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Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital
bokske writes "An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill. Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday, after the flagrant fumes prompted someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in. Just another day at the office."
Toys in the Attic: "So what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge."
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They forgot to clean out the fridge at the Michael Scott Paper Company.
I hear you can be arrested for taking pictures of an open 'fridge's innards. ;-)
=Smidge=
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
Did they find Indy inside?
If you can't tell what something is through the plastic wrapper due to strange color or texture, then don't open it! Nothing good ever came out of one of these packages.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
vegimite..... just smelling that is good enough to go to the hospital.
:P
just smelling it killed my apetite for a month.
new Zealanders eat it like as if it were creamcheese
could have been vegimite
28 people to need treatment for vomiting and nausea.
There is no justice.
Authorities said the worker who cleaned the fridge didn't need treatment â" she can't smell because of allergies.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
That was my lunch you assholes. I was saving that......
There's always some bozo who has to go and throw away my lunch. Who are they to judge the malodoressness of my victuals??
So it's true. AT&T really does stink.
If someone opened my fridge right now....I'd be charged with chemical or biological warfare...it's horrendous.
The lower compartments I haven't opened in several months and I know whatever is growing down there is alive...
Food goes to its grave in my fridge.
Note that if you read the sentence carefully, there is nothing that said the fridge itself was the cause of the odor!
"AN OFFICE WORKER cleaning a fridge full of rotten food CREATED A SMELL so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital..."
I'm pretty sure every office has one of those guys...
For a second, I thought it was Friday on Slashdot.
I can see the fnords!
My brother used to work in an office that was (badly) converted from an old bakery about 10 years previously. There was the usual large store/junk room around the back where stuff was just piled up until they ran out of room. Eventually they had to clear it out. Right at the back of the room buried under a huge pile of stuff was quite a large chest freezer. It wasn't turned on but it was locked shut.
They tried to shift it but it was too heavy and obviously full. This should have rung a few alarm bells but no. They busted the lock open with a crow bar and opened it up. Projectile vomiting all round the moment the lid was opened. 3 people taken to hospital. It required a very specialised hazmat / cleaning team to sort it out in the long term as it turned out the freezer had been used to store raw meat for pies and pasties and that meat had been in there for about 11 years or so. Did I mention the room got very hot in the summer...
another Roadkill on the Information Superhighway
"Throwed up all over monitor."
Thanks.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I used to stock thermoses with rancid milk to clear out class at Catholic school. Just let them sit in the back of the class locker for 3 months and pop one when you need one less Religion class to deal with in your life.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
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As Carlin used to say, "Could be steak, could be cake!"
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
That's totally something for one's resume. It's a mark of distinction.
I can picture it now:
AT&T Research, San Jose (1999-2010)
* Made things suck less
* Shuffled papers
* Almost got killed by rotten office fridge.
Gentoo Sucks
>During large thunderstorms, the sewer pipes often see huge flows that scour all the grease that people dump down the drain (DON'T DUMP GREASE DOWN THE DRAIN!) in to large globs the size of beach balls. These tend to block flow at the waste-water stations and cause sewer backup
There's an easy solution to this problem: start dumping chips of plutonium down the all the drains. Whenever there's a stop-up, they'll collect in a mass and that'll fix the blockage.
You may observe that there are some collateral problems with dumping lots of plutonium down the drain. I have an answer for that, too: we train gorillas to go into the sewers and collect all the plutonium chips that haven't been used. Then once winter comes...
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Radioactive Gorillas? That's almost as good as Sharks with Frickin' lasers!
Nearly fifty percent of all graduates come from the bottom half of the class!
Reaction type 1: Ammonia directly reacts with bleach to form hydrazine (N2H4, which, in addition to being extremely poisonous, can burn even in the absence of air! It explodes on contact with rust!
I know what I'm doing this weekend!
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
When I was in college, someone left a fridge on the third floor of the fraternity house with leftover pizza, a watermelon, and about a quart of turkey chili in it over the summer. Someone else, possessed by his own moral righteousness, or because he was a dick, unplugged it. About three weeks later, we had a plague of flies. I found the fridge in a pool of black spooge with maggots in the carpet.
On discovering the fridge would fit through the window, I chained the ol' Jeep to the dumpster and drug it under the window. We then shoved the fridge, on it's back, out the window.
And missed the dumpster
The fridge struck an electrical box on the outside wall, and flipped, which caused it to hit the side of the dumpster, burst open, and land in our parking lot.
Nobody went to the hospital, but it took days to get the smell off our hands.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
They must not have had one of those "Your mother doesn't work here" signs on the fridge. Those always work.
That's what I'm saying. Buck up! It's just a smell. Some people work around bad smells, they learn to live with it.
Unfortunately, I am now officially this thread's troll.
Belief? Hope? Preference?The Existential Vortex
I was going to, but I was stuck trying to figure out how to get my couch out of the stair well.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
The fungus took my baby!
At my office, you are banned from heating up fish in the microwave because of the smell. I don't mind the smell, but the people who do complained loud enough that an email was sent out stating that you could no longer heat it up in the microwave. I wish they would send out an email stating that you could no longer fart in your cubicle. The lady in the cube next to me rips some pretty nasty ones, and I'd take the smell of fish over the smell of an SBD any day.
Some people work around bad smells, they learn to live with it.
Some people work around flashing light patterns. Others get epileptic seizures from electric rodents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon
Are you just posting cause you feel like it. Because if you had the slightest clue as to what you were talking about you would not have posted that. Chlorine gas is deadly. Not deadly if you are allergic to it or deadly if you are a puss. DEADLY. Used as a weapon in war. Deadly.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
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I drank what? -- Socrates
Occasionally you get a chem student who thinks the fume hood works like the sneeze guard at a salad bar and forgets that he has to actually turn it on himself.
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Getting ass-raped by Homeland Security?
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It was a hybrid swine/mold flu that is now attempting to transmit itself through AT&T's network. The bit about person having allergies is clearly a cover-up. It's the only explanation.
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If you ever happen to stroll around in sewers (it's not as terrible as it seems) - you'll find these little 'white mice' have a habit of all congregating in one place, due to their similar buoyancy properties, I imagine.
Under London, in the famous River Fleet sewer, there's a little side-tunnel named 'Tampon Alley', for a very good reason.
Effect = Noun
Not always!
"Barack Obama sought the office of President of the United States of America because of his deep desire to effect change in Washington."
Grammatically correct, yet factually wrong. He wanted to "effect change" in his wallet. And in his KFC bucket.
Oops, too soon? Sorry.
...after a while it kinda grows on you.