Envelope of White Powder Causes Panic at Apple
Apple employees this week found a suspicious envelope of white powder in the campus canteen.
San Jose Mercury News was the first to report that emergency services had been called following reports that a member of staff had happened upon an envelope full of white powder in the company lunch room.
Fearing the worst (an entire team of Apple developers wiped out), they sent along some people in hazmat suits to sort things out. The building was evacuated lest anyone get tempted to snort anything and the team went inside to check things out. Mercury News reports (citing Santa Clara County sheriff's Sgt. Don Morrissey) that preliminary tests revealed the powder was not a hazardous substance. It was then taken to a Santa Clara County lab for more testing.
The Register reports that authorities viewed security tapes of the cafeteria in an effort to determine how the envelope got there in the first place. Apparently the tapes didn’t help and they still have no idea whether someone left it there on purpose or just forgot to bring their envelope of flour/cocaine/anthrax with them when they were heading back after lunch.
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I often pack my coke in envelopes for safe keeping, especially at work.
Lol, can we say unwarrented self-importance? Who would actually waste time to attack Apple? I could understand Microsoft, but Apple?
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I always knew Jobs was on crack.
HAHAHAHA
Someone was probably just bringing some Splenda to work from their house. They should have just grabbed an intern and had them eat some of it instead of calling out HAZMAT
it's the flour for the APPLE pie.
whoops... I know I dumped my heel shaver shavings somewhere.
I always knew Jobs was on crack.
Epic!
Relax, its just Steve's monthly cocaine shipment.
whoops... I know I dumped my heel shaver shavings somewhere.
Dude, sick.
whoops... I know I dumped my heel shaver shavings somewhere.
Narstey.
Relax, its just Steve's monthly cocaine shipment.
Ha ha ha... cheers to that!
I wonder if its to late to ask for my envolope back?
It was actually a shipment of 100,000 of the next-generation iPod Shuffle.
It was actually the new, about to be released MacBook air. It's very thin, so it must have broken up into powder when it was in its protective envelope. Of course, customers will never use their macbooks airs anyway, so this will not be solved in the release version. In fact, in the next apple commercial, Justin Long will turn to powder on stage, while Hodgeman tries to make excuses of why he can't do that.
I think they believed the envelope contained anthrax...
Moral of the story: DON'T BRING WHITE POWDER TO WORK IN A F&%KING ENVELOPE!
whoops... I know I dumped my heel shaver shavings somewhere.
Was it bad to snort it then... ?
Moral of the story: DON'T BRING WHITE POWDER TO WORK IN A F&%KING ENVELOPE!
Hmmm... Why would you ever bring white powder to work? Splenda, flour? I think the envelope may have been hiding something.... or it was just a pulverized macbook air.
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whoops... I know I dumped my heel shaver shavings somewhere.
Was it bad to snort it then... ?
I'm still alive, so I guess not?
I'm still alive, so I guess not?
Ah what a relief, Although I had wondered where the other half of it went..
What happens to mac air's when they come into contact with the creature known as the intelligencsaurous. The intelligencsaurous ravages the smaller weaklings into succumbing to its iron will.
Hmmm... Why would you ever bring white powder to work? Splenda, flour? I think the envelope may have been hiding something.... or it was just a pulverized macbook air.
You would be surprised at the things some people bring to work.. When i used to work the graveyard shift I would look through some of the fridges here at work when I was bored.. Believe it or not someone actually brought frozen cubes of brine shrimp. The only time I have ever seen those is as fish food for salt water tanks, except we dont have any fish tanks here at work, someone was eating them.. At another job working as a telemarketer, I walked into the kitchen to see one of the maintenance guys pounding on a chicken breast with a mallet.. I went back a few minutes later and he was frying up chicken in one pan and cooking a white sauce for his country fried chicken in the other.. It wouldnt surprise me if that guy now works for Apple and left his envelope of seasoned flour in the kitchen..
It was actually a shipment of 100,000 of the next-generation iPod Shuffle.
Probably passed through AZ on a hot day in a non AC cooled truck and instantly vaporized then?
Or would this be the iPod super nano?
It had to have been sent to someone. Who opens an envelope lying around that doesn't belong to them or isn't address to them.
Hmmm... Why would you ever bring white powder to work? Splenda, flour? I think the envelope may have been hiding something.... or it was just a pulverized macbook air.
I don't think someone brought intentionally brought it to work like that. Anyone would have to be an idiot not to realize what "it" looks like. I think it was someone just trying to give a scare.
Wow, I'm suprised that the IPhone's (or MacBook air's) super powers didn't neutralize the envelope !
It probably detected that it wasn't harmfull !!!