Craziness

The one of the girls I work with told me the ickiest thing today.

We were talking about high school and ended up talking about dissecting things. She said that in India they don't use frogs anymore because they are becoming endangered... So they use rats.

OK, fine. No biggie. Lab rats. Nothing surprising.

Up to this point I am remembering the formaldehyded frogs we got in high-school, but then she says that she was so good and careful about her dissections that the rat's heart would still be beating when she finished. They used live rats!!!

They just knock them out with chloroform and hack them up.

Then she went on the tell me about one time a new lab assistant who didn't know what he was doing didn't use enough chloroform and the rats woke up when they tried to pin them down. They had to evacuate the room because there were thirty drugged-up pissed-off rats running around!

I was impressed.

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