10 kids drink windshield wiper fliud at DayCare

Wow. Now THAT is a nightmare.

I'm sorry, but you have to be a complete bonehead to recognize a bottle of windshield washer fluid.

The child-safe cap on it should've been their first clue.

Calling this an "accident" is ludicrous.

There aren't always child safe caps on cleaners. Shouldn't the worker have read the label before serving up the "drink" to at least make sure she has say the correct drink. I know I always do and I'm not checking to make sure it's not washing fluid.

The two images I posted show two different bottles, and neither of the caps on top look childproof to me.

Maybe the assistant has that by proxy syndrome where you hurt other people to bring attention to yourself.

rosemerry said:

There aren't always child safe caps on cleaners. Shouldn't the worker have read the label before serving up the "drink" to at least make sure she has say the correct drink. I know I always do and I'm not checking to make sure it's not washing fluid.

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My worst fear is that the day care made it a habit to (yeesh!) re-use empty gallong-jugs to mix up super-large batches of powedered Kool-Aid, and so the daycare workers might very well have been accustomed to seeing actual beverages inside the fridge, yet contained in such re-cycled packaging.

I know that when I sued -- oops! typo!! used to work my many different food service jobs in college, we would re-use those white 5-gallon food service containers to mix up 4-gallon batches of iced tea, etc. And that was even true when we were catering a 5-star gig at a la-dee-dah mansion with tuxedos and white gloves.

And they are fruit scented so on the label it says green apple or what have you.

If you are a cashier please do not mix food items with non-food items.

My second, more important, question is...who the hell puts windshield washer fluid in the refridgerator?

Child proof lids are by no means 100% safe, that aside though, how on earth does someone mix up windshield wiper fluid with a child's drink? Child care workers should be double - triple - checking everything, parents entrust their children's care to these people, the least they can do is put more effort into not poisoning them.

Not to derail the thread, but I was trying to find an image of what an eco-sized Kool-Aid jug looks like, and I came across THIS little gem:

Okay, I have never seen a bottle of juice sold in a store that looks like a bottle of windshield wiper fluid. I've stocked the juice aisle and I've stocked wiper fluid. Maybe it's just the store I used to work at, but they are different-- even the ones that were close were orange or red, not blue. I suppose there are some people who wouldn't notice that the labels are different. (That's mind boggling to me, but my Hubby can be that unobservant at times.)

At least the kids realized what they were drinking wasn't juice.

And, you know, I never did understand why FOOD items are colored these absurd flavors. It doesn't make it taste any better.

This may be an accident, and I can see how one might end up with an odd item in the fridge. (Ask my Hubby where he's left the TV remote!) But, to get the bottle out, open it, pour ten cups worth and NOT NOTICE THE LABEL OR SHAPE? Unless, they're reusing bottles, and that thought just sickens me. I would never be comfortable with that-- what if you didn't wash it out well enough? Especially with kids, who can't always tolerate what big people can.

How unfortunate for these kids. And I do feel a little bad for this woman who just made a career-ending mistake. Those are always tough. Especially since this could just be a collection of errors, rather than anything intentionally harmful. =(

I can't see a kid swallowing something that tastes like soap.

YUCK.

How old were the kids?

a mouthful of crackers

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oh. we weren't allowed to "wash our food down".

wonder if they had any spewage. at least one kid was sure to have a gag reflex.

Cyia said:

what seems odd to me is the 1oz intake. That's a very precise and very unusual amount to drink. Most kids' cups are 4-6 oz.

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Each kid was probably given a cup filled with at least 4 ounces, but all it took was one sip for them all to go YUCK!!! and refuse to drink the rest.

My Rainx wiper fluid looks like a delicious orange drink every time I refill it....but the obvious ammonia smell is a good sign that it's not.

James81 said:

My second, more important, question is...who the hell puts windshield washer fluid in the refridgerator?

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I was wondering that too. I guess maybe the dimwit thought it was koolaid when it came out of the grocery bag. But I bought a gallon of bright blue washer fluid just yesterday, and it ain't like the label is misleading or hard to notice, ya know?

Meantime, has everybody seen a picture of this place?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29675664

Wanna send your kid there?

caw

Cyia said:

FWIW -- here's the cleaner I was talking about. It looks and is shaped like a drink bottle. They're small bottles, too.

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I'll have to admit that these bottles do look like beverages of some sort, and hope that I'd never mistake them and drink them, but you never know ...

Cyia said:

FWIW -- here's the cleaner I was talking about. It looks and is shaped like a drink bottle. They're small bottles, too.

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SHBueche said:

I'll have to admit that these bottles do look like beverages of some sort, and hope that I'd never mistake them and drink them, but you never know ...

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From that photo alone, you'd have a hard time convincing me those (four identical size but differently colored bottles, purple, yellow, blue, green) are NOT beverages of four different flavors. Perhaps some drink company will sue them on something like Trade Dress and they'll have to radically change the look (and colors!) of their bottles.

Plot Device said:

My worst fear is that the day care made it a habit to (yeesh!) re-use empty gallong-jugs to mix up super-large batches of powedered Kool-Aid, and so the daycare workers might very well have been accustomed to seeing actual beverages inside the fridge, yet contained in such re-cycled packaging.

I know that when I sued -- oops! typo!! used to work my many different food service jobs in college, we would re-use those white 5-gallon food service containers to mix up 4-gallon batches of iced tea, etc. And that was even true when we were catering a 5-star gig at a la-dee-dah mansion with tuxedos and white gloves.

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I've seen at least one local TV news story about big-name fast-food chain restaurants that haven't cleaned their tea dispensers in months or years, and I recall some concern about how ice is made and dumped into the tops of those soft-drink fountains from the usual five-gallon buckets.

Now I'm hesitating to keep going back to Subway for their "Fresh Value Meal," $3.99 for the 6-inch sandwich of the day, chips and a (fountain) drink. If only I could get a proportional discount on the sub without the drink...

wouldn't the teacher smell it?

I used to drink juice along with my students. Now i am glad I did, because I would have noticed. But We also used juice from its original jug.