West Palm Beach Courthouse Shutdown!

[Vintage1]

Breaking on CNN and Fox - 2 pp being decontaminated. FBI responding.

[Vintage1]

Warning - Shameless self-bump to break 100 posts: No more info coming out of this story.

[Vintage1]

Last Update: 2 envelopes comtaining the toxic substance carried by mail clerks into two separate judges chambers. Sounds like someone with a verdict related grudge.

[Political Junkie Too]

Was one of these people at the library recently?

-PJ

[Vintage1]

Man that is one convincing make-up job!

[Palladin]

Was Palm Beach where the BIG anthrax attack began in 2002?

[BenLurkin]

Michael Moore?

[null and void]

It's Rosie's dad...

[greyfoxx39]

Juat wonder how much of this strange stuff happening in the past few days is trial run or red herring tactics.

[hankbrown]

Looks like Fort Lauderdale got hit too -- per IPN bulletin:

FLA| Ft. Lauderdale| Suspicious Substance| FLFR 5B (25200)| 201 SE 6th St (BC Courthouse)|E2 I/C suspicious white powder found in envelope at Broward County Courthouse, Haz-Mat 88 enrt| FLA160| 16:46

[georgiagirl_pam]

OK, my paranoid self here again but think about this. Where is Super Bowl 2007? In South Florida! These may be false and not-so false test runs to see response times and patterns, media coverage, etc. I know, it may sound crazy to some but we all know they want to hit us again and Super Bowl would be a rich target.

[JustPiper]

Nully where was it in Fla a few days ago that they stopped that guy w/ two hiding at the port, Miami?

[null and void]

Port of Miami, very close to Wet Pam Beach, IIRC.

[null and void]

About 70 miles

[dhuffman@awod.com]

More white sounding than 'peeps'.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth. NRA KMA

[concerned about politics]

FBI agents en route to the scene have ruled out any possibility of terrorism. Anywhere. Ever.

LOL. You've got that right!

If this powder smells like sulfur, I wonder if who ever did this is linked to the "rotten egg/natural gas" stink in NYC and NJ.

[concerned about politics]

I'm still waiting to hear what killed thousands of birds this week, and what the stench in NY was from? Test runs?

Sure sounds like it. It's enough to make me wanna go "Hmmmmmmmm."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

YES!

[Vintage1]

Very interesting, when you connect these two dots. But, if it were the "T" word - which of course it is not - why a courthouse? Why not a large shopping center, etc.?

[ClancyJ]

And just why do they think someone was sending that substance in a letter that was leaking the powder?

Do they think they might have gotten a request from a judge to send the substance to those two offices?

Give me a break. It is obvious it is a terrorism stunt.

[Cold Heat]

I don't recall it smelling like sulfur. It has little smell actually. Kind of a metallic odor. But when wet it begins to emit a musty smell, and when accidentally inhaled, it makes your breath stink like garlic>

They are calling the stuff toxic, but we never took any major handling precautions with it when I was working in metallurgy lab, back in the day. I did not think it to be harmful, at least not any more than any household chemical. The only warning on the label was eye and lung irritant. IIRC...

Sounds to me like who ever sent this, was not intending to hurt anyone.