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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris on March 13, 2009, 02:02:35 PM

Title: 10 Kids Sickened at Arkansas Daycare After Mistaking Wiper Fluid for Kool-Aid
Post by: Chris on March 13, 2009, 02:02:35 PM: 10 Kids Sickened at Arkansas Daycare After Mistaking Wiper Fluid for Kool-Aid (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509098,00.html)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. â€” Ten children drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer at an Arkansas day care served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, authorities said Friday.

The day care owner surrendered her state license, meaning she wouldn't be able to take care of children in the future, said Julie Munsell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services.

Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid late Thursday afternoon before realizing it tasted wrong, said Laura James, a pediatric pharmacologist and toxicologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock.

(more...) (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509098,00.html)

How does this happen? :thatsright:
Title: Re: 10 Kids Sickened at Arkansas Daycare After Mistaking Wiper Fluid for Kool-Aid
Post by: Georgia Bulldog on March 13, 2009, 07:47:04 PM: Whiskey...Tango...Foxtrot...just where did they find the uber-competent employees that worked at this daycare?
Title: Re: 10 Kids Sickened at Arkansas Daycare After Mistaking Wiper Fluid for Kool-Aid
Post by: rich_t on March 13, 2009, 07:58:52 PM: Quote from: Georgia Bulldog on March 13, 2009, 07:47:04 PM
Whiskey...Tango...Foxtrot...just where did they find the uber-competent employees that worked at this daycare?

It was just some woman baby sitting from her house. Not what I'd consider a daycare center.
Title: Re: 10 Kids Sickened at Arkansas Daycare After Mistaking Wiper Fluid for Kool-Aid
Post by: Chris on March 13, 2009, 08:00:31 PM: I saw a follow-up on CNN... she went grocery shopping and put the washer fluid in her refrigerator when she was putting the food away. You'd think the childproof cap on the bottle of "juice" would have been a tip. :whatever:
Title: Re: 10 Kids Sickened at Arkansas Daycare After Mistaking Wiper Fluid for Kool-Aid
Post by: rich_t on March 13, 2009, 08:02:18 PM: Quote from: Chris on March 13, 2009, 08:00:31 PM
I saw a follow-up on CNN... she went grocery shopping and put the washer fluid in her refrigerator when she was putting the food away. You'd think the childproof cap on the bottle of "juice" would have been a tip. :whatever:

Not to mention the poison control label that was probably on the bottle.
Title: Re: 10 Kids Sickened at Arkansas Daycare After Mistaking Wiper Fluid for Kool-Aid
Post by: Georgia Bulldog on March 13, 2009, 08:03:20 PM: Quote from: rich_t on March 13, 2009, 07:58:52 PM
It was just some woman baby sitting from her house. Not what I'd consider a daycare center.

Ooops, I skimmed over it quickly. Sometimes reading things in a hurry does have its drawbacks.