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Accidents whilst working on bikes or cars?
K2-K6:
Years ago went round to my mate's house to see him, to preserve his dignity I'll call him Pete, well actually that is his name :) he was out and his mum said he'd just nipped down to the local hospital to have his stomach pumped! "Oh, why was that" I asked. Well he'd decided to test the concentration of his anti freeze with a hydrometer, needing a sample from the car cooling system had decided to suck some out with a tube, and this is where it had gone wrong.
Being nineteen and proud owner of a 3ltr Capri "Flintstones edition" and rusty as hell, this obviously influences the choice of pipe. Garden hosepipe, a long piece (you can see where this is going can't you) bit of a suck and nothing, goes for a good bit of pace, a woosh and a glug with something like half litre of output consumed involuntarily and there we go :)
Soapy water they use apparently to get it all back up, plus a stay for observation to make sure they'd got it all.
We don't remind it of him at all, even now.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: K2-K6 on January 18, 2021, 08:03:28 PM ---Years ago went round to my mate's house to see him, to preserve his dignity I'll call him Pete, well actually that is his name :) he was out and his mum said he'd just nipped down to the local hospital to have his stomach pumped! "Oh, why was that" I asked. Well he'd decided to test the concentration of his anti freeze with a hydrometer, needing a sample from the car cooling system had decided to suck some out with a tube, and this is where it had gone wrong.
Being nineteen and proud owner of a 3ltr Capri "Flintstones edition" and rusty as hell, this obviously influences the choice of pipe. Garden hosepipe, a long piece (you can see where this is going can't you) bit of a suck and nothing, goes for a good bit of pace, a woosh and a glug with something like half litre of output consumed involuntarily and there we go :)
Soapy water they use apparently to get it all back up, plus a stay for observation to make sure they'd got it all.
We don't remind it of him at all, even now.
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An ex-workmate who is a bit of a boozer came in from the garden hot and sweaty and his wife had just cleaned out the kitchen sink cupboard. She found a wine bottle with rosé home brew wine in it .. well so she though.. it was actually anti-freeze. My mate swigged quite bit it and then realised what it was. He ended up in hospital overnight and they were convinced he had tried to top himself. Evidently they give you whisky to drink after they pump your stomach out.
K2-K6:
Wasn't that the Austrian wine scandal? laced with ethylene glycol to make it sweeter some years back :)
Honda Al:
I can’t remember the exact science behind it but anti freeze doesn’t break down in the body naturally and slowly poisons you because it can’t leave the system. So the highest strength alcohol available is used to convert the anti freeze into a substance that can be excreted from the body.
Back in my hospital pharmacy days anyone that had taken an overdose of anti freeze would be treated with high strength alcohol, or an unlicensed infusion from abroad costing thousands.
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K2-K6:
I didn't know that, isn't it amazing what turns up on here.
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