road kills.
You can tell because deer get bloated, don't know if that's a smell you really can get used to. Not like living on a dairy farm where you get used to it. Death has a smell all its own, it kind of lingers. — Shawn Kremsreiter
"I stopped being grossed out when I started getting hungry and thirsty. I had to eat. And this was the job that was available," Jackson said. "You got child support looking at you in the face. And after so long it just became natural to me. To pick up a deer or a raccoon or a skunk, it's natural. I know how to get it."
He told me he could eat a san... See more
He told me he could eat a san... See more
Meet Danny Jackson, the man who cleans up roadkill from Cincinnati streets
look at texture of the road.
like the slant of light.
“One time I came back from a summer vacation and one of the landfill operators came over laughing,” Boeser said. “He goes, ‘I love it when you’re on vacation. Your son must have tried three times to get a deer off the carrier the other day. He threw up every time.’ ”
Roadkill deer collection not a job for the faint of heart — or stomach
From Apologia by Barry Lopez.
From Apologia by Barry Lopez.
From Apologia by Barry Lopez.
From Apologia by Barry Lopez.
Yes, during the transformation of death into life we may have to catch a glimpse of something we don’t want to see, or a whiff of something we don’t want to smell. But maybe our willingness to endure these kinds of experiences is part of what it means to pay our respects to the dead. And maybe the more attention we pay to the animals on the side of... See more