Posted on 06/28/2018 12:48:22 PM PDT by Gamecock
I want to point out the very detailed and crisp reporting in this article. All the basic questions of journalism (why, how, when, what, etc.) are answered clearly. There is assignable cause, and a satisfactory closure. All US based news sites should learn from this DW article on how to conduct basic reporting.
If one woman’s ointment can contaminate a whole water system, just think what all the drugs flowing into our water systems are doing.
Even if you don’t take drugs yourself, you’re getting it in the water.
American press:
WHO? TRUMP
WHAT? TRUMP
WHERE? TRUMP
WHEN? TRUMP
HOW? TRUMP
WHY? TRUMP.........................
Yeah. India. Definitely scratched off my bucket list.
Apparently not one of the more healthy medical tourism destinations.
What does a pig put on his skin to feel better?
Oinkment.
What else did she import into country?
But I don’t understand how the presence of tealights and a Buddha shrine could tip off the police to someone using mercury
“...but it also warned people to be careful about the products they buy overseas.”
Speaking of overseas products. A few years ago, yellow jackets had set up a huge nest in a drop cloth I had neglected to put away. The bug spray I used hardly touched them, so I picked up a different brand at the local HW store.
It was from Taiwan and had a crude drawing of a hornet on its back with an X over each eye. I think the name of the product was “HOT!” Anyway , I sprayed once into a group that was flying around, and BAM! Knocked them right out of the air. Killed the whole nest with just a few more sprays.
The ingredients weren’t listed, at least in English. It was all Chinese lettering except for the “HOT!”
Many years later, I feel fine.
About 35 years ago I got some hornet spray that killed any wasps or hornets immediately on contact. I wouldn’t be afraid to go to a hornets nest with that stuff because it was amazing. They just froze in place. You can’t find it now though.
The article says that the workers were tipped off by these items once they traced back the mercury to her apartment (I assume the apartment building).
As to how these could tip off the workers, I think they used what is known as "The Exception Principle" which is an analytical or deductive tool used by investigators to find clues to an incident. The idea is to zero in first on something that deviates from the norm (or expectations), and obviously the tea-lights and Buddha shrine are unusual and exceptional in Austria.
The article never really explained that. I thought they were using a little more scientific method ie tracing the mercury through the sewer pipes.
What really amazed me is the quantity of "healing" cream and powder she brought back. How could any person need that much product for any treatment and how is it that she could bring 10 kilos of these mystery substances through customs?
But those items, per the article were inside the apartment
The test the sewer lines. When the line comes up clean, they know they passed it and can narrow it down. Same thing here for chemical dumping.
Yes, I understood that.
Sounds like fake news. It’s only on one website and sewers don’t lead to the water supply.
Otherwise every isis-wannabe yokel would be poisoning entire cities by flushing poison
What amazes me is how many people go to third-world countries and actually buy, use, or even believe some concocted remedy from there will heal all their ills. It's a third-world country for goodness sake, and India to boot. They don't even have proper sanitation yet she thought a bunch of cream and powder from there would give her a cure?
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