Not the city of New York, which paid an Alabama landfill company to take it. Not small towns in Pennsylvania, where several sites recently stopped accepting the city's treated human waste. And not the town of West Jefferson, Alabama, where the waste, a product called biosolids, was transferred to dump trucks at the local rail yard. The town recently won an injunction to stop the landfill company, Big Sky Environmental, from using their town as a transfer point.

That federal court decision stranded roughly 250 containers full of treated New York sewage one town over, chilling on rail cars in the tiny town of Parrish, Alabama.

Residents of West Jefferson aren't happy. "I had to go right back into my house because the smell took your breath away," Parrish resident Carry Ann Morgan said. "It's the dookie train," said Nicholas A. Hammond, Parrish's director of parks and recreation, who said the train was roughly 75 yards away from a town baseball diamond.