Courthouse, Mall Evacuated In Winston-Salem
POSTED: 10:36 am EDT October 29, 2004
UPDATED: 11:02 am EDT October 29, 2004
WINSTON-SALEM -- Authorities have evacuated the Forsyth County courthouse and a shopping mall following separate incidents Friday morning.
Police say a male caller contacted the clerk's office around 9:30 a.m. and told the clerk to empty the building. Bomb-sniffing dogs are searching the building and the block surrounding the courthouse has been sealed off.
At Hanes Mall, workers said someone entered the mall and sprayed a substance on the lower level. Mall officials confirm that the mall has been evacuated, and police say several dozen people have been quarantined.
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office referred to the substance as a "suspicious biological agent." A hazardous materials unit is at the mall.
We'll have more on these stories on our noon newscast.
So, the Kerry creature can come on tv tonight and scream that Bush isn't doing enough to keep us safe.
This is transparent.
Just damn.
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Don't get too excited about the bomb threat though.... they get bomb threats all the time, pre and post 9/11, it's always just a threat.
One possibility is the gas released when the janitor accidentally dumps too much bleach into the water, or combines bleach with an ammonia based cleaner. Can't count the number of times people forget bleach is chlorine (mustard gas) or the bleach-ammonia deadly combination.
Another possibility is the use of chemical agents in stripping the tile. Again the janitor forgot to ventilate the area.
Another possibility is that a floor service coated the wood in one of the department stores with a fresh coat of poly which required the use of a bonding agent instead of sanding the floor. I used a bonding substance called Wil-Bond on a floor once that released vapors that could knock a moose over in a heartbeat.
Just some amateur ideas on the cause that's not terror related...Funny how 9-11 changed how we see a half-wit janitor's bright idea of combining bleach and ammonia as a terror plot.
Chicago PD found a grenede on a propane tank somewhere around Midway Airport last night. No other info given, other than they blew it up to disarm it.
We need NC FReepers to watch this story carefully. The MSM always spins for "nothing here, folks."
This is so weird... I just got back from early voting at the 201 Chestnut location downtown and a bunch of streets were blocked off. There were quite a few people who were kicked out of the courthouse, because of the threat, who used that time to vote;-) It has been blocked off for a while now.