Daily Caller: Residents of Ogden and South Ogden, Utah, have apparently been overwhelmed by a strong, foul odor coming from an abandoned meat-packing facility, prompting city officials to intervene.
According to Ogden Fire Department Chief Mike Slater, investigators accessed the building Tuesday and discovered a significant amount of spoiled meat, Fox 13 reported. “It’s an old meat-packing plant, and quite a bit of meat in there that had spoiled,” Slater told Fox 13.
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How many illegals were employed there before it was “abandoned?”
Double check the place for the bodies of trafficked women and children. Somebody may have been cutting their losses. Just Say’n.
The article:
It’s those owners who need to be made to do the inside work on cleaning the place out, the antisocial bastards.
And make them clean it out with kids’ little plastic beach shovels and pails. Then, toothbrushes.
And while they’re at it make them clean up their own puke as well.
…we got a spiral freezer from a defunct burger plant years ago. It was a weird situation where this guy owned the company and his sisters owned the building and his creditors owned most of his machines while USDA owned his ass for noncompliance, but somehow this spiral freezer was the only thing unencumbered in the whole plant, so we made a deal with *someone* to buy it. He was an uncooperative asshole for various reasons and wouldnt unlock anything, so his sisters had a WALL tore out so we could take the freezer (and his creditors take evetything else).
We got our part done WAY before the truck got there, so we went spelunking in this liminal dead workplace and found employee stuff still there, unflushed toilets, ammonia pumps with welded metal bits subbing for fuses, stuff like that. We could also trace the death of the company by following the USDA “red tags” as they had condemed progressively more of their appliances and rooms for assorted compliance issues.
Then we got to the “freezer”.
This, like the rest of the plant, had been shut down for weeks, but the door seals were still intact. This had a red tag too so there had been some previous issue as well, but SURELY they had removed the meat long ago.
Surely.
Then we opened the door.
…Cincinnati used to host a stockyard with a kill floor for Kahn’s that had a century’s worth of blood saturating its ground that mellowed year after year in the humid Midwestern summer sun. It contaminated the air for miles around, to the point where you had to scramble to close the fresh air vents on your car even driving by on the highway, lest you got hit full in the face by a miasmic stench of hogs and cattle long since gone to their reward.
If you add to THAT the aroma of a deer carcass whose belly had recently blown out from the gases within and the sunshine without, you would BEGIN to describe the stench that the opening of this large, long-sealed door dragged out to hit us full in our foolish faces, befouling the entire area in this extremely unventilated industrial space.
It wasnt QUITE as bad as mouldering human remains, but Lord, it was NOT GOOD.
…bad as it was, next to their exploded mates, the as-yet still sealed bags within swollen to barrage baloon size with fetid outgassing from the mushy, blackend muscle within promised far WORSE to the fool that dared their stressed skins the least bit further, so a good SLAM followed by a run for the fresh air beyond the breached wall several rooms away was the order of the day.
I have smelled worse…but, thankfully, not often.
I would imagine the smell of which this article speaks is of this order, and probably pukingly pungent to the untrained proboscis. Not something you’d want to invite family to visit to be sure, unless you wanted to never see them again.
It probably would be a good place to dump a corpse, though.
If a person THINKS they know what a smell is, they are unlikely to enquire further…
SNS
Am familiar with the aromas that you mentioned because where I live was not too far from a “rendering plant” named Van Iderstine . It had been in the area since the early 1900’s. Sometimes it got really stinky when people forgot to sanitize the smokestacks there .(Have no idea how that was done but it wasn’t always stinky.) Their trucks would pick up spoiled meats from various butchers all over the city and the plant would render all that rotting meat and fat down to other useful things . There was a weekend when the skeleton crew neglected to “process” a dead elephant that exploded leaving a mess for the full timers to deal with on Monday.
Van Iderstine was across the street from Calvary Cemetery and for a few days back in the ’70s a film crew had taken over the area . The film crew had permission to do some filming within the Cemetery over the weekend. There were plenty of old cars and an old hearse in the area along with various actors . They were filming scenes from “The Godfather” .
For anyone who’s seen that movie the thoroughbred horse’s head from that hideous scene was furnished by Van Iderstine.
Are they sure it isn’t the IRS office?
BUT…..Was it Halal?
