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Five NJ residents have been hospitalized and one has died after drinking oil used to light tiki torches. Apparently the victims from Burlington and Bergen Counties believed they were drinking apple juice, but it's actually a kerosene-like substance (one victim was an 8-year-old girl who now has permanent lung damage; another person "mistook the oil for bottled water and tried to make coffee, but didn't get sick"). NJ Poison Information and Education System executive director Steve Marcus says, "During my 40 years in medicine, you get an occasional kid who ingests kerosene, but I have never seen this kind of cluster." The product is Tiki Torch Fuel from Lamplight Farms Inc.
Do Not Drink the Tiki Torch Oil!
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Sounds like Darwin almost had a good night.
my pee looks like apple juice. would they drink my pee, if i put it in a bottle labeled "pee"?
They weed themselves out.
Tiki Torch Oil != Water for a coffeemaker.
Retards. Watch them sue claiming that they did not properly label the bottle with big enough letters so that their blind dumb asses can read.
Who keeps their Tiki oil in the refrigerator?
With the earths limited resources we need to start doing this more. I am going to start putting tiki oil in the frige at work in the same tiki bottle and let the fun begin.
just the thing to wash down that chore-boy sandwich
hmm...last week nyc poison control had a table set up at an home expo that focused on bed bugs, lead paint, asthma triggers, etc...
the poison control dept had a whole table set up with household cleaners and the like, next to food or bevergage products that look very similar. def an 8 yrl old could make that mistake. I think they had a small bottle of kerosene next to a bottle of honey.
Darwin used to call these stupid-clusters
You guys are awfully flip about someone dying. People get poisoned all the time from accidental ingestion. I wouldn't call that funny.
How do you mistake a yellowish oil for water??
"How do you mistake a yellowish oil for water??"
Kerosene is usually clear.
wouldnt you know after the first whiff that it wasnt apple juice or water?
morons.
@matty
"How do you mistake a yellowish oil for water??"
Kerosene is usually clear.
But the other person thought it was "apple juice" which isn't clear. It's either clear or yellowish. The article did say that, "the bottle has a warning label, written in both English and Spanish." We're not being flip about people dying but you have to have certain level of intelligence to garner any sort of sympathy.
"Soda, purple stuff.. Hey, Tiki Torch Oil!"
Myrna: "What do you have to drink?"
Oscar: "Brown juice and Green juice."
Myrna: "What's the difference?"
Oscar: "Two weeks."
"Kerosene is usually clear.
"But the other person thought it was 'apple juice' which isn't clear. It's either clear or yellowish."
Fortunately, there's a picture of it right at the top of the page so this debate can be settled. It's clearly yellowish.
Plus, water and apple juice do not have the same consistency as kerosene. Reminds me a bit of the SNL commercial for clear gravy that mocked Clear Pepsi.
Tiki Torch Oil looks like apple juice. Actual kerosene is a similar substance, but it is clear.
Matty - I agree, the level of compassion exhibited by most of this site's posters is on par with the employees at Kings County Hospital.
Mistook the oil for bottled water??
Then someone else mistook the oil for baby formula, then someone else thought it was cough medicine, then someone else...
Everyone's amazed that these people could make such mistakes, but need I point out, it IS Jersey we're talking about here...
We're not being flip about people dying but you have to have certain level of intelligence to garner any sort of sympathy.
Uh, somebody poured the oil for the dead woman. You fools are so quick to judge that you don't bother to read. It must make you feel so superior, as if you never made mistakes in your life. Ditto for the Jersey bigotry. I know people in Jersey who are almost certainly more intelligent than the rabid bunch here.
Where's Jake or Jen when you need them?