This is getting ridiculous.
From the Tuesday, July 10, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
When County Commissioner Gary Hall heard there was a package addressed to him on the steps of the commissioners’ office he thought it might have been a gift left by his mother — certainly nothing that would warrant the hazardous-material response team to be called in.
But at around 6:30 Monday morning a mass of emergency service responders swarmed the commissioners’ office after a report of a suspicious unmarked package which contained an unknown powder.
The package turned out to be neither a gift from Mrs. Hall or a hazardous material, but a small bag of road dust.
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The note accompanying the package was not released by authorities, but Hall said it was written by an unhappy resident of the North Fork Road.
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