Are we so sure it is malicious? It certainly hasn't been declared a "major crime" - just some talk from somewhere that it is being investigated as a crime.
I don't know much about what went on - and I have no inside info on it, BUT some considerations:
Was it someone who maliciously tipped out some form of poison onto play equipment? (And stories in the media are quite confusing - supposedly an organophosphate, used as an insecticide. Then reports that it was a herbicide - two very different chemicals )
Did someone discard a drum of something (whether or not true to label), and a kid find it & tip it out, having no idea of what it might be, or the consequences...
Was someone spraying legitimately ( I understand there was a spider / insect probelm on the playground equipment, and the equipment MAY have been sprayed to kill of the bugs at some time - but this may not have occurred either.)
Did one of the children get so excited about being on a school camp, suffer some sort of asthma attack, and around the same time, someone noticed a discarded drum, and put 2 & 2 together, and got a major chemical contamination, when there was none
As I said, I have no inside info - just what has come across on the news, (and that is always true
) and a few pager messages (which really didn't give alot of info) - but it would appear we are all ready to believe everything that has come out in the media, when the whole thing may just be people getting way too excited. Or it might be true.
Hopefully, time will tell, and the real truth will come out
Pip
