New Jersey County Fights Landfill Odors Using Fragrant Spray Trucks

Not to be outdone by the Chinese and their deodorant guns, Middlesex County, New Jersey has unveiled their secret weapon against landfill stink, a perfume spraying truck. The flatbed truck equipped with special nozzles now drives around the 200-plus acre landfill spraying hundreds of gallons of a soapy, slightly citrus-scented liquid. From the article: "'It has a pleasant, showery smell,' said Richard Fitamant, executive director of the Middlesex County Utilities Authority, which runs the landfill. 'It's not offensive and it's not overpowering. It's a light scent.' Faced with a competing mandate to handle the loads of trash while curbing the stench, officials have turned to the roving, over-sized air freshener to control the smells wafting from the 200-plus acre landfill."

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Re:WTF, the Navy fliss planes at night?

[CodeBuster]

The Air Force and Navy bases were explicitly acknowledged in their signed disclosures

You're kidding right? Just imagine, if you will, the dumbest American couple that you can find being presented with a stack of loose leaf paper 3 feet high (you laugh, but shit like this actually happened during the bubble) constituting their mortgage/home purchase agreement. They are told to sign here and initial there, all the while being rushed through the process and told "you don't need to read that", "almost done!", or "only 10 more initials". By the time the befuddled couple has left the real estate office with the keys in their hands they don't know what the fuck they just signed. These are the same people who are now underwater on their mortgages and begging you, their fellow taxpayer (who didn't go out like a dumbass and overpay for a house), to bail them out. I say that we foreclose, kick them out, and resell the house for whatever the market will bear. It is time and past time to stop rewarding stupidity in this country and start making some tough examples, "predatory" loans be damned (notice how everyone who fucked up wants to blame anyone but themselves for their crappy loan).