kkk 7 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Pig manure swamps German village A village in the German state of Bavaria is recovering after being flooded with liquid pig manure. A tank containing the fetid fertiliser burst, sending a deluge of porcine waste into the courtyards and streets of Elsa, police said. The sewage was half a metre (1.6ft) deep in places. "The village was swamped with green-brown liquid - the mother of all muck," police spokesman Rainer Prediger, from nearby Coburg, said. The tank held about 52,800 gallons (240,000 litres) of fertiliser, Reuters news agency reported. "It was not very pleasant for the villagers," Volker Munk of Coburg police told the BBC News website. Officer Munk said the slurry ran down the main street, flooding the ground floors of several homes. Police estimated the accident caused damage that will cost about 100,000 euros (£68,000) to repair, Reuters said. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 YUMMY Link to post Share on other sites
snowbender 3 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 "the mother of all much"! "It was not very pleasant for the villagers," ----Perhaps an understatement Link to post Share on other sites
js 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 quote: Originally posted by Bushpig: YUMMY Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 it certainly does SubZero. Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 The grass is going to be very green next summer. Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 I feel sorry for whoever has to clean it up! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Well Nicole, being Germany, and Germany being the land of good beer, there must be many beer-wenches. Surely it is part of their job description. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Perhaps they'll learn not to keep it all in one big filthy place in future. There are things that farmers and their customers everywhere are learning the hard way about, where if they would only apply a little common sense... On the biodiesel forum I also frequent, there is an earnest discussion among farmers about whether it's good to feed cattle the by-products of biodiesel manufacture; glycerin and traces of sodium methoxide. Um, I thought cows were ungulates that ate grass... Link to post Share on other sites
JPchucky 0 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 So easy to picture. Must smell like Ikebukuro. Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Harsh! Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Cows are milk and meat factories that eat whatever they are given, including scrapie-infected sheep meat. A farm I used to work on had an ex-WWII airfield on it. The farmer used to rent out some of the runway for a local contractor to store mountains of chicken shit. When the farmer found the chicken shit was going into cattle food, he chucked the contractor off. Said farmer was a man of integrity who felt it wrong to feed shit to animals, and he wouldn't be a part of it. Link to post Share on other sites
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