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| Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 12 2009, 04:47 PM (213 Views) | |
| musicasacra | May 12 2009, 04:47 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital May 12, 6:16 PM (ET) SAN 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 flagrant fumes prompted someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in. What they found was an unplugged refrigerator that had been crammed with moldy food. Authorities said 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 said the worker who cleaned the fridge didn't need treatment - she can't smell because of allergies. |
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| NAK | May 12 2009, 04:55 PM Post #2 |
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Senior Carp
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Leftovers, anyone?
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| George K | May 12 2009, 04:56 PM Post #3 |
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Finally
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So that's what happened to it! |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| kenny | May 12 2009, 04:57 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think this must have been at the Piano Technology Program at the University of Western Ontario. Just a guess. ![]() |
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| musicasacra | May 12 2009, 04:59 PM Post #5 |
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We didn't have to worry about moldy foods at my big corporate office complex. The fridges were cleaned out every Friday night, so take your stuff out by then or it gets tossed. On the floor in one building we did have to worry about food theft. Yogurts, sandwiches, soda, even half-eaten sandwiches would get stolen from the fridges. This was the floor where the fraud department worked. One co-worker was a regular victim of the food theft, which stunk because then she had to figure out what else to do for lunch. I kept telling her to spike her sandwiches with Marmite or hot peppers. |
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| T3h B34r | May 12 2009, 06:03 PM Post #6 |
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Junior Carp
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*wag wag wag* Smells GOOD!! *drooooool....* What a sad waste of food... FEED the dog!! FEEEEED the dog!! The Body Of Dog compels you!! *whimper* |
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O hai. I can haz big dinnerz? If you can't eat it or screw it, piss on it and walk away. (and leave big p00pz!) The Great Pyrenees | |
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| Aqua Letifer | May 12 2009, 06:06 PM Post #7 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Larry | May 13 2009, 04:05 AM Post #8 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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One time of putting jalapeno juice all over a sandwich and then soaking up some of the juice with a nice thick coat of red pepper powder, and you'll not only find out who's stealing your sandwich, but you'll break them from doing it... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 13 2009, 04:19 AM Post #9 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Must have been a GE! They bring good things to life. Like mold, fungus, that sort of thing. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Phlebas | May 13 2009, 04:49 AM Post #10 |
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Bull-Carp
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Better yet, a few powdered Exlax. Then you go to the restroom, and see which stall has been occupied for a long time. Get into the one next to it, and say, "Think of this, not as a bathroom stall, but as a confession booth." |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Frank_W | May 13 2009, 04:56 AM Post #11 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Phlebas: That's perfect.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| George K | May 13 2009, 05:06 AM Post #12 |
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True story. When I was in medical school (freshman year) I had a classmate named Claude (no, not that Claude). Claude was a nice guy, and all of us in school liked him. The thing about our school was that there was no competition. Once you're in, you're in, and the goal is to get everybody graduated. So, naturally, we all helped each other study, quizzed each other, etc. Claude, as I said, was a nice guy, smart, and always willing to help. He did have one flaw however: if you had a can of soda on your desk when you were studying, and Claude walked in, he'd talk about the coursework, and help himself to the soda, usually walking out with it. The night before the Anatomy final, one of my classmates took a coke, drank about a third of it, dropped in a 10 mg. Lasix tablet, and set the can on his desk. Lasix is a powerful, powerful diuretic. If you've never taken it, 10 mg. will make you p!ss your brains out for hours and hours. As predicted, Claude came in, started talking, and drinking, and walked out with the coke. Next morning, "Hey, Claude, you look kinda tired! Were you up all night studying?" "No, I was up all night p!ssing." I don't know if he ever found out. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 13 2009, 05:27 AM Post #13 |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Pianolicious | May 13 2009, 08:02 AM Post #14 |
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Senior Carp
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My dad is an architectural engineer and is big-time against sealed buildings for this reason. Bad air circulates just like good air. |
| Sit tibi vita longa et omnia bona!!! -- Dr. Spock | |
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| sue | May 13 2009, 08:05 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Gak. Makes me want to go give my own fridge a good clean. Well, not really, but I'm thinking about it.
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