Wash. crows blamed for 'suspicious powder' scare

[July 18, 2012]  EDMONDS, Wash. (AP) -- A fire spokeswoman says blame the crows for a "suspicious powder" scare that detoured traffic for more than an hour at Washington state intersection.

Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes tells The Daily Herald (http://is.gd/Fs8yKM) that a hazardous materials team responded Tuesday to a report about an unknown white powder in the roadway in the town of Edmonds.

A witness finally told the crew that a couple of crows were to blame. Hynes says a woman was going jogging when she noticed the birds dragging a bag of white flour.

Hynes says the woman took the bag away from the birds, put it in a garbage can and kept running. It took firefighters about an hour to clear the scene.

Says Hynes: "Two crows and a two-alarm hazmat incident."

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Information from: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldnet.com/

[Associated Press]

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