MILFORD, Nebraska (AP) — Urban dwellers who enjoy dining on filet mignon at five-star restaurants would probably just as soon not know about David Dickinson’s dilemma.
Bad for the appetite, you know.
But Dickinson, who makes his living in the cattle business, has an environmental problem on his hands that is vexing state officials: a 2,000-ton pile of burning cow manure.
Dickinson owns and manages Midwest Feeding Co. about 20 miles west of Lincoln, which takes in as many as 12,000 cows at a time from farmers and ranchers and fattens them for market.
Byproducts from the massive operation resulted in a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide that began burning about two months ago and continues to smolder despite Herculean attempts to douse it.
Not at all science or technology related, but too funny not to post. The picture in the article begs the question, is that a mountain or is that the pile? I think nebraska is rather flat…
Aaron Fulkerson 
What exactly constitutes Herculean attempts? I am pretty certain Hercules never battled giant burning piles of shit. Why not spread the crap on fields or sell it?
What a load of bullshit!
OMG!! Those aren’t mounds, those are mountains.