Posted on 09/24/2007 5:49:59 PM PDT by qam1
I always wonder when the description says “may cause liver damage” just how much and how bad?
I have watched the cold case files type show on television. Super refined techniques re fingerprinting and indeed DNA have sometimes cracked long ago cases. I would suppose that the capsules would also be long gone. Too much to hope for, but a long shot- if forensics still had the items.
I remember us throwing out our Tylenol & swearing we’d never use it again. They did a great job with their public relations for years after this happened.
Tylenol in high doses is extremely harmful on the liver --especially for people who consume a lot of alcohol.
I've known people who drink Nyquil to get a buzz. What they don't realize is that each cap of Nyquil contains something like 800-1000mg of Tylenol. Thus, getting "high" from Nyquil will really screw up your liver due to the huge doses of Tylenol.
I still remember the panic. People lost another measure of innocence and trust in fellow human beings.
Doesn't Hildebeast hail from the Chicagoland area?
I remember it didn't take long at all for tamper-resistant packaging to hit the shelves. Only a matter of a couple of weeks, IIRC. People were really scared of any product that could be tampered with and the industry responded immediately.
All this stuff - tylenol and advil - is very dangerous in certain conditions that are not widely known.
Our friend drank moderately but took Tylenol regularly. The coroner said her liver was worse than someone that drank a qt of hard liquor a day.
Another friend - just last week - developed a flu like condition and did not eat for 3 days but took several advil, nyquil, etc. HIS KIDNEYS SHUT DOWN and the Dr said it was the OTC drugs on an empty stomach.
Did they ever track it to Bush’s involvement?
Did he look like the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Maybe he was just a sick little opportunist.
In one of my college marketing classes we studied Tylenol’s damage control efforts. It was masterfully done.
Seven dead, and no one knows who the intended victim was, nor the motive.
I have always believed this to be the perfect crime. The tainted Tylenol killed the intended victim. Other tainted Tylenol killed random, unrelated people in unrelated places.
If I remember, they took all of their products off the shelves across the country. They stopped selling the openable capsules and began selling the solid pill version. Then they started doing the sealing of the caps. I also remember a bunch of "copycat" tamperings that then occured. One guy had his eyedrops replaced with some kind of glue or acid.
Even without the cyanide, Tylenol will still mess you up. Sorry, I need my liver, what remains left from it at least ROFL.
That is horrible. Best of luck to him. However, I will stick to my policy of mixing Darvocet and beer at night, on an empty stomach. I had a mishap on my mtn bike and abraded off a good chunk of skin, and it's the only thing that lets me get a good night's sleep. (because in addition to the throbbing pain, my wound sticks to the sheets and wakes me up.)
Darvocet is a narcotic? I am not sure you’ll have any kidney/liver issues - just dependency ones.
For a few days, it should not be any problem.
Darvocet contains acetomenophen...
Interestingly, I have a POI about whom I’m getting ready to approach the Chicago police. Whether anything comes of it will depend on how much information they’ve withheld from the public over the years. I understand they’ve got a videotape of one victim purchasing the Tylenol that killed her, with a strange, bearded man watching her movements.
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