Your honour,
On the morning of the 8th of May 2007, the defendant arose at 7am, being awakened by his accomplice. The defendant stirred groggily from his slumber, and proceeded to matters of personal grooming, before taking the accomplice to school. An uneventful drive beginning at 7:10am resulted in the accomplice being dropped off at his school at around 7:30am. The defendant then proceeded home.
Upon arrival at home, the defendant unlocked the door, and was greeted with a rather rich odour (in the bad sense of the word - chocolate has a rich odour, but this smell was rather less pleasant).
The defendant proceeded to look for the source of the odour. An inspection of the oven revealed a slowly fermenting bowl of steam vegetables, with its own pungent odour. The offending food was disposed off, and yet the odour remained.
Being rather hungry, the defendant proceeded to make his breakfast. Upon opening the freezer, he was struck by its lack of cold. Upon extricating the bottom rack to retrieve the roti prata, the defendant noticed, to his shock that there was a puddle of rather bloody water on the bottom of the freezer. Meanwhile, the odour noticed initially became rather stronger to the defendant.
However, as there was a lit fire on the stove, and a pan heating up, the defendant proceeded to cook breakfast (while at the same time making ineffectual effects to mop up the puddle of liquid). Being of the male gender, the defendant failed at both tasks (multi-tasking being not a skill those possessing the XY chromosome have). The cleanup (with a rag) failed miserably, as more liquid kept dripping from higher racks in the freezer. More significantly to the defendant, the roti was burnt.
Eventually, the defendant conceded defeat in trying to do both tasks at once, and proceeded to eat breakfast. Breakfast would have been otherwise enjoyable, except for the fact that the defendant possessed a personality which hated the feeling of unfinished tasks.
Upon completing other tasks, which involved doing the laundry, and the sweeping and mopping of the floor; the defendant proceeded to clear out the freezer. Not wanting to throw out food that could have been saved, the defendant decided to use the highly scientific smell test ("if it smells bad, chuck it"). However, a quick sniff of some odoriferous poultry, provoked the defendant to a fit of retching. The defendant then consulted an advisor, who proposed a disposal of all the meat. The defendant, unwilling to apply the smell test, agreed. Approximately 10kg of meat, all smelling rather poorly was disposed off, and the remainder (some frozen-now defrosted greens) was transferred to another smaller freezer. The freezer was left to defrost properly (as some of the aforesaid bloody liquid was frozen solid after the defendant had in vain tried to turn the freezer back on to avert disaster)
The defendant would like to say that he is not responsible for this. While the defendant was the person in authority over the house in general, the defendant did not at any point touch the power point (it should be noted that there are two power points in the plug where the freezer was attached to, and 3 appliances: the freezer, toaster and rice cooker - anyone wishing to eat toast would presumably unplug the rice cooker, not the freezer). The defendant did not eat toast at all that weekend, and thus could not have unplugged the freezer.
Thus, responsibility for the incident must be attributed to the other bread-consuming inhabitants (whether temporary or permanent) of the house over the weekend. Having said that, as the defendant has cleared up the mess... there is nothing left to do, except to perhaps get the accomplice to handle the laundry as punishment =P.