11/4/2008 A Jagermeister related mishap...

Subject	A Jagermeister related mishap...
PostedDate	4/11/2008 1:36:00 PM
	...and I hadn't even been drinking the stuff! Some of you will be familiar with all the fun (but mostly useless) freebie promotional gimick things that Jagermeister give away. On Wednesday I was at the Young Heart Attack gig in Camden - see seperate blog. In So Far were supporting, and as they are sponsored by aforesaid booze company there were lots of related freebies on the merch stand - not including any actual Jager'.  So I helped myself to some of the other shit on offer - as you do. One of said items were these funny orange liquid things sealed in clear flexible plastic - quite small - sort of like 'actual size' Kate Moss boob implants. They have a little piece of metal inside and when you manipulate it the liquid magically gets warm, changes colour, and goes solid. Completely useless of course, but fun - for simple minded souls like me anyway.  Maybe you could use them for warming your hands up on a freezing cold winter's night while waiting for the night bus? Anyway, apparently you can even re-use them. 'Cool' I thought, looking forward to trying them out. So tonight I did. And they worked.  'Great' I thought - 'I'll try using them again'. So it says on the instructions on the back of them 'Place in boiling water for about 10 minutes until the stuff inside turns to liquid again'. So into the saucepan they go and I leave them happily boiling away... You can probably guess the rest. What it didn't say was 'Do not leave unattended' or 'Do not boil for 30 minutes instead of 10'. I think I'll sue Jagermeister for not putting a warning label on the things!  Next thing I know I'm sitting upstairs at my computer thinking 'What's that smell?'. By then of course it's too late. Far too late.  The house is now full of smoke - probably highly toxic smoke. The plastic skin on these things is probably toxic enough on it's own when it's on fire - god knows what fumes the mysterious orange gunge inside gives off!  I don't suppose it's done the saucepan much good either - I guess I'll find out when I venture into the garden tomorrow... I am really pissed off!  With myself rather than anyone else. As usual.