'"Extended stay America" suite'?
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Posted on 02/29/2008 3:14:39 AM PST by maquiladora
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Preliminary tests indicate that a package found at a motel contained the toxin ricin, and seven people have been taken to hospitals, authorities said.
Police were called to the Extended Stay America Motel on Thursday and retrieved a package from the motel manager that was determined to be a chemical or controlled substance, Officer Ramone Denby said.
Two preliminary tests indicate it contained ricin, he said. Results from further tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a second local lab are expected Friday, police said.
Homeland Security officials joined local police in the investigation. Officials from the FBI, Las Vegas Health District, a hazardous materials team and the National Guard were also at the scene.
Officers cordoned off the area and isolated the room where the substance was found.
Three motel employees and another person were quarantined and decontaminated at the site, then taken to hospitals for further testing, Denby said. All appeared to be in good condition, he said. Three police officers who had been exposed were also taken to hospitals.
It takes between six and eight hours for someone exposed to ricin to show signs of contamination, Denby said.
A woman who answered the phone at the motel declined comment.
Ricin is made from the waste left over from processing castor beans, and can be extremely lethal. As little as 500 micrograms, or about the size of the head of a pin, can kill a human, according to the CDC.
Before the day is over the press reports will change to, Error, “testing” indicates the substance was not ricin. Nothing to see here, move along........
A case of a terrorist with 'Attention Deficit'?
OR. . .a traveling scientist, with the same.?
Just realised this was posted already, sorry for putting it in breaking.
Not good if found to be ricin.
.....Bob
had Putin been staying there??
“Three motel employees and another person were quarantined and decontaminated at the site, then taken to hospitals for further testing,”
That simple statement hides a very uncomfortable process of being decontaminated.
Of course its better to be stripped naked and hosed down than to die from this poison.
That’s something that can STAY in Vegas.
Shades of Silkwood
Somebody slipped up here. I didn’t see the required “this is not related to terrorism” statement in the article. Homeland Security’s public relations department must not have been notified.
Toxic substance ricin is found in LV hotel room
...Officials were downplaying the significance of the discovery late Thursday.
Snort.
That's okay. It's on the link at my reply #10 :)
you are correct
dnc presidential campaign?
mark steyn, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Reply #11? Thanks for the reference, I'm relieved. I always feel more secure when Homeland Security makes their ritual pronouncements.
Wow, I was in LV a few weeks ago, glad I’m not now.
'"Extended stay America" suite'?
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Sorry to post another thread on top of yours.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978217/posts?page=21#21
Can we get your post in ‘Breaking News’ at least?
In response to your message in the thread that got locked
Yeah, I already had read that this morning.
There’s NO use for ricin other than killing people.
When used in “cancer research” it is a chemically altered state that is used and not directly from a castor bean.
That someone even brings that up as a possibility tells me precisely how ignorant they are, whether is is a newsie, or a cop.
I can PROMISE you there are VERY few COPS that know anything about castor beans and ricin other than the crap they’ve read in the main stream media.
Huh. It sounds like someone checked out. I hope they aren’t headed somewhere with more. Praying for our country.
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