Terror attack at my job!

[Monocrom]

There's a 50% chance it wasn't real anthrax....

LINK -
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09122007/news/regionalnews/wall_street_thrax_scare.htm

Wasn't there when it actually took place. But I do know one of the eight mailroom clerks who had to clean off outside in a make-shift, Haz-Mat shower. They left for home wearing slippers & robes that the Haz-Mat team provided. F.B.I. showed up too. Along with Fire and Police personel.

But there's more! At about 10pm, a cleaner who usually cleans the mailroom, walked in, did her thing, and walked out.... Where an S&P guard stopped her. This particular guard doesn't usually work in the building. He was posted there by a security manager who didn't bother to tell him that there are two points of entry into the mailroom. The cleaner called her boss. Her boss apparently contacted someone important connected with the client site, and FDNY & NYPD personel came out again! Seems someone didn't lock the other mailroom door properly! So, 12 hours after the first incident, they finally sent one of the guards I work with down to the outer doors of the mailroom; to put up Haz-Mat tape on the doors.

Mailroom shut down indefinitely. At least until the Haz-Mat team can determine if the powder really is anthrax or perhaps another type of poison, or possibly baby powder. And then clean the mailroom, if needed. Temporary mailroom was established this morning. So whoever sent that envelope on 9/11, managed to shut down a major financial building.... But only for a few hours! Back to business as usual now!

Chances are, the cleaning lady is going to sue.

...... And that's how my 3rd shift went today.

 

[Manzerick]

Wow!!!!!!

 

[cslinger]

We had that happen several years ago at my work place. Kind of nerve wracking to be sure. Ours turned out fake, but it does go to show you how quickly, cheaply, and easily you can disrupt parts of our society. You don't have to kill people to cause terror and disruption.

Chris

 

[Burgess]

gee --


the lady . . . .

opened the envelope,

saw the powder,


and proceeded to smell it ? ? ?



_

 

[KC2IXE]

Fun, ain't it?

We had a scare a few weeks ago - joy, and we had the REAL thing back in, what was it, 01 or 02? (the one where the visiting kid got it) - I used to walk through that mail room every day

 

[The_LED_Museum]

A few years ago, some dim bulb flew a light plane over Safeco Field in Seattle, and a bag of human ashes somehow fell off and rocketed toward the stadium; all the while spewing a comet-like tail before smashing into the roof of the facility and exploding in a poofy cloud. Officials thought it was an anthrax release, and had everybody evacuated from the baseball stadium.

 

[Monocrom]

gee --


the lady . . . .

opened the envelope,

saw the powder,


and proceeded to smell it ? ? ?



_

Yeah.... What can I say, one of the guys who works in the mailroom is even worse. But my boss is no brainiac either. If he had done his job properly and told that guard that there's two points of entry into the mailroom, that cleaner would have been stopped before going into the mailroom. I don't hate my boss. But I have to admit he screwed up big time!

There's also a good chance that S&P has learned the identity of the person who sent the envelope. I'll find out for sure, tomorrow.

EDIT ~

Things calmed down considerably after the terror attack. No new information was ever released.