[Txshep]

HAZMAT called, yellow ribbon everywhere. Women and children worried to death about their health. Over what?

A damn 12" thermmometer that broke. These people are nuts.

[Ruth A.]

Funny, there was an earlier thread on the dangers of mercury.

[Cornpone]

You're absolutely right. Hell, my dad used to break thermometers all the time when I was little just to demonstrate the properties of mercury. We are sinking into madness.

[skip_intro]

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

Of a teaspoon of mercury that the teacher already cleaned up.

Are grief counselors next?

Simply unbelievable.

[clee1]

And the "victim mentality" proceeds apace.

[ModelBreaker]

This is such nonsense. We used to play with the stuff in High School Physics class and it nevur dammagged meee . . .

[DixieOklahoma]

You obviously don't know how dangerouns mercury is. 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.

[Fruitbat]

These people are nuts.

Yeah, to understate matters. LOL

Unbelieveable!

[Fruitbat]

I wonder what happens if they find out that there's lead paint on the walls. What, call in the respiratatory therapists.

[tertiary01]

As a nurse I can't count how many times I broke thermometers, or how many were bitten in two by my patients. I'm alive and healthy and no patients died from ingesting it.

[Plutarch]

Geez, but it was fun to play with mercury as a kid. Damn neurotoxins.

[BIGLOOK]

Kid's are clever.....they get out of school. Happens a lot here.

When I was a kid, we'd play with mercury in chemistry class until the teacher told us to stop.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

My Mama was a registered nurse, anytime a thermometer broke, She put the mercury in a pill vial, and brought it home for Me to add to My Gilbert chemistry set supplies.
50 years later, I still have enough to use for removing lead deposits from My gun barrels. I suppose I have absorbed enough mercury and lead to drive an urban child bonkers, but, Thank God, I'm a Country Boy.
I will not describe what I did with that chemistry set, I am on enough lists, already!
You can have My mercury when You pry it outta My cold, dead hands!

[RonDog]

Mondo Scare Causes Hawaiian Ants to Scurry
KGMB TV news ^ | 03-09-2005 | KGMB reporter

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

FWIW, the ORIGINAL title, from www.kgmb.com, was:

Mercury Spill Causes Scare at Farrington

[Boiling point]

Wall thermostats have a mercury switch inside with a fairly large blob of mercury in them. We used to play with mercury in high school as well as dry ice. We liked to freeze door knobs and wait for someone to grab it.

[Junior]

No they're not. Mercury is extremely dangerous stuff. You cannot touch it without detrimental effects, including death.

[Doohickey]

From reading this thread, it seems that the greatest danger of Mercury is that it causes Republicans. It's only natural for Hawaiians to want to prevent an outbreak of Republicans.

[Centurion2000]

Mercury, the new asbestos.

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

[FixitGuy]

This is nuts. We used to roll mercury around in our hand when I was little.

I'm still little!

[fso301]

An old issue of National Geographic had a picture of a guy sitting on top of a pool of mercury.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What does this story have to do with ants?