“...as is the need for a hazmat team to renovate a kitchen in an old house with lead paint.”
You want a visit from a Haz Mat Team? Break one of those freaking poison-filled light bulbs the EnviroWeenies have crammed down our throats!
Looks like I’ll have to find something else for target practice.
When I was a child it was fun to get the mercury out of those oral thermometers and coat pennies with them. It made them look wetly silver until they turned green. Most kids I knew did that more than once and at least some of us survived, I think. The son of a friend was playing with mercury in the eighties and managed to grow up. It probably prevented a super-Einstein because he only grew up to be recruited by NASA when he was a senior in High School. He had some significant input into the software on a Mars Rover project.