Man Hit With $1000 Fine For A Smell That Was Described As "Animal Waste", Turns Out To Just Be A Really Bad Fart

NY Post- A landlord is raising a stink over the city fining him for a foul odor in his Bronx building — which he claims is just a “fart complaint.”

John Crotty, co-owner of the East 147th Street Housing Development Fund Corp., got socked with a $1,000 summons from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the stink, which an inspector identified as resembling “animal waste.”

“A nuisance condition exists in that a foul odor resembling animal waste was detected at the bottom of [the] stairwell located at [the]  lower-level front exterior of the premises,” reads the Sept. 23 violation, issued by health inspector Eric Han at the 21-unit apartment building at 539 East 147th Street.

Minimum penalty: $1,000, a copy of the violation says.

“This is totally outrageous,” Crotty said, denying there being animal waste in his building.

“It’s a fart complaint,” he added, joking that maybe the health inspector got “crop-dusted.”  

So much to unpack here. First off complaints in an apartment building make total sense. The way landlords aka slumlords operate is basically criminal. First off they want you to have first last and security when you sign a lease yet don't hold the apartment up to standards because they know it's a sellers market. Everyone and their mother needs a place to live so landlords simply say take it or leave it. Then once you do take it, they refuse to fix anything, or take forever to fix it, or try to bang you for the littlest thing on the planet. Corrupt. So the complaints from a tenant about a foul smell are par for the course. 

Now on the other hand, this is fucking hilarious. I can't decide what I find the funniest, the fact that someone had a fart so bad it smelt like animal waste. Sorry to disappoint any female readers here but basically our whole goal as men is to bust out a fart that clears a room. If it's so bad it disgusts even yourself ... bonus points. Weirdly guys are obsessed with their own fart smells. So for this guy to let one loose that smells like "animal waste" shouldn't mean he gets a $1000 fine he should get a $1000 prize. A truly remarkable achievement. 

Then you have the co-owner saying "maybe he got crop dusted" just absolutely perfect I don't give a shit type quote. Showing absolutely zero emotion towards this person who filed the complaint, and you know what good for the owner. If he up keeps his building and takes care of his tenants, and the most they can do is complain one time about a rancid fart ... he's a saint. He should blow this over for a non issue because it is just that ... a non issue.