New safety laws for kid stuff

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Ahhh, yes...that was it!

Chem lab was completely unguarded...anyone taking chem could go into the chemical room. I bet it's not like that now. [\oldlady]

*Wicked grin* My secondary school was a little rough around the edges, and our Chem teacher was a burned out cynic who hated teaching and would have gone back into industry in a heartbeat, but was too near retirement for anyone to take him on. He'd be sporadically interested in teaching us and then he'd bugger off leaving us with 'projects' to do. The labtechs were always leaving cupboards unlocked. We got up to all sorts of shit. Remember those big, heavy glass jars with rubber sealed plungey (not the technical name) lids? There were two of these with sulphuric acid in them. They rolled down the corridor in a particularly satisfying way....all rumble and slosh.

What's that grey putty stuff that explodes on contact with water? Chem teacher took us and the entire school supply round back to the 'nature reserve' and demonstrated its explosive properties by bombing frogs.

I wasn't actually present when Lab 2 (prefab) went up. But I don't think anybody was truly surprised.