OT: Ann Arbor hospital hazmat situation
Because you can't make this stuff up.
Man ingests rodent poison, emits foul gas in hospital. Hazmat team called in, air purity tests being performed.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110425/NEWS01/304250010/Pa…
Silent but deadly.
Do we go with the traditional Maize and Blue?
Or the all white Uni?
Well...
depicted here is disgusting on many levels.
:D
So is that definition #2 for "shart"?
I wonder what happens if you try and light one.
of freaking embarrassment.
This has to be reported by the Lansing State Journal, not the Ann Arbor (cyber)paper? I can just imagine all the tasteless jokes pouring in from the Lansing readers.
When I was a kid we lived in an ancient(pre-1900 anyway) farmhouse in the north of Michigan. Anyway, needless to say we had mouse and or snake issues (depending on the season). Anyway, my mom had this giant green bowl she used to make mac and cheese. Long story shorter: mouse gets into poison, mouse gets into cupboard, poison inadvertently gets into mac and cheese. Explains a lot I know =) No flammable gas...maybe some internal bleeding...but what doesn't kill you makes you bitter and jaded!
Certain rodent poisons can literally create mustard gas when ingested by humans.
This is actually pretty frightening to me personally because my wife happened to be at a Dr appointment at the Reichert building when this happened, and she said she heard people talking about a haz-mat situation but didn't know what happened.
April 26th, 2011 at 12:46 AM ^
I had no idea that was possible...mustard gas farts would definitely be SBD.
Just another example of the media spinning something unnecessarily (none of us are familiar with that here).
My mother works at SJMH and has for 40 years. I spoke to her at length when she got home from work. This completely overblown response by AAN and county Hazmat (especially given they have negative air-pressure rooms that would prevent any chemical leaks).
I guess it's better safe than sorry but this was never out of control and certainly didn't require the apparent 30 people their for 6 hours.
FWIW.
She thought it was serrious enough to call me to tell me about it.
late last night, and found it funny. What have we turned into when a guy eats rat poison doesn't die, farts and people panic ?