What's grosser than GROSS?

**WARNING!!!!**
The following story is true and gross. So gross it might make you wretch a tiny bit. But it must be told.
Two nights ago we were lazying about after the kid had gone to bed and we started to smell a really nasty smell. It was akin to a time when there was a dead mouse under our sink in Burley. So, we started searching for the problem. It was an elusive smell and we couldn't quite pin point where it was coming from. Since it was late, we decided to see if we could try again in the morning and went to bed.
The next morning, no smell. It was nice to think that the gross dead animal smell had taken care of itself. That whole day and into the evening, there was no smell.
Since it was a Friday night, we did our favorite weekend activity: watched a rented movie. Towards the end of the movie we started to smell that nasty smell again. But this time it was WAY stronger! We had to periodically stop the movie to spray some febreeze. Finally we had had enough. As we commenced taking apart the kitchen (the apparent source) to find the problem, we narrowed down the smell to somewhere behind the inset microwave. Problem: it is bolted in the wall/cupboards.
I finally convinced Jared we couldn't really do anything else that night and we opened a ton of windows and closed the bedrooms doors and prayed the smell would disappear again.
Well it didn't. When we opened our bedroom door this morning, we were blown away by the grossest, nastiest, deadest smell ever. **insert wretching sounds here** Instead of staying around to find the problem, we got dressed and went outside to call our apartment management. They said it was possible an animal had gotten into the microwave/stovetop vent and had died there. Gross. We decided to go out to breakfast to escape the smell and wait for the management to fix the problem. Since they were taking their time, we got back from breakfast and decided to do some investigating outside.
As Jared rounded the corner of the apartment, he immediately saw the problem. Down by the ground where the vent from the microwave is there was a huge, dead, maggot-infested FISH. Yes, a fish!! It was about 18" long and just huge. And completely rotting away six inches away from the vent leading to our kitchen! Um, yeah. That was the problem. I pretty much checked out of the activities at this point because I knew there was no way I could even look at the grosser than gross sight, let alone catch a slight whiff of it.
Jared was totally brave and grabbed two big plastic bags and picked up the putrid mess and chucked it into the dumpster. He said there was such a huge pile of maggots crawling all over the fish that he could barely take it. He dry heaved several times after dumping the hated item. Bless his soul.
There are only a few explanations for this absolutely hideous mess outside our place. #1: We have some unknown enemy that is totally and absolutely evil.
#2: There is a stupid cat in our area that needs to be exterminated.
#3: A bird of prey lost it's catch in mid-flight (our manager's idea, I don't really think so)
#4: Who in the heck knows.

So, the dead fish is gone and the smell with it. Thank goodness. What a way to start a weekend.