is best left to the professionals.
Yikes.
Possibly.
Ammonia and bleach can also create a neat solid rocket fuel base chem.. if you keep the reaction cool and have much more ammonia than bleach.
(Tertiary chemical reaction between ammonia and bleach if I recall correctly.. probably don't.. been too long since I fussed with the stuff and tried making rocket fuel.)
Did near blow myself up while gassing myself.
(I'm likely gonna post this and rememeber what the devil I'm talking about a few piosts later and go: "D'uh!!")
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