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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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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
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...
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...
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"Throwed up all over monitor."
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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!
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.
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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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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.