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Mercury Spill Causes Scare at Farrington
KGMB TV news ^ | 03-09-2005 | KGMB reporter

Posted on 03/09/2005 8:39:22 PM PST by Txshep

A mercury spill at Farrington High School sent students and a teacher to the health office.

It happened when a ninth-grader cracked a 12-inch thermometer during a science experiment.

Hazmat crews say about a teaspoon of mercury spilled onto the floor.

A handful of students were exposed before the teacher cleaned up the mess.

No one complained of itching skin or headaches -- effects of extended exposure to mercury.

But the teacher and eight students were taken to the health office as a precaution.

The classroom remained off-limits until an environmental firm did a thorough clean-up.

Farrington uses mercury thermometers in physics and science classes.


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KEYWORDS: abysmalignorance; foolishness; hawaii; hazmat; madnessofcrowds; mercury; overkill; stupidity; theendisnigh; thermometer
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To: Rebelbase
You mean to tell me everyone I knew growing up who used to do the mercury/penny look like a dime trick is going to die one day?

Every last one of them.

61 posted on 03/10/2005 3:50:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Junior
Or have respiratory damage, or mild dementia.

Well, that explains me.

62 posted on 03/10/2005 3:51:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Junior

Not in the old days. They all contained mercury.


63 posted on 03/10/2005 10:06:03 AM PST by tertiary01 (Believe your eyes and heart before some tests that can be falsified.)
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To: Junior

I had a four month old kitten swallow about a tablespoon of elemental mercury and live for another 18 years. She chased the stuff around on the floor licking it up until all the siler drops were gone. Later she had six kittens who all live 15 years plus.


64 posted on 03/10/2005 10:17:33 AM PST by B4Ranch (The Minutemen will be doing a 30 day Neighborhood Watch Program in Cochise County, Arizona.)
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To: Txshep
Mercury, the new asbestos.

I must admit my favorite mercury compund is mercury fulminate. That's a nice loud checmical.

65 posted on 03/10/2005 10:25:22 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: Junior

Besides being exposed to broken Mercury thermometers for over 20 years of 30 years as a nurse, I have gold mined and been exposed to Mercury for years, as it is plentiful in the streams of the Sierra Nevada. As previously mentioned by some posters, it will vaporize slowly at room temp so I keep the containers closed, and only open them outside.

I also live in the Napa valley which is surrounded by old leaking Cinnabar mines which provided the ore that was roasted to produce Mercury. It's in the water table, the stream water and the soils. It's probably in the wines you or your friends drink.

Unless you consider replying to this thread a form of dementia I think I am functioning fine, have all my teeth, and have no neurological or health problems.


66 posted on 03/10/2005 10:26:10 AM PST by tertiary01 (Believe your eyes and heart before some tests that can be falsified.)
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To: Junior

>>In the 1990s, mercury thermometers were found too risky to handle and have largely been replaced with electronic thermometers,
http://www.answers.com/topic/thermometer <<

In the 90's a group decided that fish were being over harvested and this was the result.


67 posted on 03/10/2005 10:26:33 AM PST by B4Ranch (The Minutemen will be doing a 30 day Neighborhood Watch Program in Cochise County, Arizona.)
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To: Cornpone

In high school, only last decade, our chem teacher had a canning jar full of mercury - probably 24 oz. worth. He put blocks of metal in it and passed it around the classroom. The metal floated in the mercury, demonstrating principles of density.


68 posted on 03/10/2005 10:29:40 AM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: Txshep
This is nuts. We used to roll mercury around in our hand when I was little.

I'm still little!

69 posted on 03/10/2005 10:32:31 AM PST by FixitGuy
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To: Txshep
An old issue of National Geographic had a picture of a guy sitting on top of a pool of mercury.
70 posted on 03/10/2005 10:37:37 AM PST by fso301
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To: July 4th

I've sunk my hands into Mercury more times than I can remember when I was in school.

Crazy.....but still alive.


71 posted on 03/10/2005 10:47:42 AM PST by B4Ranch (The Minutemen will be doing a 30 day Neighborhood Watch Program in Cochise County, Arizona.)
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To: skip_intro
Yeah, I heard that story too. The kid was hit by a car, if I'm not mistaken.

That's like the story of when I was circumcised. I couldn't walk for about a year! LOL!

72 posted on 03/10/2005 10:52:39 AM PST by Freakazoid (God is sovereign)
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To: DixieOklahoma

"One time my teacher told me a story about a kid that cracked open a container with mercury in it and played with it in his hands and rolled it around. By the end of the night he was dead."

One time your teacher fed you a line of BS. Mercury is dangerous but it takes more than that. Or ...perhaps I am dead!


73 posted on 03/10/2005 11:21:59 AM PST by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: Txshep

What does this story have to do with ants?


74 posted on 03/10/2005 11:28:14 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The article is about uncles.......uncles Sam and the foolishness we all pay for.


75 posted on 03/10/2005 2:04:15 PM PST by B4Ranch (The Minutemen will be doing a 30 day Neighborhood Watch Program in Cochise County, Arizona.)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Back when I was a boy..... oh never mind!


76 posted on 03/10/2005 3:53:12 PM PST by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
RE: What does this story have to do with ants?

A simple metaphorical relativity to sheep, rats, lemings, mindless union members, semi-literate people of which Hawaii State is famous for (more metaphors in that sentence, also!).

Luckily, more of the population is internet and Fox literate on an increasing scale.
77 posted on 03/10/2005 7:55:05 PM PST by Txshep
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To: Txshep
A simple metaphorical relativity to sheep, rats, lemings, mindless union members...

I understood the metaphor. But we are advised at least 3 times per month to use the original title when posting a sourced article to make searching easier. The metaphor could have been saved for your comments to the article in post #1.
Not complaining...I ain't a Mod. Just sayin'.

78 posted on 03/10/2005 8:00:24 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Jeez, Bubba, we have the P.C. Police running rampant every where else, why do you do it here?


79 posted on 03/10/2005 8:06:10 PM PST by Txshep
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