On 8/24/2013 7:29 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
The Daring Dufas wrote:

On 8/23/2013 5:02 PM, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:37:58 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

I was thinking that copper is used to make the full metal jacket on
bullets, I suppose copper in that form can be quite toxic along with the
lead component of the bullet? O_o

TDD

I've never seen a duck die from lead poisoning. Gun shot, sure.

What about real copper pennies from years ago? Folks never became sick
from handling them.


I can imagine a few pets or even children becoming very sick or even
dying from ingesting the coins. O_o

TDD

YOu can get zinc poisoning from eating current coins. When I was still
working Psych we had a kid come in from the state hospital who took the
term "snack money" literally. We actually had to transfuse him twice
before we could get hemoglobin up to where they could operate. Took out
almos $20 when the opened him up and that didn't include the $6.75 he...
shall we say passed.. during the three days we were tuning him up.


Cheech & Chong had a comedy routine where a fellow is complaining about
his son Heimie shoving everything up his nose. ^_^

TDD