Do you know the way to San Jose? Just follow your nose.

I love news items that leave more questions than they answer. (And who doesn't love stories about vomiting?)

Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital
From Associated Press
May 12, 2009 10:30 PM EDT

SAN JOSE, Calif. - 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.


This is an AT&T office, right? It theoretically has people actively working in it? On a regular basis? How does the refrigerator wind up crammed with moldy food? Okay, I take that back; I've worked in places where the refrigerator became pretty rank. But still, let's say they exaggerated a bit and it just had a bunch of old lunches; why would you place the food in a conference room instead of throwing it in the garbage? Were people picking through the mold to find something edible? And what were these "two cleaning chemicals"? And what kind of allergies leave you totally immune to the effects of mold and chemicals?

I'm still debating whether to give this item the same tags as the earlier one about Donald Trump:
vomit nausea diarrhea cramps 'Brian Williams' 'NBC News' 'Donald Trump' 'Joan Rivers' stupidity
Posted by Jeffrey P. Morris at 5/12/2009 11:01 PM
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: vomiting smell odor rotten lunch refrigerator nausea stink
 

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