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Breaking: Powder Dropped Over N.C. Daycare Center News/Current Events Source: Local News In NC Posted on 10/29/01 4:56 PM Pacific by My Favorite Headache

A plane in North Carolina in Monroe just dumped a blanket of white powder over a daycare center.Not joking here..breaking on NC News station FOX 18

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1 posted on 10/29/01 4:56 PM Pacific by My Favorite Headache [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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FOX 18 out of Charlotte reporting this as of 4 mins ago.

2 posted on 10/29/01 4:57 PM Pacific by My Favorite Headache [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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ok, not joking right? like baby powder etc???

I don't think you'd joke about this....Please keep us posted

3 posted on 10/29/01 4:58 PM Pacific by SunnyUsa [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Why at this hour?

4 posted on 10/29/01 4:58 PM Pacific by Senator Pardek [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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It's 8:00 at night. Why a daycare center? Everybody's home (thankfully).

5 posted on 10/29/01 4:59 PM Pacific by SamAdams76 [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Not sure what to say until more details are given...

I only pray that it's a prank.

6 posted on 10/29/01 4:59 PM Pacific by Come get it [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Update please....

7 posted on 10/29/01 4:59 PM Pacific by GeorgeandtheDralgore [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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That's what I was wondering. Why dump anything on an empty or near-empty day care center?!

8 posted on 10/29/01 4:59 PM Pacific by Redcloak [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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It's dark isn't it? Is it fake snow for a special for the kiddies or something....this is WEIRD.

9 posted on 10/29/01 4:59 PM Pacific by goodnesswins [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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I am in a hotel right now out on assignment...just picked this up from contact I am working with via-phone as he had the station on in the background at his hotel. I don't know any other details...he broke away to make another call.

10 posted on 10/29/01 5:00 PM Pacific by My Favorite Headache [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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I hope someone had the brains to IMMEDIATELY call both the cops AND the FAA. Gotta track it by radar or they might not catch it.

11 posted on 10/29/01 5:01 PM Pacific by petuniasevan [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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To terrorize. If this is a terrorist, he wants to keep the US on one foot and terrorized. Plus, it is just proving to someone that it can be done. this is really sick.

12 posted on 10/29/01 5:01 PM Pacific by mystomachisturning [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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2 KIDS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

13 posted on 10/29/01 5:01 PM Pacific by My Favorite Headache [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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The aircraft, that is.

14 posted on 10/29/01 5:01 PM Pacific by petuniasevan [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Maybe they chose a time that they wouldn't be noticed. It's not like the spores won't be there in the morning in the air vents for the babies to breathe. They want deaths, they don't want people treated with antibiotics in time to stop the disease.

15 posted on 10/29/01 5:01 PM Pacific by FITZ [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Was the powder 'white and mysterious'? WE HAVE GOT TO CALM DOWN! Whoever is behind this (whose behind is the giant rat of Sumatra?) is relishing in the panic invoked by the media reports. It's a dumpster fire for the entire nation to view.

16 posted on 10/29/01 5:02 PM Pacific by steveo [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Why at this hour?

Practice ???

17 posted on 10/29/01 5:02 PM Pacific by Izzy Dunne [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Why at this hour?

Bioweapons degrade in sunlight. Ideally you release at night. Hopefully this a hoax

18 posted on 10/29/01 5:02 PM Pacific by Glasser [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Nothing in national networks yet..

19 posted on 10/29/01 5:02 PM Pacific by OWK [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Or were they doing this dumping under the cover of darkness. Strange times we live in.

20 posted on 10/29/01 5:02 PM Pacific by PennsylvaniaMom [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Not all day cares are closed at night - many for 24/7 facilities like hospitals and some factories are themselves 24/7.

21 posted on 10/29/01 5:02 PM Pacific by Nora [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Off Old Charlotte Highway

5:30 - 6:00 pm......plane flying low over them.....eyewitnesses noticed white powder on themselves and the children........hazmat on the way.....FBI on the way.....children taken to hospital.....

22 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by Tai_Chung [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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I hope this is not real. if it is, if dumped in daylight, plane would be seen and caught. Maybe they thought, after dark, they could dump it, not be seen and get away. If bio, it would still be there the next morning when children come in. I hope this is not real. Cause if it is, it means they intend to target our children.

23 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by looois [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Try and resist the impulse to spread panic. Its not a breaking story....there is no story right now.

24 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by BlackJack [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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At 6 pm a low flying plane dumped this white substance over the school yard. The news is just breaking on it now. HAZMAT and police on scene. Performing field tests.

