  Diehard Member Username: Diehard Post Number: 162 Registered: 03-2005 |
Anyone else notice the wet-dog smell last night downtown? I was on my way to the post office (and thinking maybe I needed a shower) when a woman stopped me and asked, "do you smell that, or am I crazy?" She was glad to find out she wasn't imagining it (or causing it!) either. I've never experienced it before, and wondering if anyone has a clue what caused it. It wasn't a sewer smell, but a lot like a wet dog. | ||
Reetz12 Member Username: Reetz12 Post Number: 192 Registered: 09-2005 |
It was on the Eastside as well..I thought the same thing, no idea.......... | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6409 Registered: 10-2003 |
Could be worse. All over Windsor from downtown to Walkerville it's smelled like shit all week. I'm talking actual feces smell... Kind of like manure mixed with cat shit. It's faint but stinky. When I was out the other night I actually stopped and checked the bottom of my shoes as I thought I stepped in some... I'd happily trade you for the wet dog... | ||
Texorama Member Username: Texorama Post Number: 79 Registered: 12-2006 |
I noticed it--assumed it was some kind of industrial stink brought to us courtesy of the strong southwest winds. (Message edited by texorama on October 19, 2007) | ||
Diehard Member Username: Diehard Post Number: 163 Registered: 03-2005 |
Who knows, it might be the same stink as in Windsor, mixed with some river rot and the usual downtown funk. I didn't smell it today though. | ||
Buddyinrichmond Member Username: Buddyinrichmond Post Number: 242 Registered: 02-2004 |
FSC? | ||
Perfectgentleman Member Username: Perfectgentleman Post Number: 4121 Registered: 03-2006 |
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Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3176 Registered: 10-2003 |
LOL where did you get that PG, you are not a photoshopper. | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 334 Registered: 06-2005 |
I smelled the same. A lightly-malty, organic smell. It seemed strongest from the New Center to the MGM. I didn't smell it along the river or in the CBD. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3178 Registered: 10-2003 |
"I noticed it--assumed it was some kind of industrial stink brought to use courtesy of the strong southwest winds." Eau-De-Delray. | ||
Perfectgentleman Member Username: Perfectgentleman Post Number: 4124 Registered: 03-2006 |
John - I am a software engineer who does mostly web applications so I can hold my own with Photoshop although I did that in Macromedia (now Adobe) Fireworks. | ||
Fjw718 Member Username: Fjw718 Post Number: 133 Registered: 11-2005 |
we had the same issue here in NYC a couple months ago but it was a pancake/syrup smell. all over the news....could smell it from brooklyn to manhattan. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3180 Registered: 10-2003 |
Oh, ha! | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 2116 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gee, first time in Detroit this year; I hope it wasn't me (sniffs armpits....) | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 2741 Registered: 10-2003 |
http://www.amazon.com/White-Pe ople-Smell-Like-Dogs/dp/096759 7102 | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3186 Registered: 10-2003 |
So gentrification is to blame! | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 999 Registered: 09-2005 |
Actually Ottawa smelled like feces like night as well. Weird. | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 13 Registered: 08-2007 |
Perfectgentleman - I had to crack up over your Windsor Star headline! You had me for a minute - got me to thinking - that wasn't this morning's headline! You have a perfect sense of humor. You really stepped up to the plate on this one! I think the smell is carried on the wind - from the farms in Essex county. I was in Windsor the other day and, yes, it truly smelled like shit! A lot of the farmers have put down some kind of fertilizer and super industrial strength manure on their fields. I'm sure that is where the smell is coming from! | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1653 Registered: 03-2006 |
it smelled like shit in woodbridge | ||
Perfectgentleman Member Username: Perfectgentleman Post Number: 4132 Registered: 03-2006 |
My neighborhood smells like skunks 3-4 times per week. Damn critters. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1521 Registered: 07-2004 |
It smelled BAD last night. I thought it was ME for a second! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10798 Registered: 12-2003 |
Thankfully, in this case, I burned much of my olfactory sense during the Miami Vice 80s. At least the distance smells are wonderfully masked, I'm still good with nearfield scents. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 437 Registered: 07-2007 |
sewer treatment plant backup? hmmmmm, smell your water before you drink it in the next few days | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1996 Registered: 01-2004 |
was at Eastland Center (8mile&kelley) last night, stunk so bad outside it was making us sick. | ||
Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy Post Number: 75 Registered: 07-2004 |
I noticed it Wednesday afternoon as I walked through Hart Plaza. I figured it may have been leftover acid cloud smell from the chemical spill in Melvindale on Tuesday. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 301 Registered: 09-2007 |
Lefty beat me to it. We have the worst sewers around. I've even been smelling it in the Tap Water. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 2761 Registered: 10-2003 |
Raw sewage cannot get into your tap water. Totally different networks/systems. | ||
Shark Member Username: Shark Post Number: 290 Registered: 12-2003 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/116061.html?1192140489 | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3196 Registered: 10-2003 |
LOL Shark. Nice. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3557 Registered: 12-2005 |
You'd think that with all the Homeland Security funding they would have solved this mystery by now. Not to suggest it's a security problem but surely they would have the technology to track down the source of the smell. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4252 Registered: 10-2003 |
Were the Lions practicing? | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 140 Registered: 08-2007 |
House was right. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 6147 Registered: 11-2004 |
Lowell... c'mon now, you know better than that. When the Lions practice they don't stink. It's only when they play other NFC teams in real games that they stink! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10801 Registered: 12-2003 |
You folks don't want to remember the very curious and complete grid of chemtrails they laid the few nights previous. One set, the night previous, was a spectacular multiple V...obviously chemicals, NOT mere contrails, because they lingered for a good long while. Funky smell was all over the nation...even across national borders?! Begs the question... | ||
Detblue Member Username: Detblue Post Number: 41 Registered: 04-2007 |
While driving, I could smell it on 696 by the Det Zoo, all the way to W. Grand Blvd. | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1222 Registered: 12-2005 |
Perhaps that stench downtown is emanating from this sorry mess:  You can read the Detroit News articles about this here and here and also read the discussion over on the "City Council and their Cronies" thread. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 460 Registered: 07-2007 |
i think Perfectgentleman is trying to lay blame somewhere else where someone smelt it delt it  OK I figured this out now people, the reason we have this nauseating quaff of disheartening stench in our nostrils is... Canada, Blame Canada! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =wOzG7bBylRo The farmers are tiling their soils and adding manure to their fields, HENCE THE STENCH! | ||
Screamingfit Member Username: Screamingfit Post Number: 29 Registered: 03-2006 |
I used to live by farms and it never smelled as bad as it does around here. It's a very thick, acrid poo-gas smell that hangs out for a day once about every other week. I seriously doubt it's tilled fields as Lefty suggests. It's more like chemical sulfur. I'd blame the downriver chemical zone before cow manure. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 1076 Registered: 10-2003 |
Lefty's right. Was out on the lake last night with a strong southerly breeze. It's the same smell we used to get when we would go out to CMU for a football game. Manure on the fields... which are all just outside of Windsor, South of Lake St. Clair. | ||
Mallory Member Username: Mallory Post Number: 207 Registered: 05-2006 |
After a couple of burritos in Mexican Village, I couldn't hold it. My bad. |
