Post Funny Lab Incidents Here

[molecule2005]

Hi dudes!

post your funny lab incidents here!

One of mine is a guy that wanted to clean his lab bench with ethanol.
He dumped tons of ethanol onto his bench and then threw a match onto the table!

The whole thing was on fire but quickly subsided due to the metal bench/lack of ethanol that burned quickly....

Props to that dude!! (cant name any names here) lol....

[ilikestaryeyes]

i was doing distillation lab and i forgot to clamp the vertical condenser....and when i lifted my hands off the condensr, the condenser fell down and broke and made a huge sound in the lab room

[admin]

thats not good lol

I usually didnt wear a lab coat it my lab, and luckily the one time I did i spilled hot agarose on my coat. Its not funny but after that I wore lab coats all the tieme!

[ilikestaryeyes]

yeah i know it is not good...but that incident made me lab experience very bad....after that, I was not able to do distillation with full confidence...everytime I hear that we r doing distillation in the lab, I get phobia and hear that condenser noise in my ears....

BUT I try to be very careful now in the labs and hopefully I don't do any mistakes now

[ethidiumbromide]

I was doing a routine mouse dissection and realized I had forgotten something halfway through the dissection. When I came back I found a king cake baby inside my mouse. My PI was snickering not 10 feet away.