25 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by My Favorite Headache [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Bin Laden said he would next strike "the heart of America." It was speculated that could mean an attack on America's children.

26 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by copycat [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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let us know if they actually saw the plane do this- we had some folks freak out down here in Florida when they came out to the parking lot after work and saw powder all over their cars...

Turned out to be a thick dusting of pollen from the trees.

27 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by piasa [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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If one the criminal nutbags were so inclined, they could do it as a warning. Perhaps even to demonstrate to the gubmint that they have the means to carry out an attack.

All I can say is.. "Looks like the day care industry is going to be devasted by this..." Sounded funny at first, but then I realized that would mean a lot parents not going to work.

28 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by bluefish [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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I'm sure we'll hear later on that it was an accident by an unnamed pilot and for everyone to move on.

29 posted on 10/29/01 5:03 PM Pacific by lelio [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Is there anything stratigic near or close to the day care center? Does the center share the building with anything else? How many kids????????No, not the children. I'd do anything to protect the kids or the helpless elderly!!

30 posted on 10/29/01 5:04 PM Pacific by concerned about politics [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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WBTV (local CBS affiliate - Channel 2) ..... incident happened about 5:30 .... they do not know why the delay in reporting it ..... HAZMAT on the way ..... FBI notified ...... crime scene tape marking off the area

31 posted on 10/29/01 5:04 PM Pacific by kayak [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Intersection of Old Charlotte Highway and Dickerson Road

32 posted on 10/29/01 5:04 PM Pacific by Tai_Chung [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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c'mon headache. cryptic messages about terrorists and children are not needed. you don't sound so sure this is really happening...

your source "suddenly breaking away", and further tidbits like "children to hospital" indicate some BS here.

care to clarify?

33 posted on 10/29/01 5:05 PM Pacific by Principled [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Was the powder 'white and mysterious'? WE HAVE GOT TO CALM DOWN! Whoever is behind this (whose behind is the giant rat of Sumatra?) is relishing in the panic invoked by the media reports. It's a dumpster fire for the entire nation to view.

Will you knock it off with the "calm down" pontification...

People are asking some pretty reasonable questions under the circumstances.

The only person getting all excited in this thread is you.

34 posted on 10/29/01 5:05 PM Pacific by OWK [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Could just be a legitimate cropduster with a bonehead pilot. Isn't that near Mayberry RFD? Paging Andy Taylor...

35 posted on 10/29/01 5:05 PM Pacific by KellyAdmirer [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Who is spreading panic? THIS IS BREAKING NEWS.

36 posted on 10/29/01 5:05 PM Pacific by My Favorite Headache [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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They just said that the powder was dropped aound 5:30 and they have taken some kids to the hospital for tests.

37 posted on 10/29/01 5:05 PM Pacific by Liberty Teeth [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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I HOPE everyone is over-reactng. Really.

38 posted on 10/29/01 5:06 PM Pacific by steveo [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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If it is a prank, their punishment should be to drop them out of a plane over Kabul.

39 posted on 10/29/01 5:06 PM Pacific by WalterSkinner [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Thank you very much for the update (and for the local call letters)

40 posted on 10/29/01 5:06 PM Pacific by OWK [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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PIG NUTS...BOGUS PIG NUTS!

41 posted on 10/29/01 5:06 PM Pacific by jaz.357 [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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thanks for the clarificaitons, tai...

keep the information flowing

42 posted on 10/29/01 5:07 PM Pacific by Principled [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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http://www.charlotte.com/observer/e.../powder1030.htm

Road blocked as police investigate power at Monroe daycare

By STAFF REPORTS

Federal and local authorities are investigating a white powdery substance found at a Monroe daycare center.

Monroe police received reports about 5:30 p.m. that a small plane dropped the substance on a daycare center on North Charlotte Avenue, which was closed late Monday night, Monroe police said.

Police also said there were concrete plants nearby.

According to reports daycare workers were outside with children on the playground when an airplane flew over and the workers noticed they and the children were covered in white powder. Authorities detained the workers and children while they investigated the substance.



-- Anonymous, October 29, 2001


There have been a couple of cases of crop dusters dropping stuff as a joke. I hope this turns out to be another one.

-- Anonymous, October 29, 2001

One poster heard the powder was harmless. Am following up.

-- Anonymous, October 29, 2001

sick joke, or someone is pointing out that we missed being alert about something.

parents should really stop and take stock of their preps regarding their kids.

-- Anonymous, October 29, 2001



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