It might have been a necessary distraction. It might have been a prank. Either way, the handiwork of a burglar or burglars left two people in a Reno, Nevada, apartment gagging, coughing, and so ill they had to be taken to the hospital for treatment. The culprit used in the attack was, get this, a squid left cooking in the microwave.
After breaking in, burglars not only took stuff, they also added insult to injury by tossing a squid into the microwave in a communal kitchen area to cook. (Maybe they broke in to cook dinner, but didn’t get to finish before people came home.) It isn’t said if the squid was alive or dead when they started to cook it, but apparently the end result of microwaving a squid is fumes so noxiously bad that it drives an otherwise healthy pair of people to the hospital.
What they treated them for is beyond my guessing abilities, but I’m not sure there’s much you can do for squid funk other than open the windows and wait it out.
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