What surprised me was the sound they made. I usually can't hear them over my screaming.
Or maybe that was the sound of the cyclist sniveling.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 18 Aug 2016, 18:44,
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I only saw one once.
On hols when I lived in Murca but it was ways off. I sort of want to know how bad the smell actually is.
My response is conditioned by Pepe LePew rather than experience
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Thu 18 Aug 2016, 19:18,
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If you've lived anywhere near a rural area, you've likely smelled them after they've been hit.
Bad idea to accidentally run over skunk road kill because you become the peeyew mobile for real.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 18 Aug 2016, 19:20,
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Woah
https://www.quora.com/How-bad-does-a-skunks-spray-really-smell
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Thu 18 Aug 2016, 19:24,
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Yeah, they're nasty. I was driving to another state and swerved to miss skunk road kill and still got a bit.
The guy I was driving with was unreasonably angry at me for having hit it, certain that I'd done it to aggravate him. He was an idiot.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 18 Aug 2016, 19:32,
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I spent some time working in the US when fresh out of Uni
We used to go out for lunch to a diner on the other side of the airport, which involved driving a rural road around the perimeter.
One summer day we drove that way to discover a fresh skunk roadkill in the middle of the yellow lines. It which was the single most vile thing I've ever smelled. We avoided that road for a couple of weeks to let the crows do their job, but found that even they wouldn't go near. The corpse was untouched, and remained there for at least a month.
My only encounter with a live wild skunk was many years later when one ambled out of the bushes next to me in a car park in Toronto. I ran like fuck.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 19 Aug 2016, 14:23,
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