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NOT FROM THE ONION!
When there's some strange smell in your neighborhood, who are you going to call?
The Nasal Ranger! That's who.
"Futurama's" Professor Farnsworth isn't the only one with a powerful smelloscope. In Denver, when a complaint is filed about marijuana odor in an area, the Department of Public Health's Ben Siller is called out with his field olafactometer to sniff around and see if the law has been broken.
Siller told 7News that he's mostly called out to smell marijuana odor complaints from businesses that grow marijuana, not from marijuana smokers enjoying some legal weed in the privacy of their own homes.
Siller, who has been investigating odor complaints for 26 years, uses the department's Nasal Ranger device to determine how strong the odor is and if a violation has occurred -- which it turns out is rare. The Denver Post reports that the odor has to reach a level of 8:1 or greater which can mean a fine of up to $2,000. But that hasn't happened since 1994.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/company-develops-nasal-ra_n_4256193.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
Enjoy!
spanone
(135,887 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)Some of that with a few beers and I bet I could make that olfactometer ding a time or two.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Nail Salon? Poor babies. Do those that drink beer think about the shit smell breweries produce for families who live near by. I wonder if that guy can smell a fart in the wind.
Blue Owl
(50,518 posts)A machine that can detect a fart in a wind tunnel...
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)that beat this Smell-o-rama Fearless Fossdick by a mile. Does anyone know the toon, and can it be linked?
Throd
(7,208 posts)jmowreader
(50,566 posts)A lot of industries that produce strong fumes have to install environmental control technologies. They've got machines that can detect illegal levels of solvents and the like, but you have to use a nose amplifier like this one to detect cannabis.