The alkaloid poisons that some species of tree frogs secrete on their skin can kill on contact.
But you’d need to squeeze a lot of frogs to paint a car.
Falling pianos.
“It’s always darkest just before the piano falls on you.” --Oliver Faltz
Not only do we have poisonous spiders and poisonous snakes, we have freaking poisonous trees! Kinda makes you proud to be an Australian sniff.
Never forget the Australian Paralysis Tick. I’m not kidding.
Yes, back in the “day” school educational films were often developed to scare children into doing the “right” or “healthy” thing.
Many of the driver’s education videos back then were insanely violent, showing extremely gory car accidents to try and make people buckle-up and drive safe.
According to a friend of mine who is a driver’s ed teacher, he used the videos in the early 80s without getting in any trouble. He said they had the effect of scaring kids into buckling up maybe that day when they went home from school. But after a few days they’d go back to their old habits.
Yes, it could, but I think it would take more than one would get from merely touching a car door coated with the stuff. And it would be far less than instant, methanol poisoning is a painful death, as your organs all start failing left and right. Also, alcohol evaporates a LOT quicker than water, so unless you know the guy is going to be touching is car in the next couple of minutes, it ain’t gonan work for this puropse. However, if we perfom the old ‘bucket of water above the doorway’ trick with methanol, NOW we’re in business…assuming our business is killing people, that is.
From the Tree of Life:
It says the toxin is Homobatrachotoxin, but it doesn’t say if it’s lethal or not. The article itself says that it’s a neurotoxin, so my guess is that it could kill if there was enough of it.
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I don’t think he’s asking about drowning. You did mean di-hydrogen monoxide, right?
Come on guys, get it right. He didn’t paint the van with the poison, he just sprayed it on the door handle.
Can you imagine? There’s a machine out in the hallway where you press a button, and this stuff comes out in a continuous stream. I tell ya, it’s an accident waiting to happen!
Well, since we’re now in September, we can start collecting nominations for a new “Best Quote of the Month to be Taken Out Of Context.”
ah this is all very helpfull but let me see if i can get a little more specific.
this substance was painted on the car handle. as soon as the poor sap touched it, there was an obvious burning sensation and it made a sizzling noise. he pulled his hand back and tried wiping it off. within ten seconds he was foaming at the mouth and then within thirty seconds he was lying on the ground, either or unconcious. is there anything that would do anything even CLOSE to this?
Very few things sizzle when they hit the skin. Most of those that do are reacting with the water on the surface of the skin, and would react with water in the air if you painted them on door handles.
The sizzle and burn is put in for the same reason that the USS Enterprise makes a wooshing sound as it goes by at warp 9.
Maybe----powdered metalic Sodium? Covered in a thin layer of petroleum jelly or silicone gell, to protect it from air?
The petroleum jelly would also protect the sodium from reacting with your hands. Even if it did react, all you’d get is a sizzle and burning sensation. You wouldn’t be frothing at the mouth and dead in a few minutes.
A 16-ton weight.
What about pointed sticks?
ok, ok, the joke has been made. give it a rest.
“Doc! Quick, help! I think I touched some ethyl-s-2-diisopropylaminoethylmethylphos… urrggggh”