Building Evacuated After Package Delivery

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[newsperson999]

A Williamson County building containing Primus, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company, was evacuated after a package containing a chemical agent was delivered to the building.

The package, which was received around 11 a.m., emitted a "whoosh" sound when opened, workers said. Thirteen people were treated for nausea and vomiting caused by the package.

The building is located on Carothers Parkway, across Interstate 65 from Cool Springs Galleria. The evacuation was expected to last at least two hours. Some employees were told to go home to alleviate traffic congestion.

About 2,500 people work in the building.

Crews from the Nashville Fire Department and Williamson County Emergency Management team responded to the call.

There were no reported injuries.

[dep]

anybody else around here get the distinct impression that there's a lot going on that the gov't is soft-pedaling? this atop the apparent fact that u.s. retribution has taken a back seat to colin powell's newfound campaign for prom king or nobel winner or some damn thing. i'm losing confidence fast.

dep

[Peach]

Nashville Fire Department? Is that Nashville, TN? That's where the bus hijacking occurred.

[Scythian]

My fear is that we've been told suitcase are in place in American and/or European cities

[Stefan Stackhouse]

I just called the mailroom at my wife's employer to alert them of this incident so they can exercise some precautions. I suggest that people not wait for some official word from our government about this - contact your mailrooms now. People thought at first that WTC North tower was a single, isolated event, too.

[John H K]

The nausea and vomiting sounds like a classic case of Mass Psychogenic Illness......not surprising given recent events. Will be interesting to see if that indeed turns out to be the case.

[janeliberty]

Either there's a lot of coincidence's happening or the terrorists are practicing phy ops on us. Um, wonder which one!

[Stefan Stackhouse]

I guess that because the package didn't have OBL's return address and "DIE, INFIDEL" scrawled on the side, that this is therefore not another terrorist attack. Nothing to worry about, folks.

[Scythian]

suitcase nukes that is

[dep]

yeah, i thought about that. even so, there is nothing that our government has done in the last 10 days that's even remotely confidence inspiring. i mean, if we're on our own, say so and let us act accordingly. oh, i forgot -- someone might say something to offend some delicate muslim sensibility.

dep

[MizSterious]

Did you see 60 Minutes (just for instance) Sunday evening? According to the experts on that show, we have nothing to worry about. There are, they claimed 8 (eight--count 'em, eight) teams ready to go into any city and save us. Please, don't flame me for this: that's exactly what the big deal bio-chemical experts on the show said. Soft pedaling? Nahhh. Lying, maybe...

[John H K]

Err, Mass Sociogenic Illness, I should say.

[Hugh Akston]

i'm losing confidence fast.

Well, I can understand the sentiment. But in all honesty, this is exactly what terrorists hope happens to the public they are assaulting.

[Maringa]

I was thinking the same thing. My theory is that some terrorists made a call to the FBI and told them where to find one of the suitcases. The terrorists probably said that we have many more located at different locations. Accept their conditions or they go off one by one....

[OrangeDaisy]

"Nashville Fire Department? Is that Nashville, TN? That's where the bus hijacking occurred."

No it's not where the bus crash occurred. The bus crashed near Manchester, TN, in Coffee County, about 65 miles southeast of Nashville, and actually closer to Chattanooga by a few miles than Nashville. Primus is in Brentwood, TN, in Williamson County, and is about 15-20 miles due south of Nashville. Nashville is in Davidson County, and Brentwood is considered a bedroom community of Nashville.

[MizSterious]

"someone might say something to offend some delicate muslim sensibility."

Yes, of course. Heaven forbid we should fight a war in a politically incorrect manner! How on earth can we hope to fight a war if we can't even bring ourselves to hurt the enemy's feelings? I worry on some days that the answer is, we won't be striking back at all, that our only plan is to blister them with rhetoric. Someone please tell me I'm wrong!

[dep]

Well, I can understand the sentiment. But in all honesty, this is exactly what terrorists hope happens to the public they are assaulting.

yeah, i know. but the fact is, there is no reason on god's green earth why we have not acted by now. there are plenty of targets -- and i'm not talking in afghanistan -- that we know for a fact support terrorism and that we could have and should have hit by now. the first and most important lesson -- that no one can afford to attack us -- should have been delivered three weeks ago or anytime since then. instead, we've delivered the message that if you attack us we'll talk among ourselves, make vague threats, ship some ships around, and act as if we want to catch as few people as possible. just total crap. and that is not due to the terrorists but to whoever is advising the president.

dep

[Hugh Akston]

there is no reason on god's green earth why we have not acted by now.

I can think of a few reasons, such as getting the right assets into the right place, and performing the reconaissance that the field commanders think is appropriate.

[Osinski]

Can anyone confirm?

