On Fri, 10 May 1996, Ernest E. Gilbert wrote:
> Don't even worry about the 'drip SWAT squad.' Friend of mine, being
environmentally responsible, used a modern degradable friendly soap to
clean up the oil drips. Unfortunately in the gutter the soap looked
exactly like coolant.
> Those sirens were the HazMat team and the bill he got for the response
was huge and real even though the environmental threat was only in the
imagination of a neighbor. That yellow tape is expensive when delivered
this way.
Tell me you're kidding. A neighbor calls in a false alarm on him and
*he* gets a bill for the response? Those "freemen" holed up in Montana
begin to seem saner when you hear things like this.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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