On 25 Feb 2008 20:48:34 -0500, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Robert Sneddon <fred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>> Then there was the DC area con which resulted ina SWAT callout.
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>Disclave 1980, at the "Hostility House." I was there.
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>> And the Chattacon that got the attention of the AEC...
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>I hadn't heard about that, nor does Google find anything relevant.
>Please tell us more.
Well, i woke up around nine Saturday morning, looke dout the hotel
window, and discovered that the street behind the hotel was full of
assorted emergency vehicles and extremely-plain-looking sedans, and
the all sort of people were swarming in and out of the Municipal
Parking Garahge across the street (a matter of some concern to me,
because my car was in there).
This went on for some time, and then they all went away.
Later the word got out that "something" that someone saw in the garage
had been the cause of it all; eventually we discovered that it was a
clear plastic cylinder, 2/3 full of extremely chartreuse fluid and
marked with both radiation and biohazard symbols.
And cracked and leaking.
And so they had called out the local hazmat team, the bomb squad, AEC
types complete with radiation-monitoring equipment, cops, fire engines
and ambulances.
It was eventually determined to be something on the order of Kool Aid
with food colouring in it.
Why they didn't evacuate the hotel, i will never know.
The owner of the object in question, who had been quietly (and
illegally) sleeping in his parked van when the noisy people began
arriving, emulated the Tar Baby, and lay low and didn't say nothin'.
From what i recall hearing, he'd been drunk when he got to the garage,
put the tube on top of the van as he fumbled out his keys. forgot all
about it, passed out, and, at some time, it rolled off the top of the
van, hit the concreter and cracked and began leaking.
And then some busybody came along and spotted it...
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