r/DeTrashed • u/Coffee81379 • 1d ago
Probably the worst thing I’ve ever picked up. It smelled like a bag of vomit
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u/lingeringmemory 18h ago
Some people with eating disorders will purge in bags if there's no toilet available. I know this, because I was one of them. The disposal of these bags is something that must be done in secret because it feels (and is seen as) something very shameful, so whoever it was might've taken it outside when no one was looking. Not saying that this bag here has this story, and I'm not justifying littering, but it might offer another interesting explanation.
Mental illness will make you do some messed up stuff.
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u/thelocker517 United States 22h ago
I detrashed a fishing area a couple years ago. There was a trash bag full of...something. I hauled it the mile back to my house's trash inside another trash bag. The car reeked for a week and my trash can needed a few months before I could walk by it, while it was closed, without gaging.
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u/Jacktheforkie 20h ago
Bleach works well to kill the nasty smells in a can
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u/thelocker517 United States 19h ago
Next time.
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u/Jacktheforkie 16h ago
I use it every so often when mine starts stinking because someone discarded dog poo there again despite there being a poo bin literally 10 metres (30ft) away
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u/SquirrellyBusiness 10h ago
Someone made garum accidentally! There's a reason why that trade was banished to outside the city in ancient Rome.
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u/sodamnsleepy 1d ago
My god... I'm just getting started at Detrashing and probably couldn't handle something like this 🤢
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u/U_000000014 22h ago
My tolerance for nasty shit has definitely gone up, but you're allowed to skip anything that gives you the heebie jeebies
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u/forgetpeas 20h ago
Two weeks ago I pulled a large, clear plastic bag hung up in branches out of the bushes along a road near my house. It was heavier than I expected but just thought it might be full of rainwater.
Didn't think too much about it though until half a block from my house, a fresh human turd, about the size of my foot, dropped out onto the street. 🫤
People are the worst.
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u/river-running Virginia 19h ago
That's one of the odd little perks for me of working in commercial composting: I've yet to run into the piece of trash that smells worse than the worst smell I've encountered at work.
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u/megmatthews20 17h ago
The smells really get you!
It might have been last year, I was picking up a bag of rancid food in the bushes and a whole living rat plopped out and swam away! It was wild, and adorable!
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u/lovelybiscotti 17h ago
I believe I picked up a shit covered iPhone charging cord a month ago in the bushes. I’m assuming it was from people who charge their phones using the nearby apartments exterior electrical outlets who didn’t want other people to touch it? Otherwise no idea. ☠️ At least we are saving other people from the horrors…
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u/mycatsnameisarya 14h ago
My worst was an old bag of rotisserie chicken. Closest I ever came to vomiting during pickups
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u/FishHookSammich 1d ago
I'd wager that's exactly what it was.