Geni.. all that rotting meat and fat down to other useful things .
and this is where and how they make dog/cat food. the dry kibble shit garbage. i read about that process a long time ago and switched to a completely 100% raw food diet and holy crap did my dogs thrive once the switch was made
so if you feed that dry kibble poison you are basically feeding em road kill, racoons, seagulls and yes your dog is eating dead cats and vice versa for kitties
dude named ted kerasote wrote a fantastic book regarding the pet food industry named “pukkas promise” it’s also available on audio
DC.
Thanks for that. Will keep that in mind, love doggies!
Had a “friend” whose Step-father had passed away in one of the projects down in the city (Shitcago). Mid summer and the body wasn’t found until residents of the building complained. Big burly Chicago Cops kicked the door to gain entry and immediately started puking. Opened all the windows and left them open. We were to go down there to retrieve some of the furniture. Of course my little friend told me nothing of the circumstances and just needed my help cause I had a panel van and perhaps the ability to fend off the feral animals located there.
Got down there and you could smell it before getting three doors from the apartment. He had been found laying on a fabric couch that now had balls of maggots still working there. “Friend” looked in the fridge to find some leftover fast food from god knows when and asked, “You hungry? got some stuff in here.” Got a couple of dressers from a bedroom and told him, “We’re done now.”
Stopped at the building management office on the way out and told then they could have ALL the remaining furniture in the apartment we had “cleaned out.” They said great before realizing which apartment it was and we got the hell out of there pronto.
Don’t know if he ever got the smell out with Murphy’s Oil Soap, moth balls, etc. Hell there was a lingering smell in the van from the two dressers.
IT’S A SMELL YOU’LL NEVER FORGET…
Worse than dead animals for some reason.
I’m sure some veterans, cops and EMS know it well.
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Anymouse – I’d a put up the sign of the cross and said Hell No! before putting anything with that kind of funk into my vehicle! That’s what rentals are for!
Brampton, Ontario?
Geni
Friday, 25 July 2025, 14:06 at 2:06 pm
…that…is amazing.
I had never thought to ask where the horse head came from, but yeah, guess it had to come from SOMEWHERE, and awful as it is, thats probably the LEAST awful answer possible, thanks…
SNS
You’re welcome ! It’s a fun little bit of movie trivia.
As someone who is called out for this kind of odor, I sympathize with anyone having to deal with it. When an emotional aspect is added, it’s pretty life changing.
Probably the most unpleasant part of my job, but I do have a respirator with filters on it, Helps a lot.
The good Lord saved me one time when I was called for jury duty on the same day I had a monthly Apt complex service scheduled. It was a halfway kind of place that helped people get back on their feet and back into society. 99% of the tenants on the bottom rung.
While in court for the 2nd day, someone there complained about that certain smell and it turned out to be a 12 Y.O. child killed by his mother. She moved to Seattle to another halfway house and was arrested there within weeks.
That would have been me investigating the nauseating smell if I did the service on the scheduled day. I was given keys to enter every Apt and do my work. Even not being the one to discover him, it affected me. I talked to this kid all the time. He was doing very well in school and looked like he had a bright future.
The best scenario was when no place else, like the attic, had the smell besides one bedroom. It was a fridge in the room that stopped working and had a 15 lb rotting turkey in it. At least I could leave after that point. Throw your own trash out.
Dadof4, I’m sure glad that God saved you that trauma of finding that boy by having you do jury duty. Thank you, Jesus!
Claudia
Friday, 25 July 2025, 19:17 at 7:17 pm
“Dadof4, I’m sure glad that God saved you that trauma of finding that boy by having you do jury duty. ”
…somebody has to find the bodies.
Ive had the honor a time or two, but at least it was folks I didnt know.
My niece found my dad’s body one day when he had a heart attack not terribly long before she came over, but long enough.
Thats the kind you REALLY dont want…
Dadof4
Friday, 25 July 2025, 19:08 at 7:08 pm
“As someone who is called out for this kind of odor, I sympathize with anyone having to deal with it.”
…so do I. I had to have a dead raccoon removed from my chimney once that we only knew was there by the smell, and a surprisingly cheeful young fella waded through the stench to knock it down and carry it out in a bucket.
THAT guy was a blessing. Our house was quickly becoming unlivable and my shop class in high school didnt cover removing rotted raccoon corpses from stone chimney flues, so I was damn glad someone had an education that DID cover that…