Monday, May 21, 2012

I Don’t Know What That Is But I Know I Am Afraid Of It, Whatever It Is

My newspaper tells me that in Louisiana at McNeese State University an entire building was closed down until further notice because of possible asbestos contamination.

The Smartfella fully supports such an extreme action because we can’t have those asbestos thingies crawling around inside our young students.

The late Paul Harvey just came into my Computer Room and said there may have been an over-reaction in this case. He says I should tell you, The Rest of the Story...

On the third floor of Kaufman Hall a single door was cut in half by contractors and, “There was a release of some material. It is possible that asbestos was inside the door”.

The Smartfella has several areas of concern that lean toward over reaction...

  • This is a building that is at least three stories high.
  • They cut open one single door.
  • They found “some material” was inside that one single door.
  • If there is concern about what comes out when they cut open one single door, don’t cut open any more doors.

Of course there was “some material” inside. There is some material inside of every door. Are they really afraid that the something inside the door might have been something?

Would I kid u?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes this was a good foolishness piece and it had some foolishness and humor in it like it supposed to have but I am going to go and do my normal analysis because some of this stuff touched on my territory. First of all it is very unlikely they are going fine asbestos in a door as part of the door’s internal structural integrity. Doors do not have asbestos in them. Asbestos is most likely to be found in or on pipes as some sort of insulation to keep hot pipes from burning the citizens that pass through some kind of mechanical room. It was also used in ships that used to use steam to drive them, in industrial situations, in some ole buildings like schools, churches, public buildings but not in doors.