YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK - 100 respond for broken rectal thermometer

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK - 100 respond for broken rectal thermometer

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:49:14 AM EDT

100 respond for broken rectal thermometer
CARMEL, N.Y. (AP) - It was quite a New Year's Eve at the home of Richard Berger in Carmel - in Putnam County. Someone in the house broke a rectal thermometer and the family called 911 around 10:30 to report the small mercury spill.

Several dozen volunteers from the Carmel Fire Department responded to the house on Brookview Drive.

Fire Chief Darryl Johnson says mercury is a hazardous material that can cause stomach problems if inhaled.

Men wearing protective gear used wet sponges to clean up the puddle.

It was packaged and brought to the Carmel firehouse where the county health department will dispose of it today.

The Berger family was not hurt.

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:51:02 AM EDT

[#1]

Dupe.

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:51:10 AM EDT

[#2]

What a nanny state we have become. In elementary school we used to buy thermometers and break them for their mercury. Used it to shine pennies and other purposes. Loved how it beaded. Now this.

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:51:41 AM EDT

[#3]

What were they doing with that rectal thermometer that caused it to break?

Thank God all those people came to mop up that mercury spill the size of a pea. Whew. That small amount of mercury will cause a lot of damage?

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:52:36 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

http://jobrelatedstuff.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=533039

I don't surf that website.

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:52:41 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
broke a rectal thermometer and the family called 911

What are they? IDIOTS?

JHC, just pick it up by yourselves!

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:52:42 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
What a nanny state we have become. In elementary school we used to buy thermometers and break them for their mercury. Used it to shine pennies and other purposes. Loved how it beaded. Now this.

damn i did that shit too. Maybe that is where I went wrong

Posted: 1/3/2007 5:53:52 AM EDT

[#7]

Overtime?

Posted: 1/3/2007 6:09:44 AM EDT

[#8]

They shut down a school her over a broken bangle bead with mercury in it that the kids walked on ....... Acted like it was mustard gas.

Posted: 1/3/2007 6:17:48 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Overtime?

Unlikely

Several dozen volunteers

Posted: 1/3/2007 6:36:50 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Overtime?

Unlikely

Several dozen volunteers

they wanted to get the hell away from the family

Posted: 1/3/2007 6:39:59 AM EDT

[#11]

<Clean up crew>Hey guys, is spilled mercury supposed to be brown?</Clean up crew>

Posted: 1/3/2007 6:44:06 AM EDT

[#12]

Several years back, there were some kids here who found a bucket of mercury in an old warehouse and proceeded to DIP THEIR CIGARETTES INTO IT AND THEN SMOKE THEM. They were hospitalized with mercury poisoning, and something to do with bleeding lungs.

Posted: 1/3/2007 6:44:19 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
What a nanny state we have become. In elementary school we used to buy thermometers and break them for their mercury. Used it to shine pennies and other purposes. Loved how it beaded. Now this.

No shit. I use to have a vial that I kept with mercury on the bottom, water in the middle and oil on top. It was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid.

Posted: 1/3/2007 7:04:49 AM EDT

[#14]

Same thing happened here a couple of years ago. Family was FORCED out of their home for a few days.

I wrote a letter to the editor ridiculing the overreaction of officials, but of course it was not printed.

Posted: 1/3/2007 8:26:52 AM EDT

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Quoted:
.... at the home of Richard Berger...Someone in the house broke a rectal thermometer and the family called 911 .......

Only Sheeple would call 911 for a broken thermometer!

Richard Berger is a pussy!

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