Talk about a terrible twist to your day. One minute you are happily running errands on a beautiful suburban Missouri afternoon, the next minute your life takes a screeching hard right turn (’cause Rush Limbaugh was born in Cape Girardeau, MO, otherwise it would be a hard left turn) into the surreal and you are stopped at a red light with some kind of weird white powder all over your hands and every bad decision you have ever made in your life is flashing before your eyes. In reality, this is probably a cruel prank – some jagoff tried all the car doors in the Wal-Mart parking lot until he found one that was open and that he could squeeze his little powder bomb into the steering column and frighten a woman half to death. The powder is probably chlorine or flour or baking soda or something else totally innocuous, but with the availability of really scary stuff (like arsenic and anthrax) available over the damn internet, law enforcement simply can’t take any chances. Interestingly, the first thing they do with an unknown white powder is to check the pH. If the pH is anything other than 7, it can’t be a biological agent. Pretty cool. Anyway – head on a swivel Missourians! Don’t open any weird envelopes!
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/31085499/cape-girardeau-woman-details-potential-poisoning-incident
