Kansas City, MO – Authorities are investigating a package labelled ‘anthrax’ and containing white powder that was opened in a mail handling room at an Internal Revenue Service mailroom in Missouri on Wednesday morning.
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Two IRS employees were exposed to the package, whose return address was a prison, the Kansas City Star reported on Wednesday.
Hazardous materials crews, police, an ambulance, the FBI and US Treasury officials arrived at the scene to investigate.
Emergency workers said the mail room has a separate ventilation system from the rest of the building. [AP]
What Schmuckandhalf would open a package sent to the IRS and marked anthrax? If it’s real, he deserves it. Thanks for adding chlorine to the gene pool.