Around 2005, I worked briefly with a guy who’d had work in the 1990s in the Fairfax/Arlington area. He’d stop each morning at a donut shop and pick-up a coffee. Across the street was some big huge ultra-modern office building. One day, he stopped, and the building was gone. So he asked the coffee shop lady....what happened?
The previous week, she showed up and across the street...some guy shows up early and there’s all kinds of action going on. Someone comes over to get some coffee, and the jest of this...is that some lab monkeys got loose over the weekend in the building. They got out of the controlled area. By noon, some bigwigs had arrived. The next day...demolition crews have arrived, and within 3 days...had taken down the whole building. Nothing was left.
No news report....nothing. Whatever they had in that lab...was toxic enough to worry people and the building could never be used again. What happened to the monkeys that got loose? Probably euthanized.
And yet it could be torn down and disposed of……. where? And how?
It actually sounds more like they wanted to destroy the evidence in the event something bad did happen and to them it was worth the risk of demolishing the building than to be found out.
Which is not an encouraging thought.
Whatever was going on in there must have been pretty bad for them to act like that.
The whole building was demolished over escaped monkeys? Most of these stories are never reported. We might never have heard about these escaped monkeys, either, if locals hadn’t witnessed the crash.