Authorities: Powder in dorm likely not ricin......nevermind.

[spanone]

As Emily Latilla would say, Nevermind


~snip~ CNN) --Authorities doubt that the whitish-brown powder found in a roll of quarters at the University of Texas at Austin is ricin because no one has shown symptoms of exposure to the powerful poison, an EMS spokesman said late Saturday afternoon. ~snip~

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/25/UT.ricin/index.html

[acmavm]

1. Because no one has shown symptoms? Testing didn't tell them, but the

lack of dead bodies is their litmus test?

I must be missing something here.

[melody]

2. Sure as hell wouldn't want to be a canary in their coal mines n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. sur-prise, sur-prise!

as Goober would say.

What I want to know is why any thinking person would think it was? Are the terrorists going after college students doing laundry now?

People have gone fear crazy, and it scares me.

[FormerOstrich]

5. I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that way....

I just read the article and was sitting here thinking. If I were doing laundry and there was some powder in my roll of quarters....would I give it more than a second thought? Much less call in any officals? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. Maybe I'm just not fearful enough but I honestly don't think I'd really give it much thought (unless it was missing some quarters).

So I'm with you. I think it's more frightening that we have college kids freaking out about things like this.

[Up2Late]

7. No kidding, did anyone try matching the white powder to say...

...Lundry soap, Clorox 2, Tide?

[Gman]

4. Doesn't matter because

all the networks got the viewership out of the story. They don't care anymore.

[MichaelHarris]

6. White powder in a College?

Send it to my house, I'll test it.

[neweurope]

8. The first test "proved" that it WAS Ricin. Two others

"proved" it was NOT Ricin. Now I'm sure it cannot be THAT hard to find out.

But when you talk about some white powder in a laundry room all day you have no time to speak about the vice president shooting people, or port safety being intrusted to another country, or civil war in Iraq... And the scared people will be much more trusting when you take away the next civil right!

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[drm604]

9. Castor oil can be an ingredient in laundry detergent.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=517158&mesg_id=517759

Why couldn't the media or the authorities figure this out?