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(Washington Post) Scary Living on a former US Army chemical warfare testing range is great up until your feet turn black   (washingtonpost.com) divider line 50
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The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
2011-12-12 12:57:40 PM
You know what your mom says about a guy with black feet.
 
MagSeven
2011-12-12 01:01:43 PM
content9.flixster.com
 
elev8meL8r
2011-12-12 01:02:00 PM
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: You know what your mom says about a guy with black feet.

www.old-picture.com

approves
 
Karac
2011-12-12 01:04:05 PM
Short article - don't buy a house located on a former military base, half of them could qualify as superfund sites.
 
elev8meL8r
2011-12-12 01:04:18 PM
From the other side of her coffee table, her husband, Buff, quips, "Don't you recognize your own back yard?"

What, were Chaz, Poppy, and Dash too busy waxing the Bimmer before their trip to the Hamptons?
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 01:04:48 PM
The original labs at Wally Reed had floors with 1/8" gaps so any spilled 'whatever' could be brushed to the ground beneath them.

/was with the company that did site remediation there
//csb
 
Smeggy Smurf
2011-12-12 01:07:31 PM
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: You know what your mom says about a guy with black feet.

Put the fifty on the nightstand on your way out
 
mytdawg
2011-12-12 01:10:52 PM
Over the past two decades, the Army Corps of Engineers has excavated pockets of their wealthy, tree-lined neighborhood, which was built over the Army's World War I chemical warfare testing grounds, to analyze possible contamination.

We hold these truths to be self evident.
 
Leeds
2011-12-12 01:11:09 PM
I believe you are seriously underestimating chemical warfare's sneakiness.
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-12-12 01:11:22 PM
If residents of Washington, D.C., were warped/mutated/poisoned by toxic chemicals how would the rest of us know the difference?
 
jmadisonbiii
2011-12-12 01:14:22 PM
blogs.westword.com

Ain't that bad
 
Shaunn
2011-12-12 01:17:26 PM
Spring Valley is a beautiful neighborhood in DC... I hope the price drops enough for me to be able to afford it
 
nickerj1
2011-12-12 01:19:29 PM
I was once a resident of a US Army chemical warfare testing range, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
 
Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom
2011-12-12 01:20:25 PM
These are the 1%
 
FloydA [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 01:25:56 PM
Down at the arsenal they keep the nerve gasses
Guarded day and night by caged white rabbits
Been sitting there for years
I'm gonna have at it
I cut through the fence, run right in and grab it
Go crazy crazy crazy crazy:

Now I got my own mustard gas in my pocket
Climb on a tree on a branch and drop it
On a country club full of Saturday golfers
So I can watch them die chokin' shakin' in convulsions
Go crazy crazy crazy crazy
Crazy crazy crazy crazy:

Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare
Chemical Warfare Warfare Warfare

Panic in the air
See the headless chickens runnin'
Golf carts head on crashin'
Crackin' heads wide open
Scratch the grass, mister, you can't breathe
And roll and writhe in a sand trap
Starting to heave
Claw those clubs, lemme see you seethe
Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy

Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare
Chemical Warfare Warfare Warfare

Yellow air
Yellow clouds
Blowin' down down down the fairway
Sensitive to the touch
Mowin' down- down the putting green
Heading straight for the big clubhouse
Where the stuffed country club
Effervescent ladies, so carefree
Relax, pose by the pool
Limber limp with a dry martini
Until...


Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare
Chemical Warfare Warfare Warfare (new window)
 
howdyyall9999
2011-12-12 01:28:23 PM
I doubt there are any black feet in that neighborhood
 
Mentalpatient87
2011-12-12 01:28:55 PM
HotIgneous Intruder: If residents of Washington, D.C., were warped/mutated/poisoned by toxic chemicals how would the rest of us know the difference?

images.wikia.com
They start calling us "dum dums" and using bottle caps as currency?
 
randomstranger
2011-12-12 01:29:05 PM
As someone who grew up in Dugway Proving Grounds, this article is somethingsomethingsomething.
 
jst3p
2011-12-12 01:31:48 PM
But compared with the demographically similar Chevy Chase community,

It is fun living there for about the first 15 minutes, then it is repetitive and annoying. Vacations are great though.

