Whoops! The snake has now entered the Green Garden of Eden.
Mercury?? Heaven forfend! Algore didn't tell his minions about this. Did he? If it costs 2K to clean up a light bulb, would 20K handle a mercury thermometer? If so, I should have earned about a million bucks cleaning up mercury when I was a liddle biddy kid. My disposal method consisted of spreading the mercury on a dime, or a penny.
Oh, there are so many questions evoked by this nasty turn of events that the mind reels.
Love my incandescent bulbs. Plan to stay with them forever.