New Zealand MP falls victim to water hoax

[snopes]

National MP Jacqui Dean has been caught out by a long-running hoax that seeks to trick gullible MPs into calling for a ban on "dihydrogen monoxide" - or water.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4200797a6160.html

[damian]

Dihydrogen Monoxide is one of the most deadly substances on Earth. At least the Australian government is taking steps to eliminate it from our country.

[zman977]

The article does not say what her reaction was upon discovering it was water.

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by damian

Dihydrogen Monoxide is one of the most deadly substances on Earth. At least the Australian government is taking steps to eliminate it from our country.

Same here in Kent England. Despite a rapidly growing number of Dihydrogen Monoxide users living in the area, our local government have staunchly resisted plans to increase facilities for the storage and processing of the substance. They recently rejected a plan to build a new DHMO storage unit (which they called a reservoir) near Canterbury. However cunning plans are afoot to build a plant which will extract pharmaceutical grade DHMO from seawater to supply the addicts.

[Penny]

Originally Posted by damian

Dihydrogen Monoxide is one of the most deadly substances on Earth. At least the Australian government is taking steps to eliminate it from our country.

Are you kidding? They're building a desalination plant in Sydney that will dump millions of litres of the stuff directly into our water supply!

[MapleLeaf]

Here in Toronto we get over 30% of our energy from it...and what does the government do? They propose that we ELIMINATE other sources of energy and one day run the entire city off of the stuff!

Horrible, I tell you.

[damian]

Originally Posted by Penny

Are you kidding? They're building a desalination plant in Sydney that will dump millions of litres of the stuff directly into our water supply!

Apparently, in Sydney, it is possible to buy DMHO pre-packaged. They pushers are quite brazen about it, too. Selling it on the streets and in night clubs. Users are quite literally bathing in the stuff.

Yet the police do nothing!

[snopes]

Originally Posted by damian

Apparently, in Sydney, it is possible to buy DMHO pre-packaged. They pushers are quite brazen about it, too. Selling it on the streets and in night clubs. Users are quite literally bathing in the stuff.

It's really vile stuff. If you ingest enough of it, your body starts trying to get rid of it in any way possible -- excreting it in your tears, in your perspiration, in your urine, in your saliva, etc.

- snopes

[Eddylizard]

There is a particularly potent version sold here which is 60-65% DMHO dissolved in ethnol. It goes by various street names such as whisky, gin and vodka.

There is also another version which is around 88% DMHO called 'wine'.

[me, no really]

Originally Posted by snopes

It's really vile stuff. If you ingest enough of it, your body starts trying to get rid of it in any way possible -- excreting it in your tears, in your perspiration, in your urine, in your saliva, etc.

- snopes

And once that gets into the environment an excess can be truly devastating

me

[Zachary Fizz]

Originally Posted by snopes

It's really vile stuff. If you ingest enough of it, your body starts trying to get rid of it in any way possible -- excreting it in your tears, in your perspiration, in your urine, in your saliva, etc.

- snopes

Even more disturbingly, despite its frantic attempts to protect itself, the human body cannot actually cleanse itself of all of the DHMO you ingest. It insinuates itself in your body tissues, and is carried throughout your body in your bloodstream. I have heard it said that pathologists have examined elderly folk whose body weight was 80% DHMO

[zman977]

Originally Posted by damian

Apparently, in Sydney, it is possible to buy DMHO pre-packaged. They pushers are quite brazen about it, too. Selling it on the streets and in night clubs. Users are quite literally bathing in the stuff.

Yet the police do nothing!

Here in the US they go as far as to advertize it on television. . Some real bad DMHO junkies even think you need eight glasses of the stuff per day.

[llewtrah]

Hey, I bathe in the stuff. Round here there's so much of it we can throw it down the drain. I know some folks put out basins to catch raw DHMO outside, but I prefer mine purified. I see some people carrying it round with them and openly imbibing their fix on street corners. I met some USAnians upset because the museum didn't have a DHMO dispenser.

(The MP getting caught out reminds me of the British MP who embarrassed himself when taken in by Brass Eye's spoof dangerous drug called "cake")