Seems like a heavy red nasty fuming liquid because it is.
Concentrated nitric acid is heavy too, has aggressive red fumes of its own kind but it is a clear liquid.
And you can pipet nitric acid.
But you can't pipet bromine.
If you try it, you might think so at first since bromine can be drawn up in to the pipet like any other liquid, but once you remove the pipet from the source bottle, it expells itself from the pipet before any transfer can be made. With nature at work, it begins destroying anything it had come in contact with, while the majority of the carefully measured quantity rapidly evaporates and instantly triggers the evacuation instinct with great encouragement.
Even when handled under a fume hood, where most of it goes up the hood, people at the other end of the lab will be out the door in less than one second after the first whiff.
Don't ask me how I know but there was this graduate student who was a little bit of a loose cannon . . .