Did a nasty thing today

[Sho'Nuff]

Why not just cave the hole in, instant burial.

Animal was partly on the surface. And the hole was right by my house and deck. If it was further from the house I would have buried it where it lay.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

What, otherwise you were gonna leave it there? lol

To be honest I was kind of hoping it would just go away LOL. As in some other animal would catch its scent and drag it off.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Not quite Nuclear Ned worthy I'm afraid but still was an entertaining 60 second read.

And yes seriously disgusting. D:

I can't compete with Ned. His stories are gold.

 

[PottedMeat]

Anyway, once I told my wife she was NOT going to let the animal rot there.

you're not stubborn enough. eventually you could have entertained us with a recording of your wife digging out a corpse.

 

[highland145]

To be honest I was kind of hoping it would just go away LOL. As in some other animal would catch its scent and drag it off.

Excellent plan.

Should have poured some lime on it, put a bucket over it and claim ignorance if the wife finds it.


And canister mask, ftw.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

I can't imagine this being worse than seeing a human all fucked up in a car, especially a child, but whatever. I was a Fire fighter explorer.

I have seen rotten dead cats before and the smell was very unique to say the least.

All I can say is the reaction is different. When I was an EMT I was never "grossed out" by an injured or dead human being, in the latter case primarily because the person was recently deceased and their was little if any smell of decay. Sure there were lots of feces and urine smells, but those are a LOT better than the smell of a 2 day old corpse. In contrast this ground hog was ~25lbs of rotting meat that was full of inch long maggots. The smell coming off the thing was just putrid.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

you're not stubborn enough. eventually you could have entertained us with a recording of your wife digging out a corpse.

Hindsight is 20:20.

 

[notposting]

Hindsight is 20:20.

Get another dead animal under the house and then tell her "it's your turn."
Post video.





(also, sleep on couch for weeks, possibly get buried under house yourself, but the risk is worth it for our entertainment, no?)

 

[shortylickens]

 

[blackdogdeek]

Anyway, once I told my wife

I found your first mistake.

What happens outside the house, stays outside the house.

 

[skyking]

My experience with nasty? I could wax poetic about the nastiness of Fluffy, but here are the cliffs:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37484914&postcount=17

 

[Imp]

I would have just given it an above-ground burial (i.e. pile dirt over it). It'd eventually fill itself back in...

 

[Drako]

Shit, it's almost lunch time, and now I don't feel like eating.

Thanks OP.

 

[Ruptga]

So I dug down about a foot with my shovel and started pushing upward. Part of the animal "broke" open in that process, revealing an enormous mass of maggots. <Shudder>

But how did the fly eggs get down there if it was half buried and intact?

That's what I would have been thinking anyway, a few minutes after I dumped a bag of dirt on the corpse and planted a little red flag on top of the pile.

 

[boomerang]

My wife left the house earlier this week and texted me that there was a dead critter at the end of the driveway. Rocky racoon had been disemboweled in the process of getting run over and there were guts aplenty strewed about the end of the driveway. Yum.

I shoveled what I could across to the other side of the road which is all heavily treed and the crows and the rain got the remainder. I mowed a few days later and caught a whiff of old Rocky...

 

[Sho'Nuff]

But how did the fly eggs get down there if it was half buried and intact?

That's what I would have been thinking anyway, a few minutes after I dumped a bag of dirt on the corpse and planted a little red flag on top of the pile.

Maggots are not stationary. My guess is fly eggs were laid on and in the exposed bits, and the larvae invaded the partially buried bits.

 

[John Connor]

In contrast this ground hog was ~25lbs of rotting meat that was full of inch long maggots. The smell coming off the thing was just putrid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbQgaHZOFZ0

 

[blankslate]

it's going to haunt your soon to be maggot filled dreams for disturbing its resting place....

Unless you buried it?

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