Where will I get potassium cyanide? Is this question dangerous…..
By CSHINE
@SHAMRACK (8576)
India
September 27, 2011 5:18am CST
I just met this question when my sister’s son asked me. I wondered why he wants this. Moreover, even a small accidental taste of it could lead to the end of life. He just wants to kill that street dog that mostly barks on him while on the way to school. Ok if that is it, let’s inform it to our corporation health department. Oh still he did not stop the question where he will get it, finally I just had to assure that the dog barking will be stopped from next week onwards. Moreover I just told him that it is strictly illegal to keep it with people like us. The police will arrest us all. In that case it is ok, let’s drop that idea. After a few minutes he just came back and asked “where will I get potassium cyanide? Is this question dangerous”. May be it might be illegal soon….
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5 responses
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
27 Sep 11
Hi Sham,
I don’t know from where the boy gets an idea of killing a nuisance dog. Secondly where he get the knowledge of this poison? I think the media is influencing very much on our kids and they are gathering unwanted information too. You please tell him we can’t kill anybody even though it is an animal that disturbs you. We have several other methods to deal with the same. Make sure that the dog won’t disturb your nephew anymore.
The question is not a dangerous one but for children I felt it is dangerous.
@mandze (13)
• United States
27 Sep 11
Please tell your nephew that there are much better ways of dealing with animal-related problems than killing the animal. First, try just going straight to the dog's owner and ask them if there's any way they can keep their dog from barking. If the problem persists (if it's really a serious problem, not just a small annoyance) then call the police with a noise complaint or call Animal Control and see what they can do. Killing the dog is definitely not the answer.
@saiamsh7272 (5)
• India
27 Sep 11
Hi Shamrack
The question is certainly dangerous not because it might soon become illegal to know where the deadly poison could be obtained from - this could be simple curiosity - but because of your sister-in-law's son's shocking idea of killing a dog just because it continually barks at him.
While you must certainly speak to the dog's owner and see that the dog's unnecessary barking is minimized, you must with with equal alacrity take the boy to a psychiatrist to discover the cause of his inordinate anger. There are certainly some problems rankling with the boy's unconscious mind that make him think of killing a living being at a relative trifle.
