Tweet - Hazardous materials released at Institute for Genomic Biology. Escape area if safe to do so

Twitter ^ | 8:16 PM - 28 May 12 | Illini-Alert

[DogByte6RER]

Hazardous materials released at Institute for Genomic Biology. Escape area if safe to do so. Otherwise seek shelter.

[DogByte6RER]

Aw, d@mn, here we go again. I'm going after this one first ..

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Isn't that in Raccoon City and ran by the Umbrella Corporation?

[doc1019]

The movie “The Stand” comes to mind. ;-)

[Lazamataz]

This incident will be reported to a system that I am responsible for.

[Mr. Peabody]

It begins!

[HangnJudge]

Andromeda Strain?

[12chachacha]

Just released a few my own bad self

[Errant]

Maybe not...

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/courts-police-and-fire/2012-05-29/shelf-collapse-prompts-hazmat-call-institute-genomic-biology.

[BwanaNdege]

If these chemicals were sitting in Gallon bottles on a shelf in a storage closet, I seriously doubt that we have an “Andromeda Strain” scenario...

[HangnJudge]

It begins!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I remember a cooling line blowing n a unit we used to manufacture where i worked it was little more than a bit of glycol the company decided they needed to call in a haz-mat team to clean up it cost a fortune and a hefty fine too 2 guys got doused with it and didn't hurt them a bit ...

Then there was the thermometers placed in a box for storage and subsequently had another box set on top of them they broke once again haz-mat was called another hefty fine when the box could have been wrapped in a haz blanket and disposed of properly they put themselves out of buisiness just by existing the company was perpetually in panic mode every time some sneezed too loud

It was comical at times to watch the overlords sweat it out over everyday things that happened in an air conditioning shop !

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Soilent Green is People

[Errant]

Some of the comments at the link are pretty funny. lol

[txhurl]

You drive the RV here to the Hill Country full of local freeps when the shtf rubber meets the road :(

[Errant]

We had some phenol dry out once and had to call EOD to remove and detonate it.

Oh, and a drainage pipe broke and was discovered after about 50 liters of out of date, disposed of human blood flooded the area.

And someone filled the autoclave with petri dishes to be destroyed and I accidentally opened it, thinking it was my stuff inside, cooling down. I was sick for two weeks after inhaling the vapors.

[posterchild]

Other than a vague sense of Illinoiity does this tweet have a geography?

[tacticalogic]

Unidentified sources report that they were experimenting recombinant DNA, using samples taken from Michael Moore, Julianne Malveaux, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, a newly discovered virus they got from Courtney Love.

[Nik Naym]

Are the rest of allowed to have a clue where this is?

Or is this whole thread just some inside joke I should stay out of?

[Smokin' Joe]

Unidentified sources report that they were experimenting recombinant DNA, using samples taken from Michael Moore, Julianne Malveaux, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, a newly discovered virus they got from Courtney Love.

What could possibly go worng?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is from the good version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajIliPFHk4&t=6m32s

[FreedomPoster]

This does not surprise me.

[FreedomPoster]

Looking around, it appears to be at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

University of Illinois.

[tacticalogic]

What could possibly go worng?

Unconfirmed field reports are it isn't that bad. It's fast-moving, but relatively easy to track. It smells bad and never shuts up.

[Lurker]

Somehow that doesn’t make me feel any better, dude.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Although it doesn't smell as bad as Soylent Brown.

[kingu]

Since the tweet was a day ago, I'd have to assume either a major part of the United States is a hazmat area, or it was just a minor spill and some idjiot decided that it'd be really cool if there was an automated warning to send out to people in the event of a disaster, not realizing it would go off for any normal lab accident.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Once upon a time, back before people were quite so paranoid my company had a group of us cleaning out the junk room which had flooded.

This room had been used to store stuff since the 1940's and there were all kinds of things in there, some of them kind of cool. But one thing I will always remember is the crumbling cardboard box that someone was getting ready to throw on the burn pile before noticing the faded printing on it. That crumbling box held about five pounds of cyanide powder.

It was put down carefully and we called the plant manager who came and took charge of it. He double bagged it, told us to go shower and change our jumpsuits and that was that.

I wonder how many reams of paperwork would need to be filled out now days.

[DogByte6RER]

[Lazamataz]

It should. I am the very best at what I do.

[Lurker]

We are so freeping screwed.....

[SatinDoll]

I used to work at the Trojan Nuclear Plant in Oregon. We never had any incident such as you relate, but there was a rather odd incident in Portland, fifty miles away, and Trojan got roped into it.

Someone found an abandonned van loaded up with radio isotopes. Of course those police in Portland were certain we folks as Trojan had something to do with this! Who else but a nuclear power plant would let those radioactive materials get loose on an unsuspecting public!

We had no idea where the isotopes could have come from, though someone did suggest contacting the Oregon Health Sciences University, up on Pill Hill.

Yeah, they were missing a van. The driver was later found at home, sleeping off a drunk.

[norwaypinesavage]

"You drive the RV here to the Hill Country full of local freeps."

This should be written so that it is understandable only to those of us with the Freep Decoder Script. Are you sure we need a bunch of Yankee tourists here with million dollar RVs and no food or gasoline for their generators?

[JRios1968]

I called dibs on the BFG-9000.

[SaraJohnson]

Cool! We may have crossed paths in our work, Laz. That is all I am sayin’. :)