Would You Have Helped This Skunk?

[Mixolydian]

I guess it's kind of like how you can't pee if you have a woody.

myth.

 

[olds]

I would have driven around it hoping someone came by and ran it over.
Skunks should be eradicated from the face of the Earth.

 

[BUTCH1]

Yes, a quick grab of the cup and a quicker retreat would mean you would not get sprayed, a skunk has to see/realize a threat before an "attack" would occur. While I'm not fond of skunks, (who is?) the thought of it getting squashed by a car is something I would be uncomfortable with.

 

[werepossum]

That's why you let your buddy hold it for you while you take the cup out. Then you stand back and it's his problem now. :biggrin:

Obviously I need to cultivate some dumb friends!

I've been helped out when in my cups many times so I guess I'd return the favour.

Also I've never smelt a skunk, how bad can it be?

Like lxskllr I generally don't find it that objectionable, not on the level of rotting meat or anything like that. A very strong dose of skunk cabbage, if you have that. However, that's when it's just in the area. When you are sprayed, it's overpowering. You can't breathe, your eyes burn, your nose burns, and it lasts and lasts and lasts. I literally cannot imagine getting in my car after being sprayed. Luckily for me we still had our big galvanized tub we used to bathe in even though by that time we had a bathroom inside the house, so I could walk back to the house and take many, many baths outside. I used a combination of Gojo, Lava, tomato juice, and vinegar, probably some other things I've forgotten. After maybe three or four hours I was down to merely stinking. That's from a full frontal assault at maybe six feet, easily possible if one starts by removing something from the skunk's head.