We all have different points at which we consider something "clean" or "dirty".
That's exactly where I came into this, in reference to "Why don't people clean gear before selling it?", a vendor's "It's fine." is someone else's "That needs a good scrub.". But, there's "different strokes for different folks" and then there's "Yew, gross" or "time to call out an environmental health officer". That meter falls into the "Yew, gross" category.
I do wonder at your motivations for defending the pig-pen meter. Perhaps it's something from your past?
Ah, the old lie down in the corner and turn up the gravity to maximum trick ....
that looked positively easy in that video.
We did that not long ago at 4am, after the dog encountered a skunk sneaking into the dog pen.
Maybe the behaviour is retaliation for that bath?
EDIT: Tonight, it is the kid that needs the bath.
The Mud Monsters program this afternoon was introduction to orienterring and a bunch of fun halloween challenges. One orienteering checkpoint was at the top of the steepest ski hill (nordic, not alpine). There was a pile of pumpkins there, and a target at the bottom. I think he was supposed to roll a pumpkin at the target, not himself...
He did win the muddy shoe award, by quite some margin