Strychnine found in Danish reservoir

UPI ^ | 10-06-2006 | UPI

[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.

[Red Badger]

The skunks were probably "tripping" out!............

[Old Student]

no doubt about that at all! Couldn't find the door, and really didn't care, until that final convulsion hit...

[Red Badger]

I've been like that..............

[Old Student]

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...

[Red Badger]

I am AT work!..........OT.......!

[Iscool]

Those Danish Amish are acting up again eh

[Old Student]

Hopefully, you're getting paid for it. I'm a currently unemployed school teacher/grad student, and I'm racking up more student loan debt, and not getting my homework done, which is NOT going to help the employment situation! (also burning off the last of my GI Bill...)

I'm not making any money, and right now, at least, not getting the workload reduced, either. Of course, I am also scarfing pancakes with fig preserves, too, which would sort of complicate the homework situation, anyway. Somehow, it doesn't seem to slow down the FReeping, to much, though...

[pinz-n-needlez]

Ping

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Hey,,,Hege,,,

[Ronaldus Magnus]

A couple of summers ago, I got an unsolicited phone call from an accented individual asking my permission to put a gadget on my well to "clean" the water. Duh. No!

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.

[Red Badger]

Well, at least you're not down to eating ramen noodles, yet!............

[Old Student]

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. ;)

[OldPossum]

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.

[VOA]

"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.

[FairOpinion]

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."

[FairOpinion]

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 person’s 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 body’s “off switch” for muscles. When this “off switch” does not work correctly, muscles throughout the body have severe, painful spasms. Even though the person’s 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 can’t breathe.

[sheik yerbouty]

Good inbreeding..

[Prime Choice]

This treachery reeks of the satanic death cult known as Islam.

[OldPossum]

Right, I was thinking about warfarin.

Thanks for the info.

OP

[Cindy]

Yep, I saw it.
It is disturbing.

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