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John B. · Nov 12, 2019

A neighbor 3 miles down the road from us is a retired dairy & grain farmer. He turned the farm operation over to his son and let his son live
on the farm place. Well the Dad lives about a mile from the farm place and stopped by then went into the milk house about a month ago. He
was thirsty and saw a lemonade pitcher filled with what he thought was Lemonade. So he poured some in a glass and drank some. It turned out
to be tank cleaner/sanitizer. He ended up in the hospital for quite a while and is now on a feeding tube for the rest of his life. The
sanitizer burned his throat so bad he lost the little valve that shuts off your wind pipe when you swallow. I don't know the medical name for
that but I'm sure you all know what I'm speaking of. So I would not consider a household pitcher to be used for sanitizer. Not the right tool
for the job. Just wanted to share this with all of you. This could have easily happen to some one very young.

Charles in Aus. · Nov 12, 2019

Nasty , and very unfortunate . It's called an epiglottis and life without one is difficult to say the least .

My cousin almost died as a child . His father had mixed Paraquat in a soft drink [ soda pop ] bottle and left it in the shed . The boy was always a tearaway and inquisitive sort and took a great gulp of the stuff . This was in the early 1960's and few if any men were home during the day , even fewer had cars . Fortunately an old baker lived to the rear and was home after his early delivery round he heard my aunt's wailing . His was the only vehicle in the street , an old baker's van which he used to rush them to hospital .
It was touch and go for a long time but youth was on his side being only five years old . He recovered only to be killed by a sleepy driver at the age of twenty seven .

4play · Nov 12, 2019

I don't know what to say, that guy made a very dumb decision. I don't drink from anything that's laying around, especially from something I didn't put there. At very minimum, take a sniff or just a tip of the tongue taste.The only way I can remotely understand this guys logic in guzzling down this stuff is if he used to keep lemonade in a pitcher in the milk house when he was running the operation. Whether the cleanr/sanitizer was alkaline or acidic it would not have smelled and tasted like lemonade.

ggb3 · Nov 13, 2019

(quoted from post at 00:52:35 11/13/19) I don't know what to say, that guy made a very dumb decision. I don't drink from anything that's laying around, especially from something I didn't put there. At very minimum, take a sniff or just a tip of the tongue taste.The only way I can remotely understand this guys logic in guzzling down this stuff is if he used to keep lemonade in a pitcher in the milk house when he was running the operation. Whether the cleanr/sanitizer was alkaline or acidic it would not have smelled and tasted like lemonade.

+1

And/or diminished mental capacity.

Steve@Advance · Nov 13, 2019

I don't know if milking operations are inspected, would think so..

But when I was in the food industry one of the things the inspectors harped on was labeling containers.

So easy to have something in an unmarked container get used for the wrong purpose.

Our biggest offender was glue heads off the packing machine stored in water, usually a cut off gallon jug. Even though it was obvious what it was, they wanted it labeled.

Makes sense.

rrlund · Nov 13, 2019

My brother was working on a motor cycle one time and had some gas to prime it in a beer bottle. Dad walked up,picked up the bottle and took a big swig. It didn't take him long to spit it out. My brother must have been pretty shocked because he was kind of quiet and meek about it when he said "That's gas" at about the same time Dad was spitting it out.

johnlobb · Nov 13, 2019

In the early '60s, my uncle living in eastern South Dakota, came home on a hot summer day and looked in the refrigerator. He ran the local grain elevator, and spotted a mason jar with what he assumed was water, and drained it. Sadly, it contained turpentine. Why it was there, I never heard, but he was Christ Scientist, and refused all medical help, and died shortly thereafter. He left 3 small children and a widow. (My aunt).

Steve@Advance · Nov 13, 2019

Randy, reminds me of a time long ago, back in the drinking days...

A bunch of us were pulling an engine out of a car one night, all of us drinking beer.

One had his beer siting on the front bumper, the engine came out splattering the usual antifreeze and gas everywhere.

He picked up his beer, took a drink, said it tasted funny. I told him it probably had antifreeze in it, better throw it away.

He just kept drinking it, every time he took a drink he said it tasted funny.

The next day he came by, complaining about having the worst hangover ever!

I told him he probably drank antifreeze last night...

"Well why didn't you say something?!!!"

Stephen Newell · Nov 13, 2019

It was as much his fault for not determining what it was before gulping it down. I think I would have at least smelled it or taken a little sip first.

showcrop · Nov 13, 2019

It became illegal 15 years ago to have an unlabeled plastic spray bottle in any foodservice operation.

Mike(NEOhio) · Nov 13, 2019

Went to clean my truck windows once. Grabbed the spray bottle of window cleaner. Spraying and wiping with my eyes burning, I asked the wife "WTH is this stuff?" She filled the bottle with CLR calcium/rust cleaner so she could spray it on something. Of course it was my "fault" for using it on windows.

WGM · Nov 13, 2019

Your wife and my wife must be related.

Charles in Aus. · Nov 13, 2019

On a lighter note , one morning while in a rush I grabbed and used the hemorrhoid cream instead of toothpaste !
Well at least it wasn't the other way round. :shock:

Mike(NEOhio) · Nov 13, 2019

They're all about the same. I don't think it has anything to do with relations.

MeAnthony · Nov 13, 2019

My old boss did that once, grabbed his wife's Vagisil by mistake...

rrlund · Nov 14, 2019

There was an old guy here who used to come in the coffee shop now and then. He was telling that he was staying at his daughter's place one time,took a shower and instead of grabbing the shampoo,he used her Nair hair remover. Left him bald as a cue ball.

1948CaseVAI · Nov 14, 2019

Darwin in action!

tomturkey · Nov 14, 2019

johnlobb, speaking of mason jars, my Dad had some shine in an old A&W root beer gallon jug. My brother came home from baseball practice, thought it was water, poured him a glassful and took a big gulp....only one as he thought the world was coming to an end. Of course now days he likes to embellish on the story in great detail. Not good to reuse containers, and not label, but I am sure most have done it in the heat of the moment. A good safety reminder. gobble

K Effective · Nov 15, 2019

I was in college when the plastic, square-funnel-topped oil quart bottles replaced the paper can with metal ends. I took an empty one and cleaned/washed it thoroughly, used it to mix drinks, lemonade, TANG, Kool-Aide, etc. Got a lot of stares at the euchre table.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 15, 2019

Years ago there was a fellow that kept brake fluid in a liquor bottle in the glove compartment to keeping adding fluid to a leaking master cylinder,had the car towed one time the tow truck driver found the liquor bottle and took a drink of brake fluid.

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