So much for office kitchen rules...

An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to hospital and made many others ill. Firefighters evacuated the AT&T building in San Jose after the fumes led someone to call emergency services. A hazardous materials team was called in.

I cleaned out the biochem department fridge once, in anticipation of an upcoming annual event.  There was a bowl of what I suppose might have been diced cheeses, but it had evolved into something that would look entirely at home hanging from a rear-view mirror.