I don't see how it could have been anything *but* deliberate. Here are the details again:
The Cajundome is no longer being used as a refugee camp. The situations there... One friend of mine had walked there with a friend of his whose car was parked in their parking lot. They met a woman who appeared to be frothing at the mouth. She managed to choke out that she had gotten a glass of water from someone who appeared to be a [v]olunteer. After getting her to an EMT, they learned that her water had been spiked with bleach.
This event took place in Lafayette, where there was no need to treat local water yourself. The woman had been handed the water by someone who either was, or was impersonating, a relief volunteer. Finally, the amount of bleach it takes to make someone that sick is enough that it's extremely unlikely to have been done accidentally; think about how much bleach is in swimming-pool water, yet that's (relatively) safe to drink.
I wish I could believe that your non-intentional theory was plausible. I prefer to be an optimistic pragmatist. But I have to go with the EMT on this one.
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Re: Water spiked with bleach
Date: 2005-09-10 05:43 pm (UTC)The Cajundome is no longer being used as a refugee camp. The situations there... One friend of mine had walked there with a friend of his whose car was parked in their parking lot. They met a woman who appeared to be frothing at the mouth. She managed to choke out that she had gotten a glass of water from someone who appeared to be a [v]olunteer. After getting her to an EMT, they learned that her water had been spiked with bleach.
This event took place in Lafayette, where there was no need to treat local water yourself. The woman had been handed the water by someone who either was, or was impersonating, a relief volunteer. Finally, the amount of bleach it takes to make someone that sick is enough that it's extremely unlikely to have been done accidentally; think about how much bleach is in swimming-pool water, yet that's (relatively) safe to drink.
I wish I could believe that your non-intentional theory was plausible. I prefer to be an optimistic pragmatist. But I have to go with the EMT on this one.