This past Sunday, I caught a whiff of something dead. I figured a mouse, a bird maybe? Not very unusual around these parts.
Monday evening I thought I smelled a skunk. Again, nothing unusual.
On Tuesday, around noon, I thought I smelled something on fire. I searched the house and identified the source was somewhere out back. Maybe someone was burning garbage?
I still hadn't made a connection.
Wednesday night, I finally got out to take a walk. I stopped and chatted with a neighbor that lives a couple of doors up the street. She commented on the smell and it was really bad. She said she had to go on the back side of her pool in the back yard and the stench was so bad she had to hold her nose and she still gagged.
Something is definitely dead. Given that you can smell it for 100 yards in each direction means it must be big. We're guessing a deer was hit by a car as it crossed the road and died in the overgrowth.
None of us has the courage or intestinal fortitude to find out.
Friday, August 22, 2008
It's Definitely Dead; It Must Be Big
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I hope one of your other neighbours hasn't died? Have you checked to make sure everyone is ok?
I think your theory might be close; if it is a dead deer there will be unusual bird activity (swarming, usually crows) around the corpse.
Maybe you all should call the Health Dept or Borough Hall maybe they would send somebody because it is only going to get worse.
Good luck!
Once, when I was a kid, one of the neighbours went hunting and shot a buck. They hung it in the carport to bleed but left it there for three weeks in the middle of summer.
Jodi's right, not only will the smell get worse, it'll linger for months after the body's gone. Worse than Popeye's Chicken and McDonald's combined.
romach beat me to it- Y'all do a head count there real quick, just in case.
Anyone missing in the neighborhood?
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