Woman Dies After Accidentally Drinking Torch Oil

New Jersey poison control officials said a Burlington County woman has died and five other people have been sickened in separate incidents around the state after accidentally drinking small amounts of oil used ...

[Maria]

Im confused. Didnt she realize when she was drinking this that it did not taste like apple juice? Apple Juice would be in the refrigerator and torch fuel would not. there has to be more to this.

[wow]

Maria wrote:

Im confused. Didnt she realize when she was drinking this that it did not taste like apple juice? Apple Juice would be in the refrigerator and torch fuel would not. there has to be more to this.

She was 84 years old, so she could have placed the torch fuel in the fridge in the first place instead of the juice. Bad vision I suppose??!!

Or someone who knew her could have replaced in on purpose because they knew she could not see good! There are a lot of possibilities.

Considering the similarities of the bottles and the number of incidents, something should be done about this. Like putting a big red sign all over the bottle POISON!!! DO NOT DRINK! If that wasn't already written on the bottle.

[barf]

how dumb can you be????

[Marc]

That stuff stinks (smells really strong). As you bring it to your nose you can tell from more then a foot away. Even if your selling is bad the texture is different as is the taste. Wouldn't you spit it out right away? I can understand maybe and that's a big maybe, 1 person doing this while they are say, drunk. But a few people? That just does not make sense. Maybe it is just Jersey people.

[Mako]

barf wrote:

how dumb can you be????

Why don't you tell us? You seem to know.