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Seriously, how does someone make this mistake?

SeerSGB

SeerSGB

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When I buy a jug of windshield washer fluid it's pretty clearly marked windshield washer-fluid.

Daycare kids poisoned by windshield washerfluid

Ten children at a home day care center outside Little Rock, Ark., drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer served it from a container mistaken for "Kool-Aid" and placed in a refrigerator, authorities said Friday.
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The windshield wiper fluid was bought with several other items on a recent shopping trip, James told The Associated Press. "This product was mistakenly grabbed and thought to be Kool-Aid and put in the refrigerator," she said.
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WTH? How do you pick up a jug of windshield washer fluid and think "Hey, Kool-Aid". Even if you're in a rush, it's not like it's that hard of a distinction to make.

James warned that many antifreeze or windshield wiper solutions have bright colors, which can be mistaken for fruit drinks.


"I think the take-home message is not to have these products in the kitchen or where you're doing any kind of food preparation," the toxicologist said.
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1) No shit Sherlock
2) How can you confuse antifreeze and windshield fluid with fruit drinks, different packaging and markings aside, the smell is a dead (no pun) give away.
 
Some antifreezes have a "sweet smell" which causes some animals and children to mistake it for being drinkable. -Though I think recent regulations have required more off-putting smells in these things.

But, yeah, windshield washer fluid has a pretty distinct smell, even more distinctive pacakging and even more distinctive cap/lid.

This woman had to of been brain-dead to serve windhsield washer fluid to kids, but I also wonder why the kids DRANK it. I would think as soon as it hit their tounges they'd spit it out and say it tastes bad.

But, watch, some nutty action "FOR TEH CHILDREN!!!!" group will now demand some-kind-of crazy pacaging, container or label changes because of this incident.

What kind of idiot(s) could make this mistake?

Ten children at a home day care center outside Little Rock, Ark...
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Oh.

This explains it.
 
My mom told me about this earlier today.

When she did, I pulled a bottle out of my shopping bag to show her. It was "Mountain Dew: Voltage" ... and it's blue.

I said "maybe they thought they were getting some of this?" though it's hard to tell either way. Still a very sad story...and perhaps there's a reason why there's no natural BLUE food (even blueberries are really a deep indigo or even purple). Since they assigned that color to artificial raspberry flavoring, maybe it was a mistake...perhaps blue ANYTHING should be off the menu forever!
 
Think about it: Someone unbagged it, put in the fridge, where it set for however long with no one noticing the label, took it out and poured it, and put it back in the fridge.

You'd have to be brain dead not to notice the label, at the least, and the smell when they opened it, during the course of those events.
 
SeerSGB said:
You'd have to be brain dead not to notice the label, at the least, and the smell when they opened it, during the course of those events.
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As previously mentioned, antifreeze often has a sweet smell.

Brain-dead? Maybe. Illiterate? More likely. Here in BC daycare workers are required to have a post-secondary education. I don't know what the rules are like in Arkansas, but I suspect that such standards would be viewed as "gub'mnt meddlin".

Gov't regulation is inherently bad, or so I'm told :rolleyes:
 
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How old were these children? If they were old eough to know how to reach, then I say Natural Selection has once again struck, but indeed whoever bought the thing should have drank it whole.
 
Still can't say I've ever seen a WS Fluid bottle that wasn't obviously not a drink from the pictures and text on the bottle.

And while antifreeze has a sweet smell and taste, my experience with windshield washer fluid is that it doesn't and reeks strongly of the ammonia that's likely in it.

But this person was obviously an idiot as the bottle is clearly going to have words like "windshield" and "poison" and "warning" on it.
 
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And it tastes nothing like Kool-Aide. These kids are so brainwashed, they continued drinking it even when it tasted bad and not like Kool-Aide. Reminds me of that stufy a year or so back that showed kids hated Karrots, but if they were in McDonald's wrapping, the kids said (in taste tests spereate from eac hother and not being told) that MCDonald's karrots tasted better. Same karrot, McDonald's packaging. How about some McDonald's Windshield Wiper Fluid?
 
[/quote]WTH? How do you pick up a jug of windshield washer fluid and think "Hey, Kool-Aid". Even if you're in a rush, it's not like it's that hard of a distinction to make.

I'm with you. Has this person never been in a grocery store before? Have they never noticed that Kool-Aid is found in the section with all the other juices and drinks, and windshield wiper fluid is found in the section with all the other stuff for cars around it? Also did they not realize that Kool-Aid generally has the words "Kool-Aid" on the label and if you don't see the words "Kool-Aid" then it is not Kool-Aid?
 
WTH? How do you pick up a jug of windshield washer fluid and think "Hey, Kool-Aid". Even if you're in a rush, it's not like it's that hard of a distinction to make.

I'm with you. Has this person never been in a grocery store before? Have they never noticed that Kool-Aid is found in the section with all the other juices and drinks, and windshield wiper fluid is found in the section with all the other stuff for cars around it? Also did they not realize that Kool-Aid generally has the words "Kool-Aid" on the label and if you don't see the words "Kool-Aid" then it is not Kool-Aid?[/QUOTE]

They could be using "kool-aid" as a generic name for "fruit flavored drink." Sort of like people always call "extruded polystyrene foam" "Styrofoam" - Styrofoam being a brand name not the name of the stuff itself.

As usually, kool-aid also comes powdered in a package and you have to make it yourself.
 
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I'm with you. Has this person never been in a grocery store before? Have they never noticed that Kool-Aid is found in the section with all the other juices and drinks, and windshield wiper fluid is found in the section with all the other stuff for cars around it? Also did they not realize that Kool-Aid generally has the words "Kool-Aid" on the label and if you don't see the words "Kool-Aid" then it is not Kool-Aid?
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They could be using "kool-aid" as a generic name for "fruit flavored drink." Sort of like people always call "extruded polystyrene foam" "Styrofoam" - Styrofoam being a brand name not the name of the stuff itself.

As usually, kool-aid also comes powdered in a package and you have to make it yourself.
 
What was it doing in the fridge to begin with?

I mean, this took a whole team of morons to pull off. Because who keeps windshield wiper fluid anyplace else besides the garage? And even if you don't have a garage, you don't bring it home from the hardware store and stick it in the fridge. :confused:
 
Yeah, there was plenty of warning along the way. You would truly have to be an illiterate, brain dead goob to do this. I mean, utterly stupid. Lacking in the mental faculties required to do anything other than breathe and blink. I can honestly say that even in a rush, I've never mistaken windshield washer fluid for Kool-Aid or any other artificial fruit drink. If it looks like it comes in an industrial plastic bottle, then hey, my brain might ignite a neuron or two to discover why the white capped thick, heavy plastic bottle with a poison symbol, and the words "WINDSHIELD WASHER FLUID" emblazoned across the front doesn't seem to look like any fruit drink bottle I've purchased before. Hmm. I didn't know Rain*X made a fruit drink.

J.
 
Maybe the parents of those kids will sue the beyatch that did this. I don't care if it was an accident. She was negligent.
 
This just confirms the notion the rest of the world has that entire parts of North America are clinically brain dead.
 
What are they doing feeding those kids cool aid in the first place? They should be having mineral water or natural juices, especially at that age. If we found out our little ones were given that shit at nursery, we would have freaked!
 
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