Wyoming newspaper mailed cocaine, staff flees
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
It was a day packed with excitement in Casper, Wyoming, since the Casper Star-Tribune received a letter containing an unidentified white powder on Friday:
Casper police identified white powder found in an envelope addressed to the Casper Star-Tribune as cocaine.
It was roughly one half of a tablespoon, on a dollar bill.
An odd thing to be mailing out in this recession, and the fact that it was intercepted by customer service may have ruined someone’s day:
The letter was sent to the Star-Tribune in care of an employee.
None of this is particularly unusual in itself (newspapers get mailed lots of white powder!) save for the fact that the Star-Tribune’s Managing Editor, Ron Gullberg, put together an evacuation blog:
I’m blogging from a mobile phone in my buddy Tris’ Jeep Commander in the parking lot of the Casper Star-Tribune. We’re listening to Sirius, and I want to slap him for continung to change from the Springsteen channel. We’ve been evacuated since a little after 9:00. They’ve just begun to test the suspicious powder found in an envelop mailed to the Star-Tribune.
…The firemen on the scene are tending to the needs of the displaced employees … Now Eminem is playing on the radio.
