Okay guys I need help here

[Dilligaf]

Alright, I am female and my other half is out at a long meeting tonight... I have a very young child with me and it has finally registered that that bad smell that I have noticed on and off today (which I thought was the drains and now realised is not) reminds me of when we had pest controllers come and kill a rat in your bungalow back in Thailand days.... death.
We back on to a busy roundabout with a lot of ivy and a bike path and pedestrian underpass between us and the road.
I will admit that my sense of smell is pretty strong, but seriously, on a hot night like tonight, there is a serious bad smell about that is NOT from my house....
What would you guys suggest.?
I don't want to go outside.... to get where I think the smell is coming from involves a big walk around the block and I've just put junior to bed.... spouse is not due home for a few hours (and seriously, can you imagine coming home and being asked to walk for half a km then searching for a dead smell), or do I call non emergency cops and outine problem?
We have only recently moved and don't know neighbours.
I think that is all relevant info...
I am in a quandry.... you see the ads on tv to call 111 if in doubt.... but seriously...argh?
this is not a p/t

p.s. would appreciate law enforcement take on this

[gman]

call the police.do it now. its what their there for.

did you see on the news last week when that biker found that dead womans body on the side of the road??

you wouldnt want to find that.

call em

[doc]

I'd give Dover a call hims seems to have got into a bit of it lately.

[Maha]

Is there a KFC near by?

[Dai]

Call the cops. It is what they are for. A quick look aroud by them and peace of mind for you.

If I was able I would pop down but here in Auckland with not enough petrol and payday a week away

Let me know what happens

Chris

[Dilligaf]

all very well for you guy to take the piss here....


Okay the ONLYb thing that is now stopping me calling the police is that every time I stick my head outside the window, I cop a breath of fresh air.... Outside the house I cannot pinpoint (or even smell) the source of the bad smell.

[mstriumph]

if you call the cops, make it low-key ........ think of the embarrassment if you get a dozen coppers doing an emergency roll up thinking its a murdered person and it turns out to be an ex-cat or something ...............

[Jantar]

all very well for you guy to take the piss here....


Okay the ONLYb thing that is now stopping me calling the police is that every time I stick my head outside the window, I cop a breath of fresh air.... Outside the house I cannot pinpoint (or even smell) the source of the bad smell.

In that case it is probably something dead inside the house. Maybe the cat has killed a rat and left it under a bed or something similar. Go around your house and close ALL the doors, wait 30 minutes or so then check each room in turn and see where it is strongest. Check that room thoroughly. (Yes, our cats bring in everything from mice to rats to rabbits, so we've been there a number of times.)

[gman]

have you rang the cops yet????huh huh huh have ya ???

[Dilligaf]

Okay thank you to those who replied...
BIL came around and the gas bottle from the BBQ was left on....





so I can't differentiate between gas and decomposing body....
I always said LPG from BP stank!!!

[gman]

hahahahahahha hehehehehehehe haw haw haw haw har har har har now dats funny!!!!!

[Maha]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so your 'gas' prob is all fixed up now?...
Well i was close with refference to KFC...........

[Dilligaf]

Glad that amused you....


I was actually worried for a time there

[Timber020]

Its made to smell like rotten meat, gas by itself was to often scentless so they gave it a scent people would notice. In fact (useless info time) guys looking for leaks in gas lines out in the desert in the US found that vultures would often be circling the gas leak, saving them alot of time searching in the sand.

[thehollowmen]

They put amines in LPG so we can smell it as pure LPG has no smell. Two amines that decomposing bodies give off are cadaverine and putrescine. I'm not surprised that you clicked because I also have a lot of trouble telling them appart. And I've done the other thing too.

I kept smelling LPG as I ran past the botanic gardens to work and mentioned to friends and a week later a body was found under the bridge. Even worse was I saw a family inside the police tape having a picnic. How could you do that with the smell?