Peach Bowl worker hit in the face with powdery substance
By John Buhler
A worker at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta was struck in the face with a powdery substance during the 2016 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.
The 2016 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl saw the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide defeat the No. 4 Washington Huskies 24-7 to advance to the National Championship Game. This game was very aggressive and tempers were flaring on both sidelines.
Caught up in the ruckus was the Georgia Dome crowd. ESPN’s Brett McMurphy reports that “an item containing a powdery substance thrown from the stands hit an event staff worker in the face during the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl on Saturday.”
This was a potentially scary moment that happened in the Georgia Dome on Saturday. Atlanta is home to the Center for Disease Control and people have been very cautious of powdery substance since the nationwide anthrax scare from over a decade ago.
The worker had to be carted off in a wheelchair and said that the substance burned the man’s eyes. The Atlanta Police Homeland Security Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation came to check out the scene.
A bomb-sniffing canine sniff the area where the powdery substance was thrown but found nothing. The item that contained the substance was tested for “biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear entities”, but the results thankful came back negative.
The local law enforcement is still in search of the person that threw the item containing the powdery substance. Nobody from the Georgia Dome or Chick-Fil-A would comment on the incident.
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Odds are that both the Georgia Dome and Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl staff are still gathering facts at this time. The Atlanta police and the GBI will be hard at work to find whoever was the perpetrator. While the substance was deemed not a chemical weapon, you can never be too careful with this sort of thing. Throwing powdery substances in a sports stadium in a horrible idea.