Tim Attwood wrote:
>>>I'm hoping for Monday.  The HAZMAT guys took up the carpet today.
>>>This whole mess is costing the school upwards of ten grand, and probably 
>>>more.
>>
>>Seems a bit much for something that 20 years ago you could buy at radio 
>>shack for like a quarter.
> 
> 
> I spilled a pound of the stuff once and swept it up an dumped it back in
> its bottle, and I'm hardly insane at all.
> 
> I heard they did the same thing for a broken CFL somewhere or other,
> with hazmat and everything. People need to toughen up. 

As I said to my classes yesterday while talking about it, "the stuff is 
not nerve gas.  Just don't eat it."

Unfortunately, the environmental regulations are written to treat 
everything as if it were about a hundred times as dangerous as it really is.

Regards,
John

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