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Latest comment: 16 years ago by Paranormal Skeptic in topic Review 2

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I arrived on the scene at approx 1:15PM EST 20 October 2008 while driving from one of my offices to another. While passing the scene I noticed 5-7 patrol cars,1 Fire unit, 2 EMT, and 3 HAZAMT response vehicles; with Fire Fighting employees and HAZMAT teams entering and exiting the building.

Transcript of myself speaking with an employee of Sitel.
M: Myself
K: Employee who asked to not be named by last name. First name is Karen, and employee of NAFS(National Action Financial Services)/Sitel

M:Hi, I'm a freelance journalist and photographer, what's going on here with the patrol cars and HAZMAT teams?
K:The mail room had a package come in this morning before lunch, so they called the cops.
M:What was the package?
K:Don't know, all I know is we had to get out, and then the hazard teams showed up.
M:Who in the mailroom found it?
K:I think Steve the mail clerk did. But I don't know, could of been his boss.
M:DO you know what time specifically they found it?
K:No, just before lunch.
M:Thanks a lot.

Paranormal Skeptic (talk) 18:19, 20 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

At 4:50PM EST, I attempted to contact NAFS media spokes person. Could not get ahold of. Also called Amherst PD, and was directed to FBI Buffalo Office.

Notes from Interview with Special Agent Earl Gould, Media Coodordinator Buffalo FBI Field Office: - No determination of whether material haz. - Currently testing material - Was contained - No hosptitalities as of 4:30 PM EST - Area was cleared by 3:00PM - Initial call was 10:30AM EST

Was refused comment by several employees, one spoke on condition of only being id'd as KR: - Came into work around 2:30PM and area was clear. - Mgmt is very hush, hush about it - Joked "all a normal day at work now" Paranormal Skeptic (talk) 22:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Review 2

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This article is unreadable due to incredibly bad grammar. It should not have been published until it was copyedited. This is why googlenews doesn't like us. Low quality.Gopher65talk 01:02, 22 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Good job otherwise though:). It's nice to have OR articles like this, where people actually go out and do reporting. Gopher65talk 01:08, 22 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
Well I did copyedit it. I did the best I could, and you only made all of 4 or 5 fairly minor corrections. --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 02:03, 22 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
My corrections were mostly moving commas around and such, and that kind of thing doesn't show up well in the "compare versions":). Gopher65talk 02:14, 22 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
Sorry about the "poor grammar". But I think it's better than this high quality news about the same thing:http://www.wivb.com/global/story.asp?s=9206993, and we scooped them by one minute :) Paranormal Skeptic (talk) 13:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC)Reply