Some completely intellectually disabled person decided to put a package of food, double-wrapped in plastic, into an empty stainless steel stock pot. Same fucking idiot decided to put the stock pot on top of an un-insulated toaster oven for storage -- this person bought the toaster and has used it for years. Lo and behold, the plastic melted into the pot.
Everyone assumed the pot was empty, or at least not filled with plastic, and used the toaster oven a bunch of times. Yay, that means everyone's been sniffing toxic fumes from melting/burning plastic over the past week or more. All because some fuck-wit couldn't put a small package of food in one of 20 unheated cabinets or shelves, or any other of the thousands of places possible.