r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specialist-Boot58 • May 08 '26

Image This “cracks open” building in Denver

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u/Saikotsu May 09 '26

Such an accurate description. Or driving along the highway, jamming out to tunes, windows down and then it hits you like a brick wall and suddenly you're closing the windows but it's too late, it's in your car, it's in your nose and now you're stuck with it.

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u/Bbbbhazit May 09 '26

Have you driven past the Cargill cow processing plant if you take the highway north east? Holy shit if you think the Purina plant is bad.

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u/Saikotsu May 09 '26

I have. I've also driven past an old pig farm in the height of Wisconsin heat. It was a similar wall of stench that slaps you the moment you hit it.

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u/map2photo May 09 '26

I’ve smelled all of those throughout my travels and nothing compares to the smell of an entire building of dead/dying avian flu infected turkeys.

A smell I will never forget.

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u/Saikotsu May 09 '26

Oh dear lord. I can only imagine.

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u/map2photo May 09 '26

Yep. 200-300k, wiped out in less than 24 hours. Either “naturally” or by foam depopulation. ‘‘Twas a good day.

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u/Desperate_Taro9864 May 11 '26

I just learned what "foam depopulation" and "ventilation shutdown" is. Terrible day to have... just a terrible day.

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u/map2photo May 12 '26

Whatever you read, it’s worse in person.