Breaking: Powder Dropped Over N.C. Daycare Center

Local News In NC

[My Favorite Headache]

A plane in North Carolina in Monroe just dumped a blanket of white powder over a daycare center.Not joking here..breaking on NC News station FOX 18

[Nora]

Not all day cares are closed at night - many for 24/7 facilities like hospitals and some factories are themselves 24/7.

[Tai_Chung]

Off Old Charlotte Highway

5:30 - 6:00 pm......plane flying low over them.....eyewitnesses noticed white powder on themselves and the children........hazmat on the way.....FBI on the way.....children taken to hospital.....

[looois]

I hope this is not real. if it is, if dumped in daylight, plane would be seen and caught. Maybe they thought, after dark, they could dump it, not be seen and get away. If bio, it would still be there the next morning when children come in. I hope this is not real. Cause if it is, it means they intend to target our children.

[BlackJack]

Try and resist the impulse to spread panic. Its not a breaking story....there is no story right now.

[My Favorite Headache]

At 6 pm a low flying plane dumped this white substance over the school yard. The news is just breaking on it now. HAZMAT and police on scene. Performing field tests.

[copycat]

Bin Laden said he would next strike "the heart of America." It was speculated that could mean an attack on America's children.

[piasa]

let us know if they actually saw the plane do this- we had some folks freak out down here in Florida when they came out to the parking lot after work and saw powder all over their cars...

Turned out to be a thick dusting of pollen from the trees.

[bluefish]

If one the criminal nutbags were so inclined, they could do it as a warning. Perhaps even to demonstrate to the gubmint that they have the means to carry out an attack.

All I can say is.. "Looks like the day care industry is going to be devasted by this..." Sounded funny at first, but then I realized that would mean a lot parents not going to work.

[lelio]

I'm sure we'll hear later on that it was an accident by an unnamed pilot and for everyone to move on.

[concerned about politics]

Is there anything stratigic near or close to the day care center? Does the center share the building with anything else? How many kids????????No, not the children. I'd do anything to protect the kids or the helpless elderly!!

[kayak]

WBTV (local CBS affiliate - Channel 2) ..... incident happened about 5:30 .... they do not know why the delay in reporting it ..... HAZMAT on the way ..... FBI notified ...... crime scene tape marking off the area

[Tai_Chung]

Intersection of Old Charlotte Highway and Dickerson Road

[Principled]

c'mon headache. cryptic messages about terrorists and children are not needed. you don't sound so sure this is really happening...

your source "suddenly breaking away", and further tidbits like "children to hospital" indicate some BS here.

care to clarify?

[OWK]

Was the powder 'white and mysterious'? WE HAVE GOT TO CALM DOWN! Whoever is behind this (whose behind is the giant rat of Sumatra?) is relishing in the panic invoked by the media reports. It's a dumpster fire for the entire nation to view.

Will you knock it off with the "calm down" pontification...

People are asking some pretty reasonable questions under the circumstances.

The only person getting all excited in this thread is you.

[KellyAdmirer]

Could just be a legitimate cropduster with a bonehead pilot. Isn't that near Mayberry RFD? Paging Andy Taylor...

[My Favorite Headache]

Who is spreading panic? THIS IS BREAKING NEWS.

[Liberty Teeth]

They just said that the powder was dropped aound 5:30 and they have taken some kids to the hospital for tests.

[steveo]

I HOPE everyone is over-reactng. Really.

[WalterSkinner]

If it is a prank, their punishment should be to drop them out of a plane over Kabul.

[OWK]

Thank you very much for the update (and for the local call letters)