re: What is the worst thing you’ve ever smelled?

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Port o let on a hot Mardi gras or Jazz fest day.

Friend of mine dated a girl at UT that was in some type of program where she was at their “body farm”.

Yes. They have a body farm to learn about forensics.

He said she absorbed the smell of decomp so bad he started sleeping on the couch.

Showering didn’t help. He said it was in her pores.

I grew up on a farm, and there was a cotton gin beside one field. There was a big pile of gin trash beside the field. This is the part of the cotton left after the ginning process. It was probably July or August, so it had been there since last fall. It had rained heavily, and the drainage off that gin trash ran out. I was driving out and went through the drainage ditch. It was horrible. It was so bad that I ran over a dead skunk several miles down the road as the smell would be better. Worst smell. Close second is a pig farm.

i have had exposure to my fair share of gross things due to my profession.

the worse was a "black bear" corpse that was brought in for radiographic examination by wild life and fisheries. they were looking for evidence of poaching. i put black bear in quotes because what was brought to us was unrecognizable as such an animal as it had been decaying in the Louisiana heat for who knows how long. it was simply an oozing fur bag of rotted meat.

the stench was so strong and powerful that people from other wings of the building were coming to investigate it.

Necrotic bone and the surrounding tissue that had gelatanized.

Katrina refrigerators/freezers baking in the August/September sun

Years ago, I was hauling wheat straw with my first cousin and several Mexicans. It was hottttt. We were taking a break and one of the older Mexicans had found an egg in the field. No telling how long that egg had been out in the heat. He was going up to each person and acting like he was trying to break the egg but couldn't, and then trying to get that person to break the egg. He came up to me, acted like he squeezed the egg and handed it to me. I went along and acted like I was squeezing it but couldn't break it.

He then did the same to my cousin. He handed the egg to my cousin, who was very confused. He squeezed on the egg and it busted all over him. I was standing about 6 feet from him and the pungent odor hit me almost immediately. Worst thing I have ever smelled. I ran. My cousin starting puking and dry heaving. And laughing. He would laugh some, then gag. Laugh a little more, then gag. This went on for about 30 minutes. You couldn't go within 30 feet of him and not smell it.

Joke ended up being on all of us, as he used all of our water to rinse the egg off of him.

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Don’t look up Fornier’s gangrene.

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Saw that on Goregrish one time. Scared hell out of me.

A grain silo at Lake Mary plantation that was still full of soybeans when it got flooded. After a couple weeks of sun once the water went down it was buzzard puke nasty.