Bad, bad, Mercury

[Zeke]

Okay listen to this, I want to know how bad this sounds. MY great grandma lived with my great grandpa fro about 55 years before he died, 22 years later, my great grandma decides to sell the house (shes 94 now) And her grandsons get to help clean out the house.

(Remember how one tiny drop of mercury can shutdown a high school for about a week. They just figured it out it was dangerous about 20 years ago)

We were cleaning out my great grandfathers work room in the basement, and we find 4 pounds of mercury. 4 FRICKING POUNDS. In a high school A tiny 5 gram drop can close it for about a week. my great grandpa had 4 pounds of it. This was all in a container about the size of an Axe bottle. its dense. My little cousin found it, and he was gonna throw it into the garbage dumpster. Having the glass container break. and I'm like. WHOOOAAAA!!!! thats freaking mercury... Yeah I brought it to my uncle who is a firefighter and hes like WTF? yeah He is bringing it out to a hazardous waste pickup and I bet there gonna be like WTF? Too.

This is kinda a bit random but I wanna see peoples reactions to it.

Oh i said hes a firefighter becasue if somebody did find out that we had 4 pounds of mercury in a house being gutted out to be sold. It would not only cancel the sale but probably have the house cursed and never able to be sold again. So he is going to say he found it at a burned down house.

[gnxhybrid]

Oh sure sell the house to a new family without telling them so they can suffer! Actually I dont even know what having mercury around even does to a person, but if it's bad something should be done about it to stop possible contamination to other people. I wasn't even aware that mercury was hazardous unless you were in direct contact with it.

[Gestapo]

It lets of fumes when in contact with oxygen, those fumes are poisonus and can cause cancer. If its been bottles up for all these years, it should be fine as long as the bottle is air tight.

[Zeke]

there was a crack in the bottle were just hoping it didnt leak.

I was looking around my great grandmas stairway closet and i found a bottle of 1930's whiskey. it has a self-portrait of vincet vangoah(sp?) on it. On ebay an empty bottle goes for $25. This thing has only had like 1 or 2 shots outta it. I wonder how much it would go for.

[Gestapo]

If the bottle was open, its probably not any good anymore. When you found it was the bottle sitting on its side?

[Zeke]

Ok... we found the bottle with a crack in it.. It was just standing straight up.

[Gestapo]

I was talking about the wiskey

[Zeke]

Oh lol the bottle I found in the closet in the back standing up. maybe had a few shots.

It smelled good still. I didnt want to get drunk from a few shots so I had my 21 year old sister try like 1/3 of a shot. She said it was good.

[Gestapo]

Surprizing. I found in my dead grandma's basement, some 5-7k bottles of wine, crazy.

[Ajtriple2]

Mercury can cause mercury poisining, or "Mad Hatter's Disease." Mercury used to be placed on the tops of top hats (I think to shine and condition them) The owner of the hat would get Mercury Poisoning go crazy and die.

[Gestapo]

It was actually used the manufacturing of the felt for hats. Long term exposure to mercury can cause jaw problems, gun and teeth problems from what my dad tells me (he is a dentist, but believe it or not, they use mercury in metal fillings) Long term exposer to the vapors can cause brain damage and nerve damage. I wana put on a bio suit and play with a handful of it that stuff would be really fun to play with.

[Zeke]

my parents said 30 or so years ago before they knew it was bad, they would rub mercury on pennies and it would turn them silver.

[Gestapo]

The reason mercury is bad, is because a tiny drop can spread out about 10 times as much as water can