Who has left fish, game, etc and forgot them

well the other day I had a bass that i didnt see in the livewell, got all the rest out and drained it. he had swallowed the hook and bled out so he wasnt flopping around.

luckily i went to spray out the livewell with the hose and saw him, but that would have been bad if he would have stayed in there for a week or two decaying, cant imagine how that would have smelled

My buddy had an ice chest with some reds, flounder, and dead shrimp that went bad and he put it in my truck bed. Unknowingly, I opened it in the parking lot after my brother's graduation, the entire lot cleared out and people were gagging. Drove straight to river road, dropped the tailgate and floored it

Left a whole catfish in an ice chest in the back of my coworker's truck for about 2 weeks.

Found a quail in one of my jackets in first grade, proceeded to throw it across the classroom. My dad still laughs about that one. Another time, me and brother stuffed our pockets with crawfish claws because we wanted to make knives, mom found them a few days later

There was the time as a kid when we went to Destin. I had been fishing and put shrimp and baloney in the tackle box. Dad finally located the smell after about 4 days...

Dead skrimpses after a trip to GI. Cleaned all the fish and fell asleep forgetting about the skrimp. Found them about a week later in the back yard because of the swarm of flies. By far the worst smell I have ever come across.

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Dead skrimpses

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Is there anything worse...

Got a drunk and dumped some of my crab traps in the live with intentions of going bullred fishing. Got into some trout and forgkt about bullred fishing. Long story short they stayed there for 2 weeks during the summer. Black water with maggots worst experience ever. I threw up the whole time.

Had a breaker flip in my shop a few years ago in the summer. I had a stand up freezer with some sealed items (peas, corn, etc.). Unfortunately, I had a banded mallard and also had a pintail in hose ready to take to taxidermist.

The smell was so bad I initially smelled it from outside the building while the freezer was closed.

I am pretty cheap and have a strong stomach, so I decided to try to clean it out to salvage it. Bad mistake. I soaked a buff mask in something (don't recall) to try to mask the smell. Put on rubber gloves, grabbed some bleach and baking soda and went forth.

My first three or four attempts at salvage resulted in me throwing up in my backyard...which my wife found to be hilarious.

I decided it would be much easier to just go to Lowe's a purchase a new freezer.

In high school, some "friends" put milk cartons in all of the spare instrument cases and tuna fish in the ceiling of the band room because they despised the teacher, they almost had to demo the wall because they thought an animal died in the wall. I'll never forget the principal coming in and talking to the class, "We are sorry that you have to practice in the auditorium, but we are in the process of having the wall torn down." Teacher: "Do they think a squirrel or rat is the cause?" Principal: "No... This is much more serious... Much larger... We're thinking raccoons." Teacher: "Oh my."
Had to be there, but I damn near lost it.