Interesting how varied the replies are. I'm certainly no expert, becks, but maybe I can offer some help anyway. The reason is, I had almost the exact same thing happen about a month ago. Our freezer is in our basement, and we've only got one electrical outlet, which shares time with our washing machine. When we wash clothes, we unplug the freezer, then re-plug it in later (been that way since I bought the house, one of these days I'll put another outlet in). You can guess what happened; we forgot to plug the freezer back in and only noticed it when blood was leaking out of the bottom of the freezer toward the drain in the middle of the floor.

Problem is, I had like four deer in there, and there was no way I was gonna throw that much venison out. We plugged it back up, and have eaten several tenderoins and cooked about three or four pounds of hamburger (deerburger?) meat since then... all so far with no effects.

I would agree with the philosophy of throwing it out, too... except I had just too darn much invested to throw that much out. Thank God it's turned out OK so far.

Discipline -- not desire -- determines destiny.