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An Illinois woman who ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden got a surprise when the package arrived - someone’s apparent COVID-19 test specimen.
Andrea Ellis was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, in northwestern Illinois, when she opened a padded envelope containing the flags she ordered weeks ago from the department store chain Kohl’s, according to The Quad City Times.
“I pulled out the flags and I told my aunt, ‘Look how cute these are,’” she said. “I pulled out the packing slip and then noticed something deeper inside the envelope and pulled that out. It was a biohazard bag containing someone’s COVID-19 test specimen.”
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Illinois Woman Who Bought Flags From Kohl s Also Sent Used COVID-19 Test
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CHICAGO (AP) An Illinois woman who ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden got a surprise when the package arrived someone’s apparent COVID-19 test specimen.
Andrea Ellis was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, in northwestern Illinois, when she opened a padded envelope containing the flags she ordered weeks ago from the department store chain Kohl’s, according to The Quad City Times.
We’ve heard it before: There are good police, and there are bad police.
But there’s another category that may not immediately come to mind when pondering the badged men and women risking their lives for the sake of others.
Even Westland’s Deputy Police Chief Brian Miller was initially stumped when asked if there were intrinsic truths about police work that most everyday residents don’t understand.
“That’s a big question there,” he said before pausing. “I think that … Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t really have anything very profound to answer to that other than I think 99.9% of officers are out there trying to do the right thing.”
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