Anytime I’ve been to the Oklahoma County Courthouse, I’ve noticed it always smelled like a public library, especially the ones frequented by unwashed perverts using the computers to piss their pants and watch pornography.
However, many county employees and their lackeys are finally catching a downwind breeze of this pure stink as the putrid smell of raw sewage is currently permeating the hallowed halls of the first floor of the Oklahoma County Courthouse, and I’m not just talking about the usual stable of unwashed lawyers and their stinking clients.
Crews said while they’ve been renovating, they’ve found damaged pipes in the nearly 100-year-old building.
"We discovered on the back side of this sewer pipe there was an opening that was releasing sewer gasses,” said Ponder.
Maintenance told KFOR the smell is especially bad because P-trap water dries out every spring and fall.
I just had to look up “P-trap” to make sure it was an actual term. It is.
Regardless, it seems as though the good people of the Oklahoma County Courthouse are acting like spoiled brats about the caked-on aroma. Growing up in Oklahoma City, from the cheap public schools to the impoverished rental homes, many times you’d have to immerse yourself in the foul scent until someone—anyone!—could fix it, usually at a much later date.