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Tuned in the radio to a local yard and found what sounded like a yard in total chaous. Aparently during the night a skunk had been feeding on some spilled grain and was run over by a car coming down the hump. The smell was so bad it was disrupting crewmen building trains on adjacent tracks. All kinds of suggestions were heard coming through the radio, as to how to remedy the situation. It was finally decided to have someone with a haz-mat oxygen mask remove it with a shovel. <br /> Well, the person selected for this task apparently held a gruge against the office people at the yard. According to the conversation over the radio: Foreman: "Did you bury it deep." Laboror: "I did not bury it I threw it in the dumpster." Foremen: "Which one" Laboror: "The one by the yard office". Foreman: "Kind of a long walk you didn't do that on purpose did you?" Laboror: "The others were filled" Foreman: "Well I'm sure I'll here about it". <br /> Do situations like this happen often in the yard with critters? Do railroads hire exterminators to keep them under control in the yards? Is this a danger only in less used yards? Is that a normal way of disposing dead animals? <br /> TIM ARGUBRIGHT <br /> I hope I did not give anyone bad ideas on how to get back at office personal. <br />
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