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CabbageTownRoyals
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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 Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: Oh my god...gassed in my own apartment. |
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A few weeks ago something (I consider) outrageous happened to me. Quick recap:
I went home for a nap, around 3pm. My dog woke me up barking because my apartment was full of gas. I mean FULL. I couldn't even see a metre in front of me and had to feel my way out, coughing and spluttering. I had been sound ASLEEP! Thank God my dog woke up...
Very upset, I went to the office at work (on campus) and demanded an explanation. My boss just said, oh sorry, actually the building people don't speak English. Apparently there was a notice on the door at the main gate in KOREAN saying this was going to happen, but of course I didn't notice it (why would I, I don't read all the 'notices' posted around the place). There are about 10 other foreigners in the complex, apparently I was the only one there at the time...
Anyway, apparently my neighbours plants have died. They told us it was just a mosquito fumigation, but I have a feeling they may have used the cockroach one too. I was pretty upset at the time and made my feelings clear to all involved, I don't want to take it any further...BUT does anyone know.....
How toxic is this? I'm worried about how much I breathed in, is it carcogenic!!??  |
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CabbageTownRoyals
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, I can't even say c__kcroach LOL!  |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| CabbageTownRoyals wrote: |
| Oh, I can't even say c__kcroach LOL! |
Cockroach. |
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Nambucaveman
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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My guess is it was for roaches not mosquitoes. It probably won't kill you, but it could make you sick for a few days.
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I take pictures of notices and translate them. Then again, I'm a dork. |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| I take pictures of notices and translate them. Then again, I'm a dork. |
That's a good idea, but it's still unbelievable that they filled an apartment building with poisonous gas to get rid of cockroaches. I'm glad the OP's dog woke her up ... but it's terrible that she and the dog were in that situation to begin with. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| One of those things that no one bothers to tell you because it's second nature to them, and they don't post it in English. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| I have reactive asthma. That would have killed me. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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The only things posted in English in the entire country are the words 'push' and 'pull', which, ironically, are almost always posted on two-way swinging doors. With ten English speaking foreigners in the building, they should have the courtesy to put up a sign in English.
I wonder how bad that spray is for pets, though. I mean, youf dog had to sit through it, huh? And probably a lot of others'. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| Quit yer' whinin' OP. I've been gassed in my own apartment plenty of times. Why, just last week, I had some leftover boiled eggs in my ref, and some kimchi, and some of this other stuff from the week before (I'm not sure what it was), but I was drunk and hungry..... |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchieluver just reminded me what it was. It was Spam. |
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Matt_22
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:06 am Post subject: |
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You'll probably be fine. You'll just end up looking like Viktor Yushchenko.
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peach
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Joined: 16 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| Buy your dog a big steak! Congrats on still being alive! |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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I imagined real flammable gas, and a smoker lighting up.
Glad that wasn't the case. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
I imagined real flammable gas, and a smoker lighting up.
Glad that wasn't the case. |
Yeah, I also imagined somebody in the OP's apartment or building leaving the gas range on, followed by a massive explosion, the fire brigage, TV news crews, and charred remains.
But no.
It was the silly old mogi men and their cute little arsenal of toxic chemicals, that's all. Maaaaan, if I had a kalbi dinner for every time the exterminator/defloliation/Agent Orange crews came barging into our offices unannounced on a Saturday afternoon, not even waiting for us to hit "Save", grab our disks (I said disks) and leap out the 15-story windows... then I'd have to give up vegetarianism. They're wearing masks, they can see that we aren't, but that doesn't matter because they've got to fumigate 10 offices X 20 floors before 6 p.m. "Achtung Baby!" That's the national motto and life as it's lived in This Man's ROK. |
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