Skunk Gel Repels Drug Users, Prostitutes

Associated Press ^ | July 24, 2001

[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.

[asgardshill]

Hmmm ... maybe put the hydraulic fluid in a gelatin capsule (a bit longer to get away before "hell" is unleashed) ... hmmm.

[Dinsdale]

Any hunting supply store during deer season.

That's the real stuff and hence kind of expensive. Fooling deer ain't easy.

[XBob]

73 - I don't think your idea is a good one, at all. I think you unknowingly just gave a formulation to make cyanide gas, which could kill someone.

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[Mr. Jeeves]

If I recall (been 30+ years since I lived there) Midwestern yellowjackets are tiny and hostile. The California variety are about the size of honeybees, and not quite as aggressive - they go after your food if you eat outside but aren't as interested in attacking humans on principle. The attractant traps work pretty well; you'll get about 300 of them swarming around one within sixty seconds of opening it. Wine bottles half-full of soapy fruit juice work pretty well too - they crawl in and can't get back out. The biggest problem is that there are so damned many of them, everywhere you go. California is remarkably bug-free compared to the rest of the country, but the dry climate doesn't seem to inhibit the reproduction of yellowjackets in the least.

[cyborg]

hehehe been reading that anarchist cookbook again eh?

[XBob]

73 - or perhaps cyanide and chlorine gas, even worse.
Sorry, my chemistry is old, but this is definitely not good stuff.

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[cyborg]

That brings back an unwanted memory from my youth involving bleach and a chemistry set.

[Yaelle]

HUGE Pepe fan here. My friend was in love with one of his writers. One of my favorite lines was "...I will be zhe captain, and you, my dear, will be my first mate!"

[CobaltBlue]

I think yellowjackets hover around your face because they are looking for water, and your face has perspiration on it.

They do that here, too, during droughts but there's been a lot of rain for the past few years.

[XBob]

you are lucky. Amonia and bleach will make chlorine gas. Several people every year die, trying to 'super-clean' toilets this way.

In my unit in the airforce, we had a dozen guys hospitalized, cleaning the floors in the barracks that way. Fortunately no one died, but several were out for days and nearly did.

[cyborg]

Don't remember what I did, but something exploded followed by a pretty pretty multicolored cloud *LOL* I wonder how I managed to live through my youth.

[Terabitten]

This is very much off topic from all the cool ways to kill flying bugs... but, let me ask this.

If the building is condemned and abandoned, what's the problem with people who choose to do so living in it? I live in a medium-sized city, we dont' have any abandoned buildings that I know of, so I'm unfamiliar with whatever problems it causes.

[Darksheare]

Saw it and went: Bad Idea#______ and mind went blank.
Has some really bad horrible prank uses...

[Rebelbase]

"Long chain butyric acids in nature are the foulest smelling odors imaginable."

I had a high school biology teacher who thought it would be funny to retalitate with a couple of drops of butric acid on a rag in a trash can next to a couple of students who stink bombed his desk (guilty :-) ).

He accidentally spilled at least a cup's worth of the stuff and the stench ran everyone out of class in minutes, and within the hour the entire wing of the school was closed.

[Darksheare]

Don't forget the drano crystals and diesel fuel..

[Rebelbase]

"This thread should be flagged WMD and Terrorism. I wonder if these ideas could be useful counter terroism. Perhaps use the yellow jacket attractant on turbans. Fox urine bombs in mosques and caves. Spray enemy guerillas with skunk oil grenades that way after night battles in a city you can follow your nose to uncover their lairs. Or would skunk oil not be strong enough?"

Skunk oil grenades, a most excellent idea! Gives new meaning to the phrase "you can run but you can't hide".

[Rebelbase]

"Ain't this great? On this thread one has the recipe for really putting the screws to someone's car without any mechanical vandalism. I wouldn't want to piss off this bunch of posters, Ha...."

I did it to myself one brutally hot summer when I left 5 lbs of frozen venison on the floorboard of my locked car for a week. It took an ozone machine to finally kill the smell.

[bad company]

You can buy fox urine at most sporting goods stores in the hunting section.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Yellow jacket larve makes great bluegill bait, we would smoke them and knock down the nest and the bait comes in its' own container.

Yep.

[bad company]

If you're adept you can take one of those long heavy duty zip ties and attach it to the driveshaft on a rear wheel drive or half shaft on a front wheel drive at a point that when the car is in motion it strikes a portion of the car. this will send the owner to the mechanic several times trying to find the source of the ticking noise.