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2021-01-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Army: Sick soldiers drank compound found in antifreeze

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-30 09:34|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ...Which tells me that these lads saw the FTX as an opportunity to get hammered instead of honing their skills.

Which, in turn, makes me wonder why they couldn't go a week and a half without a drink.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-01-30 11:54|| 2021-01-30 11:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Drinkers of ethylene glycol who have survived told me it tastes pretty good. Usual ingesters are "street inebriates". Cats have been known to lap up the fluorescent green puddles under auto cooling systems, followed not long afterward by death.

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2021-01-30 12:02|| 2021-01-30 12:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta be careful in the oil patch. If a oil pipeline develops a leak and cattle can get to it, they'll lap it up until they fall over dead.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-30 12:04|| 2021-01-30 12:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I would never drink anything that doesn't come from the liquor store or grocery store. Guess that me smarter than an average soldier or cow as the case may be.

Posted by jpal 2021-01-30 12:15|| 2021-01-30 12:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Indian Hooch

Posted by Frank G 2021-01-30 12:57|| 2021-01-30 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Sipped a little Umqombothi (Xhosa and Zulu home brew) years ago. Social setting, no noticeable side effects.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-30 13:02|| 2021-01-30 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Whatever happened to just good, old-fashioned glue sniffing?

Posted by Clem 2021-01-30 13:02|| 2021-01-30 13:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Good enough for Moderna and Pfizer, maybe the soldiers were self medicating.

Posted by Classer 2021-01-30 18:41|| 2021-01-30 18:41|| Front Page Top

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