Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Chicken manure everywhere - A real stinky situation


NORRIDGEWOCK ME - Everywhere Richard White looked Monday there were big clumps of dried, smelly chicken manure.
It was hanging from his mailbox, sloshed all over his snowmobile, lying next to his well and dried on his garage door more than 30 feet across the yard. Two vehicles parked nearby looked like they had been through a very sloppy and thick mud run.
"There's stuff still 20 feet up the tree," White said, pointing. "It was like a tsunami wave of hot chicken (manure)."
The pungent odor of the nitrogen-concentrated chicken excrement still hung in the air at White's 441 Walker Road home, where shortly after 3 p.m. last Thursday an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rolled over and dumped 24 tons of the stuff in his front yard.
Two used vehicles up for sale were destroyed. A 1997 Eagle Vision TSI was spun around by the impact of the manure and landed in front of his doorstep, White said. A 1987 Suburban Silverado with a plow package also was splattered with the manure and turned sideways. It even blew up under the vehicle and into the motor, he said. Full Story - MagazineLane.com - Latest fashions from Liz Claiborne