Man Dies After Detergent Mistaken for Hummus

[olena]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A 91-year-old Israeli died after his caregiver spread a paste-like dishwashing detergent on his bread instead of hummus, police said on Monday.
The caregiver, who had worked for the old man for five years, told police he could not read the Hebrew writing on the detergent's container and served it up when the man asked for some hummus, a chickpea spread popular in the Middle East.
Police said the caregiver called an ambulance when his employer fell ill on Saturday but the man died in the hospital.
"We are checking to see whether there was criminal intent or whether it was a negligent homicide," a police spokesman said.

 

[MosMom]

Negligent homicide? Whatever happened to an accident?

 

[Serena]

It sounds fishy to me.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

hummus is a brown paste -- but it usually has to be refrigerated. detergent usually isn't found in the fridge. hmmm...

 

[ChiTownZee]

Ok, so you can't read the package, does that mean you would just spread the first thing you found? No tasting? No smelling? Seems weird. And if he'd been working for him for 5 years, you'd think he'd pick up on the language a little better, or at least have figured out what hummus was

 

[tater bug]

It does sound suspicious. Something else I was wondering...did the 91 YO not taste the difference?

 

[DocRafiki]

Yeah, what ever happened to spitting out things that taste like soap? What are the chances he has no sense of taste?