Multiple sources are reporting another white powder scare in Civic, this time on the corner of Moore and Alinga Streets.
Send in any pictures you’ve got to images@the-riotact.com and we’ll update when we’ve got more.
UPDATE: Official Word:
#Suspicouspackage #Civic Moore St southbound lane closed, Alinga St eastbound lane closed. Could drivers please avoid the area.
— ACT Policing (@ACTPolicing) July 18, 2013
Lead photo by Mess, and this one from Adele:
The police have sent a sample for testing:
#Suspiciouspackage #Civic A sample of the suspicious powder has been taken for analysis. No ETA on results as yet.
— ACT Policing (@ACTPolicing) July 19, 2013
And word in from the police now that it’s all over and OK:
ACT Policing is investigating a suspicious package located at the Post Office on the corner of Alinga and Moore Streets in Civic this morning (Friday July, 19).
About 8.15am, ACT Policing received the report of the suspicious package containing a powder.
ACT Policing provided a coordinated response with the ACT Fire & Rescue HAZMAT team and cordoned the area as a standard safety precaution. Police restricted access to the Post Office and implemented road closures on the eastbound lane of Alinga Street and the southbound lane of Moore Street.
Members of ACT Fire and Rescue entered the Post Office and took a sample of the material for analysis. Test results confirmed the material as safe and the Post Office and nearby roads were opened about 11.45am.
ACT Policing thanks the community for their patience during this time.
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Mr Gillespie said :
Please…..hand in your keys to the interwebs………PLEASE!
All this drama over a bit of talcum powder. How many thousands of dollars of public money was wasted on deploying police and fire brigade resources, while someone’s house could be burning down or the police were needed for something genuinely urgent?? Who’s going to foot the bill??
There’s very little cost if you consider it an excellent training exercise
I have white powder in my laundry, should I make a song and dance about it?
I wish the idiot with way too much time on their hands,creating mischief,would just bugger off and stop wasting everyone’s time…
All clear, surprise, surprise. What a big waste of everyone’s time, though I suppose it’s better to be safe than sorry.
So, wonder if it was someone doing a ‘Christmas in July’ promotion with fake snow in envelopes?
magiccar9 said :
Errr, it’s demountable and can be left on site.
In all sorts of ways it’s preferable to break the linkage between the payload and the haulage.
If you’ve got a fleet of packages containerised you need far less if you can slap them on any truck in the fleet.
Now that’s got to be the ultimate Spotto.
magiccar9 said :
See here. They’re actually a really good idea.
Did someone break one of those compact fluorescent lights?
who wants the day of work again. sprinkle some of this around
In that first pic, I do like the shipping container on wheels. Surely they could have forked out and got them a decent truck.
Jolimont Centre is also blocked off, and there is tape all around the bottom of the Optus building as well.