Windshield wiper fluid mistaken for kool-aid at daycare!

[Shell Beau]

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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090313/Windshield.Fluid.Sickness/


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Ten children drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer at an Arkansas day care mistakenly put the liquid in a refrigerator and served it, hospital officials said Friday.

Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid late Thursday afternoon before realizing it tasted wrong, said Laura James, a pediatric pharmacologist and toxicologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock.

Only one child remained hospitalized Friday morning, after blood samples showed "measurable levels" of methanol, a highly toxic alcohol that can induce comas and cause blindness, officials said. The day care also provided the fluid for testing.

"All we know was that the individual at the day care had recently shopped and had come back to the day care with a lot of different products," James told The Associated Press. "This product was mistakenly grabbed and thought to be Kool-Aid and put in the refrigerator."

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1. And it was delicious

Seriously, WTF? How can you not tell by the smell that it's washer fluid?

[Kali]

8. ever smelled blue koolaide?

probably tasted better too - that's how they figured out it was the wrong stuff

[Kali]

9. weird dupe hiccup

delete

[Lost in CT]

2. So that would mean no merit pay this year?

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[woo me with science]

5. Bwah!

:rofl:

[auntAgonist]

3. unbelievable! I hope ALL the children are alright!

How on earth does this happen? ? ?

aA

[geardaddy]

4. I like mine with soda and lime.

That's just f*cked up. :(

[Blue_Tires]

6. at least it wasn't antifreeze

morons...

[skygazer]

7. Because no one can read a label

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