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To: John Jorsett

I like them. Sweep, trash, and forget.


3 posted on 04/29/2007 1:37:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: cripplecreek

I had some old (30+years) pesticides in my basement, including some that have been banned since (no DDT). When a shelf collapsed and a bottle broke, filling the house with fumes, I called poison control, who told me to call 911.

When the firefighters arrived, they used a kitty-litter-type substance to absorb the spill, and carried the broken and intact bottles out to the back yeard. They said there was nothing hazardous to humans, and I should just open the doors and windows and vent the house with as many fans as I could lay hands on. I should jut step outside if I felt light-headed.

When I asked what I should do about clean-up, the lady in charge said “Technically, I’m supposed to tell you to call a hazmat team. They’ll come in in containment suits and it’ll cost about a thousand bucks.”

Then she leaned in and said, quietly, “but the litter will absorb into the back yard, and that box looks a lot like household waste. You didn’t hear that from me.”


39 posted on 04/29/2007 2:51:06 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: cripplecreek

As I told my husband, I don’t think we’ll call Hazmat if we break a bulb.


72 posted on 04/30/2007 6:51:47 PM PDT by tiki
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