Suspicious letter sickens Marines at Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall
According to WTOP, a suspicious letter received at Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia has sent some personnel to the hospital;
A hazardous materials team was dispatched after the letter containing an unknown substance sickened 11 and sent three to the hospital. The three have since been released from the hospital.
The letter was received at around 3:30 p.m. on the Marine Corps side of the base, according to a news release from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.
“Several Marines are receiving medical care as a result of this incident,” said a Pentagon statement Tuesday evening, before their release.
Symptoms among those affected included nosebleeds and burning hands, according to sources familiar with the situation.
From CNN;
A law enforcement official said field tests for the letter all came back negative for any harmful substance, but the FBI is transporting it tonight to its lab in Quantico for further analysis.
Category: Marine Corps
And, today, it is hard to find any updates on this in the online news. The field tests came back negative. That’s nice, except that hands and nostrils came back positive for burns and blood.
ABC radio news just broadcast that it was found to be not harmful – but it was unclear whether they were talking about the initial or subsequent tests.
It’s obviously harmful. Maybe not fatal, but definitely harmful.
This is the FBI we are discussing. They also thought that shithead in Florida was “not harmful’.
Thus I am shocked there isn’t a double digit body count from the “not harmful” letter.
I’m trying to come up with what chemicals would cause that and how they’d be embedded in paper. No luck so far.
Nosebleeding = vapors of some kind
Burning hands = some kind of tactile irritant
Not a good sign.
Not necessarily vapor – an extremely fine powder can easily become dispersed in the air flow.
Okay, what would be an irritant like that on opening or initially touching something and then just dissipate?
The only thing I can come up with is powdered laundry detergent, but that won’t make your skin bleed. Itch, yes, but not bleed on contact.
I really don’t know. I never even got to take high-school chemistry. All I know of chemistry comes from playing with the chemistry sets my folks got me when I was in elementary school – which would give certain groups heart-attacks and the pearl-clutching faints if you were to give them to high-school students today.
In other words – I is ignorant. But I have worked with some pesticides that I won’t open any more without a chem mask, goggles, and gloves on my old self.
I hope they find out what it was and give it to the asshole that sent it in an enema!
Very little coverage in the news. I don’t go out of my way to keep up with current events, but I saw this on the TOG Association FB page and googled it. Couldn’t find a whole lot about it besides basic information.
I’m headed back up there in a few months so hopefully they find out who did this.
Based on a few calls I’ve seen, just a quess, but something like powdered draino / lye… it’s cause those symptoms, and would not show up on a test for bio, etc…
Maybe some mix of lye and something else?
Any word on the source?
Crap! That’s just down the road from me here in Quantico. There’s some crazy folks out there!
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