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

[BoomerD]

Eaten? My wife's cooking...when we were young, she wasn't the great cook she is now.

Touched? That's a tough one. I did HAZMAT clean-ups for a few years. We cleaned up all kinds of methyl-ethyl-badstuff.

Full level A self contained suits, supplied air suits, the whole ball schmear.
I HATED it, but it paid the bills.

http://www.edarley.com/itm_img/AA801-new.jpg

 

[Scarpozzi]

I've been exposed to plenty. One of the ones that comes to mind the most is breathing in fumes from lye when I was cleaning out a drain pipe. I actually had a mask over my face and was ventilating the room well too...but it wasn't enough.

I was gagging constantly for about an hour with watering eyes...really bad feeling.

 

[manowar821]

Mushroom MUSHROOM!

 

[Jimmah]

In terms of bacterial (or is it viral?) would be salmonella from a slightly cracked egg. Two weeks of unending shedding of water in various unpleasant ways. Lost something like 15 lbs from that.

Chemical, probably fumes from silicate-bronze welding wire for 20 hours. Off work for two weeks with welders flu.

Other, working on a chicken farm, lots of ammonia in the chicken poo. Had a nosebleed once every few days or after/during strenuous exercise, once woke up with my eyes and ears bleeding, ammonia had weakened my nasal passages and some lining on some blood vessels.

 

[Miklebud]

Originally posted by: manowar821
Mushroom MUSHROOM!

Snaaaaaaaaaaakkkee!

Mushrooms are the most poisonous thing I've eaten. YUMMY!!!!!

 

[summit]

pussy

 

[Rubycon]

Several pounds of mercury once. As it was spilling we were cupping our hands trying to catch it and put it in dishes. No wonder they call this stuff quicksilver.

 

[CKent]

durban poison

 

[finite automaton]

Gasoline

..I know, I'm boring..

 

[Vehemence]

Nothing much, really.

When I was younger I accidentally got poison ivy all over my...situation...

That sucked pretty bad

 

[Mark R]

Handled: Probably acetonitrile or tri-chloroacetic acid.
Eaten: Battery acid. The result of charging a SLA until it started steaming and boiling - picking it up and then unintentionally licking fingers.

 

[Turin39789]

something about someones mother.




watered down to prevent interpertation as call-out.

 

[GooeyGUI]

Nuclear isotopes touched:

Plutonium, Uranium, Strontium, Cobalt, Iodine gas, Carbon, Tritium, Technicium

Chemicals handled:

Fuming Sulphuric acid, HCl acid, Nitric acid, HF acid, aqua regia

Handled and eaten:

Toluene that is found in airplane glue. As a kid, I would pick the dried glue with my teeth off my fingers and spit it out.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

When doing pool maintenance I never wear gloves when handling chlorine pucks, and a couple drops of HCl were splashed onto my wrist once as well.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

methyl ethyl ketone, hydrocloric and sulfuric acids

what's way better than that is what happened to my friend. he was walking on the floor of the grand canyon, and decided to eat some acid (LSD). an hour after he starts getting off, he's bit by a black widow spider. they choppered him out, and he made a full recovery.

 

[Toastedlightly]

I handled hydroflouric acid. That stuff is death incarnate.

 

[TruePaige]

Fugu perhaps?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
I handled hydroflouric acid. That stuff is death incarnate.

nice! for those that don't know, this stuff is burn-a-hole-to-china nasty.

 

[GooeyGUI]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
I handled hydroflouric acid. That stuff is death incarnate.

nice! for those that don't know, this stuff is burn-a-hole-to-china nasty.

It will eat right through glass (and bone/tissue), so they keep it in polyethylene bottles when using it as a reagent in a chem lab. Double gloves to be sure.

 

[JohnCU]

i touched un-irradiated fuel rods for a nuclear reactor. they're fine until they get some neutrons.

 

[imported_Imp]

Whatever the hell we used in grade 11/12 chemistry class. There was lead and a bunch of other stuff.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Rattlesnake (both eaten and been bitten).

Beat me to it. Although, I avoided the bite:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...did=1101481&arctab=yes

 

[zeruty]

Originally posted by: GooeyGUI

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
I handled hydroflouric acid. That stuff is death incarnate.

nice! for those that don't know, this stuff is burn-a-hole-to-china nasty.

It will eat right through glass (and bone/tissue), so they keep it in polyethylene bottles when using it as a reagent in a chem lab. Double gloves to be sure.

is hydroflouric acid the stuff that will absord the calcium out of your body and kill you? Like if you get exposed to enough, there's no saving you... You're dead in a few hours?

 

[GooeyGUI]

Originally posted by: zeruty

Originally posted by: GooeyGUI

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
I handled hydroflouric acid. That stuff is death incarnate.

nice! for those that don't know, this stuff is burn-a-hole-to-china nasty.

It will eat right through glass (and bone/tissue), so they keep it in polyethylene bottles when using it as a reagent in a chem lab. Double gloves to be sure.

is hydroflouric acid the stuff that will absord the calcium out of your body and kill you? Like if you get exposed to enough, there's no saving you... You're dead in a few hours?

Depends on the quantity and location. It reacts quite well with calcium.

 

[TehMac]

Cholocate.