10 kids drink windshield wiper fluid at daycare

[Jester]

As much as I hate when people stereotype me for being a Christian Conservative from Arkansas, but seriously, ONLY IN FREAKIN' ARKANSAS!

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Hospital officials say 10 children drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer at Arkansas daycare center mistook the liquid for Kool-Aid.

Hilary DeMillo, a spokeswoman at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, says one of the 10 children who drank the fluid Thursday afternoon is still hospitalized Friday morning.

Pediatric pharmacologist and toxicologist Laura James says the child's blood samples had high levels of methanol, which can cause blindness.

James tells The Associated Press that the daycare staffer put the windshield wiper fluid in a refrigerator accidentallly after a shopping trip. Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, each drank about an ounce of the fluid before realizing what it was.

Julie Munsell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, says child welfare officials planned to visit the Scott community daycare Friday. Munsell did not know the name of the daycare.

[Voltron]

Arkansasians have been drinking wiper fluid for generations and have turned out almost fine each time. That's why they want science out of school. Math, too. 2+2=God. Makes sense to me! Pass the pool shock, Jimbo!

[ThirdMarioBro]

*looks at birth certificate & sees Little Rock Arkansas*

*sticks head in sand*

STOP LOOKING AT ME!

[Jester]

S'alright TMB, I spent most of my formative years here...and am still here.

I'm such a hypocrite.

I loathe, like I said, people assuming I'm an inbred idiot for living here, but I look around me and all I see are inbred idiots.

[Voltron]

If I may hop off topic for awhile, and this is in no way meant to be facetious: I've been impressed with the progress you've made in your written vocabulary. Two years ago, on IRC, you'd make me cringe with your misspellings and improper grammar. Now you're one of the most eloquent speakers on here, J. Good show.

[shuriken]

That's pretty screwed up dude...
Poor kids. Windshield wiper fluid? In the fridge, I mean c'mon, that's pretty negligent.Freaking staffer probably put it in a Kool-Aid container too...

[Jester]

If I may hop off topic for awhile, and this is in no way meant to be facetious: I've been impressed with the progress you've made in your written vocabulary. Two years ago, on IRC, you'd make me cringe with your misspellings and improper grammar. Now you're one of the most eloquent speakers on here, J. Good show.
Thankfully, my browser has spell check. :P

[Candy Kappa]

MMMmmm... windshield wiper fluids

[Aelia]

Well, at least it wasn't coolant.

[Ginny]

I loathe, like I said, people assuming I'm an inbred idiot for living here, but I look around me and all I see are inbred idiots.

I can empathize, living in WV. I'm so glad I live close to and work in Pittsburgh. Not that Pittsburgh is culture center, but at least there is way more to do than go cow-tipping.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Before you stereotype about stupid Southerners, I remember a letter written to "Dear Abby" many years ago when a woman wrote that her grandson was hospitalized because he drank some toxic household chemical, which his mother had put into a pop bottle. I'm not sure where they were, but I'm sure stupidity like that isn't confined to the Deep South. :roll:

[ThirdMarioBro]

I loathe, like I said, people assuming I'm an inbred idiot for living here, but I look around me and all I see are inbred idiots.

...which is why I bailed out of that train wreck of a town (although it looked quite a bit better the last time I was there) and traded the inbred idiots of Little Rock, Arkansas (present company excluded of course ;) )for the "Ford truck lovin' to compensate for their small penis" macho men of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[Buslady]

i guess nobody can read lables...wouldn't it say "Windshield Washer Fluid"?

[Aelia]

i guess nobody can read lables...wouldn't it say "Windshield Washer Fluid"?

Not unless it was in a pitcher...for some reason. :blanksta:

[Drtooth]

Deep South, Schmeep South... this kind of stupidity could have happened anywhere. Kids drinks are the same color as wiper fluid.... the same grotesque neon blue and orange colors.

[Ninjinister]

So none of the kids took a sip and realized that it tasted worse than s***?

[BubblyShell22]

And why would anyone be stupid enough to put wiper fluid in a pitcher? Shouldn't you leave it in the container it came in? This stunt could've happened anywhere in the U.S. People can be so stupid.

[Spike Spiegel]

So none of the kids took a sip and realized that it tasted worse than s***?

I really can't understand that one...how dumb do you have to be to drink something that obviously tastes that weird?

Are kids that dumb?! I mean seriously, that doesn't make ANY sense.

[Buslady]

not just taste, the SMELL...
if it's got ammonia it stinks funny

they just had a segment on the news comparing a drink (blue gatorade), wiper fluid (blue) and soemthing else, i think house hold cleaner....they all looked similar but the gatorade was cloudy looking when the others were clear.

it's sad how cleaning products look like drinks, some vitamins/candy/gum look like some drugs (perscription or not), and such...

[CudleyCowlick]

So none of the kids took a sip and realized that it tasted worse than s***?

It couldn't taste any worse than Kool-Aid or any of that other junk that uneducated hicks give to children. :dead:

Besides, we're talking about uneducated hick children, so I'm sure they didn't notice.

[Drtooth]

It couldn't taste any worse than Kool-Aid or any of that other junk that uneducated hicks give to children. :dead:


Me? I only drink high processed organic stuff because my parents can AFFORD it!

(Sick and tired of the anti-junk food elitist sheepery going around the internet these days.)

[Cure]

It couldn't taste any worse than Kool-Aid or any of that other junk that uneducated hicks give to children. :dead:

Besides, we're talking about uneducated hick children, so I'm sure they didn't notice.

What the f*ck is your problem? So if someone drinks Kool-Aid they're automatically hicks? You're prolly more stupid than those "uneducated hick" kids, with the way you're so quick to judge.

[GK Punk]

It couldn't taste any worse than Kool-Aid or any of that other junk that uneducated hicks give to children. :dead:

Besides, we're talking about uneducated hick children, so I'm sure they didn't notice.

Jeez, that's not prejudice hate mongering at all.

[Jester]

What the f*ck is your problem? So if someone drinks Kool-Aid they're automatically hicks? You're prolly more stupid than those "uneducated hick" kids, with the way you're so quick to judge.
I never thought I'd do this but QFT!
*slow claps*

[Roland]

Good to hear that they usally come out fine after accident. But the blindness thing not cool! What is the procedure to get the stuff out of your blood stream?