Rich Grise wrote:
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That's typical government wisdumb for you. Make laws based on hysteria.

Cheers!
Rich

Yeah, that's the stoopid guv'mint for ya! If they was just as smart as
we was, they wouldn't ban all this neat stuff.

According to a hazmat data sheet I have, carbon tet (which can be
absorbed by breathing, skin contact, or ingestion) causes damage to the
liver, kidneys, heart, adrenal glands, and nervous system, and is
particularly dangerous to people who have recently consumed alcohol, are
exceedingly fleshy or are undernourished, or have other problems like
hypertension. You can smell it at a concentration of 70 ppm; toxicity is
known at concentrations of 5 ppm.

I used the stuff quite a bit when I was a kid, and I'm just fine (I
think) so that's obvious proof that it's all a bunch of hogwash and a
government conspiracy.

Personally, I favor allowing anyone to buy and sell any kind of
hazardous chemical or object. By banning them, we've interfered with
natural selection, which seems to be resulting in a less and less
intelligent population. A sort of "unintelligent design" as it were.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL