Posted on 09/11/2018 11:53:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
I’ve always know anti-freeze was toxic, but not how toxic...so I looked it up. One 8 oz cup is fatal! That is a crazy thing to do.
I don’t know anything about Canadian law-but here in the US, adding prophylene glycol to someone’s food or drink is called attempted murder by poisoning...
I remember. And always wondered how that happened to him.
I thought he was in California, not Europe.
"5/18/2011, 7:43:14 PM · 980 of 2,367 sionnsar to Monkey Face; Tax-chick; fanfan Hi all. Work week is now done, We fly down to the SF Bay Area tomorrow for a church conference"
Glad you survived.............
Side note: Some simple solutions, so called "homeopathic" remedies, do work. One we found when we lived in Europe that was hugely effective in lowering a baby's temperature and allowing him/her to sleep were Eucalyptus Suppositories, basically wax and eucalyptus oil. Charcoal capsules for stomach issues, the same.
A friend was bleeding his brakes into a beer bottle, which happened to be the same brand as what he was drinking at the time. He grabbed the wrong bottle and took a swig. He was in the hospital for 3 days.
If it ain’t cold, it’s old.
Don’t drink it...................
Zippy or Zippydeedoo
Ethylene glycol antifreeze is very poisonous. It’s yellow/green color. Not used too much anymore. Supposed to be kinda sweet taste.
Propylene glycol not so poisonous . May be in large amounts. It’s red in color and most used today.
Also used in potable water tanks for over-winter storage.
Ethylene glycol. Body sees it as basically alcohol. Sends it to the liver to be metabolized. But it doesn’t metabolize into the same byproducts as ethyl alcohol. Much more toxic ...
I think I remember hearing that one Tablespoon of antifreeze will render you quite dead.
Ethylene Glycol will kill you in a heartbeat. Good thing that they had it on video because it is hard to detect unless you are looking for it specifically. (learned that on Forensic files.)
And a horrible painful miserable lingering death.
Sick stupid maggots.
Exactly correct. The same enzyme that breaks down ethanol breaks down ethylene glycol to an aldehyde molecule, (remember formaldehyde from high school?) which essentially embalms you from the inside.
The treatment is to pump pharmaceutical ethyl alcohol, more pure than moonshine, into a vein to allow the enzyme a much more readily available alcohol to metabolize preferentially. It out competes against the ethylene glycol for the converting enzyme. hopefully buying time for the kidneys to excrete it unchanged. They keep you slamming drunk for three or four days in the hope of preventing the metabolism of the semi-harmless glycol to aldehyde.
Knew of a guy in the 70’s importing cheap wine that was cut with antifreeze (not lethal amounts), was also a tanker truck driver and faked his death by blowing up his rig with some pig carcass parts in the cab (pretty crispy), finally caught when his “late” wife made contact with him.
There are worse ways to die but not many,
I had a Labrador Retriever that got about one lick of it and was sick for several days.
Exactly. This manager was about to experience the benefits of diversity.
I’m so sorry your own sister did that to you. She’s evil.
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