Midwest Fur Fest incident....

[dogteam]

Chlorine powder left in a 9th-floor stairwell causes evacuation of the entire hotel? So just how much powdered chlorine was there? How long had it been there? To evacuate the whole hotel there must have been a substantial amount of it. While powder may have an odor it is not likely to cause the kind of fumes needed to evacuate the hotel. Now, if

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[shockwave77598]

People were sent to the hospital coughing up blood.

This wasn't just a powder laying on the floor. I have supershock in my bedroom at home and you'd never know unless I told you. It was a glass bottle filled with that and presumably an acid and someone tossed it down the stairwell. Broken, the chlorine is released.

The hazmat teams responding could not say what the chlorine concentration was as their detector went far above limit... Think on that - a hazmat chlorine level meter buried its needle 30 minutes after the release.

[allaboutweather]

Yikes! Sure, there are waaaay too many freaky, sexual things going on within the furry fandom but that doesn't justify attacking a convention of any kind where people are just trying to have fun and make new friends, stuff like that. :(