Report: Letter Sent To White House Contained Spit, Not Cyanide

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM/ABC News

A letter sent to the White House on Monday actually contained saliva, after a test suggested that it might have contained cyanide, according to ABC News.

The White House said on Monday that it was sent a letter that contained a suspicious substance. The substance was tested and came back negative for toxins but a second round of tests suggested that the liquid could have been cyanide, spurring yet another round of testing.

The third round concluded that the substance contained a few trace amounts of cyanide, according to ABC News, but was mostly saliva.

ABC News said that the person who sent the letter is believed to be a homeless man in or around Chicago who smokes often which would produce the small amounts of cyanide.

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[joanbarnes]

1. So it also contains the DNA of the spitter......

[JackRiddler]

8. Is this a joke?

Is the presence of spit on a piece of paper now a crime worthy of investigation?

[EEO]

2. What is wrong with these people? Oh yeah, the ignorance and hate.

Nevermind.

[MADem]

3. Wouldn't it be the oddest thing if the spitter's spouse was poisoning the spitter with cyanide?

"I have had it with this conspiracy-theory, half-baked idiot....where's the effing rat poison? Another cup of tea, DEAR????"

[KittyWampus]

6. save that though for when you're ready to write your murder mystery.

[Corey_Baker08]

4. If He Spit On Someone He Would Be Arrested For Assault W/A Bodily Fluid

Also they could charge him with inducing panic.However I doubt any charges will be pressed & if the man is homeless I also doubt they will go after him for the time & money spent during the course of the investigation...

[former9thward]

7. You have to prove intent.

I don't know what the content of the letter was but spit won't do it.

[Corey_Baker08]

10. What If He Had An Infectious Disease Or An STD?

Perhaps his intent was to infect The POTUS with his disease even if he wasn't smart enough to realize that the disease couldn't be spread through someone simply touching his spit.

He was probably just trying to make a statement I understand that but damn he caused a lot of unnecessary actions, evacuations & cost the tax payers thousands of dollars in Public Safety response & crime scene investigations as well as the subsequent testing & re-testing of this mans spit/saliva to determine in fact it was not cyanide.

You made some great points BTW

[former9thward]

11. Thanks.

I gotta assume people who do this type of thing are just not there mentally.

[Thor_MN]

5. Damn, now we have to deal with second spitter and magic loogie theories

[Demeter]

9. I shudder to think how much time and taxpayer money was wasted on this investigation