[XorNot]

About 6 months ago in my lab we had an acid attack. One student took offense to another telling him what to do, grabbed a hammer and the nearest vial of sulfuric acid and chased the guy down, knocked him down, and started pouring acid on him.

About the only lucky thing about the attack is that the victim didn't get any his eyes, but months on he's still recovering after multiple skin-grafts.

There isn't really a lesson that we can fathom from this really. It happened about 24 hours after an incident when the perpetrator had gotten angry and thrown a beaker on the floor, and literally 5 minutes before the acid attack happened (when the previous events were related to me) I commented that we should take it more seriously because if someone's not in control that's how acid gets thrown on people.

[omarchowdhury]

Tell us more about the perpetrator.

[XorNot]

He was just a new student - working closely with the victim actually. Apparently he turned out to have schizophrenia, but it was previously undiagnosed or unreported or something. Which is just weird as hell because how do you get to Ph. D level and have schizophrenia in the first place?