West Virginia's a Disaster Area.

Just as I was going to bed and most of the eastern hemisphere was waking up and beginning their working day a state of emergency was declared in Chris Brown's home state of West Virginia after a chemical spill affected the drinking water supply. Obviously this meant something of a stressful start to the day for eastern hemisphere as they tried to work out what had happened and what it all meant. For example the 'chemicals' could be a reference to any number of legal/illegal drugs and there could be some specific meaning to the chemicals themselves.

As it turns out the chemical involved was 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol. During alcohol prohibition the US government added poison (mainly cyanide) to industrial alcohols of this type to prevent people drinking them killing a few thousand of its own citizens in the process. Therefore there is a connection to marijuana prohibition. Mainly though 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol is used to clean sulphur from coal before in burnt in order to reduce the risk of acid rain. Therefore it seems to specifically target China's chronic air pollution that comes primarily from coal fired power stations. This strikes me as an unwise target for the US because China is already more then aware of that problem and have started the long process of doing something about it.

The main focus of the stunt though was to pose the question of whether the Chris Brown/Rihanna operation is in such a state of emergency that it needs to be classed as a disaster area? Or to put it another way; "If the US continues to drink from that source will it end up poisoning itself?" Obviously this question is being posed both domestically and internationally but there seems little point asking it internationally. That's because most people have now gone passed the point of laughing at the US for thinking the Chris Brown/Rihanna operation is still viable and are now mainly just baffled as to why the US thinks it could still be viable.


10:25 on 10/1/14 (UK date).