Posted on 07/03/2007 8:04:46 PM PDT by Weight of Glory
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas -- A canister containing a dangerous and lethal gas was stolen, officials told KPRC Local 2 Tuesday.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department said the 300-pound container of compressed chlorine gas was taken between midnight and 10 a.m. on June 29 from the Regional Water Corporation, located at 16705 Gleneagle Drive North.
(Excerpt) Read more at click2houston.com ...
Something is always happening in Montgomery County.
Suggest they look for the scrap metal buyer with all of the dead people laying around.
“The fact that none have slipped through successfully as of yet is amazing.”
Yes. Yes it is amazing!
From KHOU, our local CBS affiliate, some more info is offered: “The canister vanished from the second floor of the plant in the 16,700 block of Glenagle Drive North.
It is 150 pounds of stainless steel and is marked chlorine gas.”
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This story gave me a start when I read the excerpt.
Normally I would have passed by it or filed it under the mental heading of ‘odd’, but it reminded my of something.
A few weeks ago there was a bit of discussion on one of the forums I lurk from time to time. It turns out that one of the forum members there works at a water treatment facility (NOT one in Texas mind you), and there had been a bit of a hubub at the workplace when it was learned that a few unidentified men had been seen casing the facility.
The forumite in question mentioned that the primary security concern at his facility was someone gaining access to the finished product, but that since he worked at a CHLORINE TREATMENT plant there was some concern about people gaining access to the canisters.
I made a mental note of that because chlorination of municipal water supplies has become less common over the years and because chlorine gas was used by the Krauts in the first gas attack of WWI.
If I recall correctly, the Al-Q folks in Iraq started using chlorine gas as a casualty enhancer in their VBIEDs this year.
Coincidences?
That is exactly what I was thinking. What struck me as odd in this story is that they went for a heavy canister on the 2nd floor. If you were to do a smash and grab job to sell the scrap why go to the 2nd floor? Why give yourself that much more distance for a getaway while lugging around a 150 pound, awkward canister? This could still be nothing, but it has been only recently that AQI has been using chlorine bombs. They could have tested and perfected their method, then transported the know-how here.
This from Chertoff about one month ago:
Here is a similar story about the same time, from the SacBee:
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/226851.html
I’d appreciate it if you would ping me if their are any updates to this incident.
Thank you.
why do we assume it was stolen? maybe it got disgusted and left on its own.
If you get pinged, can you ping me?
BOLA for clorine gas tank in N. Houston area.
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