Florida dealing with Road-Kill

[dirtydog]

'Dirty Work' Tackles Road Kill

SANFORD, Fla. -- Maybe in your busy world, you don't even notice the lives lost almost daily -- the bodies lying by the side of the road.

But the squashed, rotting critters' remains makes for some dirty work for the people at Seminole County Animal Control.

The workers use plastic bags to pick up the remains, and there's plenty of hand sanitizer once the job is completed.

They wear orange vests to avoid being hit by cars themselves.

It's the stench that can sometimes cause problems during the cleanup duty."If the smell bothers you, Vicks Vapor Rub to rub under your nose ... if you feel the need to,"

Seminole County Animal Control representative Shari Covell said.

A flock of buzzards provides clues as to the location of dead animals.

But why would Animal Control interfere when nature is doing the job?"

A lot of times, vultures can cause a traffic hazard for people.

People will slam on the brakes to keep from hitting them or swerve around them and cause an accident," Covell said.

The buzzards sat up in a nearby tree and looked unhappy when their armadillo feast was interrupted.

But that may have been better than what could have happened.

"Projectile vomit. That's their defense mechanism," Covell said.

Across the county in one day, Covell picked up seven carcasses for disposal."We keep a log of all calls that we do," Covell said.

They hope to keep motorists safe by keeping the roads clear.

When the work is completed, the remains are stored in a cooler until the animals can be cremated -- the neatest way to dispose of them.

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[Muadib]

In West Virginia, they eat road kill... Yum, yum, nothing like poodles with noodles...

[Happyman]

If I hit it - no problem - I know its fresh !

[dirtydog]

wheres blackgang? thought he would be here sharing his bbq recipes

[kingwilly]

wheres blackgang? thought he would be here sharing his bbq recipes

he wants to keep them for himself...

[blackgang]

animals can be cremated -- the neatest way to dispose of them.

I tried to explain this fact to one of the newer members, but she seems to be to thick in the head, as she is in other places too,,Thick I mean..
She says for such a suggestion I should be put in the oven alive.

[blackgang]

Here ya go, knock your self out..

On Your Grill - Great Grilling Tips, Techniques and Ideas. - Grilling Roadkill
This one ain't grilled possum, but it's still fun anyway. Might want to wash off the yellow paint, just in case it contains lead.
1 opossum (about 2 1/2 pounds)
2 1/2 tsp. salt
Pepper to taste
Flour
1/2 cup water
4 medium sweet potatoes
2 tbsp. sugar
Clean opossum, Trim excess fat from opossum and discard.
Wash quickly inside and out with warm water; drain thoroughly.
Rub salt and pepper well into the opossum inside and out.
Sprinkle inside and out with flour.
Lay the opossum on its back in a roasting pan.
Add water, cover and bake in 350 degree F. oven until about half done (45 - 60 minutes).
Split peeled potatoes in half lengthwise and place in pan around opossum.
Add more water if needed.
Cover sliced potatoes and opossum and cook 30 more minutes.
This one ain't grilled possum, but it's still fun anyway. Might want to wash off the yellow paint, just in case it contains lead.
1 opossum (about 2 1/2 pounds)
2 1/2 tsp. salt
Pepper to taste
Flour
1/2 cup water
4 medium sweet potatoes
2 tbsp. sugar
Clean opossum, Trim excess fat from opossum and discard.
Wash quickly inside and out with warm water; drain thoroughly.
Rub salt and pepper well into the opossum inside and out.
Sprinkle inside and out with flour.
Lay the opossum on its back in a roasting pan.
Add water, cover and bake in 350 degree F. oven until about half done (45 - 60 minutes).
Split peeled potatoes in half lengthwise and place in pan around opossum.
Add more water if needed.
Cover sliced potatoes and opossum and cook 30 more minutes.

[blackgang]

I was thinking of a happening from 28 years ago.
I and a friend had just gotten sober and were hanging pretty tight to AA about that time and the group we belong to was from Rainier Oregon and they were great for folks having a pot luck and a dance monthly at the hall and picnics regular during good weather.
So this one day were we having a picnic at the grounds of Trojan Nuke Plant owned by Pacific Power and Light co.
They ad a park setting around the cooling ponds and a lot of Palapas with nice BBQ grills in them.
So anyway we were doing our AA thing and in another palapa was a white dude and a woman and a couple kids grilling Hamburgers and hot dogs and were close to being filled up and just playing wit the kids when a couple of car loads of our little colored brothers pulled up and got out of their cars and walked over to this dude and told him to split as they wanted that Palapa and grill, so he looked em over, loaded his shit and split.
So the Negros had added charcoal to the fire and were just having a hell of a time.
So to break in here a little, main East/West hyway #26 runs from Astoria Oregon to Idaho thru Central Oregon and ran by Trojan plant and on this stretch as is true of most roads in western Oregon, there is a profuse amount of Opossums get hit at nigh by cars, so a lot of dead possum on the roads.
So anyway this dude leaves the park and heads out, in a very short time his car pulls back into the park and stops at the Palapa that the coons had ran his ass off from less than 1/2 hour ago, and he got out of his car, Now this was noticed by the darkies too, so they kinda backed up in case as we all thought, he had went and got a shotgun, he was pulled up with his door right by the slab under the Palaps, so he gets out and reaching into the car, comes out with a couple dead flattened Fauna he had picked up off the road, runs a couple steps toward the BBQ, throws these 2 stinking partially decomposed possums on the Barbie with the coons BBQ chicken they were cooking and jumps in his car and does a Drag Strip start, but the coons did manage to bust his back window with a thrown unopened beer can, and all of us in our own Palapa damn near died from hysterical laughing..

[phuketbound]

^You are such full of shit. Blah, blah... you've obviously been around da block.

I'd say nope, wouldn't eat roadkill. During university, I took a natural history class, and the instructor actually collected roadkill so he could show us what the animals looked like - yeah more like flattened with all their inner gizzards pushed out. You could even see tire marks on some of the dogs. Made for an interesting class.

[blackgang]

^You are such full of shit. Blah, blah... you've obviously been around da block. I'd say nope, wouldn't eat roadkill

From your pix you posted in your AV. I would say that you draw the line pretty damn low.

[Norton]

Common practice in the US to eat "road kill". Done it myself. When you hit a deer and kill it, it is as good as one you get when hunting. If you don't care to eat it, a quick call to fish and game office and they will come get it. They then give it to charitable institutions to feed the needy.

Advise one avoid the flattened squirrels, possums, rats, raccoons and dogs however.

BTW, was available in Bangkok many years ago. The Shadow Bar in Soi Cowboy was famous for it's "Road Kill Chili."

[blackgang]

They then give it to charitable institutions to feed the needy.

Not always, there is an awful lot of blood shot bruised meat in one after the contact with a car, when we were doing I-5 north of Myrtle Creek there were a bunch getting slaughtered nightly in the fall because of the migration from the high country towards the coast and we had our shop area in a place that was going to be a rest area, and every day the state workers would haul in a few or a dozen dead deer and dump and then we would cover over with fill so when you stop at the north bound rest area before crossing the unpqua river bridge, you are in a thousand deer burial grounds.