Posted on 08/12/2013 4:21:12 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Two workers were hospitalized after opening a package at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday, but the substance inside – initially feared to be nerve gas – turned out only to be beauty supplies.
As CBS 2’s Steve Langford reported, it was a tense scene at the U.S. Postal Service facility at the eastern edge of the airport Sunday. Port Authority police, the FDNY, and an FBI hazardous response team all rushed to the scene after the workers reported feeling ill.
In this post-9/11 world, authorities respond quickly and forcefully out of an abundance of caution, especially at an installation like JFK.
Meanwhile, as 1010 WINS’ Gary Baumgarten reported, the mail processing center workers who opened the package were taken to Franklin General Hospital in Valley Stream shortly after 3 p.m., according to FDNY Emergency Medical Services. Both were in good condition.
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Re: initially feared to be nerve gas
initially REPORTED to be nerve gas
Fixed it.
Maybe they're just unfamiliar with ..... beauty .... supplies .... and/or soap.
But they work for the posral service so .... they're ok ... right ?
I wonder how all those workers who felt ill are feeling today. I guess they’re not happy about not being able to sue somebody for something. I want to see their pics and hear their comments—jerks!
Probably that crap they use when they do perms, it could easily be confused with Nerve Gas.
Well, some of that hair coloring stuff is almost as bad as mustard gas.
and that dipilitory crap ... hoooooWEE !
Some of us had already concluded it was weapons-grade beauty supplies. Looks like the freedom-crushing crisis that the MSM and the Left are waiting for will have to wait.
Beauty supplies can include Hydrogen Peroxide , the stuff you buy at home is 3% , beauty supply hydrogen peroxide is about 30-40% strength , I have had a bottle of 100% which is used for sterilizing surgical instruments leak in my car ,,, it will definately give you a hypoxic headache that lingers for a day or so... I wouldn’t judge them so quickly.
Sorry ... I don't buy it.
two chemists walk into a bar. The first orders H2O. The second orders H2O too. The second one dies.
"Postal workers reported they completed their shifts as usual, in spite of a marked lack of communication.
“We don’t know much of anything. They don’t tell us really what’s going on,” one worker said."
Wha"
Huh?
I dunno
Remember the smell of Toni?
And two innocent chechen muslims living on welfare in Boston were not terrorists either... the FBI stated... even after being warned TWICE by the Russians and every red flag flying. They know what we are saying in this thread... but what they need to know to do their jobs... they don’t know and don’t know how to get at what it is that they need to know.
In this post-9/11 world, authorities respond quickly and forcefully out of an abundance of STUPIDITY...
There, fixed it.
Arsenic-soaked cloths were once used for facial treatments.
Oh, Good God YES. My mother and sister used that stuff back in the 60s... the smell was utterly nauseating.
Why did they open the package? Was it addressed to them?
If it was beauty stuff, wouldn’t the addresses give a clue such as supplier to beauty salon?
I remember my cousins walking into my aunt’s house in the ‘40s and my littlest one wrinkling her nose and saying, “I smell Toni.”
Yep. Toni had quite the smell!
Imagine what it must’ve done to the olfactory senses of the average dog...
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