What's the Point in Shooting a Skunk?

I hate people. If I wouldn't worry that I would slowly waste away to nothing and have skin resembling the color of grayish clay, I would probably belong to PETA.

We had a little skunk outside of the Mama's house last night. Why you ask was the skunk outside of our house? Because rather than taking our garbage to the dumpster, someone sat it outside of our back door. So smelling the goodies inside, this poor little skunk came wandering over to get something to eat.

So as it's munching on it's delicious rotted Oscar Mayer Turkey Breast, Trid opens the back door to throw some milk outside (who in the hell knows with her) and sees the skunk. THE CATASTROPHE BEGINS!!! My god you would have thought that someone pushed the button and was about to drop an A-Bomb on the house.

The thing that pissed me off was rather than shooing the skunk away with a broom and taking the garbage to the dumpster, the Mama calls the neighbor to come and shoot it. So being the great redneck hope that he is, he comes up with his .22 prepared to do battle. THERE WAS A FIRE FIGHT!! And rather than (yet again) shooing it away from the house with the broom, he murders the poor little thing right outside. What do you think happens when a skunk dies? It's loses it's stink ALL OVER THE PLACE.

So then since something interesting is happening and the Mama has the back door open, Evel and Shitbrick (my son and nephew, respectively) go outside to investigate and wound up running through the funk. Plus the smell came right into the house through the window that was directly above the massacre that still had the air conditioner in it. Her house smelled horrid.

Then from the boys running through it, they tracked it in the house so it took forever to get rid of the smell. Great thinking guys. It all could have been avoided if you would have just shooed the little guy away and back into the woods where it belongs. And the best thing is that the garbage is still laying where it was, right beside the back steps. Can't wait to see what shows up next.