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Holy bat smell: 10 pounds of guano found in office's ceiling (Florida budget)
KEYETV.com ^ | March 12, 2016 | AP

Posted on 03/13/2016 4:28:21 PM PDT by bgill

Inspectors say they found the bat feces this week in the area right above the ceiling of Ken Lawson's office. Lawson is secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. State legislators in the new state budget ordered that state workers leave the Tallahassee offices where the department is housed. The new budget says no money can be spent on lease payments for the offices, but that provision does not take effect until this summer.

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TOPICS: Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: floridabudget; guano; lawson; stink
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Rubio can't clean up his own state offical's poo. There's no way he can clean up the national government's.
1 posted on 03/13/2016 4:28:22 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Histoplasmosis


2 posted on 03/13/2016 4:32:32 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: bgill

Send in that tough character from Dr. Strangelove, Col. ‘Bat’ Guano.


3 posted on 03/13/2016 4:35:40 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: bgill

“This is the Accounting Director. Is Febreeze covered in the State Budget? How about Glade then? Not till next fiscal year? It’s gonna be a long, hot summer then! Baking Soda? We are so beyond anything Baking Soda can do, it’s not funny.”


4 posted on 03/13/2016 4:36:08 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: bgill

You seriously think this a a Rubio failure...?

Not going to vote for him, but that’s silly to extrapolate this to him


5 posted on 03/13/2016 4:36:45 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Leaning Right
Exactly what I thought of when I read that.


6 posted on 03/13/2016 4:36:50 PM PDT by wastedyears (uchikudake - toki michite - ikiru tame - tokihanate)
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To: BatGuano

I thought this thread might interest you.


7 posted on 03/13/2016 4:37:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: bgill

I learned something here, that bat feces is called guano.


8 posted on 03/13/2016 4:37:43 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (oh the stories I could tell. but I really don't think scalia's death is suspiciou.)
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To: wastedyears

You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola people!


9 posted on 03/13/2016 4:37:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Popman

I agree. That’s like the left blaming Flint water solely on the republican governor when all the local democrat politicians and the EPA share the blame.


10 posted on 03/13/2016 4:40:31 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (oh the stories I could tell. but I really don't think scalia's death is suspiciou.)
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Bat guano has a very distinct acrid odor, I’m surprised it got that far before somebody started looking for the source. I worked in an old inn while in college that had a bat problem in a service elevator shaft, repeated eradication and clean ups.


11 posted on 03/13/2016 4:44:41 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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12 posted on 03/13/2016 4:47:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Popman

Yeah, that’s just bat-sh!t crazy.


13 posted on 03/13/2016 4:47:47 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: bgill

I’m only a few hours from Tallahassee.

I wonder if they’d mind if I came over with a couple of buckets . . .


14 posted on 03/13/2016 4:54:06 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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I use to have a business that serviced grocery stores.
I got a call to an Albertsons in Port St.Lucie, Florida to try to do something about the foot deep bat guano above their produce cooler.
I guess they found access through a small hole in the roof.
The bats were protected so you couldn’t kill em.
We finally smoked em out and closed the hole.
We refused the clean up job on the cooler roof.
Man what a smelly mess, but great fertilizer.


15 posted on 03/13/2016 4:55:36 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: RegulatorCountry

That might be worth some money. It is a SUPER-powerful fertilizer, loaded with phosphorous, etc.


16 posted on 03/13/2016 5:00:41 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: bgill

Rubio isn’t the governor. That would be Rick Scott, who’s doing a very good job on many levels, and has nothing to do with bat guano in a local office.

I’m sure the bat guano would have been removed immediately had any bat activity been reported by the civil servants working in the office. Bat infestations are pretty common in Florida and 10 pounds is not a lot (they seem to have very active lower intestinal tracts) but generally people notice something before it gets that far. On the other hand, bats generally fly out after human working hours and return before the next working day, so possibly they wouldn’t have been noticed. Unless they had a daytime bat party, but I believe they’re usually snoozing during the day.


17 posted on 03/13/2016 5:04:09 PM PDT by livius
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To: Leaning Right
"Send in that tough character from Dr. Strangelove, Col. ‘Bat’ Guano."

Great minds think alike - that was my first thought, too!

18 posted on 03/13/2016 5:04:14 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: bgill

Rubio and Jeb. Hard at work.


19 posted on 03/13/2016 5:21:56 PM PDT by MarMema (2016 - Trump or Goldman Sachs)
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To: livius

Nonetheless, batshit and Rubio just belong together as nouns.


20 posted on 03/13/2016 5:24:30 PM PDT by MarMema (2016 - Trump or Goldman Sachs)
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