Suicide by Chemical in Austin

[TRAILBLAZER]

Stay weird my friends !

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/14/one-dead-11-hurt-after-after-toxic-gas-released-in-likely-chemical-suicide-near-university-texas.html

[svauto-erotic855]

That is a very common way to kill yourself in Japan. Google "detergent suicide".

It is also a great way to take out a SWAT team if the point of entry is downstairs and it can be isolated from the upstairs. Acid poured onto lime can serve the same function. A really good respirator can save you from the first one but can do nothing against the second. Using both would be the best tactic.

[SS Junk]

That is a very common way to kill yourself in Japan. Google "detergent suicide".....

[svauto-erotic855]

^^^ I don't have a story to tell about this one. I found the info when I was researching how to make a large amount of lethal gas quickly.

[Shaggin Wagon]

I've tried several times to do at chemical attack at work with methane, hasn't killed anyone, just pissed off a few people....

[Craizie]

I've tried several times to do at chemical attack at work with methane, hasn't killed anyone, just pissed off a few people....

I'm at the front of the row in my office. People think I have a fan on my desk because I get hot.... It's to blow the ass gas down range.

[Strychnine]

H2S is pretty nasty. I wonder what concentration he got in there - enough to kill in a breath or two, or did he get the 30-60 min death with convulsions and all the other good stuff?

[GrayStangGT]

Should of had his H2S monitor and hard hat on, someone had better call the safety man.

[Shaggin Wagon]

I'm at the front of the row in my office. People think I have a fan on my desk because I get hot.... It's to blow the ass gas down range.

[line-em-up]

I want to live.

[Hobie]

Suicide level: Chem-major; see also "Asian"

[jefehbk]

^^^ I don't have a story to tell about this one. I found the info when I was researching how to make a large amount of lethal gas quickly.

I'm sure you can come with something

[svauto-erotic855]

H2S is pretty nasty. I wonder what concentration he got in there - enough to kill in a breath or two, or did he get the 30-60 min death with convulsions and all the other good stuff?

From what I have read the levels that are produce are several hundred times higher then what is needed for a near instant death.

Edit: Found a story saying there was a reading of 30000 part per million in one case.

[stephen4785]

Should of had his H2S monitor and hard hat on, someone had better call the safety man.

I got an argument with the safety guys at Chesapeake one time. We had to stick our h2s meters in a calibration station once a week. The calibrators used a pressured bottle of H2S to test the sensors in the meters. The problem is that these stations exhausted in whatever room they were in so you would constantly smell H2s(rotten eggs). The test gas bottle said 50ppm on the bottles. During our safety meeting about H2S these safety morons would tell us that any concentration of H2S is bad and we should not be exposed to any H2S for any reason without proper ppe. When I brought up the fact that calibration stations dumped H2S out of them into the small mechanics room they said "Oh, well its not enough to hurt you or anything". I reminded them that they told us if you could smell it it was too much H2S. I argued this for a while and then was told to stop asking questions about it by the superintendent. Gotta love oilfield antics.

[LANTIRN]

I got an argument with the safety guys at Chesapeake one time. We had to stick our h2s meters in a calibration station once a week. The calibrators used a pressured bottle of H2S to test the sensors in the meters. The problem is that these stations exhausted in whatever room they were in so you would constantly smell H2s(rotten eggs). The test gas bottle said 50ppm on the bottles. During our safety meeting about H2S these safety morons would tell us that any concentration of H2S is bad and we should not be exposed to any H2S for any reason without proper ppe. When I brought up the fact that calibration stations dumped H2S out of them into the small mechanics room they said "Oh, well its not enough to hurt you or anything". I reminded them that they told us if you could smell it it was too much H2S. I argued this for a while and then was told to stop asking questions about it by the superintendent. Gotta love oilfield antics.

Yep. It is unsafe to do and prohibited, until we need you to do it to get the job done so we can make money, then you can't refuse because we said so. Saw that shit way too often when I worked in the oil field.