Why does it smell like poo?

[Flash]

I didn't notice anything until tonight. Went up to Deerfoot Walmart and the smell was HORRID. Came home and the same thing...but when we took our kids out trick-or-treating it wasn't too bad.

[Draug]

Originally Posted by Scrambler

The pollutants can't escape the air around here because of the strong chinook arch. Basically what everyone is breathing/smelling is exhaust and fumes from sewage that normally blows away do the westerly winds which are non-existant right now.

I believe you to be right.

I was out on an actual farm this afternoon, and it is fresh and clean out there. Nice crisp fall air.

Here, in Glamorgan, it stinks. It is slowly getting better though, so maybe the high pressure ridge is starting to move off.

It is pretty gross to think that our city emits that much foul smelling pollutant all the time, but we never know because it all just blows away.

[Flash]

Originally Posted by Scrambler

The pollutants can't escape the air around here because of the strong chinook arch. Basically what everyone is breathing/smelling is exhaust and fumes from sewage that normally blows away do the westerly winds which are non-existant right now.

I didn't read this when I made my first post...but that totally makes sense. It's disgusting, but it makes sense.

[FireInTheHole]

When I left the office in the NE (32 Ave/Deerfoot) this afternoon the smell hit me like a ton of bricks! I was looking for the load of manure dumped on the street! The smell slowly dissipated during the drive home, but I could still smell it faintly at home 25 km away in Cougar Ridge. WTF!

[Kybosh]

Sorry, I forgot to clean out my old Tupperware containers from work and the stink broke through some of them.

[chris lindberg]

The mud and decomposing stuff in the bush smells real bad this time of year usually.

[cesspoolx]

Halloween evening was the stinkiest the city has ever smelled!
Over in forest lawn it smelled like rotten aquarium + moldy kfc.
Then over at the warehouse it just smelled like moldy piss.
yum

[LIP MAN]

I believe on the news I heard a s*it truck collided with a truck containing liquid ass. What you are smelling is the explosion.

[Stumptown]

Do you guys have a lot of Gingko trees up there? We have tons planted as street and park trees around here, and this is the time of year when they drop their disgusting-smelling fruit. It's so bad that the city now bans planting female trees in the city. The college I went to had two huge old ones planted right at the entrance to the library, and for weeks the whole building smelled like dog poo. They couldn't cut them down (classified as "Heritage Trees"), so the only solution was to move the entrance to the other side of the building.

I had a co-worker come into the office one days complaining that the park down the street always smelled like "bum puke," but it was just the gingkos.

[skins]

Originally Posted by skins

the smell downtown reminds me of a smell I experienced often while living in Inglewood. Someone told me it was fumes from the lillydale chicken factory just east of downtown.

Kind of like a yeasty smelling vomitorium.

Booya!

Poultry Plant Blamed For Odour

One of the comments noted a distillery near the Lillydale plant. Maybe it's a combination of both.

[Traditional_Ale]

[burn_this_city]

I went to school across from the Lilydale plant for 6 months.. It was the most crude smell that I used to walk with my face in my jacket from my car.. Also if you were just sitting there in the car you had to be smoking all the time or the stench would seep through the vents..

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Stumptown

Do you guys have a lot of Gingko trees up there? We have tons planted as street and park trees around here, and this is the time of year when they drop their disgusting-smelling fruit. It's so bad that the city now bans planting female trees in the city. The college I went to had two huge old ones planted right at the entrance to the library, and for weeks the whole building smelled like dog poo. They couldn't cut them down (classified as "Heritage Trees"), so the only solution was to move the entrance to the other side of the building.

I had a co-worker come into the office one days complaining that the park down the street always smelled like "bum puke," but it was just the gingkos.

Not too many fruit trees will grow around here - too cold, altitude, dry climate.

[Shazam]

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