Not likely a False Alarm

[KT2000]

It is probably an application of pesticides inside the office building that set off the alarms. Many of the pesticides used are actually weakened versions of nerve gas - organophosphate pesticides. The alarms at weapons depots sound when the farmers apply their pesticides to their land.

This is not to say that the organophosphate pesticides are harmless - it is just that these products are consumer items that make corporations very wealthy and in spite of inadequate testing, are deemed OK for the population.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. A winner. n/t.

[havocmom]

2. Maybe the industry decided to test on Senators since we howled

about them testing on poor kids?

[Angry Girl]

5. Good one!

[tocqueville]

3. what ? periplaneta americana in the building ? nt

[joemurphy]

4. I tend to think it was trace residue from Orrin.

Sensitive hand held detectors have been known to sometimes generate false positives from lingering particulates of flatulence emanating from Senator Orrin Hatch's office.

[WinkyDink]

6. DeLay's Revenge!!

[Sparkly]

8. LOL!

:rofl:

[janx]

11. You deserve a PRIZE for that one!

:rofl:

[Mabus]

14. Where was he anyway?

:yourock:

[yellowdogmi]

7. Any details out yet?

This could be serious. What if it was a way to silence some of ours?

[applegrove]

9. **** - I never knew pesticides were nerve gas!!

[Pavulon]

10. RUP

Pesticides will kill you mouse dead. OPs screw up electrical transmissions in the body by messing up sodium channels, or some such.

None the less they are deadly.

[BushOut06]

13. Oh yeah - most definitely

Not as potent as VX, but still nerve gas nonetheless.

[Kansas Wyatt]

12. NSA covert operation to eliminate a threat to BushCo.

Someone in that building had documents, evidence, or information that needed to be recovered and secured by the NSA, which threatened BushCo.

Perhaps, it was a "friendly" fact finding mission by the NSA, ordered by BushCo.

Then again, maybe it was an NSA mission to threaten those Republicans wavering in Bush's Spy Scandal, or maybe surveillance devices were needed in private rooms to keep close tabs on what will occur regarding certain pesky hearings.

Somebody in BushCo is worried about something.

[SheilaT]

15. Naah. It's stupidity, pure and simple.

Those "sensors" are notoriously unreliable, probably worse than nothing at all. And of course these days, there's constant panic over any spilled powder of any kind, because common sense is in very short supply out there.

If some serious terrorist really wanted to put some kind of nerve gas in a government building, I suspect they'd do a better job than a little tiny bit that sets of some stupid sensor.

Of course, I'm not a terrorist, nor do I hang out with any, so what do I know of how they operate?