What is the most poisonous thing you've touched/eaten?

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zeruty

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I've touched rat poison.... D-Con or whatever it's called. Doesn't that contain rat poison? hah... (cyanide??)

I've gotten diahrrea from accidently breathing some ant poison while killing some ants...

And since people have brought up animals, I've held a Chilean Rose (Grammostola rosea) tarantula... not very poisonous but far freakier than a snake or anything like that.
 

silverpig

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49% HF
CF4 gas
some polymide adhesion promoter stuff that said on it: "DANGER: DO NOT INHALE. WILL IMMEDIATELY ATTACK LIVER, KIDNEYS, AND LUNGS CAUSING SEVERE ORGAN FAILURE"
 

jupiter57

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A few weeks ago, I took the kids & Grandson to Gatlinburg, TN. for a long weekend, woke up before anyone else and found a Scorpion in the dining room floor, it looked dead, so i reached to pick it up. When I did, it curled it's tail up and went for my thumb!
Luckily, he didn't sting me, I dropped him and smashed his head!
 

BurnItDwn

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Longest reaction: Poison Ivy all that spread all over my legs and got to my balls and didn't go away for about 3 weeks.
Most Excruciating reaction: rubbed my eyes after cutting Habanero peppers.
 

MichaelD

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My son's mother. Absolutely the most poisonous thing known to man...I touched her almost 13 years ago and I'm STILL feeling the brain-numbing, soul-crushing, heart-destroying, wallet-depleting effects today.
 

Toastedlightly

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I've touched radioactive Cesium (albeit, w/ gloves and only for a few seconds while I moved it behind some lead shields).

EDIT: Ahh, the usual lab stuff too.

Picked up a bottle of highly concentrated HF (60% I think).
Splashed 1mL of ~95% sulfuric acid on myself
Handled 60% nitric acid
worked w/ some nitrile compound that acts as a heart stimulant
 

Papagayo

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I was in Panama (Country), back around 2000. I came very close to a coral snake, snake had no fear what so ever.

I also had poison dart frog in my hands. We didn't realize that it was poisonous, until week later.
 

skace

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Touched/Poison Ivy

I'm extremely allergic to it, can you say weeping sores? Yea, not pretty. If I've touched any poisonous creatures it was simply because I didn't know they were poisonous at the time.
 

TestedAcorn

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I lit a spray painted styrofoam board model house on fire... it also had a cell phone battery in it, and I accidentally inhaled some of the ultra black smoke. I was coughing for a few days.
 

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: JakwoW
My ex. I won't go into too much detail, but it involved a female friend and a cup one night . . .

I need a new set of exes.
fixed

:p
 

JS80

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This one chicks vagina.....I gagged and nearly threw up and I would not put my....ok you guys get it.
 

zeruty

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Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Most Excruciating reaction: rubbed my eyes after cutting Habanero peppers.

I picked my nose and then took a leak after cutting habanero peppers....
That was fun... nose, upper lip, and scrotum all on fire!
Jumped in the shower to rinse off... cold water made my lip and my scrotum feel like they were burning even more.


 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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Hydraulic oil. Can't remember what type it was, but it was something horrible health wise. Worked great for the hydraulic system on a elevator on the USS Inchon though.
 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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Originally posted by: her209
Lead paint chips

Touched or eaten?

EDIT: Just remember OC spray. I'd rather get shot that get sprayed with 10% again. My god that was horribly miserable.
 

zanejohnson

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every drug there is.

i would have to say the most "poisoned" i ever felt though, even though it's perfectly safe would have to be hallucinogenic mushrooms... holy god, i blended up a quarter ounce (7 grams) dried very potent mushrooms in orange juice... that was the last time i ever used mushrooms, i was completely mind fuc#ked, couldnt think, everything was a hallucination, i felt like a dried up, burnt piece of bacon frying on a grill.. i kept thinking i had crapped myself for some reason even though i hadn't (wtf) i ended up naked, screaming in broken spanish, in the kitchen of our house, and then eventually started having a TERRIBLE trip, that ego loss feeling, i thought i had messed up my brain, thought i would never be normal again... i eventually just curled up in the fetal position in my bed and completely FREAKED OUT. i was still kind of tripping the next day even, it was a 12 plus hour ordeal.

and i was an experienced drug user to say the least.. i had just never played with anything REALLY REALLY hallucinogenic like that...closest i had come before that was robotripping (dextromethorphan)