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- Utah residents are dealing with an odor coming from an abandoned meat shop
- “It smells like there’s 100 bodies in there rotting. It’s just so bad,” one resident said
- Police said eliminating hazardous materials from the abandoned shop is expected to take several days
A smelly situation.
Utah residents in the cities of Ogden and South Ogden are making a stink about an odor coming from an abandoned meat shop.
“In March, we noticed that nobody was coming by anymore, the owner. And then Memorial Day, we had a campout in our backyard with my kids, and we just couldn’t stomach the smell that was coming out of there,” local Kim Lindsey told Fox 13.
“I’ve never experienced anything like how gross this place is in my life,” Ali Lindsey added to the outlet, while Tate Lindsey further explained, “It smells like there’s 100 bodies in there rotting. It’s just so bad.”
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Tate told Fox 13 that residents used to know the owner of the shop. “They would come over for campfires and stuff, and they would have their kids come over for s’mores,” he said.
“And ever since then, ever since they abandoned this, they haven’t been back,” Tate added to the outlet.
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Kim, meanwhile, said the odor caused family members to stop coming by, because they couldn’t stand the smell.
“I’m going to cry, being able to have this place gone, and have my kids and my grandkids come back, is going to be everything to me and my husband and our family,” she told Fox 13.
Chief Mike Slater from the Ogden Fire Department (OFD) told Fox 13 that authorities recently “got access to the building, opened it up, and found some food that had spoiled.”
“It’s an old meat-packing plant, and quite a bit of meat in there that had spoiled,” he continued, adding that finding the owner is now up to the city.
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Officials told the local outlet that depsite the horrid smell, the area and odor pose no harm to the general public.
They added to Fox 13 that eliminating hazardous materials from the abandoned shop is expected to take several days.
