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    I was shot by a nerf gun in a lab.

(19)

    I drank a six pack once prior to performing four westerns...somehow the results were the cleanest I've ever achieved. Hooray for EtOH!!

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    while labeling chemicals, i didn't notice that the label printer was printing the same label for every bottle. Almost four hundred chemicals were labeled as dihydrogen monoxide.

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    The students in our lab were not allowed to pour the BSA media from the tissue culture class supply vial. One day when the professor was not around, I took some, under sterile conditions, and replaced the vial.

(13)

    I forgot to wash off my Gram's stain with alcohol, but used the results anyway to continue with my testing.

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    One of the former DNA lab shift supervisors used a small conference room near the HR office on multiple occasions for his sexual relations with not only the manager he was dating, but with several other employees as well. Of course the manger was known for her improprieties as well, so there is no need to feel sorry for her. The funny thing is that the new HR guy from the parent company thought that these were 2 role model employees when all the while this was going on right outside his office.

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    We were using potassium nitrate in the lab and boiling it to test reactions but i added some sugar baking powder and food colouring powder and made a MASSIVE smoke bomb (it was heated)

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    While performing routine inventory checks at our lab, it became apparent that $10,000 worth of Taq polymerase was missing. Heads were rolling, scouring the building refrigerators and freezers looking for the lost chemicals to no avail. A few days later a technician in our lab came to me, the supervisor, and said that she had information regarding a mistake made by another technician. She begged me not to tell where I had received the info, but she said that the missing Taq had been thrown away by mistake by another girl who thought it was a buffer we didn’t use. She confused the similar colors of the vial caps. The dilemma now was in knowing who told the truth and what could be done to remedy the situation. I passed the information along to my boss and nothing was ever done about it to my knowledge.

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    My lab partner came back from a 'smoke break' smelling of marijuana.

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    Late one night I was plating out some bacterial cells. For good sterile technique, I poured some ethanol in a dish to flame the spreader. Well, I accidentally touched the rim of the 100% ethanol bottle with my bare hands and I became worried that I might have contaminated it. I thought I better flame the rim it to be sure... When the ethanol vapor ignited inside the plastic bottle, the bottle became so instantaneously hot that I dropped it. Flaming ethanol spread across bench and floor....