At a Sunday press conference calling for stricter rules on concentrated laundry detergent pod packaging that some children have mistaken for candy, New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer admitted that even he has felt drawn to down a few detergent pods himself.
“The incidents are skyrocketing,” the New York Daily News reported Schumer said during a joint press conference with medical professionals. “These pods were supposed to make household chores easier, not tempt our children to swallow harmful chemicals. I saw one on my staffer’s desk and I wanted to eat it…”
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Evidently, some Senators need more adult supervision.
How’d the staffer get a packet of powder through security?
Given Chuckie’s track record with truthiness, I call shenanigans.
About 20 years ago, a big company put all these little bottles on everybodys doorknobs. It just said, “Lemon”, or something like that. It didn’t say it was some new dishwashing detergent.
I guess you can figure out what happened after that.
^ Yup.
Another time, one of those household products companies came out with a new toilet-bowl freshener (you know, the kind you stick in the tank that adds some blue chemical to the water to kill bacteria).
This one was “lemon-fresh”. And coloured yellow.
Didn’t last long on the market …..
^ So are you saying that someone mistook it for a lemon?
Some say that evolution’s influence is no longer operational, but then you hear of deaths resulting from eating detergent because of the attractive packaging. I say, if somebody dies from eating a little laundry lozenge attractively packaged — hey, just let them go.
Especially if a ‘senator’ does it^^.
Be sure to keep your video camera at the ready. For
AFVposterity, you know.When my Mom was a kid, ex-lax sent out samples of their new chocolate flavored product. She checked every mailbox on her block and the next. . .
Some experiences are meant for learning, some are best to have adults stop the kiddoes and teach them.
Shit! You mean that wasn’t a lemon suppository?
Why? Ah…. never mind.
erm… wouldn’t a normal human stop eating the pretty shiny thing when it tasted of f’n SOAP?!?
[no - not Chuckie. I said "normal"]
and – if they force companies to repackage [becausetheyareourbettersdonchaknow™] — wouldn’t the soap eaters just eat the powder out of the box? Like on TLC?
Chuckie! Deficit!! Focus!!! *smack*
What’s more deadly in NYC, eating detergent or washing it down with a Super Size Big Gulp?
“I saw one on my staffer’s desk and I wanted to eat it.”
I for one wish you had, Chuckie.
What? the staff does their laundry at work now? UMM what did he want to eat the staffer or the laundry pod?
Mayor Bloomberg passes a new law prohibiting leaving food or what appears to be food, where any New Yark Senator can get to it!!!!!!!
WTF happened to the adults?? OK, they may not be able to defend against front door knob hangers with stuff that looks like lemon aide, but how about in the house?
Put the stuff up out of reach, and/or, kid proof locks on the cupboards where the stuff is kept.
Yannow, like a Responsible Parent!
(Dems? Oh, wait. Nevermind.)
Try the Drano crystals, Chuck…just like Pop Rocks.
^^ don’t forget the coca cola. Sorta like Mikey!
Once, when I was a kid, we got a package of dog treats in the mail.My mother waited until we all got home and then told us it was beef jerky.I sure wish chuckles shumer had been there that day.
Rickn8or. You beat me to it. Would sure soive SOME of our problems