200 Evacuated at Costco [Salem, Oregon]

Statesman Journal.com ^ | 11-19-03 | Jody Lawrence-Turner

[Salvation]

Employees and shoppers at Costco in Salem board Cherriots buses after the store was evacuated before noon Tuesday after several became ill.

At least 24 suffer an illness.

Five shoppers passed out inside Costco on Tuesday, causing the evacuation of more than 200 customers and employees.

[AndrewB]

It was....the salmon pate'. Love those free samples!

[Oorang]

Posting that photo was not a smart move. You will now have to soak your hard-drive in Lysol.

[Oorang]

Do you have a link to the thread, or a suggestion for a search (name, etc.)? I would like to read up on that one. Thanks.

[Salvation]

You got it!

[ValerieUSA]

Mayor Katz was the champion of the inept Police Chief Moose, before he moved from Portland to Montgomery County.

[Salvation]

So Krazy Katz is from the NE?

No wonder we don't like her!

[DeSoto]

So Krazy Katz is from the NE?

No wonder we don't like her!

Everyday it is good to have a little happy news, a little ray of sunshine on an otherwise gloomy gray Western Oregon day. Knowing that Vera Katz wasn't home grown in Oregon, but is a transplanted weirdo is my sunshine for today.

[tubavil]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1029524/posts

From Daniel Pipes (months before Bush appointment):

"These admirers overlook the following unsavory facts about Abou El Fadl: (1) The published essays in this collection (roughly half the total) first appeared in The Minaret, house organ of the Islamic Center of Southern California, a leading militant Islamic institution. (2) Abou El Fadl has acknowledged giving money to the Holy Land Foundation of Richardson, Texas, an organization President Bush subsequently closed down because it raised money for Hamas, called by the president "one of the deadliest terrorist organizations in the world today." (3) Abou El Fadl speaks for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, alleged recently to be one of Islam's stateside image custodians that are "little more than shills for terrorist organizations." Abou El Fadl, sad to say, is just another Muslim extremist."

[Oorang]

Thanks for the link and info.

[freedom44]

Yeah you better watch out for those "dangerous" Iranian-Americans.. never know what they'll do.. support war on terror with these demonstrations, bring tons of $ to the economy, vote 70% Republican. damn dangerous breed.

[Allegra]

Greater Houston's Middle Easterners form the seventh-largest concentration in this country.

Well, we do have an awful lot of convenience stores here.

Supply and demand, ya know.

:-)

[Grampa Dave]

Would you please ping this for Salvation.

[blackie]

I don't have any ping lists Gramps ~ I'll just bump it along. :)

[SAMWolf]

Too many "made in China" labels maybe?

[Soaring Feather]

bump

Maybe so Sam.

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Well, it's enough to make you sick!

[John H K]

Technically it's known as "Mass Sociogenic Illness" these days, given the negative connotations of "hysteria.

It's VERY real, and there have been numerous documented cases of it. It doesn't mean that everyone who suffers from it is "insane" or mentally ill or something.

The human mind is a powerful thing. MSI can cause people to profusely vomit, EVEN CAUSE RASHES, believe it or not.

It's something the medical profession is keenly aware of but people are very reluctant to bring it up immediately following a well-known incident for fear of being attacked by the media.

It's clearly a very unpopular diagnosis and people find it insulting when it happens...doesn't diminish the fact that it's very common and can cause "illnesses" from absolutely nothing.

[John H K]

Perhaps, but what do you think of the Al-Qaeda, testing for major terrorist attack

The "test" theory is one of the more idiotic repeated FR theories that you see around here; repeated over and over again, and most popular with people that are frustrated and disappointed that with the hundreds of thousands of them pure-evil Mooslems in this country, they sure don't commit as terror attacks as you'd expect if they were all terrorists.

Thus, everything that MIGHT have seemed at first to be a terror attack but turns out not to be, gets proclaimed a "test."

Which makes absolutely no sense from a practical terror standpoint; "Dry Runs" such as the 9/11 terrorists did before their attack make sense, but making "semi-attacks" makes no sense whatsoever in terms of the terrorists learning anything at all, and in terms of alerting targets.

[ex-Texan]

There may be good a reason to be concerned and it is Described in Detail on this site. This sort of chemical warfare testing info is all over the web. Is it true? Maybe yes, maybe no. The Fibbies ain't talking to anybody about it.

[texas booster]

I remember several incidents of evacuations of grocery stores in the Dallas Fort Worth area. It just seems to come and go. Usually three or four incidents then it disappears.

Arlington TX was hit with a couple of these events a few years ago. Customers complained of a foul odor and fainting. I'll see what I can find.