How bad does a sausage factory smell that people confused the smell of 10-11 bodies with sausage?

[ddeclue]

[gateley]

1. I don't think we want to know, unless we're willing to give up sausage with our eggs. nt

[DearAbby]

2. Living near a meat packing plant

is pretty f'ing smelly, don't know about a Sausage factory. But ten bodies decomposing has to have a different smell, know what I mean?

[VMI Dem]

3. The gut pit can be pretty bad.

Especially on a warmer day.

[SeattleGirl]

6. I can vouch for that. Had to go to one once for something related

to my job, and I was nauseated for days afterward.

[Orrex]

4. I totally misunderstood your subject line.

[NYC_SKP]

5. I expect that business, which might have been better sans smell, will still suffer...

...just by it's proximity.

But then again, maybe not.

[Quantess]

7. Reminds me of the B-movie Motel Hell

[WCGreen]

8. Ask Sweeney Todd

[lonestarnot]

9. Ask the wienner patrol! I think it crashed into a house just recently.

[imdjh]

10. Never been to a sausage factory, but a rendering plant will make you gag from a mile away.

[ddeclue]

14. I used to live in rural TN and had to pass a large chicken farm on the way home every day

and it was gag a maggot stinky. I kept the windows rolled up and the AC off when the wind was blowing it over the road.

[imdjh]

28. Have you ever been eating a piece of chicken on a hot humid day while driving past a chicken house?

[REP]

16. Rendering plants don't smell like decomposition

Rendering plants do reek, but it's nothing like the smell of a decomposing body, which makes a rendering plant seem refreshing.

[Peacetrain]

11. Meat packing plants are pretty stinky.. whew

[haele]

12. A sausage factory smells nothing like decomposing bodies.

Nor does a slaughterhouse, for that matter. Or an old fashioned rendering factory (in the 1960's, we lived upwind from one for a couple months, so I know the smell...)
Or keeping hogs. I've lived in rural areas where the kids were all in 4H, so I know what raising pigs, chickens, turkeys, goats, llamas, horses, cows, etc smell like.

Facilities dealing with butchering or body rendering of any sort fall under community nuisance abatement laws where they have to be cleaned and inspected on a regular basis. Herbivore and omnivore animal poop has a distinctly different smell than carnivore poop.

And in my ill-spent youth, having helped drag lakes a couple times for "sinkers and floaters", I know what large mammalian decomposing bodies smell like. It's nothing like animal poop, sausage factories, rendering plants, or any activity dealing with animals or animal wastes. Only paper mills and swamps in the late fall, filled with dying vegetation and the gas they produce, smell worse than large decomposing bodies.

Now, I can see neighbors not exactly knowing what a decomposing body smells like, but the police should know better.

Haele

[Warpy]

15. Yes, the cops should have known

because once you smell someone who has been decomposing for a while, you just never forget it.

Maybe the investigating cops were lucky and only smelled fresh corpses. The ME certainly would have known.

[cornermouse]

29. I was thinking about that today too

"police should know better" but police don't walk beats any more. They drive around in cars.

[haele]

13. A sausage factory smells nothing like decomposing bodies.

Nor does a slaughterhouse, for that matter. Or an old fashioned rendering factory (in the 1960's, we lived upwind from one for a couple months, so I know the smell...)
Or keeping hogs. I've lived in rural areas where the kids were all in 4H, so I know what raising pigs, chickens, turkeys, goats, llamas, horses, cows, etc smell like.

Facilities dealing with butchering or body rendering of any sort fall under community nuisance abatement laws where they have to be cleaned and inspected on a regular basis. Herbivore and omnivore animal poop has a distinctly different smell than carnivore poop.

And in my ill-spent youth, having helped drag lakes a couple times for "sinkers and floaters", I know what large mammalian decomposing bodies smell like. It's nothing like animal poop, sausage factories, rendering plants, or any activity dealing with animals or animal wastes. Only paper mills and swamps in the late fall, filled with dying vegetation and the gas they produce, smell worse than large decomposing bodies.

Now, I can see neighbors not exactly knowing what a decomposing body smells like, but the police should know better.

Haele

[TwilightGardener]

30. Rendering plants stink for miles. I drive past one often. And even worse

is getting stuck behind a truck full of bloated carcasses and legs sticking up, headed to the rendering plant.

[DearAbby]

17. 11th victim Found - just on CNN

Shades of Jeffrey Dahmer

[REP]

20. Fighting the stereotype of the white serial killer; probably how the cops missed him so long

[Berry Cool]

21. Oh, absolutely. Nobody cares if you stick to killing black women who live on the streets.

It's a sad commentary on life in these United States. These women's own families (if they still had any) probably gave up on them long ago. That's why they could disappear without anyone wondering what happened to them--or, if someone did, it was likely shrugged off with "I don't know what happened to her since she (ran away from home, got involved with drugs, started selling herself on the street, etc.)."

Most of us at least feel that if we went missing, someone would notice--our family, our friends, our employer. These women most likely had lost contact with anyone resembling that kind of figure. So they could be murdered without anyone noticing they were gone.

[REP]

24. The 'Yorkshire Ripper' went free because cops didn't think a nice chap like him could do such things

Even though there was evidence in full view, he went free and only lightly questioned for a long time. Sounds like this guy 'can't be a serial killer 'cause he's black - he's just a rapist' was the thinking here.

And yes, street people and prostitutes of all colors - well, they're just whores; who cares if they get killed? Often the case until a "good" woman is a victim. It's wrong.

[-..__...]

26. Same can be said for the DC snipers.

[REP]

27. Very true

[Ozymanithrax]

18. I lived in Packingtown in Oklahoma City as a teenager...

When the wind was wrong, you could have been sitting on a dozen dead bodies and not known it, or maybe have been thankful for the relief.

[Cleita]

19. We are talking about dead bodies here even if they are pigs.

I will never forget the smell in Kansas City when you had to cross the stock yards entering the city. The stench is awful of the dead and dying cattle.

[HopeHoops]

22. I can see that. n/t

[pipi_k]

23. Dead critters in my kitchen

A couple of times I've had mice come in at the end of summer and die inside the walls in my kitchen.

Mice.

The smell was unbearable for about two weeks until they rotted and dried up. We've even had them die in the hot air heating system.

I can't even imagine having to smell ten or eleven dead humans, which must have been the equivalent of 300 dead mice (or more).

damn. I could ralph just thinking about it.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

25. I was in a chicken wing factory about a year ago

that stench could overpower anything,

[spanone]

31. i once lived near a meat packing plant and it was unfreakinbelievable