Posted on 12/12/2008 7:58:14 PM PST by Redcitizen
No food, no drink, no bathroom.
For 10 hours, Eric Witt, the Governor's head of media industries development, a receptionist and a New Mexico State Police officer were locked in the Roundhouse's reception area after an envelope containing a suspicious white powder was opened. "I was walking by the front desk when she opened the thing. She goes 'Uh oh. White powder,'" Witt said.
"I go, 'Don't move.'" Everybody froze. Well, everybody except the officer who came in to find out what was happening. He tried to escape, he said, "I tried to walk out, and they said, uh uh, you're not going anywhere."
For 10 hours. All three were stuck together for 10 hours while the FBI and response teams from the New Mexico National Guard and the U.S. Army quarantined the building and locked the three of them in the reception area.
The powder didn't explode into a cloud like it does in the movies when someone opens an envelope like this.
"It was grainy like sand. It gave us pause," Witt said - but no one wanted to touch it.
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Oh, yes! We have no bananas!
Somebody call Jane Goodall!
Apologies to Ray Stevens
Some Mormon churches have had similar incidents.
On the other hand, is it not true that some Blood Banks have had genuine bioterrorism attempts by people trying to extort AIDS funding?
Government workers in a government building.
Gorillas in a zoo=good comparison!
It looks to me that this incident was handled just about spot on.
Lock the place down. Unless people are dropping over immediately, no one goes in or out until the threat has been identified.
If it is a bio-agent of some kind, decontamination and prophylaxis starts.
But the key is not to have people running around with whatever agent they may have been exposed to dripping off them contaminating a wider area.
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All kidding about the headline aside, I’d say from what I saw and read, it was handled right. And I’m glad no one was hurt.
Hey i resemble that remark. =)
OTOH, what if it been a drawing of anthrax? That could have been devastating!
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