Here's his story. We've been cleaning out buildings, basements, and attics for twenty to twenty-five years, and we've run across chemicals people had put away for years. In September we were cleaning out a hardware store in upstate New York and didn't realize we had any dangerous material. We knew that insecticide and poison collectors would want this. We knew this was dangerous, but we didn't know how dangerous.
Any insecticide is dangerous.
I didn't know the material in this canister. It was not labeled poison and did not have a skull and crossbones on it, but I knew it was insecticide. I slept in the van with the windows rolled up, and the two cases were just a few feet back from where I was sleeping. When I woke up Thursday morning I could not sit up. I could barely breathe.