[Hugh Akston]

But Powell is not exactly inspiring confidence in my household, I will gladly concede.

[Peach]

Thanks for the info.

[HiJinx]

Well said, Hugh.
It took us from December '41 to Aug '42 to respond with the Doolittle raid.
It took from Aug '90 to Jan '91 to respond in Kuwait/Iraq.
Why are we expecting this to happen so quickly now?

[dep]

I can think of a few reasons, such as getting the right assets into the right place, and performing the reconaissance that the field commanders think is appropriate.

if in this day and age this is the best we can do, then we've managed to catch up with the brits at about the time of the boer war. it does not take any field commanders or resources in place to transform saddam's palaces into miniatures of the current world trade center. it takes no troop movements to wipe out saddam's industrial and electricity generation capability, as well as every military asset he has. it does not take three weeks to get into a war, and if it does, then the war is lost already.

dep

[VOA]

The package, which was received around 11 a.m., emitted a "whoosh" sound when opened, workers said.

Let us pray that when the package was put together that some knucklehead accidentally
packed his triple bean and beef burrito with sour cream into the box.

Sitting on a loading dock at room temp for three or four days would make for a
pretty nasty "chemical agent".

[Thoreau]

also from this site: NewsChannel 5 has learned the state of Tennessee is considered high on the list of sites that could be targeted by terrorists.

[StriperSniper]

Plus trying to short circuit the second wave that will probably follow our attack.

[Thoreau]

here's another: Several areas of the Nashville International Airport had to be evacuated Tuesday night after fumes overcame workers.

[Aggie Mama]

Remember what Bush said in the speech before Congress...some of our victories will never be known. We live in a voyeuristic and microwave society -- everyone wants to see everything NOW. It ain't gonna happen that way.

[WhiteGuy]

One question....

Is the KING safe?

[SuziQ]

Either there's a lot of coincidence's happening or the terrorists are practicing phy ops on us. Um, wonder which one!

Doesn't sound like EITHER one to me. Sounds like some TN guy getting his jollies by sending something foul smelling to the Primus building so he can see his handiwork talked about 'ad nauseum' on the Evening News.

[basil]

Could it also be that there is more reporting on incidences such as these than there was before 9-11?

[OrangeDaisy]

"One question....

Is the KING safe?"

Yeah! He's safe and sound still working at that Burger King in Detroit.

"So hush little baby
Don't you cry
You know your daddy's bound to die
But all my trials, Lord will soon be over"
--Elvis Presley, An American Trilogy

[Sender]

My opinion is that Colin Powell and the dove elements are scared sh*tless, and justifiably so, that the entire Islamic world is about to blow up in their faces. They are correct. Their error is that we can somehow come out of this better by pussyfooting around and acting like ballerinas. We can only come out of this by kicking some a$$ hard, then when the other countries rise up, offer them the same and more, until they get the picture that we are SERIOUS this time. No negotiations, no excuses, NO CONSENSUS REQUIRED. You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists. George W said so! Now let's see some action! LET'S ROLL!!!

[spunkets]

Probably the same leaking package. Since they didn't find it and ID it teus. nite they delivered it. The hospital evidently let the folks go w/o IDing what made them sick. No terrorists here, probably some adhesive related chemical just leaking into the overpack.

[John H K]

No, most plausible explanation is Mass Sociogenic Illness..which is basically the politically correct term for Mass Hysteria. Many clearly documented instances of it in medical literature; completely sane people can make themselves VIOLENTLY ill entirely through their own mind.

Key characteristics are:

1) Not all people in vicinity are affected

2) Affects women and children more than men

3) Transmitted by "line of sight"..that is, one person sees another become ill, and then becomes ill themselves.

MSI has been behind a lot of acute "sick building syndrome" cases, and also has occured a lot in schools.

Given the current climate of fear, I suspect we're going to see a LOT of MSI related to fear of bioterrorism in the next few months. The problem is, the entire medical community is aware of it but they find it awkward to discuss with the media...no one wants to be told it's all in their head. It's not a very popular explanation.

[rbmillerjr]

YEAH, either all of that or it's an agent or gas. Truth is we really dont know yet

[Jefferson Adams]

My opinion is that Colin Powell and the dove elements are scared sh*tless, and justifiably so, that the entire Islamic world is about to blow up in their faces. They are correct. Their error is that we can somehow come out of this better by pussyfooting around and acting like ballerinas. We can only come out of this by kicking some a$$ hard, then when the other countries rise up, offer them the same and more, until they get the picture that we are SERIOUS this time. No negotiations, no excuses, NO CONSENSUS REQUIRED. You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists. George W said so! Now let's see some action! LET'S ROLL!!!

BINGO.