[umbra]

How big was the pleaure boat-how many people were sprayed by the crop duster?

[Dengar01]

Umm why aren't they publishing the results, if they were negative for whatever it would diminish some of the paranoia going on.

[Bommer]

Read the next post:

The director of the Bolivar County Emergency Management Agency, Kent Buckley, said officials suspected the sprayed substance was sodium chlorate, which is used to defoliate cotton crops and would not be dangerous if sprayed on people.

[Hodar]

So, hypothetically, if I were witnessing this, and I emptied 2 clips from my 9mm into the plane, causing it to crash (killing the pilot) how long would I spend in jail?

[Hibernius Druid]

Law enforcement agencies are still searching for the cropduster. . .

So much for "homeland security." Your tax dollars at work.

[narby]

I work with these crop duster guys for a living. I'll bet they had extra chemical, and rather than land with it and deal with the EPA regulations on getting rid of it, they just sprayed it in the river.

Probably been doing for decades, but nobody cared before.

What I'd like to know is, did the guy come directly at the tow boat and turn the spray only on them. Then proceded to the pleasure boat and spray only the boat? Or was he just spraying the whole river? Which would look more to me like he was just unloading chemical.

Keep in mind, its a very hard process to load the precise amount of chemical so that you run out right at the end of the field with nothing left to spray.

If he was unloading chemical, I'm quite sure its illegal. And he should be busted if only for that.

[MinuteGal]

Just how long does it take to track down the pilot and the plane in this caper? Checking the airports, big and small, for records, logs and takeoffs is no big deal and should have been accomplished right off the bat. The pilot should be in custody by now or his mug should be up on every post office bulletin board. On the other hand, if there's no records to be found, then something is screwy, lethal spray or not. I agree that some politicians, bureaucrats and the media are creating panic and paranoia in the public with their own exaggerated sense of caution and/or plain stupidity.

Leni

[AgThorn]

How hard can it be to track the plane down? especially if it had call letters on it, which is a law isn't it?

I would assume that if I was getting sprayed, or saw this happening, that I would have written down the call letters and reported it to the authorities.

[rwfromkansas]

hmm

[Lady GOP]

Law enforcement agencies are still searching for the cropduster and a pleasure boat the plane also sprayed.

This was on cnn earlier today. The report of the low flying cropduster was on CNN this morning. Good luck finding it.

[Joe Miner]

I think what happened is that this guy was busy doing his job and upon turning around to do the next row noticed that the pleasure boat had a naked female sunbathing on the deck.

He got so excited he turned the spray on too soon. And then he had to go back for a second look and sprayed the barge.

Let's not be paranoid people.

[Lion's Cub]

Here's the initial article from the 20th: Miss. Probes Crop Duster Sprayings

[lonevoice]

A lot about this can be blamed on incompetence (the pilot was an idiot, no one got the plane's call letters, they can't find the plane, etc.) But, here's what I can't figure out: why haven't the people from the pleasure craft shown up on their own? This story must've been all over the regional media, lots of locals must've been buzzing about it. It would be hard for the people who were on that boat to not have heard about it. If you were one of them, and you thought there was any chance in hell you had been sprayed with a deadly bioagent, wouldn't you run to health officials and demand that you be tested?

[callisto]

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