03 Jan 2009
Country Life

People who buy homes "in the country" should understand that they're moving into a work zone: farming is not always as tidy and romanitc as it's sometimes pictured.

It reminds me of a line from the song "Country Life" by the English band Show of Hands: "We hate the blood but we want the meat!" Out here, you're gonna get both.

A pile of cattle manure is believed to be the source of a malodorous stench that caused one woman to complain “she almost vomited from the smell,” according to police reports.

A resident of the 2700 block of Yosemite Drive who called police at 5:07 p.m. said her neighbors were also gagging from the odor.

Fire, Lebanon police and Boone County EMS units covered the area from the Park Place subdivision to County Road 300 North before a CTFD unit sniffed out the source: A manure pile at a cattle farm near county roads 250 West and 250 North.

(link) [Lebanon Reporter]

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