Originally Posted by
Digital_Cowboy
When I was in NY taking care of my Grandmother I remember reading or hearing a story on the news about a woman who broke one of those "wonderful" CFL bulbs and had to have an EPA approved hazmat team come out and clean her home, to the tune of several thousand dollars.
That's a very common urban legend... which, like all urban legends, can be easily researched on Snopes. ;-)
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
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