That Smell.

A few days ago I was out in the garage digging thru the chest freezer.  Everything sifts to the bottom so sometimes you have to pull a few things out to find what you need.  Dug out some steaks from under crab bait, old frozen squid, etc...

Fast forward two days later I step into the garage and POW!  It hit me. 

Sure enough, of all things I left the old leaky bag of squid sitting out to defrost and fester in the hot garage.  I still got off pretty easy tho, because if it had gone another day or so it would have leaked everywhere and the stench would have been unimaginable.

keep it...crab opener is just around the corner!

Someone was kind enough to store my bag of squid inside my hull while at the PIF paddle.    They let Sara know, but of course she didn't remember until about.... one week later.    Filled the hull with water and dumped a half cup of bleach in there and let it sit for the day before drainage...smell seems to be mostly gone now...

I used to have pet Boa Constrictors. I kept a chest freezer in the garage to store the rats and rabbits in. I never went in the garage except to get my snakes food every 3 weeks or so. Imagine my surprise when I found the breaker blew and I was left with a chest (packed full) of decaying animals that had to have been that way for a few weeks.

I have a strong stomach and I just about hurled trying to clean it. Every chemical I could get my hands on would not make that stench go away. It was so bad I could not even give it away, it ended up going to the scrap yard, it was only a year old freezer.

Yuck!

My own "gross smell" story is only about a month old.

Caught my seabass on a Saturday, but garbage pick up @ my place is on Fridays. Normally not a problem....except we left for a weeks' camping the next day and didn't get back until the following Sunday. 13 days of ripening carcass=no bueno. I think I was losing WAF points at an increasing rate for each day until I could get it picked up.

cleaning the can was tough, but since I did it voluntarily I regained all of the lost WAF. It was worth it.

Been there, done that.  Had a chest freezer in the garage plugged into a 50' extension cord.  A nice balmy 110-degree weekend in Redding tripped the breaker while we were on a weekend campout.  Returned home and you could smell that thing before we even opened the garage door.  One of the finer contents was a limit of planter rainbows, still on the stringer with a large chunk of algae.  I was so drunk after that trip I didn't dare play with a knife, so I just dropped the whole damn thing in the freezer...bad idea.

Luckily we lived on a bit of property then, so I was able to wheel the thing out to the back 40, gave it a good cleaning, bleaching, and a hot summer to bake out the rest of the nasties, and 5 years later I'm still using it with no ill-effects!

 

  My stink story. 

  Involves a deer head.  My first buck taken with arrow.  I brought the head home with the hopes of mounting the rack to a plaque.  I have the head wrapped in plastic bag and into the freezer in the garage it goes until I can find a place to or learn to cure the scalp.  Many months pass, I've forgoten about the skull in the freezer.  Returning from a camping trip, I open garage door to start unloading gear and WHAM! I get hit in the face with rancid dead animal smell!  WTF WTH? 
   There on my new (then) Craftsman roll around tool box is sitting this oozing plastic bag!  It's dripping zombie brain goo all over and into my brand new tool box! 
One of my roommates at the time was looking for something in the freezer while I was away camping, removed the plastic bag not knowing what was inside, and forgot to return it to the freezer! 
    I threw my gear into the garage, tossed the bag containing the now thoroughly thawed, and rotting festering smelly zombie goo filled ruined deer skull in my jeep and drove off to the hills to dump it!
  Took a while to finally clean out the drawers of my tool box, but eventually over time the stench dissapated.
  Still have the tool box today.   
 

Great thread. I found a sack of squid in the Hobie from Albion this year 2 weeks later. That squid went across the hot Nevada desert in summer in the sealed hull, then 2 weeks in a hot garage. There are no words.............On the upside, you'll know where my campsite is at the tourny next year. 

Great thread. I found a sack of squid in the Hobie from Albion this year 2 weeks later. That squid went across the hot Nevada desert in summer in the sealed hull, then 2 weeks in a hot garage. There are no words.............On the upside, you'll know where my campsite is at the tourny next year. 

Oh Great.

That aint nothin! Sleep in the same tent as Cody, after eating every camp in Albion, empty! It burns my eye!

It burns my eye!

 

next time you have a mishap  try  scope,  mint.   soak a rag  and leave in  room  it will kill any smell.

I have a lot of experience with rotting flesh. I should own Vick's corp by now! Will try the scope thing! I have heard Listerine is used to lift the bacteria (what causes thre smell) on porous surfaces

listerine works  really good also

I remember not being able to taste my lunch for two days after a mishap at Pt. Dume in Malibu.
My buddy and I had been fishing Decker Canyon with live sardines over a warm weekend and
a few got into the hatch of the old cobra fish-n-pig.  One long, super hot week later after leaving
the yak in the yard with (record heat!!!), I opened the hatch and it was like opening a hot coors light.
It nearly made a sound as the greenish mist seared from within.  My adams apple threw forward once,
twice, and thank goodness the Zuma showers were right there.  There still are little fossil impressions
inside the yak.