Peeling it up...

Initial scraping did not get the paint blob up, and boy have I been regretting my blinded ways to have allowed such a spill to occur in the first place. I have been walking right past this mess for years since it is right at the garage door!

Luckily, the kind fellow who is currently rebuilding our staircases took pity on me and gave me a chisel. He said that, since it is latex paint, I could pick an edge of it enough to curl back enough of it to grab. It should come off in one peeling motion.

And it did, paint can lid and all! What's the German word for that?  There's a word for when something happens that seemed counter-intuitive, but what is it?