/oddly enough Community is, in my opinion, some of his funniest work
 
cirby
2011-12-12 01:32:28 PM
Of course, the guy who seems to be sure he's suffering from arsenic poisoning doesn't have any actual tests that show arsenic in his system. Yes, it's really easy to detect, and if he doesn't have any in his system, it's certain that his feet aren't turning black from arsenic exposure.

For that matter, pretty much anything involved in WWI-era chemical warfare would be either inert by now (traces of mustard gas, for example) - or easily detected (arsenic and mercury compounds).
 
jst3p
2011-12-12 01:50:27 PM
There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "he has black feet".

img31.mediafire.com

This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano.
 
KidneyStone [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 01:56:47 PM
jst3p: There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "he has black feet".

[img31.mediafire.com image 640x478]

This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano.

i182.photobucket.com

Fark, where death is hilarious unless the deceased happens to have a Fark login. Then it's serious business and nobody can make any jokes.
 
The Irresponsible Captain
2011-12-12 01:58:02 PM
If you can afford the house, you can afford the disease. Enjoy it, the rest of us could never afford such an elite disease as blackfoot, we'll just have to deal with mundane diseases asthma and cholera.
 
dragyne
2011-12-12 01:59:27 PM
I see no problem with black feet...
 
Max Awesome
2011-12-12 02:04:30 PM
I thought feet turning black was a side effect of diabetes - which the guy has been diagnosed with.

Dude must have some pretty stupid doctors if they're baffled by the black feet thing.
 
towatchoverme
2011-12-12 02:21:32 PM
CSB:

So i was working on the floor in a chemical plant when i got (mild) acid burns on my feet.

I took off my boots back in the shop and my feet were red.

"Now what do i do?" i asked my foreman.

And my foreman, without missing a beat says: "You put your hands together tonight and pray: 'Now i lay me down to sleep/i pray dear lord i keep my feet.'"
 
Snort
2011-12-12 02:22:59 PM
jst3p: There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "he has black feet".

[img31.mediafire.com image 640x478]

This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano.

I remember Quinn. He used to post his dad's tranny pictures in photoshop threads. Spawned a host of imitators.

Now we know why he stopped posting.
 
dallylamma
2011-12-12 02:31:07 PM
elev8meL8r: From the other side of her coffee table, her husband, Buff, quips, "Don't you recognize your own back yard?"

What, were Chaz, Poppy, and Dash too busy waxing the Bimmer before their trip to the Hamptons?

But is he still 'The Stuff'?

www.pwpix.net
 
Submitted First With a Better Headline
2011-12-12 02:33:11 PM
Well, I came to sarcastically post "Maybe they shouldn't have lived in a chemical testing zone!"

...But that has been covered. gg Fark
 
dittybopper
2011-12-12 02:34:29 PM
jst3p: There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "he has black feet".

[img31.mediafire.com image 640x478]

This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano.

Manfred Mann unavailable for comment.
 
Mikeyworld
2011-12-12 02:34:58 PM
Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: These are the 1%

They are getting studies and clean-up paid for by the government (regular tax payers), so maybe they oughta take their bank with them to a new residence downtown, nearer their buddies.

/I, for one, do not appreciate my over-bearing lords
//Donate the land to the district, and run off with your profits.
///it'd make a nice homeless camp
 
ranchguy
2011-12-12 02:38:43 PM
Having grown up in Spring Valley in the 1970's, and dug in the dirt, walked around in bare feet, went through the woods for hours off of Dalecarlia, went at least a 1,000 times through the Fordham-49th storm drainage, I never saw or heard anything. My siblings agree to this day. Their kids still play in the area.

