Yeah...I saw that and wondered why if the man was still coherent, the paramedics didn't immediately try to get him to drink activated charcoal? It would not have hurt him at all since it is an adsorbent.
But since I wasn't there to see the incident, I suppose that would be easy for me to just talk about using charcoal from where I sit. It could be they were afraid of being contaminated too from something that they had absolutely no idea of what it was. Very understandable.
I remember many times being called down to the Emergency room not knowing what I was going to face when I got there. I have been covered in blood from wrecks. Seen open heart massage. Burn victims. I didn't see this one, but my co-worker went to ER for a code on a man who set himself on fire. His eyes, nose, mouth and ears were fused together and she could not get an open airway to do artificial respiration. They couldn't get an emergency tracheotomy done fast enough for him to survive. He probably would not have survived anyway because he had third degree (charred) burns over 80% of his body. We've seen people whose heads nearly cut off. Combine accidents where a kidney can be viewed from the wound. Broken bones from head to toe. Heart Attacks. People wild-out on drugs. Gunshot. Just about anything. Once we had a 22 month old who found and ate rat poison and her mamma didn't know it. She took her to the babysitters and the child collapsed there. It was heart-wrenching to see the big bleed inside her head on the C-T scan.
I am amazed that kind of highly poisonous pesticide was able to be in public possession. And he had so much of it...48 pounds? And only a smidgen of that could kill a full grown man in 30 minutes. That some powerful poison.
But then our country bans pesticides like DDT, then imports food from other countries that use DDT on the crops and sells those crops to us.
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