Gopher Trees Smell Like Skunk Says Potts

A
US university is covering its Christmas trees with the pungent scent
that skunks spray – to discourage thieves.

The University of Minnesota is going to spray between 400-500 pine trees
with two gallons of the natural ingredient.

Within hours of spraying, the cold weather masks the skunk odor, but if
thieves took a tree inside, it would warm up and begin to stink, reports
the Minnesota Daily.
Grounds superintendent Les Potts said: "We are doing this to avoid
a repeat of last year when thieves took seven small trees and hacked the
tops off larger trees, leaving them deformed and awkward-looking.

"We’ll probably still lose some trees, but I have some satisfaction in knowing
that it’s not going to work out the way the thief
thinks it will," Mr
Potts said.

fromthe Minnesota Daily