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Santo Domingo.- The consumer protection agency (Pro Consumidor) will pay rewards to people who denounce the businesses that sell the products to de-clog drains known locally a “devil’s acid,” and levy fines equivalent to 500 minimum wages, nearly RD$500,000, for selling the dangerous chemical.
In a statement issued Friday Pro Consumidor said the colmados, supermarkets, pharmacies and hardware stores that still sell those products, will be fined, as per agreement between the government and private business established last year.
It said once the chemical –including the leading brand Drano- is used in an attack, the victim cannot recover from its effect, and is often used for the purpose of homicide.
The agency said numerous people have been disfigured as the result of “devil’s acid” attacks in the last few months, and have even caused some deaths. “We’re confidence that the citizens will respond positively to denounce the sellers of the product and in that manner we try to contribute to reduce the damages caused by the violence.”
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Good idea. But it should be rewards for whistle blowing about all the transparent corruption.
Someone would become a millionaire.
They want to ban Drano because some asswipe threw it into somebody's face?
What is next? Ban kitchen knives because some b*tch cut off a guy's prick?
The gov't has it's anti crime priorities mixed up by going after the easy mark. The reward should be included to expose corrupt officials and drug traffickers. But, then why would they make a law that would make them vulnerable ?
Where are your facts?
Do you believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the moon made of cheese?
How you can doubt the evidence of Muslims on these planes, taking over the cockpits and screaming "Allah Akbar" as they crash?
Please stfu!
You are dead right.
Drano is just sodium hydroxide, (NaOH alias caustic soda) and the only thing that will dissolve fat deposits in drains. Not good if thrown in someones face, like many other useful things. Ban them all? Maybe start with motorbikes - in the wrong hands (as many are) kill, injure and disfigure far more people - yet traffic laws are never enforced.
Do you really think men who live in caves can beat NORAD.
Many of the "muslims" still alive.Seven of 19.......explain
Not one toilet seat was found as all atomised yet a passport came fluttering down (of one of the Muslims) in perfect condition.....................now I could go on all night........where did all the matter go...explain...................
Now have you heard of building 7? It collapsed later in the day and was a perfect demolition. Explain when no plane hit it......and the tiny hole in the Pentagon......oh better stop.........go for that reward and explain the collapse.......