[RodeoRanch]

Dead rotting skunk in a garbage can.

I still get shivers thinking about how bad it was.

[Beezulbubba]

Fat rendering plant (near a stock show I was attending). Actually induced the gag reflex / dry heaves in me. On the trip home, about 30 miles mid way point, we decided to stop for lunch and have pizza. I couldn't eat, the wretched smell was still burning in my nostrils.

[McLovin]

The city of New Orleans.

[Defiance]

Rotten potatoes. Had a ton of them in a few bags, was away on vacation for two weeks. When I got back the whole house reeked. As if that wasn't bad enough, one of the bags had split open and the rotten juice got all over.

[chill]

Ammonium sulfide. Luckily, I was some 5 meters away from the poor sod that opened the bottle.

[Macros]

Mal and Hetans toilet after cougar defiled it

[Sinisdar Toste]

the smell of an old downtown bum who hadn't washed or anything, for probably about three months, sat behind me on the bus, held my breath the whole ride

also one time, this downtown watch person found a bum passed out under a bush, stinking like death. she pulled back his pant leg to find something much like that picture you can find on the internet. of the bum with all the maggots on his leg. chukes were chucked

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

New Jersey.

[stone monkey]

Dead, rotting, maggot-ridden rat. In a warehouse I used to work in. It was Summer and we didn't find it for a couple of weeks. Now I know what hell smells like...

[Aptorian]

African Latrines. In the Summer.

To be honest, the view was worse than the smell. Nothing like looking into a hole and realise what you think is the bottom is actually just a writhing carpet of biomass.

[wolf_2099]

Mostly rotted horse corpse thawing out in the spring.

[champ]

my mate last night after a hot and spicey pizza and a night on the beer the previous night - went medieval... after i regained consciousness

[ffunky]

 McLovin, on 22 October 2010 - 05:59 PM, said:

The city of New Orleans.

+1


We had the power go out at our house while we were on summer vacation and returned to find our chest freezer still not running. Upon opening it up, we were greeted to the worst smell I've ever experienced. We had just loaded that freezer up with a quarter butchered cow, so there was roughly 250 pounds of rotten meat (and a bit of fish too).

We refroze everything and pulled everything out while frozen to keep the smell down while disposing of it all. Then, when it was empty of everything, we washed it down with every chemical and natural concoction known to man and could not get the smell out of it. So we bought a new freezer at Best buy and had them deliver. At the time they had a free "pick up your old crap" policy. I still feel sorry for those guys.

[A Demon Llama!]

Cant really recall the worst smell, but I can tell you my most painfull one. Once, by accident, I took a big whiff of chlorine. Thought I was going to die by burning from the inside.

[MTS]

Cat piss. In a very confined space. I was almost chunderstruck.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

The smell of headlice removal gel, on the heads of 4 people...in one ROOM!

I almost died.

[Binder of Demons]

Similar to ffunky's post above, i once had to help dispose of a freezer in a hospital which had suffered through a few power cuts, and then finally broken down, and that freezer had held old tissue samples amongst other things. Problem was the stuff in the freezer had thawed and then refrozen multiple times so by the time I got the call things were pretty bad, and the room it was in was like a sauna. The 3 inches of liquid something covering the bottom of that freezer still makes me feel queasy.

You know it's bad when the hospital porters are struggling not to puke. I got the call cos i used to work in a research lab there and they wanted to be sure there was nothing else dangerous to deal with. I eventually managed to get rid of the stuff from the freezer before we sterilised it and had it safely disposed of. The rooms we washed the freezer down in took weeks to loose the smell despite being constantly ventilated.


I've also worked on fishing trawlers in the summer, and the smell of rotting fish bits, and diesel fumes is pretty hard to stomach.

[frookenhauer]

back in the old uni days, I let this blonde move into our flat instead of the gorgeous dark haired beauty I shoulda done...anyway this girl had a pet chameleon and at first it was excellent having chamelion in the place and loads of people came round and oo'd and ah'd and great stuff...anyway, the way to keep a chameleion alive is to feed it with...crickets. one hot day I came back to the flat and I walked a couple of steps into the place and then inhaled and it hit me like a steam train. it was like a wall of stenchy rotten flesh type thing, simply awful. I ran back out like a girl and whimpered a bit...and then by holding my breath and running back inside repeatedly and opening all the windows one by one and eventually got it so the smell lurked inside her room.

proper bad smell.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

As part of uni, we had the "privelege" of touring a few wastewater treatment and disposal facilities. The first bit of treatment the sewage receives is to pass through a fairly coarse rotating screen. Whatever is caught on the screen is mechincally scraped off and stored in a bin prior to treatment or disposal elsewhere. On one tour, they had just switched out bins and were waiting for someone to come and pick up the full bin. To get into the building we had to turn sideways and squeeze between the wall and the container (think something twice the size of a dumpster) brimming with all the things that get flushed down your average toilet. It was a smell so thick you could taste.

Luckily, it was in uni so most of us managed to rid the taste from our throats and dilute the memory of it with copious amouunts of alcohol.

[Shinrei]

Maybe not the worst, but the most recent -

New rule here at the Shin household - no gutting of squid for pasta when trash day is still 5 days away.