The Attack Of The Soda Machines!!!

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When vending machines attack

Texas drink dispenser emits WWI-era poison gas

Updated: 6:26 p.m. ET June 24, 2004

HOUSTON - An exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War I, and forced the evacuation of 10 people from a Texas hospital, officials said Thursday.

A food service employee was working on the refrigerated soft drink machine at the Park Place Medical Center in Port Arthur, Texas, when a small explosion and fire occurred inside it Wednesday morning, Port Arthur Fire Marshal Mark Mulliner said.

“When freon gas from the cooling system came into contact with the heat from the fire, it changed composition to a phosgene gas,” Mulliner said.

Phosgene irritates the lungs, eyes, mouth and nose and, in strong enough concentrations, causes fatal amounts of fluid to build up in the lungs.

Ten people on the third floor of the hospital were evacuated for several hours while the area was ventilated, said Heather Ross of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Two firefighters were kept in the hospital overnight for observation, Ross said.

“We were fortunate one of our officers who was first on the scene had some familiarity with phosgene and quickly evacuated the area,” Mulliner said.

Ross said state Homeland Security officials had to be notified of the incident because of phosgene’s possible use as a chemical weapon.

Mulliner said the incident appeared to be a “freak accident.”

“I’ve been here 27 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said.
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Whoa... this is fucked up! :eek:
 
VamPyroX said:
Whoa... this is fucked up! :eek:
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Whoa! scary! Im not gonna go near any soda pop machine! we will be on the road Thursday so gonna bring my own pop and bottled water in ice chest! heh!
 
Defee said:
Whoa! scary! Im not gonna go near any soda pop machine! we will be on the road Thursday so gonna bring my own pop and bottled water in ice chest! heh!
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This is actually a one-in-a-billion incident. So, you don't have to worry about it. :)
 
Lol, yeah, Defee, Vamp's right; you stand a better chance of winning the lottery than you are of having the above happen to you! :mrgreen:
 
Tousi said:
Lol, yeah, Defee, Vamp's right; you stand a better chance of winning the lottery than you are of having the above happen to you! :mrgreen:
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Oh i know that...im just popping off (no pun intended)...lol!
 
Now how do they know this wasn't an al Quida attack or an attack by Iraqi insurgents? Was the soda machine hiding weapons of mass destruction? Was the soda machine a Coke machine and did a terrorist sleeper cell implant the symbol of American borgiousism/ colonialism with the gasses?
 
deafdyke said:
Now how do they know this wasn't an al Quida attack or an attack by Iraqi insurgents? Was the soda machine hiding weapons of mass destruction? Was the soda machine a Coke machine and did a terrorist sleeper cell implant the symbol of American borgiousism/ colonialism with the gasses?
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I hate to say this... :crazy:
 
Wow...those people who were evacuated were fortunate enough to be evacuated in time! Hope those 2 firefighters recovered alright from the incident.
 
geez :crazy: oh well...never heard of that happen before anyways.
 
deafdyke said:
Now how do they know this wasn't an al Quida attack or an attack by Iraqi insurgents? Was the soda machine hiding weapons of mass destruction? Was the soda machine a Coke machine and did a terrorist sleeper cell implant the symbol of American borgiousism/ colonialism with the gasses?
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A little paranoid, aint ya? Ohhh dont kick my arse...just playin with ya!
 
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