HazMat Team Investigates Suspicious Substance

myCFnow and WKMG ^ | 10/09/01

[ksen]

HazMat Team Investigates Suspicious Substance
Man Says He Received Envelope Containing White Powder
Posted: 11:32 a.m. EDT October 9, 2001
Updated: 12:22 p.m. EDT October 9, 2001

BAREFOOT BAY, Fla. -- A man told Brevard County authorities Tuesday that he received an envelope containing a white powder two months ago, and he said that he hasn't felt well since opening the package, according to WKMG Local 6 News.

Brevard Authorities Investigate Suspicious Substance

The Brevard County bomb squad and Fire-Rescue HazMat team responded to 815 Laurel Cr. in Barefoot Bay after the man reported the incident.

The man said that he threw the envelope and its contents away, but said that there may be some powder left in his vacuum cleaner.

Stay with myCFnow.com and WKMG Local 6 News for more details.

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[squeegee boy]

How about the story about the guy in Florida who freaked when he got the powder in the envelope and like a total idiot he took it to the local fire station to show it to them. Now the fire house had to be shut down while they tested all the firemen in the building as well as the guys family back at his house and everyone in between point A and point B. If it were me, I would put that envelope in a ziploc baggie and send it FedEx next day air to the Taliban!

[Justin Thyme]

I hadn't heard about that one. What an idiot!

Maybe we ought to just kiss and make up with those guys....send them a canned ham or something...attached to the tip of an ICBM! ;)