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

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Dead Iraqis in a metal shed in June.

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"Rotting people" seems to be running away with this one. I've smelled plenty of rotting mammals, and while the smell is distinct, it was not my #1.

Yeah, humans are bigger than raccoons and deer and whatnot, but I think there's something about smelling that smell, and knowing it's a person.

Many years ago there was this really fat dude in front of us at the check out line in blockbuster and the guy probably hadn't showered in at least a month. The smell was like nothing I've ever smelled coming off a person. Don't know if that's the worst thing I've ever smelled but it's bad enough to remember 15 years later

Dead drowned slightly buried bodies after Hurricane Camille went through the Blue Ridge Mountains

After Katrina, I drove down wind of a garbage truck. I could still taste it the next day. Like rotten lobster...only worse

This morning... I went to clean out the skimmers in the pool after neglecting it for a week. A rabbit had apparently gotten in the pool and swam his way into the skimmer. I'm shocking the pool now to clear out the funk.

Actually, I have to edit this because the two are equal. Years ago, I had to go fix a computer issue at a funeral company in the "care room." I grabbed a belly full of Wendy's not even thinking about it and headed to work. Apparently the "care room" is the embalming room and when I got there it smelled like rotten shrimp. They were working on a customer that had been in the river a few days. As I was outside losing my Wendy's, I asked that they just use the words "embalming room" next time.

Patient one time had a wound on his foot that was slightly green. Yep you guessed it, osteomyelitis which was gangrene. Think spoiled meat that’s been left out and add other nasty smells to it. Half the unit was gagging and thats saying something. We can handle a lot of nasty shite. Patient getting chemo and has an ostomy bag. That smell will stay with you for a while.

We have a CT scanner in the County Medical Examiner's office here and I've had to go in there a few times. It's literally the smell of death and I absolutely hate going in there, it freaks me out. I do everything I can to avoid going.

Side note, I also laugh because they purchased the heart monitor option for the system. Don't think that's going to be used.

Dead burnt bodies. Before that it was as a kid cleaning a Turkey and accidentally opening the stomach. Yack.

C-Diff

Dead rats in the deer camp that have been there through the Summer

Dead animal