On one of my flips, I went in and found a beautiful relatively new looking Samsung refrigerator. They left it full of food when they moved out ... 3 years earlier, and the power had been off that entire time. Opened the door for just a few seconds ... and it took a week for the stench to leave the house.
“...They left it full of food when they moved out ... 3 years earlier, and the power had been off that entire time”
I was in base housing on Guam and across the street was a single mom, Navy Petty officer who went on leave (AWOL) back stateside and never came back.
Public works showed up months later (after securing power to the unit) emptied the house and discovered a fridge full of rotted food (oops).
So the fridge gets hauled over to a playground lot next to the house opened up, this is in the housing area... and for about a week or so we got to watch the monitor lizards feasting on rotten meat, as there was quite a lot meat in the freezer compartment. It was macabre... and that refrigerator sat out in that playground for months, despite complaints to the command.
The whole affair was totally bizzare.
Any stench can be easily removed by running an ozone machine for a few days.