Haz mat crews called to IRS building

[Craftsman]

Source: http://www.standard.net/topics/business/2010/03/01/haz-mat-crews-called-irs-building

OGDEN -- Hazardous material crews were called to an Internal Revenue Service building at 1973 Rulon White Boulevard this morning.

Security guards did not allow entrance to the building and declined to answer questions.

At least three pieces of equipment from the Ogden Fire Department is on the scene.

A spokeswoman for the FBI said the bureau is investigating.

This story will be updated when more information is available.



Read more: http://www.standard.net/topics/business/2010/03/01/haz-mat-crews-called-irs-building

[NJmaverick]

1. More right wing terrorists?

[Craftsman]

3. It is tax time, so many people are not happy with the IRS.

[scottsoperson]

7. we should just pay for everything

with bake sales instead.

[Old Time Pagan]

10. I suspect there would be fewer really upset people

if the pricks who received taxpayer underwritten obscenely huge bonuses for their part in destroying our economy had to give the money back.

Whatcha' think?

[IndianaGreen]

5. If it is done by the RW, it is called watering the tree of liberty

If it is done by a Muslim, it is called terrorism.

[NJmaverick]

13. I've noticed that

[Plucketeer]

15. Excellent point!

Tea Bags or Turbin. What's YOUR headgear??? :crazy:

[Robb]

2. "Local reports" of white powder per MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35650018/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[Joanne98]

4. Here's more

Hazardous materials crews were on the scene Monday at the IRS building in Farr West, Utah, where two people were removed on stretchers and several others were undergoing decontamination showers.

The FBI released no information about the incident at the facility in Farr West, near Ogden about 30 miles from Salt Lake City, but local reports suggested that a suspicious white powder may have been found in mail delivered to the facility.

The incident began about 11 a.m. (1 p.m. ET) Monday, 11 days after a Texas man embroiled in a years-long dispute with the IRS crashed his small plane into the agency’s complex in Austin, Texas.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35650018/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[comtec]

Hmmmmm convient

Am I the only one to see a disturbng connection here?

[MineralMan]

9. Convient? Did you mean "convent" or "convenient?"

[comtec]

6. Hmmmmm convient

Am I the only one to see a disturbng connection here?

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. 'Convenient' for who?

Unless you can tell us that, you may well be the only one who sees your 'connection'.

[comtec]

18. Just seems odd timing is all

im reminded of the anthrax attacks of 01 when the unpatriotic act was rammed through congress.
it's just all weird.
Maybe both attacks on the IRS are unrelated - aside from the general "I hate the IRS" feeling everyone has.

[scottsoperson]

8. there are lot of loonies

in the tea party.

[Old Time Pagan]

11. Two jobs I'd have to be starving to take right now

IRS field agent
Census taker

not necessarily in that order

[LoKnLoD]

14. I live in Ogden, UT

They have to shutdown various IRS offices here every year during tax season for some mysterious powders and substances jackasses put in their returns.

[Socal31]

16. Now a bunch of tax dollars will be wasted just to deal with this crap.

Its like rain on your wedding day....

[Dappleganger]

17. Why do people think they are changing the system by terrorizing/abusing government workers?

Did it ever dawn on them that this always backfires?

[Exultant Democracy]

19. White Powder Found at IRS Facility in Odgen, Utah: Anthrax Attack?

Source: Associated Content

Was an IRS building in Ogden, Utah the site of an anthrax terrorism attack today?

The FBI is investigating a suspicious white power from items mailed to the IRS building. This IRS building
White Powder Found at IRS Facility in Odgen, Utah: Anthrax Attack?
is located at 1973 Roulon White Boulevard. It is about 20 miles from Salt Lake City.

The IRS building in now on lockdown. Some employees have been evacuated, while others remain on the premises.

Haz mat teams are now searching the building to see what toxins or poisons may have been placed there, notes the Huffington Post. Some employees have gone through a decontamination process.


Read more: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2750997/white_powder_found_at_irs_facility.html

[pleah]

20. Alright, who lost their coke stash?

Who are they gonna pin this one on?

[MineralMan]

21. Probably not. Anthrax is a very unlikely thing for the typical

IRS protester to be able to use. More likely talcum powder, cornstarch, or confectioner's sugar. The fear is the goal, not killing people. That's why it's called "terrorism." Probably the people who were taken away by ambulance had anxiety attacks.

[Grassy Knoll]

22. Probably Freeze dried mormon crickets,

Glenn Bekkks drug of choice.

[MineralMan]

24. Well, at least they weren't Jerusalem crickets.

Also called "Niños de la tierra," (children of the Earth) and almost 3" long. Scare the crap out of newcomers to California. They bite, too.

[niceypoo]

23. Wonder which freeper gets arrested this time

More republican terrorism

[Bitwit1234]

25. But but but it can't be anthrax, didn't the guy who made the

kind used in those envelopes kill himself?

[Old Vet]

27. Alot of pain these days...........

In 2009 the IRS seized 403 thousand homes for unpaid taxes.(Just in New York) It reminds me when I went to New Orleans after katrina, I was helping a family clean there house in the Ninth ward and a guy was running around offering people pennies on the dollar for there homes. I wanted to smack the shit out of him, Trying to screw people at there most vulnerable time. Bottom line is people are angry and dont know where to target there frustration, We are in a depression. Breaks my heart seeing the food charity lines in my town, Such proud people waiting hours hoping theres enough food till they get theres.

[sharesunited]

26. Someone paying their taxes with cocaine?

[defendandprotect]

28. Must be Ivins returned from the dead . . . !!!

[IndianaGreen]

29. UPDATE: Powder 'non-hazardous'

Powder 'non-hazardous' / Suspicious substance found at IRS, two workers are hospitalized -- 'No connection,' say officials

FARR WEST -- A suspicious substance found at an Internal Revenue Service building here is not hazarous, an official with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said late Monday afternoon.

Spokesman Pete Rendina told The Associated Press the "matter was non-hazardous."

Two IRS workers were taken to an Ogden hospital after the suspicious substance was found Monday morning in the office building where they work, but officials said their medical emergencies did not appear to be related to the material.

The FBI's Salt Lake City division says it responded to a possible hazardous material threat at the building at 1973 Rulon White Blvd. around 11:15 a.m. Debbie Dujanovic Bertram, public affairs specialist for the FBI, declined to say what sort of substance was involved.

In a statement she said, "The area where the threat was received was isolated by removing employees from that area."

She said some individuals "did suffer medical emergencies which, at this time, do not appear to be related to this incident." Contacted by telephone, she declined to say what sort of medical emergencies were involved.

http://www.standard.net/topics/business/2010/03/01/powder-non-hazardous-suspicious-substance-found-irs-two-workers-are-hospi