Fridge Bombers
One particularly offensive thing that has been going on here since Katrina is the use of discarded refrigerators as WMD’s That’s short for Weapons of Mass Distinktion. Most people, after returning to their previously flooded homes have not bothered to empty the horribly rotten and extremely smelly food from the fridge, stuff that was sealed inside of a hot, closed box for weeks on end. You can’t imagine the stench, trust me on that. They just wrap some duct tape around the damn things and roll them out to the curb to be picked up by special crews that come around every 2 or 3 weeks. They are then taken to a special dump where the EPA is recycling the Freon refrigerant out of them for reuse, Freon is listed as a pollutant that can damage the ozone layer. It’s become an overwhelming task, the number of fridges expected to be dumped number in the 100’s of thousands!
Apparently, quite a few people don’t want their stink bomb sitting out in front of their own home so they’ve taken to sneaking out at night and dumping them in front of other people’s homes, and businesses, especially if there is already a fridge out front. If you put your fridge out front you may end up with 2 or 3 or more, like it’s an open invitation to dump! And not just there either, they’ve also been showing up dumped at dead end streets and worst of all the local parks!
I was reading about one incident where a dumper was spotted late at night rolling his fridge down the sidewalk and left it in front of another family’s home and the person that spotted him ratted him out to the home owner. They got together and brought the man’s fridge back the following night and then the whole thing snowballed with more neighbors getting in on dumping their fridge at the original offenders house. Eventually the police was called to stop the fridge wars escalation, I don’t think anyone was charged but it was a lot of fun to read about!
Some people have nerve don’t they? What would you do if you saw someone drive off after dumping a fridge in front of your house? hehe
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Ew! Super nast! Let’s put them on bombers and drop em on Iraq.
That’s nasty!!!
That is about as gross a thing as I’ve heard in a LONG time! I HATE it when someone drops a stinky fridge in front of my apartment! Mine smells bad enough as it is! lol
Sorry- no time to read this post except dumping a fridge- I’d like to squash it over the rude peeps! Love the new title! It ROCKS! (I used to describe my own age in “dog years” just to throw people off for the laughter.
I would follow them to their home and leave them a nice surprise.
Funny, the things people will do. I know how bad my garbage stinks on trash pick-up day especially after I have cleaned out the fridge. Soem people are just plain nasty and rude.
But….if you look at it for the entertainment value, it sure was a funny story.
ugh… still I’m fairly certain my daughter’s trainers could outstink any fridge
It sounds disgusting. If I already had a stinky fridge of my own out there waiting, I guess I wouldn’t really care if they started to pile up. I think it might give me a better shot of having them picked up quicker.
Have a great weekend!
Lois Lane
I’m not quite sure what I would do but would probably bide my time and get even in a MAJOR way!
That’s stinkin’ hilarious!! Just glad its not me.
If someone dumped a fridge in front of my house, I would go to the store and buy some chicken and some shrimp and some eggs and hide them somewhere right by either the guys front door or in his backyard (like old Easter eggs) where he’s never find them but constantly smell them. Then I would refresh the funk as necessary for the rest of that guy’s life. Bwahahahaha!
I would hope to hell they had a swimming pool or hot tub and then opened the damned fridge and empty it and it’s contents into the a’holes water recreation environment. Let ‘em clean that freaking mess up. Morons!
hunt him down and make him eat the contents
It’s astounding to think that people are being so despicable as to make their mess other people’s problems; can you image what foreigners think of Americans when they read this sort of thing?
Once again, the truth is stranger (and funnier) than fiction. I could have thought of a lot of “war” scenes in NO but “reefer wars” would not have been one of them! Could become the next Lucas film - Episode III - The Revenge of the Stench!
That’s actually pretty funny about the folks having refrigerator wars. Yukkkyyyy.
bleeve it er dont; that’s EXACTLY the job i was just about ta sign up for, before i got squahed!
‘fridge haulers- despretely needed in NO area- great pay, STINKIN job!’
see ya round the curbs hun, when i feel just a wee bit better.
I’d have to call my brother and say, “Do you know if the river is full of these things yet, or can it take one more?”
I’d get enough people together to hurl it through his front window. How do you explain to the cops how your own fridge wound up back inside your house?
But then again, I would suck it up and clean out my fridge before they took it away. I’d be practically barfing but that would be better than making someone else clean up my mess.
ick! nasty - and definitely something you wouldn’t think about if you haven’t experienced what you guys have with katrina…
Our mutual friend Laurie helped me find your blog. I like it–t’s a lot of fun! As Yoda would say, “Begun the refrigerator war has.” I wrote on my blog about my experience cleaning one. We live in crazy times!!!
:o( THAT IS TRULY NASTY AND FREAKIN RUDE DUDE.I WOULD SURELY HAFTA GET EM BACK!! GLAD UR OK.
YO
Fridge wars, omigod.
I like hearing your stories - the stuff I won’t read in the mainstream media, for sure.
I just hope that the EPA is really cleaning up all that freon. For some reason, I don’t trust them. (gee, wonder why…)
That’s a funny story to read about! But I’m certainly glad to have never experienced it.
Came here by way of Jules, great place ya got here…..