Posted on 10/06/2006 2:27:39 PM PDT by IntelliQuark
GREVE, Denmark, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Inspectors discovered strychnine in the water supply of a Danish town during a routine check.
Investigators believe that someone dumped rat poison in one of the wells that provides water for Greve Municipality outside Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Post reported. The well's Plexiglass cover was smashed open.
A vial labeled rat poison found in the bottom of the well has been traced to the pharmacy where it originated, investigators told the Post.
"The episode worries me, because you think, what'll it be next," Erik Jurlander, a manager at Greve Waterworks told the newspaper Politiken. "We have coded locks for the waterworks, a sea of alarms and 24-hour security guards who are immediately notified if one of the alarms sounds."
While the waterworks says that the strychnine was not at a dangerous level, the reservoir has been closed. Copenhagen is temporarily supplying Greve with water.
The skunks were probably "tripping" out!............
no doubt about that at all! Couldn't find the door, and really didn't care, until that final convulsion hit...
I've been like that..............
I was never quite that bad, and after cleaning up that mess, strychnine was right off my list of things to try, too! ;)
my worst vice now is FR. I should be doing homework...
I am AT work!..........OT.......!
Those Danish Amish are acting up again eh
Ping
Hey,,,Hege,,,
Did you notify the authorities so that they could investigate your incident to determine whether the intentions were sinister? Perhaps they could have arrested the perpetrator so that he didn't harm someone more gullible or elderly.
Well, at least you're not down to eating ramen noodles, yet!............
I'm retired Air Force, it won't get to Ramen noodles unless I want it to; although I have couple of cases stashed just in case. Pancakes was sheer lazyness on my part this evening. ;)
Isn't strychnine the ingredient in rat poison that causes massive internal hemorrhaging? If so, at lethal dosages in a town's water supply, that could cause horrible deaths. If such a tragedy were to occur, the retribution fever of the affected people would be huge, one would think.
"Isn't strychnine the ingredient in rat poison that causes massive internal hemorrhaging?"
I think you're recalling the anti-coagulant warfarin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfarin
IIRC, strychnine causes a failure of the inhibition of muscular contractions,
leading to painful contractions of muscles.
I think it leaves victims with a strained grin (think Nancy Pelosi)
due to the muscles going wild.
Did you see this? It's really strange that someone could do that with all the security and alarms in place.
"Inspectors discovered strychnine in the water supply of a Danish town during a routine check.
"The episode worries me, because you think, what'll it be next," Erik Jurlander, a manager at Greve Waterworks told the newspaper Politiken. "We have coded locks for the waterworks, a sea of alarms and 24-hour security guards who are immediately notified if one of the alarms sounds."
Facts About Strychnine (from CDC website)
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/strychnine/basics/facts.asp
How you could be exposed to strychnine
Following release of strychnine into water, you could be exposed by drinking contaminated water.
Following contamination of food with strychnine, you could be exposed by eating the contaminated food.
It is also possible to absorb strychnine through the membranes in the nose, eyes, or mouth. For example, a person could be poisoned by inhaling strychnine powder that has been released in the air.
Strychnine could be smoked or snorted as a component of street drugs.
Poisoning has been reported from strychnine given intravenously and through the nose.
How strychnine works
The extent of poisoning caused by strychnine depends on the amount and route of strychnine exposure and the persons condition of health at the time of the exposure.
Strychnine prevents the proper operation of the chemical that controls nerve signals to the muscles. The chemical controlling nerve signals works like the bodys off switch for muscles. When this off switch does not work correctly, muscles throughout the body have severe, painful spasms. Even though the persons consciousness or thinking are not affected at first (except that the person is very excitable and in pain), eventually the muscles tire and the person cant breathe.
Good inbreeding..
Thanks for the info.
OP
Yep, I saw it.
It is disturbing.
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