Skunks cause a stink at trailer park

DENVER, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Residents of a Denver area trailer park are raising a stink about a skunk infestation they blame on a new housing development across the street.

Not surprisingly, homeowners in the development tell KMGH-TV, Denver, they don't see the skunks as a problem.

Sue Klukan told the TV news the skunks started crossing the road last year and the problem has only grown worse at the mobile home park.

"I had come home at lunch time and I walked in the door and almost fell over. It was so bad," said Klukan. "It permeates your clothing, the whole air inside. It's about as bad as if you were directly sprayed."

She's a pariah at work because her clothes smell like the skunks living under her trailer, she told the television station.

But residents in the housing development say the mobile home residents just need to learn to cohabitate with their smelly intruders.

Bill Wilson said when a skunk wandered into his front year, he just "stood there."

"I didn't move. I just stood there. He came around and sniffed me and just walked over there," Wilson told KMGH.