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Muffins Send Teachers, School Staff To Hospital
Police: Muffins Apparently Laced With Harmful Ingredients

DALLAS -- A muffin mystery is surfacing at a North Texas school after a group of teachers who ate muffins possibly laced with dangerous ingredients were taken to a hospital Tuesday.

Three teachers and 15 support personnel at Lake Highlands High School were complaining of nausea and lightheadedness after eating the muffins at a staff lounge in what appears to be a deliberate incident.

"In talking to the staff members who were not feeling well, the common thread has been, they believe, traced to some muffins from the staff lounge," said school spokesman Tim Clark.

School surveillance video captured images of a man in his late teens or early 20s bringing the muffins to the school at about 8:15 a.m., NBC 5 News reported.

The FBI came to the school to test for a possible chemical or biological attack.

The daughter of an 86-year-old receptionist taken to Presbyterian Hospital said her mother tested positive for Benadryl and marijuana, and said her mother had not been using either, but had eaten a muffin at the school.

Only one of the victims, the receptionist, was admitted to the hospital.

The health department said tests should reveal what was in the muffins as early as Wednesday morning.

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70,000 Beer Cans Found in Ogden Townhouse
May 17th, 2006 @ 9:38pm

John Hollenhorst reporting

A seemingly unbelievable mess discovered last year in an Ogden townhouse has suddenly become an Internet legend.

It's all TRUE!


You know how some people, after they use something, just can't bear to throw it away. That might make sense if it's magazines or clothes. But what if it's empty beer cans? In astounding numbers?

When property manager Ryan Froerer got a call from a realtor last year to check on a townhouse, he knew something was up.

Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "Said it was the sickest thing he's ever seen. Just unimaginable that someone could live in that."

He couldn't even open the front door. It was blocked from inside.


Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "There was beer cans I would say probably this high up on the door."

The realtor had forewarned him about the smell.

Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "He poked his head in, the smell was so awful he couldn't go in. "

At the back door, Froerer was astounded by what he saw in the kitchen.

Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "As we approached the door, there were beer boxes, all the way up to the ceiling."

Inside, he took just a few snapshots to document the scene. Beer cans by the tens of thousands. Mountains of cans burying the furniture. The water and heat were shut off, apparently on purpose by the tenant, who evidently drank Coors Light beer exclusively for the eight years he lived there.


Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "It's just unbelievable that a human being could live like that. "

To all outward appearances, the person who lived in the townhouse was the perfect tenant. He always paid on time and he never complained. He kept a low profile in the neighborhood.

Kirk Martin, Letter Carrier: : "Yeah I never delivered any mail there at all. I thought the apartment was vacant."

The cans were recycled for 800 dollars, an estimated 70,000 cans: 24 beers a day for 8 years.

Froerer e-mailed his photos to a couple of friends, who sent them to friends. Now he's getting calls from faraway places


Ryan Froerer, Century 21: "It's amazing how the internet can have the effect and get around. I'm sure it's been around the world. "

The townhouse was cleaned up last year and it's just fine today.

The man who lived there seems to be back on his feet. We spoke to him today and he says he's completely stopped drinking. He was welcomed back to his old job a few months ago, and his co-workers speak highly of him.