Scientist Gets Drunk, Forgets What He Did W. 3 Bottles Of Deadly Toxin

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SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi -- Police have launched a frantic search for three bottles of potentially deadly poison lost after a Shimonoseki Mitsui Chemicals official who had been carrying them went out for a night on the town and got so drunk he can't remember what he did with them, police said.

About 50 officers are searching for the three 500-milliliter bottles of liquefied hydrogen fluoride, which the Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Law designates as being a toxic substance.

There has been a fatality reported after a person swallowed a spoonful of hydrogen fluoride solution with a concentration of 9 percent, but the missing substance, to be used to clean semiconductors, has a concentration of 10 percent and would probably prove fatal if consumed.

"It's extremely dangerous," a police spokesman said. "If you find it, let us know immediately."

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http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060909p2a00m0na018000c.html

[Monkeyman]

1. He gave it to Cheney for the new attack

[htuttle]

2. He took 3 bottles of hydrogen flouride out drinking with him?

Why, does it mix well with scotch?

:crazy:

[bananas]

3. That's why I stopped being a scientist

drinking is more important.
You have to set priorities, people!

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Isn't that 'Hydrofluoric Acid'?

One of the stronger acids, IIRC.

That's some seriously corrosive shit.

Catwoman wouldn't survive a second if Batman knocked her into a vat of that stuff!

--p!
"Poor, deluded girl"
(B. Wayne, 1966)