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ID
"Get Well" Balloon (AI58-KE)
ACQUISITION DATE
03/22/2004
CONTAINMENT LOCATION
Panopticon - Floor 05, Unit 09
"Get Well" Balloon (AI58-KE)
CONTAINMENT PROCEDURE:
Item must be kept away from animals. The cell must be regularly cleaned of the black substance the item produces. All cleaning tools must be burned or destroyed in some way along with the black substance itself.
DESCRIPTION/ALTERED EFFECT:
Item is a novelty balloon made of silver mylar. On its face is a colorful message to "Get Well" surrounded by cartoon hearts. A ribbon is attached to the balloon. Item has not stopped floating after a considerable amount of time in the Bureau, which suggests it does not hover through the use of helium.
The item produces a dark-colored sticky substance which drips down its ribbon.
ID
"Get Well" Balloon (AI58-KE)
ACQUISITION DATE
03/22/2004
CONTAINMENT LOCATION
Panopticon — Floor 05, Unit 09
"Get Well" Balloon (AI58-KE)
BACKGROUND:
The item was used in the children's ward of a local hospital in clearly somewhere in New York. Witnesses do not recall where the balloon came from. Therapy dogs, part of a program called the Hirohiko Araki Memorial Care Fund meant to comfort the sick children, were noticeably attracted to the item. They reportedly jumped at the item, licking it when they could.
The children claimed the dogs began walking through the halls of the hospital at night, howling in a low pitch. One child described the sound as "singing".
A few days later, the dogs were all discovered dead, a dark substance leaking from their eyes and mouths?. The hospital staff called local authorities, who called the CDC. Bureau agents intercepted this call and arrived at the scene within two? hours. The item was taken for evaluation, along with the remains of the dogs (see file PA-2411.B for details).
EMPLOYEE NAME
Philson, Phillip
EMPLOYEE POSITION
Junior Agent
REPORT TYPE
Incident - Violent Behavior
FEDERAL BUREAU OF CONTROL
Employee Report
REVIEW
Incident in question occurred on last Sunday, A.D. and was brought to HR Department's attention by the internal security personnel who intervened.
According to reports supported by security camera footage, Agent Philson entered the staff kitchen with the intention of consuming his private meal (a home-made sandwich cut diagonally and packed in a plastic container) but discovered the refrigerator had consumed? relocated? his meal. Agent Philson began to kick the Bureau-owned appliance as he expressed his frustration in a loud and profane manner.
This behavior caused multiple staff members present to become alarmed. Security was alerted soon after. Philson complied with security's commands to desist.
RECOMMENDATION
Agent Philson was reprimanded and suspended for the remainder of the ongoing work week. The Review Committee recommends one non-mandatory counseling session.
ID
Bremen Basket (AI54-UE)
ACQUISITION DATE
04/23/2002
CONTAINMENT LOCATION
Panopticon — Floor 01, Unit 14
Bremen Basket (AI54-UE)
BACKGROUND:
The item came to the Bureau's attention through several news reports in which a family was harassed by animals during a picnic in the Yellowstone? National Park.
The family fled the scene with the basket. Witnesses report seeing the family chased by the following species of animal: donkey, dog, cat, and rooster standing on each other's backs?. The family eventually abandoned the basket, at which point the animals remained with it for an unknown length of time. Agents acquired the item from the park's Lost and Found offices.
ID
Arctic Queen (AI10-KE)
ACQUISITION DATE
11/18/1974
CONTAINMENT LOCATION
Panopticon — Floor 04, Unit 15
Arctic Queen (AI10-KE)
CONTAINMENT PROCEDURE:
No unique procedures required.
DESCRIPTION/ALTERED EFFECT:
An "Arctic Queen" brand electric refrigerator model from the 1960s. No cooling functionality. The door is decorated with crayon illustrations by the son of the original owner. The illustrations cannot be removed from the item. All attempts have failed. The paper cannot be burned or torn.
BACKGROUND:
The item first came to the Bureau's attention after it survived the collapse of New York City's Grand Central Hotel, where it served as an appliance in apartment that's a lot of digits for an apartment number, rented by a man named Mike "Refrigerator" Fridgeowner. It became the subject of local infamy after surviving the building's collapse undamaged. Mr. Fridgeowner, who was out of the building at the time of collapse (four? p.m.), retained ownership of the item until 1974, when the Bureau purchased the item through a false identity.
APPENDIX:
New altered effect has been observed. See file AI10.F for details. See file AI10.K for new containment procedures.