Does sticking prawns behind radiators really work?

[tenbob]

If you wanted to wreak absolute revenge and create an unliveable stench?
Or a raw chicken fillet lobbed behind the fridge?

Asking for a friend, obvs

I must be thick but I don't get the OW / flat situation either.

I'm sure these are urban legends (and I don't really want to encourage such behaviour) but there was planting cress seeds in the carpets and watering etc... so you have a cress carpet.

Also sewing prawns into curtain lining and dialling the talking clock in Sydney and leaving phone off the hook

(All very dated and as I say, I assume folklore!!)

You (your friend) will need something that can be hidden quickly, given the estate agent will be on the premises. I would say any raw meat would do the job but chicken reeks when out of date, so cut up a couple of fillets and distribute a bit in each room - behind fridge, behind wardrobe, behind toilet etc. That way the smell isn't limited to one area, it's the whole flat that will stink. You'll hardly get to stuff it into curtain poles with estate agent there. It won't create an instant smell as fish sauce will, so it can't be traced to you. If there are viewings in the days following the chicken placement then it should surely smell then and put potential buyers off. Might be a few maggots and flies knocking about too.

Please, nothing behind the fridge, it could cause a fire.

Also anything that could affect the adjoining flats is not on.

NO to maggots and flies.

One time my brother and I “swapped beds” (when we were teens) for a night and he did a huge milky puke on my carpet! My god, it stank for months.

Maybe not doable but the smell of 2 week old unflushed shite is something I am never going to forget.
DC, 2 week holiday and a last minute toilet trip before we left.
By god it stank.

I've also seen a glitter cannon in action. You'll NEVER get the glitter fully cleaned up. Moving in present perhaps?

The worst thing I ever smelled was rotting brie, it had fallen out of the shopping bag and into a gap between the back seats and boot floor of DH's car. Camenbert would probably be even better, as it has quite a strong odour even before it goes off.

I was in a friend’s car the other day and it absolutely stank. I had the keep the window wide open with my head out, like a spaniel. It was a rotten fishy smell.

A few days later she asked me if I’d noticed a smell, because she’d taken her car for a service and they’d commented that it was disgusting, after investigation they’d found a completely rotten, liquified cucumber at the back of her boot. It was eye wateringly bad, but she hadn’t noticed.

There's been an awful smell in our kitchen the last two days. Remembered our live trap we have under the sink this morning! We'd caught a mouse but not realised, so it died (yep feel very guilty) but boyo the smell!!!!

Give them the stench of disappointment instead - get someone to put in an asking price offer and then string it out for a few weeks, pulling out just before Christmas which is a really shit time to go back on the market. Hopefully they would have already boxed up and got rid of some stuff by then too.

Honestly mushrooms rotting is the worst smell I’ve ever encountered if that’s what you’re looking for.

Fish paste in the curtain rail or anywhere hollow really. Not only does it cause a massive stench but it evaporates so its impossible to locate.

If I ended up anywhere near those prawns it could kill me (very allergic to prawns!)

Chicken under something in the kitchen ,if your lucky then maggots and flies should give satisfaction before the smell.
Cress doesn't work if central heating is on.
How about blocking the toilet,doing a nice big poo and failing to flush before leaving..
I've never done this but have moved into a flat where the last person had.You only find out about the blockage when you flush.

Polystyrene balls from a beanbag or similar

We had a beanbag explosion once downstairs in a toy room . They ended up getting stuck to feet and socks And being transported all over the house
Months later I was still finding them

Rotting potatoes is a smell like no other. Absolutely repulsive.

I agree with the potato. We had a horrid smell in our whole house (two up two down to be fair!) for a good week or so, cleaned top to bottom and couldn't work it out. Turned out to be a potato that had managed to go under the kitchen counters via a small hole in the back of the cupboard they are in. It was awful.

I’d also say rotting potatoes. I wouldn’t say it was the reason we got a new kitchen but it was a contributory factor.

Ton of tuna that has gone off.

Oh my god, it's vile

If the house in question will be empty for a few days, liberally sprinkle cress seeds and water, lovely new carpet 😉

Just be careful your friend can't get done for criminal damage, particularly as it can't be seen as anything g other than per meditated.

PRE meditated

@tenbob
@TitsalinaBumSquash

I do so agree about the putrid potato! The most vile smell of all

The previous poster who mentioned frozen mice from the pet shop has a point. It seems the least traceable.

I'm loving the replies on this:

'Please don't! People will suffer!

'Right, you need some dead mince in the airing cupboard and a steak down the back of the radiator. Sprinkles around some maggots and you're good to go'

😂

My ex moved the other woman and her kids into our home two weeks after I left. He told me he just didn't love me anymore 🙄 and there was no one else 🤣.
I gave the toilet a good clean with his toothbrush while I was collecting my things. Unfortunately he didn't die 🤨

I came here to say dead body of the cheating bastard, but all the suggestions have really turned my stomach.