Posted on 09/06/2007 5:11:22 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
A mercury spill on the south side of Fargos South High School put the school into a lockdown for more than an hour this afternoon.
A thermometer was broken in a medical careers class and some mercury was released, said Superintendent Rick Buresh, who was at the scene. He said it didnt appear anyone was injured.
However, a teacher and two students were kept for decontamination, Fargo Fire Capt. Gary Lorenz said.
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Wonder what the decontamination procedure performed on the teacher and students was - firehose?
No kidding. Just get a couple pennies and pick up the mercury. Sheesh!
why isn’t everyone over 40 dead yet?
Absolutely! I remember Mr. Kimball showing us how cool it was to roll it across the table. He didn't let us touch it bare handed or anything, but there certainly was no hysteria surrounding it.
There is more mercury in a can of tuna than in a thermometer.
No wonder America’s students are failing...there lead by idiots!
Do they close the restrooms because someone forgot to flush?
Does anyone remember when we used to play with mercury in high school? You’d get some mercury, spill in on a table, push the little balls of mercury around with your finger, dip your dimes into the mercury to get them all shiny, and NONE OF US GOT SICK OR HAD TO HAVE HAS/MAT COME IN WITH SPACE SUITS TO SWEEP IT UP. What, are we nuts?
I’m normal as they come. I may do funny things to small animals with dinner forks, but I’m quite normal.
Oh for Pete’s sake.
That stuff is FUN to play with!!!!
I was supposed to wear gloves?!!!! AW CRAP! Now I am going to die when I am 95 instead of 97!
This is ridiculous. Elemental mercury poses no risk to health.
Uh, don't be casting that first stone, smart guy.
School teacher? :)
School teacher? :)
***Then vs. now story. When I was in HS we’d play with mercury on the lab tables.***
We used to make real silver coins (remember them?) shine with Mercury. Had lots of fun with it. Some kids even touched their tongue to it to see if it had flavor. And of course some of it was spilled on the floor. Each family had a Mercury thermometer to check for fevers. some were broken at home and we played with the mercury there also.
Quite a lot of Mercury was used and spilled in the Glycol reboilers (dryers) in the Natural gas fields also.
a ‘lead’ stone?
Nobody died.
A thermometer was broken
What a bunch of morons.
This almost happened in one of my college chemistry classes, however I put a towel over the drain and used a pipette to suck up the spilled mercury.
The grad assistant acted like I should have been arrested!
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