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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:55:04 +0000, Martin Brown
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An innocent looking but aging and brittle 5L plastic pink parafin
container in a greenhouse that on careful inspection turned out to be
full of 35% HF ("glass cleaner"). I put it down again very very
carefully. Had it ruptured I would be dead. Specialist disposal
required. The HF *safety* film is notorious for causing lost time
accidents. *

.... the worst I ever encountered while clearing out a shed was jars
full of cyanide but I think that HF beats that. I remember seeing
(probably the same?) HF safety film - probably one of the grossest
things I have ever seen!

My grandfather worked in an armaments factory and lived in a
secluded spot on the banks of a famous salmon river. After he died, his
shed was cleared out by the bomb squad :~}

Janet

In the army in the late 60s/70s, I used to regularly have to sit through a
film called "not worth dying for", about the dangers of mishandling
ammunition and explosives. Now that was gross, and very graphic. One scene
was about an artillery man who brought the fuse of a shell home and
proceeeded to take it apart in his shed with a pair of pliers. Trashed the
shed, himself and his little brother, very gruesomely.

Steve

My own recollection of a warning film is slightly less gruesome:
I remember once when I used to do the audit of the Educational Foundation
for Visual Aids, we had a query on the stocktake as a film entitled 'Quarter
of a Million Teenagers' seemed to have zero stock. The film was a cautionary
tale about VD (as STD's were then called). The film librarian airily solved
the mystery, "Oh" she said "It's still there, but it's been re-named. Now
it's Half a million Teenagers".