Now some jackarse on Tilden/Rockwood pkwy has a new bamboo yard thanks to tax dollars.

/live way out west now, 'rents still in home from '60.
 
Loaf's Tray
2011-12-12 02:42:06 PM
That's no joke either, once that happens they never go back...
 
Latinwolf
2011-12-12 02:43:55 PM
Did his dick fall off, if not, no problem.
 
veedeevadeevoodee
2011-12-12 02:45:40 PM
i2.listal.com

/ just watch out for the coffins shooting out of the ground
 
earthworm2.0
2011-12-12 02:48:25 PM
jst3p: There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "he has black feet".



This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano.

Epic. Lmao
 
groppet
2011-12-12 03:03:59 PM
Yeah for a long time you couldnt use the softball fields at AU because of the large pits the army corps of engineers dug there to get all the old rotten chemical weapons out
 
jtown
2011-12-12 03:23:38 PM
farm8.staticflickr.com
 
HAMMERTOE
2011-12-12 03:42:43 PM
I don't get it. This chemical makes white people able to dance?
 
cuzsis
2011-12-12 03:53:29 PM
HotIgneous Intruder: If residents of Washington, D.C., were warped/mutated/poisoned by toxic chemicals how would the rest of us know the difference?

So...the Roman Connection?
 
Lone Stranger
2011-12-12 03:55:07 PM
2.bp.blogspot.com



i135.photobucket.com
 
potterydove
2011-12-12 04:26:46 PM
KidneyStone: jst3p: There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "he has black feet".

[img31.mediafire.com image 640x478]

This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano.

[i182.photobucket.com image 413x413]

Fark, where death is hilarious unless the deceased happens to have a Fark login. Then it's serious business and nobody can make any jokes.

Naw, it's extra hilarious then.
 
Nishu [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 05:08:47 PM
There are military bases that have similar problems. Their solution was to build housing on it. Two I know off the top of my head, Jackson Park, in Bremerton, WA, and Ord Military Community, previously Fort Ord, in California. It's creepy.
 
StanTheMan
2011-12-12 05:46:17 PM
www.theblackflag.co.uk

I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
 
Eravior
2011-12-12 07:34:02 PM
Well if people have a problem with that neighborhood then they can always move in next to this man.

i674.photobucket.com

Just mind the radiation.
 
The_Time_Master
2011-12-12 08:45:58 PM
jst3p: There are few times when Farkers embarrass me. This is one of them.God forbid any of you ever have to live through something of this nature. I hope you never have to answer the phone and hear your inconsolably weeping wife on the other end of the line as she mutters the only words she is able to muster "he has black feet".

[img31.mediafire.com image 640x478]

This is Quinn's remains. He sits atop my piano.

www.annscardsandgifts.com

Not so mighty anymore...
 
j0ndas
2011-12-13 06:05:20 AM
They haven't found anything yet, and until they do, this is just paranoia. Not all - or even most - former Army sites are contaminated. I hope they're paying for the tests with their own money.
 
Bob16
2011-12-13 07:38:50 AM
nickerj1: I was once a resident of a US Army chemical warfare testing range, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

I'm glad this happened in a rich neighborhood. F*ck a bunch of yuppie scum.
 
goobergal
2011-12-13 11:46:10 AM
My spouse worked on remediation for this site when he was Army. They wore full protective suits with respirators and had a full decon line set up for the end of the day. Nasty Nasty stuff they found there in people's back yards.
 
washington-babylon
2011-12-13 01:21:38 PM
Mentalpatient87: HotIgneous Intruder: If residents of Washington, D.C., were warped/mutated/poisoned by toxic chemicals how would the rest of us know the difference?

[images.wikia.com image 640x457]
They start calling us "dum dums" and using bottle caps as currency?



Came for the Fallout 3 reference, leaving satisfied.
 
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