Posted on 09/10/2004 6:25:27 AM PDT by areafiftyone
HELENA, Mont. -- At least five governors received envelopes in the mail Thursday rigged to ignite when opened. In Montana, the envelope prompted the evacuation of part of the state Capitol.
The envelopes, rigged with matches set to ignite when opened, were sent to the governors of Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Washington and Utah. There were no reports of injuries.
All the letters appeared to have come from a maximum-security prison in Nevada, where another letter also turned up at the office of the state corrections director.
Barbara Ranf, chief of staff for Montana Gov. Judy Martz, said the match was contained in a white business-size envelope and burned part of a piece of paper when it ignited.
Matches also ignited when letters to Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns were opened by staff members in Boise and Lincoln and in the office of Jackie Crawford, the state corrections director in Carson City, Nev. There were no evacuations in those states.
Similar letters were sent to Gov. Gary Locke of Washington and Gov. Olene Walker of Utah. A nationwide alert was sent to governors' offices Thursday after the first incidents, however, and both those letters were intercepted. In Utah, a bomb squad was called to handle the envelope.
All were postmarked from the Ely State Prison in Ely, Nev., officials said. AP
Wow. Bump.
It's a new terrorist group "RETARDED PEOPLE FOR KERRY"
Wait, that's redundant.
What were they trying to do, burn the governor's staff fingers? A lighting match just doesn't do it for me. Was there something more?
I really don't know. I haven't really looked at other news sources for this article. If you really think about it what can they make in a prison that could really explode?
In one of them there was some sort of white powder that ignited.
Macguyver they ain't.
I'm thinking it was the phosporous tips off of stick matches. We used to do that when I was a kid to make rockets. He must have set up some kind of friction device to ignite them. I'd better shut up now.
Kind of a vital piece of information missing from this story.
Hey a church (Ukranian) blew up in Connecticut at 0700 hrs this morning...it may be gas, but a Conn. Freeper says it's being treated as a crime scene?
Check the Republican Governors Association site.
Sounds like a kinda funny office joke. It lights. You yell "Holy sh1t!" then you blow it out and laugh.
i think we use to put match heads in a 22 shell then hit the shell with a hammer.
Ofcourse. WA...Gary Locke democrat. I just want to assure my fellow FReepers out there that we are working on changing that! Go Dino Rossi!
My husband likes to blow things up, too.
Saw it ( the bit about the white powder) last night on the crawler on Fox...
Is he a DINO (demo in name only)?
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