A re-run of Law & Order on TNT this evening was about 9/11. In the story, a woman invites the investigating detectives into her home to talk so she can keep an eye on her husband who is in a hospital bed. Her husband , who worked at Ground Zero for weeks, is dying from leukemia.
The woman tells the detectives that his leukemia was caused by mercury poisoning, "from all the busted fluorescent light bulbs."
The ban on incandescent light bulbs begins to go into effect in 2012 but the public has nothing to fear from the new Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFL).
All you have to do is follow the simple clean-up rules for a broken CFL: ventilate, evacuate, and destroy everything your broken mercury bulb has come into contact with or contaminated. If you have a few extra thousand bucks lying around, you can call for a professional cleanup. If not, just seal off the contaminated room in your house for eternity. Thanks for this great nanny state ban, algore!
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