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Get a water balloon and fill it with skunk musk ... basically skunk feces or the anal glands of a dead skunk
let it sit in the sun for an afternoon before you use it.
throw it anywhere near the parade route
the stink will last for days
I like the way you think but am horrified by your potential skunk-harvesting techniques.
In northern Ontario, on average I'll notice at least four or five skunks a summer that have been hit on the highway. It's not on purpose, it's usually accidental, especially at night. When someone hits a fox or raccoon, no one ever notices ... but if they hit a skunk, it will stink up that section of highway for about a week and everyone will notice.
What's the skunk to water balloon ratio for this operation?
My cat recently got skunked in her dumb face. I promise a fresh skunk is way fucking worse than one not fresh.
Yes, it is. It's so overwhelming, you can basically taste it in the air (source: had a dog growing up that got in a fight with a skunk at like 3am)
umm, yeah, I'm not sure where you get your dead skunks or where you get your ability to tolerate being near them or touching them... but that's fucking gross and weird.
For all we know they work in roadkill clearing, or some other form of animal controll esque job that puts you in contact with dead animals.
Like the other commenter said ... it's road kill. I live in northern Ontario in Canada and all our highways go through a lot of wilderness so we see a lot of animals. When someone accidentally hits a squirrel, fox, raccoon, beaver, porcupine, you see the dead animal but it usually taken aside and forgotten .... people seldom see it because it happens quickly and its forgotten.
But when someone hits a skunk .. it will stink up that section of highway for a week and everyone notices.
The way you wrote about it just seemed... like you had done that before lol. I could've written this comment, but the previous one... not so much.
Kind of ... I'm Indigenous Canadian and one of the lessons my hunter/trapper father taught me was to respect all animal life, no matter what it is. He taught us that no one should kill any animal unless it was to feed ourselves or use it for our survival. You don't just kill something for nothing.
So when I started driving on highways just over 30 years ago, I'd be a good person and clean up dead animals on the road. I thought it was disrespectful for people to just run over animals until it turned into an organic pancake. But it was constant and just about every drive I took meant I had to clean up something and most times, my passengers didn't appreciate it. Once I picked up a skunk that had been knocked dead ... hit in the head but not squished. I was careful and put it in a garbage bag and threw behind my half ton truck and drove it away to put in the woods somewhere. I stopped not far, picked up the bag and it burst .... INSIDE MY TRUCK BED!!! ... the skunk had 'leaked' or its glands had burst or let go or something and a bit of juice came out of the bag .... I just about gagged and ran away. It took me a month to get rid of that smell and no one wanted to ride with me.
The smell is so strong when you are that close that it will add a stench to your clothes that will take about 20 washes to remove the scent.