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Nutcase/bioterror/Barnes&Nobles
Me | Feb 20, 2005 | Me

Posted on 02/20/2005 1:44:42 AM PST by Avenger

Ok, tonight I was at Barnes&Nobles with a couple of my classmates. We were sitting in the coffee shop reading Unte Reader with all the other Leftists (kidding!) Anyways, this guy walks in, and immediately my spidey sense starts to tingle. He kinda walks around the coffee shop and looks around a bit and then leaves - I was of course eyeing him the whole time. About 5 minutes later him comes in again. This time he draws out of his pants pocket a small white plastic spray bottle and starts spraying it around the room - trying to be discrete as possible - I don't think my friends even noticed at the time. As he was leaving the room he noticed another guy watching him and he sprayed the bottle in his direction as if he was threatening this man. After I saw this I immediately informed B&N security guard and an employee. Me and my buddies later went outside but the man was gone. This was the B&N in Santa Monica on the 3rd st Promenade for any LA Freepers. I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought if I thought he was a homeless person because we have alot around here and they seem to like to go to the bookstore cafes and enjoy some reading and free milk, but he didn't appear to be a homeless person by his dress. What should I do? Should I report this? If so, to whom?


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1 posted on 02/20/2005 1:44:42 AM PST by Avenger
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To: Avenger; Cindy

ping


2 posted on 02/20/2005 1:47:37 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Avenger

What did the B&N security say or do?


3 posted on 02/20/2005 1:48:49 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Avenger

Perhaps you witnessed a trial run. I don't think it can hurt to report it. There have been numerous incidences of "trial runs" on everything from airplanes where they removed mirrors and tried to drill thru the walls to reach to cockpit to attempts of entrance to nuclear facilities. Turn it in and let the authorities decide.


4 posted on 02/20/2005 1:49:15 AM PST by ETERNAL WARMING (We have the best politicians corporate money can buy)
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To: Avenger

weird


5 posted on 02/20/2005 1:49:44 AM PST by GeronL (Bush on the PRESS "They just float sewer out there.")
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To: ETERNAL WARMING; Avenger

Agreed. Let the cops know about it.


6 posted on 02/20/2005 1:50:08 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Avenger

Report it to the FBI.


7 posted on 02/20/2005 1:50:20 AM PST by skr (May God bless those in harm's way and confound those who would do the harming)
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To: Avenger
Maybe a random act of air freshener??

lol... kidding... you do what seems needed... could be bad.

8 posted on 02/20/2005 1:50:31 AM PST by GeronL (Bush on the PRESS "They just float sewer out there.")
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To: Avenger

I think you should report it to the FBI:

https://tips.fbi.gov/

I don't like the sound of this one bit.


9 posted on 02/20/2005 1:51:00 AM PST by FairOpinion (It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.)
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To: Avenger

Do not get panicked about it, but report it to the local and state police and to the FBI, preferably in writing. It could be a prank or a spoof to test public and official alertness to such a mode of attack. In these days we do not have the luxury of assuming that it was a nut case acting out even though that is the most likely explanation.


10 posted on 02/20/2005 1:52:32 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Avenger

Report it.


11 posted on 02/20/2005 1:53:27 AM PST by Petronski (Zebras: Free Range Bar Codes of the Serengeti)
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To: Avenger; BurbankKarl

Hi Avenger.
Well that sure is interesting.

Contact the non-emergency number at your local police department and report it. Ask the dispatcher and/or officer for the cad incident number or the case number.

Contact your local FBI ( http://www.fbi.gov ) office and/or DHS ( http://www.dhs.gov ) and relate the incident to them. It would be helpful if you give them your incident or case number.


12 posted on 02/20/2005 1:55:14 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Jet Jaguar

Thanks for the ping Jet.


13 posted on 02/20/2005 1:55:34 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Avenger

Record it on paper; then turn it into the FBI or DHS and let them handle it. I went through something very similar here in SE Penna with some castor bean plants (Ricin) last fall, and they followed through on it, a few weeks later. The narrative thread I posted about it, on FR, was pulled for security reasons.

Get it on 'the record', A.


14 posted on 02/20/2005 1:55:39 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa• "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: FairOpinion

Agreed. Let them sort out whether it's important or not. Get off of here at once and write down all you can think of concerning this ( times, witnesses, where he might have sprayed, etc. ) that happened no matter how trite it seems. The longer you wait, the more you might forget.


15 posted on 02/20/2005 1:56:55 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Witty tag line on back order.)
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To: Avenger

Report it.


16 posted on 02/20/2005 2:01:46 AM PST by Pro-Bush (Can't afford Medical care? Thank an illegal alien.)
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To: Avenger
track him down, find his family, then slit their throats...oh wait, that's hem, not us...nevermind

report it

17 posted on 02/20/2005 2:05:40 AM PST by Bobber58 (whatever it takes, for as long as it takes)
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To: Avenger
This time he draws out of his pants pocket a small white plastic spray bottle and starts spraying it around the room

Perhaps it's some sort of religious ceremony: Let us spray...

18 posted on 02/20/2005 2:07:00 AM PST by sourcery (Resistance is futile: We are the Blog)
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I suggest that at the very least, you send in as much info as you remember, with all the details, as other suggested, via the internet to the FBI.

As I understand they do look at the submissions in a fairly timely manner of a day or so.

For current, immediate attention you need to call them, I would actually suggest doing both -- send it in via the internet AND call the local FBI office, which is listed at the fbi.gov.

If they have some other reason not released to the public to watch for things, they may be very interested, and you just never know. Better safe, than sorry.


FBI Los Angeles
Suite 1700, FOB
11000 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90024-3672
losangeles.fbi.gov
(310) 477-6565

And for internet tip submission, the link I already posted:

https://tips.fbi.gov/

===

Considering that I live in that general part of LA, I don't want to see some smallpox epidemic or something.


19 posted on 02/20/2005 2:10:32 AM PST by FairOpinion (It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.)
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To: Avenger
If you don't get real sick in the next two weeks you should be OK.

Seriously, unless the guy was wearing a full face mask respirator he would be baked too. Though, of course, a serum antitoxin is easy to make.

Can't resist pulling your leg. Last Christmas the students in the local B&N cafe wouldn't leave their seats or stop socializing when I needed badly to sit down. Hour after hour they sat there, mostly socializing. Should be chased out.

Bio is most easily spread in other ways than a hand pump spray bottle. Whatever was in there was probably more insulting than toxic or infectious.
20 posted on 02/20/2005 2:14:44 AM PST by Iris7 (.....to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Same bunch, anyway.)
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