Mystery Stink Hovers Over Downtown Edmonton
Numerous Edmontonians on Twitter are reporting that the city centre currently smells of manure. As one commentator put it, “[it] smells like someone just drove a herd of cattle through the centre of Edmonton.”
I’m fortunate enough to work in an office that is not downtown, and which has so far not been subjected to the mysterious shit-stench. Unfortunately, I live downtown and will be heading home very soon.
If anyone has an explanation as to why the city core smells like bovine feces, please let me know.
Certain parts of downtown always smell like open sewers. Maybe its just spreading now.
allan
22 Oct 08 at 2:47 pm
I originally thought it had something to do with the sewer system, but apparently it smells like manure, rather than sewage, so I’m not so sure.
Adam Snider
22 Oct 08 at 2:53 pm
phew for a second there i thought i was going crazy or it was me lol!!
tHEcONFUSEDoNE
22 Oct 08 at 3:17 pm
From what I’ve heard, something went down at the U of A farm on the south side, and winds are carrying it around. West end stunk this afternoon too.
Ryan
22 Oct 08 at 4:37 pm
I kept checking my shoes! Latest from the Edmonton Journal:
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=65e619ee-6d26-460e-9005-6f780b6a67d7
Debbie
22 Oct 08 at 7:25 pm
This was a big cloud of stink from what I could gather. I work downtown near City Hall and it smelled like Brooks, AB, all morning and as far north as the Canadian Tire on Kingsway Blvd. at 3 p.m. when I was there.
Lynn
22 Oct 08 at 7:48 pm
I work right downtown and it smelled like a sewer line burst. I have smelled manure before and I don’t think that was the it.
Apparently it was smelled on the south side too.
On the East side of our building it smelled like shit but it wasn’t too bad on the West side of the building.
SG
22 Oct 08 at 9:12 pm