I’m starting a new section called Random News. Basically it will be a collection of news stories that catch my interest in some way. I want to start off with a bang, so here’s the first one.
This story is hilarious. I read the store titled Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital on the AP Press earlier today and had to share it with you.
Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospitalSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — 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 fumes led someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in.
What crews found was an unplugged refrigerator crammed with moldy food.
Authorities say an enterprising office worker had decided to clean it out, placing the food in a conference room while using two cleaning chemicals to scrub down the mess.
The mixture of old lunches and disinfectant caused 28 people to need treatment for vomiting and nausea.
Authorities say the worker who cleaned the fridge didn’t need treatment — she can’t smell because of allergies.
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I’m still laughing at this. In college my roommates and I left a cooler with some beer and meat outside for a little too long, and after a week it made us gag. What did we do? Yep, we dumped more stuff in there. Old milk, cheese, sausage, a dead squirril we found in the backyard… whatever. And for an entire summer it sat in the back cooking in the 100 degree heat of West Texas. Early during the fall semester, we brought the cooler to one o the big classrooms and opened it up. It was like a wave of nausea, and you could see it slowly roll up the room, row by row, until every person was out.
Too bad it wasn’t spring semester, when allergy season hits, because some of the kids in that room could have stayed.
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