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Somebody May Have Tried to Poison a Bunch of Furries With Chlorine Gas
Vice News ^ | December 7, 2014 | Meredith Hoffman

Posted on 12/07/2014 3:50:06 PM PST by Bettyprob

Thousands of people — many dressed as foxes, bears, pandas, and other fuzzy creatures — were evacuated from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday morning after a chemical leak that police are investigating as a criminal act.

The leak — of a chlorine-containing gas in the Hyatt O'Hare Regency Hotel — sent 19 people to the hospital, including several attendees at the 15th annual "Midwest FurFest," an animal fandom convention. The hospitalized individuals "complained of nausea and dizziness," the Midwest FurFest organizers explained on their website.

"The Rosemont Police Department determined this was a criminal act and began investigating it as such," the Midwest FurFest statement said. The event is a giant convergence of furry devotees who "come together to celebrate furry fandom, that is, art, literature and performance based around anthropomorphic animals."

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KEYWORDS: furries; furry
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To: Bettyprob
Thousands of people — many dressed as foxes, bears, pandas, and other fuzzy creatures — were evacuated from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday morning after a chemical leak that police are investigating as a criminal act. The leak — of a chlorine-containing gas in the Hyatt O'Hare Regency Hotel — sent 19 people to the hospital, including several attendees at the 15th annual "Midwest FurFest," an animal fandom convention. The hospitalized individuals "complained of nausea and dizziness," the Midwest FurFest organizers explained on their website.

Are they sure it wasn't a spontaneous release of methane?

61 posted on 12/07/2014 4:53:01 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Bettyprob
The event is a giant convergence of furry devotees who "come together to celebrate furry fandom, that is, art, literature and performance based around anthropomorphic animals perversity."

Fixed.

62 posted on 12/07/2014 4:56:30 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Bettyprob

This is beyond disturbing... and not the gassing part!


63 posted on 12/07/2014 5:04:34 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: KC_Lion

If she is crying now, wait until she is sent to the glue factory.


64 posted on 12/07/2014 5:07:09 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Bettyprob
PETA did it because they don't want humans to dress as animals...

Time for Grissom (from CSI) to investigate. They did a furry episode when a guy dressed as a chipmunk got killed'

65 posted on 12/07/2014 5:23:56 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Bettyprob

Are furries significantly different from trekkies? Same crowd, different suits?


66 posted on 12/07/2014 5:50:06 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: discostu

it’s because they like to have perverted sex wearing furry costumes. sickos.


67 posted on 12/07/2014 5:52:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lil Flower
I’m sorry but what the hell is the difference? Seriously I can’t figure it out. OMG help me that I’m trying to figure out.

Bronies like to have fun by dressing up as their favorite character.

Furries are trying to express their "animal spirit".

For the most part it's all in good fun. Evil prefers to wear a business suit.

68 posted on 12/07/2014 6:01:35 PM PST by CtBigPat (Free Republic - The grown-ups table of the internet.)
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To: KC_Lion

Are you the guy who posted the link to that disturbing youtube video about the bronies? That thing gave me night-mares.


69 posted on 12/07/2014 6:02:31 PM PST by nomad
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To: cripplecreek
I suspect Hudson Bay Company operatives.

That my friend is post of the year material!!!!!!!! I damn near crapped myself from laughing.

(Both getting the joke and crapping myself should give away my age.)

70 posted on 12/07/2014 6:21:15 PM PST by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: PROCON
I suspect that that Ewok lacks any fur whatsoever.
71 posted on 12/07/2014 6:23:14 PM PST by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: Bettyprob
Video report:

'Furry' convention disrupted as 'intentional' gas incident sends 19 to hospitals

Check out the guy from :22 to :38 seconds - LOL!

72 posted on 12/07/2014 6:25:03 PM PST by CtBigPat (Free Republic - The grown-ups table of the internet.)
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To: OSHA

Urban trappers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLXo19248g


73 posted on 12/07/2014 6:27:06 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

it’s because they like to have perverted sex wearing furry costumes. sickos.

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Seriously?

I thought people like that didn’t quite know what sex was.


74 posted on 12/07/2014 6:37:30 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: cripplecreek
Urban trappers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLXo19248g

Any man that can pull that link out of his a$$ on the fly has an insanity to be reckoned with.

I bow before you.

75 posted on 12/07/2014 6:45:17 PM PST by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: Bettyprob
Police have named McGruff the Crime Dog as lead investigator...


76 posted on 12/07/2014 6:56:50 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack; a fool in paradise

That is McGrowl, the flasher dog.... McGruff’s criminal litter-mate


77 posted on 12/07/2014 6:58:51 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Bettyprob

I saw this on CYE. I thought it a joke.


78 posted on 12/07/2014 7:03:36 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I smell varmint poontang, and the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.”


79 posted on 12/07/2014 7:15:52 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Veto!

Are furries significantly different from trekkies? Same crowd, different suits?

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I looked at their images and it seems as though they have a lot of cartoon porn with animal/human cartoons. Bizarre.


80 posted on 12/07/2014 8:19:00 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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