'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city A cat covered in toxic chemicals is wandering the streets of Fukuyama in Japan, and locals are being warned not to go near. The chemical cat ended up coated in hexavalent chromium after falling into a tank of the substance at the Nomura Plating factory in the southern Japanese city over the weekend, Asahi Shimbun reported …
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"I just wish cat owners"
Cats will look at your confinement and then walk right through it, around it, or climb over it. And then sit there on the other side looking right at you, daring you to say something.
Anybody who thinks it's easy to contain a cat clearly has never had the company of one.
Hint: they're not smaller, furrier, dogs.
"Considering the first thing it would have done is try to lick itself clean/dry."
Very occasionally you get a Pigpen of a cat that is a grubby scruff which usually gets cleaned by the other cats. In that case the vat diver would have spread the joy around and possibly survived.
Pretty indestructable but not in the honeybadger class.
From the Nekochan site (SGI Irix software) one of the few words of japanese I know is neko (cat.:)
I suspect chromed-neko is now as defunct as SGI.
> That cat is probably already dead.
But not the hex-chrome- that will stay poisonous through several layers of scavengers. Dogs, rats, other cats.... eventually the hex-chrome will be dispersed across so much dead meat that the next shift of scavengers will just be VERY SICK, not 100% dead. People (and children) will try to "help" and in turn be poisoned.
Didn't think small animals would get in the vat shed? I'm trying to be polite, but I know Japanese workers are not that dumb. Even in Maine we can't keep the groundhogs out, or keep the stray cats from chomping the ultra-reclusive Star-Nosed Moles.
I have taken the liberty of calling the Power Rangers.
"Hello, Power Rangers? There's a giant cat outside. 50 meters tall."
Blue Ranger: "Sir, perhaps less saki before you go to bed tonight."
"And he glows green and is hexavalent!"
Blue facepalms.
"And he just laid a giant stinky catpoo 4 meters long!"
Blue: "Above ... my ... pay grade. Call Astro Boy." (hangs up)
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