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A smelly situation…
We had just finished putting up the basement wall forms and were ready to pour concrete that morning. The client called first thing to tell me she smelled a skunk….
I told her we’d be there first thing. Sure enough, in the 8’ basement wall form was a very confused and scared skunk. And boy was he stinky! We knew the mixer was going to be there at any moment and already 5 guys were leaning on shovels wondering if skunk removal was in their job description.
We needed to get this thing out of there. But how? Volunteers to jump into the hole and cajole the critter out were not forthcoming. Lowering sticks, nets, ropes with loops and whatever skunks eat into the forms were not working either. The mixer was on its way and burying the poor thing Mafia style in concrete just didn’t seem the right thing to do…
So here’s the mixer grinding away yards of ‘must pour now’ concrete, 7 guys leaning on shovels, both clients, their kids, and by now, half the neighborhood taking pictures, all looking into the hole at a very nervous walking stink bomb. We’re up to roughly $1,100 and hour now and nothing was getting done.
Finally somebody called the animal rescue league and determined that nailing wood scraps on a 2×10 leaning into the form would eventually provide a way for the little guy. We lowered it in and sure enough 2 hours later Pepe le Pew was gone. The concrete was poured and no one’s ever seen hide nor hair of Pepe again!
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Michael McCloskey Design Group
Offices:Boston, MA Marblehead, MA Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico
Phone: 781-631-3233
michael@michaelmccloskey.comwww.michaelmccloskey.com
