# Here ya go, Goodwill, a freezer full of rotten meat! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668 "2008-01-08T00:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/1 "2008-01-08T00:45:29Z")
Apparently, that’s what someone decided to donate to one of our local Goodwills. A chest freezer, unplugged of course, filled with meat. The husband of a friend works there and they have no idea what in the hell to do with it. No one wants to empty it. The guy who got there first opened it then started vomiting all over the place from either the sight or the smell of a chest freezer filled with rotten meat. And, of course, being sick in the head, the first thing I thought was “The meat of WHAT?” which I then was stupid enough to say to my friend which then nearly inspired a whole round of hyperventilation. Eek. People suck. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/2 "2008-01-08T00:49:15Z")
You sure it’s not person meat? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/3 "2008-01-08T00:51:04Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] You sure it’s not person meat? [/QUOTE] That’s what inspired the hyperventilation, the thought of a freezer full of rotting person. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/4 "2008-01-08T00:58:45Z")
Find someone who’s about to move out of an apartment that’s not concerned with getting the security deposit back, and swap this one for the fridge in their apartment, making it the landlord’s problem? Or do like everyone else seems to do - duct-tape it closed, then dump it somewhere in the dead of night, making it the city’s problem. OK, so both of those are illegal in one way or another, so don’t do either of them! Perhaps the local dump would accept it in exchange for whatever they usually charge for old refrigerators - probably $35 - 50? The catch is that whole “Don’t open this!” part. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/5 "2008-01-08T00:59:16Z")
OK, I’m going to assume it’s not human ham, because that would be, like, GAAAAAAAAH! Let’s assume it’s someone who was on Christmas vacation, freezer goes out on day one, they return home two weeks later. What a disgusting, cowardly thing to do! Retching guy says, “What am I going to do?!?? I know! I’ll take it to Goodwill. They have retards working there who, being subhuman, won’t retch like I just did when they have to clean it out, and the kind of crack whores, losers, and welfare mothers who shop at Goodwill will be happy to have a $5 chest freezer. So what if it reeks of rotting flesh?” That’s worth a letter to the editor of the local newspaper, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/6 "2008-01-08T01:13:26Z")
Donate it to the Salvation Army? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/7 "2008-01-08T01:16:56Z")
[QUOTE=ZebraShaSha] Donate it to the Salvation Army? [/QUOTE] Now I have an idea how Goodwill got it in the first place. Charity wars! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/8 "2008-01-08T01:17:52Z")
Isn’t something like that considered hazardous waste? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/9 "2008-01-08T01:26:56Z")
So, did they show up in the morning to find it in front of the door? Or did the perp shove it in one of the collection boxes? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/10 "2008-01-08T01:45:15Z")
I would call one of the local TV stations, sort of a community service type thing, see if they’ll do a story “Things Not to Donate to Goodwill.” Otherwise, I’d don some gas masks and gloves, dump the meat in the woods for the critters, and see if the freezer is salvageable. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/11 "2008-01-08T03:13:54Z")
Call up Mike Rowe and see if he will clean it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/12 "2008-01-08T04:07:32Z")
Ship the chest out to sea, and dump the content overboard so they drift down to the ocean’s floor. Attach a weight with a camera. Voila: nature documentary. Some animals can eat rotten meat. Contact zoos, maybe hyena’s still want it. Or a place that breeds eels. In general, rotten meat is a health hazard and has to be picked up by the same kind of companies that remove dead cattle from farms. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/13 "2008-01-08T04:12:24Z")
My renter left one of these in the laundry room. The freezer is painted in camo. Shorty after they decided they didn’t have to pay the rent, they decided not to pay the electric bill. I am cleaning up after them. All I have to do is plug it in, freeze the stuff and call Goodwill. Cool. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/14 "2008-01-08T04:26:25Z")
Knowing the Goodwill stores near me, the price for the freezer will be 90% of its original retail price, meat and all. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/15 "2008-01-08T04:32:43Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Knowing the Goodwill stores near me, the price for the freezer will be 90% of its original retail price, meat and all. [/QUOTE] Hmmm…Perhaps I should consider EBay. I could over charge on shipping like a SOB. Ice is heavy. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/16 "2008-01-08T04:47:50Z")
There is evil at my local Goodwill. It’s a freezer. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/17 "2008-01-08T05:39:17Z")
There is no salvation for a freezer full of rotten meat. The liquid blood… and stuff… soaks into the cracks and into the insulation and can’t be cleaned. That’s one for the landfill. I can’t believe people are that inconsiderate. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/18 "2008-01-08T05:52:39Z")
Is the meat in any kind of package, or is it just kinda sloshing around in the freezer? My thought is that if you just plug it back in and let it run for a day or three, the contents might be a little easier to deal with. Or course, if the meat isn’t in some sort of package, it’ll just freeze to the bottom and then it won’t come out at all. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/19 "2008-01-08T05:57:27Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] Perhaps the local dump would accept it in exchange for whatever they usually charge for old refrigerators - probably $35 - 50? The catch is that whole “Don’t open this!” part. [/QUOTE] IIRC, the local dump won’t take it unless you have already blocked the door open and/or removed any and all locking mechanism. It goes back to the days when a dead frig/freezer sitting in the garage ends up being the last home to kid playing hide and seek, but is found too late. Laws were passed making it a crime to store dead frigs and freezers unless the doors are blocked open and/or the locking mechanism removed. Not so much a problem these days with frigs with simple magnetic catches, but the law is probably still on the books. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668/20 "2008-01-08T07:53:01Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Knowing the Goodwill stores near me, the price for the freezer will be 90% of its original retail price, meat and all. [/QUOTE] No kidding. A couple of weeks ago I bought a little plastic “Merry Christmas” sign from Goodwill for $2, and then found them for sale in the dollar store next door. While that’s sort of an extreme example, I often find things in there (mostly particle board furniture) priced at more than what it costs new. I don’t know who does their pricing but they’re either really dumb or really smart. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-ya-go-goodwill-a-freezer-full-of-rotten-meat/432668.md?page=2)