Hey, there! Log in / Register

Two dozen Boston schools received those letters from Texas

Boston Police report they continue to investigate rambling letters that string together sentences out of phrases from "al Queda" to "poisonous organs in animals," but that they do not think they pose a "credible" threat to local students. Police today released a list of the 24 schools that received the letters yesterday, add they have no clue why somebody dropped letters in Texas to them specifically and that additional letters could pop up, given the vagaries of postal service:

Adams Elementary School, Beethoven Elementary School, Boston Community Leadership Academy, Boston International High School, Boston Latin Academy, Charlestown High School, Community Academy of Science and Health, Dorchester Academy, Edison K-8 School, Fenway High School, Gardner Pilot Academy, Henderson Elementary School, Irving Middle School, Mather Elementary School, McCormack Middle School, McKinley South End Academy, Murphy K-8 School, O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, O'Donnell Elementary School, Ohrenberger School, Quincy Upper School, Roger Clap Innovation School, Russell Elementary School, Tobin K-8 School.

Neighborhoods: 
Free tagging: 


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Comments

Anything to do with New Boston, Texas? http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/07/justice/ricin-letter...

up
Voting closed 0

They received one yesterday as well.

up
Voting closed 0

Speaking of poisonous internal organs in animals, (a mighty odd turn of phrase indeed), when I was a kid reading stories of Arctic exploration, I learned that you never, ever want to eat the liver of a polar bear. Not for the seemingly obvious reason that attempts to do so would annoy and provoke the bear, nor even for the reason that it's probably not all that appetizing, but because they store so much of some vitamin (A? D?) in their liver to get them through the long dark winter that the liver is intensely poisonous.

I promptly filed that under "knowledge I'll almost certainly never need to use, by the grace of God," but there it is, 40 years later, still taking up space in the old filing cabinet.

up
Voting closed 0

All the schools my three went to, expect BLS, are on the list. Am I the vector?

up
Voting closed 0