Morning AllDangerous Species In The World

b3ta's question of the week is What is the strangest job you've ever had?. Absolutely brilliant. Answers include...

#1 Monkey Fishing

"I had to deal with several large skips full

of assorted monkey body parts, scavenged from

various zoos over the years, preserved lovingly

like a fetid monkey soup with chunks. Enter me,

with shoulder-length rubber gloves, and, a

gasmask sorry "industrial respirator". We had

to go in pairs, in case someone fell in and

drowned. What's this in the bucket? Oh look.

It's a dismembered chimpanzee. That or we'd

found Jeff Dahmer's secret stash."

#2 Collecting Poo

"We were testing a drug's efficacy on worms

only readily obtained from cats. You can't put

a nappy on a cat (and I would love to see

someone try) and the need for fresh wormy 5h!+

meant extracting a cat from its luxurious living

quarters, putting it in a plastic dustbin, then

turning a hose on it, to "persuade" it to dump.

This is horrible for the cat, and not fun for me,

as I got thoroughly scratched and bitten. But

the best bit was the resulting miasma of cat

intestinal bacteria measurable in the air several

corridors away which stank like only hot cat

5h!+ can do."