Well that's just fine, but how do you know they'll listen? Some children, I've heard, do the exact opposite of what the parents want, just to test them!

Yeah, so?

lol

Books are "children's products" too. Looks like its a smart time to hit resale shops and stock up on deadly books, toys, and clothing....

We are a middle-class, single income family who will be financially ruined if unable to purchase used children's clothing, toys, and books. We may be able to avoid total financial devastation... by not buying anything for our children ever again. There's no way this law is enforceable.

My brother and mom and I were talking about how my brother and I used to play with mercury, snagged from the HS chem lab. Also, once we wanted to see how high the thermometer would go so we put a pan of water on the stove; the thermometer melted. So we just poured the mercury-laden water down the drain.

We also played with, I think manganese strips? Somehow we would make them burn or spark or something. Also snagged from chem lab. Mom said they used to play with pennies in mercury.

Nowadays you'd have hazmat hell. But none of it hurt any...(keels over dead.):dead3:

Probably magnesium? You can buy magnesium firestarters at camping stores.

Ahhh, yes...that was it!

Chem lab was completely unguarded...anyone taking chem could go into the chemical room. I bet it's not like that now. [\oldlady]

It's already being fixed:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,6917858.story

And even if the law still passes without the amendment, they're not intending to make it stick:

"the most dangerous products." Like Marvin's Marvelous Mercury Milkshake Maker, Fart-n-Flame, and Plastic Bag Playhouse.

Don't forget "Bag O' Broken Glass."

Irwin Mainway is in trouble...

Naptime Noose

*Wicked grin* My secondary school was a little rough around the edges, and our Chem teacher was a burned out cynic who hated teaching and would have gone back into industry in a heartbeat, but was too near retirement for anyone to take him on. He'd be sporadically interested in teaching us and then he'd bugger off leaving us with 'projects' to do. The labtechs were always leaving cupboards unlocked. We got up to all sorts of shit. Remember those big, heavy glass jars with rubber sealed plungey (not the technical name) lids? There were two of these with sulphuric acid in them. They rolled down the corridor in a particularly satisfying way....all rumble and slosh.

What's that grey putty stuff that explodes on contact with water? Chem teacher took us and the entire school supply round back to the 'nature reserve' and demonstrated its explosive properties by bombing frogs.

I wasn't actually present when Lab 2 (prefab) went up. But I don't think anybody was truly surprised.

This all sounds like another way to avoid cracking down on China for the hazardous crap they send here. Let's clean up after them now, and suffer again for their exploitation of our demands.

I can't believe they turned us into a nation of hazardous waste. And now we have to do a quarantine of everything sold.....They need to come here and test every questionable item they sent packing...

We should really do it. Test it all, load up the poisons, and send it in aircrafts back, dumping it in their cities.

Do you really think it was us that recently poisoned the beads with drugs? Why should I clean up after China?

$80B of t-bills a month is why