Read the Label
There was a big scare in 1982 when
seven people died after taking Tylenol.
It was determined that someone had tampered with the bottles and included Cyanide and replaced the bottles onto the shelves.
No one has ever been caught although James Lewis was convicted of attempting to extort $1 million from Johnson & Johnson after the fact. He did jail for about half of a 20 year sentence.
Now someone has done the same thing with a popular energy drink in Taiwan although this time, the poisoner clearly labeled the drink with the following: "I am poisonous. Please do not drink."
The
Houston Chronicle has the story:
Cyanide victims think 'poison' warning a slogan
A man in Taiwan has died and four others were poisoned after drinking a popular bottled fizzy drink laced with cyanide and labeled "I am poisonous. Please do not drink."
Some of the victims thought the warning was a new advertising slogan, police said on Thursday.
The manufacturer of Bullwild energy drink, Paolyta Co., ordered an island-wide recall of about 1.2 million to 1.6 million bottles. The drink, which is popular among taxi drivers and workers, has also been taken off shelves in Hong Kong and Macau.
Sheesh! Wonder what was going through the poisoners mind -- was this some form of 'superiority complex' and they were administering an intelligence test.
They deserve a long time in the loony bin far away from the rest of the world.
Posted by DaveH at May 21, 2005 9:32 PM