Ok. So on the facepalm social media site, I somehow got involved into a group made upmostly of people who own and renovate old houses. While the vast majority of posts are fairly benign at least once a day or so, someone will post something along the lines of:
"Hi, I just power sanded my wooden porch! Boy was it dusty!"
To which I respond: "Did you test for lead based paint first?"
"<Crickets>"
I know, I'm a real killjoy.
The two latest ones of note were on where a guy was repairing some rotted joists in his kitchen and found an abandoned well under the floor. He was thinking of using it to water his garden and pets with it. A lot of people got really upset with me when I pointed out that under the laws of the state the OP lived in, there was little or no chance that an abandoned well underneath a dwelling could be legally recomissioned.
Other one, someone purchased an old farm property that had been a shooting club (
) at one point in its history. They posted how they were cleaning up the underbrush to plant a garden and found loads of old shotgun shells, broken bottles, etc.
People were responding "Thats so cool!"
I'm thinking to myself:
how did "used to be a shooting club" not raise a major red flag in someones head?
I had to be a killjoy again and point out that the ground was probably also contaminated with lead shot.
Sigh.