Posted on 08/04/2005 8:21:45 AM PDT by Cowman
CERGY, France (AFP) - An envelope leaking a strange pinkish powder sparked an alert in a Paris suburban post office, but tests revealed the substance to be nothing more than dessicated elephant dung, police said.
With France on high terrorism alert following the London bombings last month, postal workers in a sorting centre in the northwestern suburb of Bonneuil-en-France took no chance when they noticed the strange envelope from Sri Lanka with the powder inside.
After police were called in Thursday, six employees who had been exposed to the powder were subjected to medical examinations.
The powder was analysed too, and was eventually found to contain the elephant excrement.
Police said the envelope was addressed to a Paris-based immigrant from Sri Lanka who apparently used the pachydermal poo for traditional religious rites.
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LoL. That's funny
Y'know, wouldn't it be better to jar or can the stuff and ship it that way or packed further in a box?
Who the hell would put *any* kind of powder in a plain old envelope?
you probably don't want to be around when that box starts to leak.
Lol!
It's GUARANTEED to "leak" from an A10 envelope! That's my point. ;-)
I wonder if they did a taste test, like they do in the cop shows.
*taste* yep, that's elephant poop, alright.
Pas du problem, Pierre!
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