Sharks' Brent Burns reveals hilarious stories on family RV adventures

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All the workout gear for an NHL player is one thing, but Brent Burns likely never has worked harder to get the smell out of something.

The Sharks star recently was asked about his family vacations using an RV, and Burns revealed that he had a ghastly scenario play out during one particular outing.

"I go out there and put the sewage in the pipe at the RV camp," Burns told The Athletic. "And then I open up the black tanks first. You rinse it out with the gray. I put the black and it’s making noise but it’s not emptying. I’m like, ‘What is going on? This is a nightmare.’ I close it and open it again and still, nothing is happening.

"I can hear it but still, the tanks aren’t emptying. Then I do it again, now it’s been open for 40 seconds but it’s not emptying the tank at all. I’m like, oh boy. Then I realize I did not open up the bottom lid on the hose. And it’s in the ground. And the tank has been open."

Burns quite literally had opened up the floodgates.

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"There is s--t everywhere. I have to open up that bottom lid and I’m like, ‘Holy bananas.’ I’m going to be covered in s--t from head to toe. Thank God I’ve got the KUIU raingear. I stick it in the ground as fast as I can, I was like, holy s--t. I was covered. It was insane."

That doesn't sound like an ideal evening on vacation. Luckily Burns hustled and tidied everything up to avoid drawing the ire of more experienced campers nearby.

"I go on those RV forums," Burns added. "There’s always that big section of like, ‘Hey we just had this newbie come in the campsite and screw this up. What an idiot.’ That’s all I could think about. I’m that idiot spraying crap all over. I spent 40 minutes, late at night, pitch black with a headlamp on, cleaning and disinfecting everything so there was no smell. Just in case one person saw it at least I cleaned it up. Oh man, it was insane."

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