After 8 years they just started smelling it?

An ex bf left a chicken in the oven (turned off) to defrost and forgot about it. It was only 3 days before the smell was permeating the entire apartment. When I opened the oven door I couldn't believe how bad it smelled. Gag reflex in FULL OPERATIONAL MODE.

I don't get how these people tolerated this.

That reminds me of a 'screw the landlord' revenge device I have used in the past.

The Chicken Milk Egg Bomb

You will need

1 chicken breast

2 eggs

Some milk

1 jar

Some cling wrap

Here's what you do. Put a raw chicken breast in the jar, crack open two eggs into the jar, top it off with milk. Seal concoction with cling-wrap.

Hide this jar somewhere that they will not find it when they do their 'move-out cleaning'; if there is a way to hide it in a heating vent then this is the perfect way to go.

As time goes by, the chicken, milk, and eggs will start to rot and leave off gasses; these gasses will be sealed within the jar thanks to the cling-wrap. Several weeks later there should be enough gas within the jar to create a hole in the cling-wrap seal. When that seal breaks the most god-awful of smells will be released, and if you've hidden it well it will be a while before they discover the source.

(I'll be adding this to the plime recipe book)

I once heard of people putting dog feces on a hubcap and sticking it in the oven on low and then leaving.

The article says the neighbors had been complaining about the smell for years.

Which makes a whole lot of sense.

Because, you know...

Dead guy in the apartment and all.

The British, so proper and all. It says the corpse was rotting on the couch while another resident lived there. Is this a case of Norman Bates and Mamma or just, well? Let's think of a few...

that doesn't screw the landlord so often as it just screws the poor schmuck who gets sent in to clean it up...like the caretaker for instance. i was the caretaker at our old building for about 10 years and generally tried to stay out of peoples business unless it was spilling over into the common areas or other peoples apartments (loud noise, fights, messes). i tried to be polite to everyone and turned a blind eye to a lot of s**t. yet i was the recipient of more than one of those types of 'surprises'. usually the people were getting kicked out because they didn't pay their rent and i had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
a big favorite around these parts is to simply unplug the fridge while it's full of food and then leave. i had one tenant who was without electricity for about a month and a half before they were evicted and they never emptied their fridge, they just tied the door shut and left it that way. i got to clean it up. so unless you know for certain that the landlord handles the cleaning themselves they probably won't get the revenge you planned for them. some grossly underpaid schmuck will.....

I wonder what they did with the couch. I need a new one.

I made a couple of minor alterations there, as London and Bristol are separated by about 120 miles.

The "London" at the start of the article refers to the Reuters office that put the story on the wire, not the location of the events therein.