Denver people - Purina is being sued over the smell

[pixy0stix]

www.9news.com/article/news/local/denver-purina-plant-smell-lawsuit/73-83c6be08-60a3-40aa-81d9-e85145fe0fe9

“It’s like someone barfed in your backyard back and then it baked in the sun and then you put a fan on the smell to keep it circulating,” another complaint reads.

[mcsangel2]

I really didn't need that graphic description. ::vom::

[AdaraMarie]

This is pretty fantastic. I went to elementary school and middle school close enough to the plant to smell it often as a kid in the early 90s and it was gross. I wonder if it got worse or if the other community has changed demographics a bit to where people feel like they can sue over that kind of thing and didn't before. I know there has been other environmental activism in that neighborhood the last 10 years or so.

[ksun]

I honestly never thought it was that bad.

[basilosaurus]

May 29, 2024 21:13:59 GMT -5 ksun said:

I honestly never thought it was that bad.

It's noticeable especially in certain wind and weather conditions, but not vomit inducing. Kinda reminded me of my dog right after she ate (but before the farts).

After Denver I moved to Omaha where there was another dog food plant, forget which, that you could often smell when on base. I far preferred that to the constant smell of jet fuel.

[definitelyO]

I only drive by it but have never spent time or lived near there - but I'm not surprised.

[picksthemusic]

Reminds me of when there was the Tacoma Aroma. There was a paper/wood processing plant and it always smelled like rotting sewage around where the Tacoma Dome is located. You always knew you were in Tacoma by the aroma. LOL

It's been long gone for a long time, but just know us Western Washingtonians feel your pain!

[nsl]

My dad worked night security there during one of his (many) "breaks" from graduate school before my mom made him suck it up and finish his degree. I should ask him sometime about the smell.

[jlt19]

May 30, 2024 13:25:01 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

Reminds me of when there was the Tacoma Aroma. There was a paper/wood processing plant and it always smelled like rotting sewage around where the Tacoma Dome is located. You always knew you were in Tacoma by the aroma. LOL

It's been long gone for a long time, but just know us Western Washingtonians feel your pain!

There was a paper mill near the IL/MO border (around Cairo IL) and the way the smell would infiltrate the car while driving from STL to Tennessee, I gag thinking about it.

[georgeglass]

May 30, 2024 18:52:47 GMT -5 jlt19 said:

May 30, 2024 13:25:01 GMT -5 picksthemusic said:

Reminds me of when there was the Tacoma Aroma. There was a paper/wood processing plant and it always smelled like rotting sewage around where the Tacoma Dome is located. You always knew you were in Tacoma by the aroma. LOL

It's been long gone for a long time, but just know us Western Washingtonians feel your pain!

There was a paper mill near the IL/MO border (around Cairo IL) and the way the smell would infiltrate the car while driving from STL to Tennessee, I gag thinking about it.

I lived in a paper mill town until I was 7. I remember people would call it "the smell of money" and yell at you if you complained.

I drive through it regularly now and know to put my car AC on recirc before I hit the town limits.

[whattheheck]

I feel very fortunate that my bus ride to high school involved passing by the Stella D’oro factory. Sooooo gooooood.

[livinitup]

I can remember the smell driving through Staten Island, NY in the late 1980s because of the dump. Before it closed in the 1990s, it was the largest dump in America, was in operation for over 50 years, and at one point the only dump servicing all garbage for NYC. Getting it closed was a major political feat and necessary. I think I remember seeing the miles and miles of trash and landfill, too, but it might just be in my imagination.

Now it’s being redesigned as a park.

I wonder where all the trash goes now.

[tacokick]

Jun 1, 2024 15:18:31 GMT -5 whattheheck said:

I feel very fortunate that my bus ride to high school involved passing by the Stella D’oro factory. Sooooo gooooood.

We lived downwind from the McCormick spice factory! Highly recommend.

[basilosaurus]

I used to occasionally do onsite work at coors. While it was nice getting free beers after work (they'd have allowed at lunch too) my office was above a fermentation room. I think I preferred driving by Purina. 8 hours of sickly sweet mash vs a few seconds of dog burp on i70