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Submitted by larry horse on Thu, 2008-11-06 05:58.

Patrick Swayze Avoids Quarantine

Corn starch causes scare during 'The Beast' taping

(that's my cousin, Kerry!)

Did you hear the one about  Patrick Swayze, the Comcast employee with some corn starch in Berwyn? It's no joke. 

On Tuesday afternoon, a Comcast employee walked into the Berwyn Police Department with a box leaking white powder.  Understandably concerned, he wanted to report the suspicious package to the police.

Authorities found that the substance was not cocaine, leading them to worry that it could be anthrax.

Two sergeants, a detective, a radio operator, and the Comcast worker were all placed under quarantine immediately.

Actor Patrick Swayze, best known for his role in Dirty Dancing, was also in the station house, filming for his new A&E series "The Beast". He did not come into contact with the powder. He, however, was not quarantined.

You know how the story ends. Corn starch. We can't make this stuff up.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Patrick_Swayze_Unharmed_in_Berwyn_Hazmat_Scare.html

Woman collapses at Blackhawks game, dies; mother died attending Hawks game in 1986

Mom died attending hockey game in '86

 

By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah | Tribune reporter

November 5, 2008

While watching her favorite team, the Blackhawks, play at the United Center on Monday, Marguerite Kuhlman collapsed and later died.

Patricia and Dorothea Kuhlman said that even more peculiar than the death of their sister, 68, at the hockey game is the fact that their mother died under similar circumstances nearly 22 years ago. Mildred Kuhlman died March 30, 1986, while attending a Blackhawks game at Chicago Stadium, Patricia Kuhlman said.

"We've been hockey fans for many, many years," Patricia Kuhlman said. "People laugh at us because we're old ladies who like to go to hockey games."

The sisters—who own season tickets just 15 rows off the ice—were all scheduled to attend the game Monday. But the two older Kuhlman sisters instead had to attend a meeting of election judges, and Marguerite Kuhlman went to the game with a neighbor.

Dorothea Kuhlman said the neighbor told them that during the game Marguerite Kuhlman slumped over in her seat and emergency officials were called. She was taken to Rush University Medical Center, where she died at 8:25 p.m. On Tuesday, the medical examiner's office said she died of heart disease.

The Kuhlman sisters, who worked a polling station near their home Tuesday, spoke fondly of Marguerite. She was retired, worked for the state of California's Midwest office and never married. The sisters lived together in the 2900 block of North Troy Street.

Marguerite had also been involved at St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square and, as part of an ecumenical program, visited Israel and the Palestinian territories in May.

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