Tea bag leaves office steamed

Today in my Writing for the Information Age class (Web Journalism) we did another exercise where we take a story in print and re-write it for the Web. The following is compiled from some staff reports at The Express-Times.

A sugar-packet sized bag containing a brown substance brewed suspicion that lead to an office building evacuation Thursday.

The situation cooled off when Hanover Township Volunteer firefighters and the Lehigh County Hazmat Team investigated and found the packet full of loose tea.

Colonial Reginal deputy police Chief James DePalma said a Cigna employee found the plastic bag near the copy and fax machines at about 9:15 a.m.

About a half hour later, employees filtered back into the Valley Center Parkway building DePalma said.

Witty? Funny? Written in a way that works online? I’m not sure but the professor and the class seemed to enjoy my first two grafs.

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