Our company is hooked up with the Solid Waste District in our county. We recycle all the electronics that are dropped off there. They have a special building that they allow people to put things in that are difficult to get rid of and they call us when the building is full.
Yesterday was pickup day so we popped in and started loading. The lady who runs it came out and asked us if we could take freon based appliances and we said sure. Well she had a freezer that had been brought in and she said we could take it.
Well this freezer was very special.
What happened was a couple went on vacation for a week and came back and found that their freezer had died. Inside was a lot of meat and it had all gone bad and was stinking something terrible. Well they called the Solid Waste District to see if they could drop off the freezer and the lady said sure. BUT, they did not bother to take the meat out.
They dropped it off full of rancid meat when the lady was gone. The smell was so horrible that she had to get a mask to get near it at all!
Well the people thought they were home free but they forgot one thing: All of the meat was custom cut and wrapped from the local locker and it had their customer number on all the packages. The lady called the locker and got the information for the customers and called them. She told them they would have to come clean it out. They refused, saying it was no longer their problem. Well they did not count on the fact that the husband of the lady who runs the district being a cop. He paid the people a visit and they found their way out there to pick up their rotten meat! I bet that was one hell of a ride home!
Thankfully the lady has left the freezer outside for the past couple weeks and most of the smell is gone but it was still unpleasant to load that thing!
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