It is becoming increasingly clear to me that the most dangerous people to handle this deadly chemical- “The Devil’s element” after morons working for Albright and Wilson and their waste contractors are military muppets- at least in the UK.
The home guard, the fire guard, bomb disposal that dispersed the spray rather than contain it; I have written about all of these. As the article below attests from 19th March 1960 Newark Herald, we now have the R.E.M.E to add to that list. I had to look up that acronym I must admit. The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) are supposedly the British Armies professional engineers. 😆
Obviously, all was not well in Nottingham at this time when kids had been pinching stocks of abandoned P4- here interestingly named as “yellow phosphorus” in this article which is the preferred bullshit name for it in industry. One kid had been seriously burnt by the mobile “chalk”. He would of course be lucky to survive given the systemic effects of this poison on the body. Not the first time that “peril to children” had been mentioned in connection with this substance.
When one reads articles such as this it underlines the sheer incompetence of those in power to deal with such artefacts and the likely reason that Albright and Wilson were probably the ones who had supplied it to imbeciles in uniforms to start with. They would also be likely to get it back to conveniently dispose of- such was their connections with said military outlets. All too often the casualties of phoney war were civilians and wildlife, the only aggressors, those supposed tasked with protecting the UK from none existent real threats, except the ones they made themselves.
I had to smile at the comment made by a science teacher “Anyone who would dump this stuff is a fool and – well it’s a criminal action”. But a certain UK company were allowed to do that with impunity by all of those in authority.
