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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iso-Butyric or iso-valeric acids would be OK, but too easy to neutralize (apply ammonia or soda solution, and you will instantaneously turn stinky acid into odorless salt).
Once, ages ago, in different realm even, crude scatol was used - waxy material, which smells like $hit and actually makes the genuine $hit to smell like it. As a wax, it got absorbed (from a hat) on the target's oily hairs - and even after he shaved, his upper end kept stinking like his lower one. It served him right.</p>
Where do you think they get the odor from?
I don't know if you have them in your area, but Yellow Jackets are a problem in California. They're a sort of agressive stinging wasp-like insect- you can't have an outdoor barbecue without having lots of them show up.
In the hardware stores, you can buy Yellowjacket traps and bottles of Yellowjacket attractant. We don't have the little bastards here in Virginia, but if you have something similar where you are, think 'attractant' + 'cheap squirt gun'. Such a chemical deployment could almost be done covertly under direct observation. I'd be careful not to get any of it on the parking space, just on the driver's side door, so he has to wade through clouds of irritated little beasties to get into the car.
But I presume that in this day and age, use of such a chemical would be treated more like a terrorist incident than a prank. And, as much as democrats fill me with dismay, I would not think of such an attack on a major political convention -- a cherished American tradition -- as a patriotic act.
As long as we're on this stinky topic - I don't own a dog, but I know someone who does, and hers gets its anal glands cleaned when her vet does the teeth. Do you... uh... how do you... is this what you have assistants for?
'Cats with white stripes'? LOL!
"Ah, my leetle pigeon. Your eyes are like zee limpid pools, your lips..."
I have long wondered why someone didn't create something like this for riot control. A dousing with skunk gel would take all the fun out of it. Plus, if the police wanted to identify some rioters, they would be easy to find.
No way Jose. I want the most expensive, durably-built, non-leaking water pistol I can find. Or a good pair of rubber gloves that I can get rid of fast.
And yes, we get yellowjackets here. And hornets. Big ones. And those ground wasps that you don't even know they're there until you run over their nest with the mower and get 50,000 little flying buddies making bombing runs on your head.
I wonder if they make a similiar product for Africanized honey bees?
If so, we could sure use it in my neck of the woods.
Yes. And I find it odd that nobody has mentioned the creative uses one can find for brake fluid on a car's paint job.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning...
One does not need to create anything - just a regular water cannon connected to the septic tank. In addition, the cause of the rioters who were publicly urinated upon, suffers irreparable damage, thus winning the fight for hearts and minds as well as restoring public order.
Cleaning out anal glands is why God made rubber gloves. One small drop of anal glands on your clothes, anywhere, will ruin a day. Get it on your hands before lunchtime and its a weight watcher adjunct. Assistants do most but the really good ones get done by the professionals.Every now and then we have to cannulate the ducts and flush the glands with saline which is a real man's job (no girly folks do this).
makes me wonder about the guy placing the smell in the buildings
Once, about a million years ago, I lived in the microscopic northern mountain hamlet of Gasquet, California. We had a hole in the yard that was a ground wasp nest. We had our own spring water, so I stuffed a hose down it and left it on full-blast for a week.
When I pulled the hose back out, I got swarmed. I have no idea how they survived- that corner of the yard was turned into a swamp. I have since discovered how to deal with them, and Yellowjackets, and any other flying, stinging pest. It's the very heart of simplicity.
Forget poisons that have unintended consequences- get a spray bottle, like for Formula 409 or something, and fill it with a strong mixture of liquid dish soap and tapwater. When the soap hits their wings, they can no longer fly. They drop straight to the ground. Once there, they lose their mobility advantage, and can be easily dispatched.
One caution though: when crushed, Yellowjackets release an 'avenge me' scent of some kind, or so I'm told. Use some kind of Yellowjacket smashing implement that can be jettisoned, if the little monster's nestmates give you a bad time.
Excellent suggestions, all. Thank you! There's an active hornet's nest the size of a basketball on my neighbor's land - it might be worth it to load up my yard sprayer with some soap and let 'em have it.
Makes sense. How else would mother nature get dogs to not eat their own #@*%?
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