On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Vitaliy wrote:
> A few years later, I witnessed a group of kids breaking fluorescent bulbs 
> and rubbing pennies with the white powder. When I pointed out that mercury 
> is toxic, and they really shouldn't be handling it, they gave me a lecture 
> on how crazy they would have been to use mercury, and that the white powder 
> wasn't mercury at all. :)

Is there ANYONE who has not touched or played with mercury as a kid?  Even 
with all the information now I still run into people who say it's 
perfectly safe to play with it in your hands.  

I do think there is overreaction going on though.  Mercury poisioning via 
coal plants and it building up in fish is a very nasty problem, but you 
don't have to drag your house to a toxic waste dump if you break a CF 
lamp.

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