Brockovich's efforts in Le Roy halted where 15 students suffer from Tourette's-like symptoms

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http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/batavia-genesee-county/article717748.ece

Deputies block collection of soil, water by the environmentalist's investigators

Updated: January 31, 2012, 7:48 AM

Off-duty Genesee County sheriff's deputies worked until early Monday guarding the Le Roy Junior-Senior High School grounds after representatives of famed environmentalist Erin Brockovich tried to collect soil and water samples.

Brockovich, commenting on the issue Monday evening on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, said that despite indications of toxic contamination in the area, "there had been no soil testing and no soil vapor testing." She added that there were reports of "an orange-yellow substance oozing up from the ground" in a school field.

School Superintendent Kim M. Cox blasted the unauthorized effort, saying the district is already working with environmental, health and safety officials to determine what has caused 15 students to suffer Tourette's-like symptoms of involuntary twitching and gestures.

[mike_c]

1. now this is just FUCKED UP....

Off duty cops working to prevent someone from finding out what's making their kids sick? That's today's high score on the Twisted-Shit-O-Meter, quite a feat during a hot republican primary!

[a simple pattern]

2. What could they be hiding?

Let the inspectors in!

[TheWraith]

3. This is maybe 15 miles north of me.

I'm pretty familiar with the area. I have no doubt that whether there's anything there to be found or not the county studiously wants to avoid even the possibility of anything being found.

All of Le Roy is the district of one Republican county legislator, Rochelle Stein.

[saras]

4. There is no "unauthorized", there is science and there is public property

This corporate obsession with 'authorization' is turning science into something else entirely, a different sort of institution that serves different social goals. As far as a chain of trusted evidence goes, I don't trust it once a corporation has control of it, and that's that. There is no reason to think they won't lie to any degree about anything that affects their bottom line.

[hedgehog]

5. ""an orange-yellow substance oozing up from the ground""

Genny Cream Ale?