No good deed goes unpunished for election workers in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A thank-you present of pineapple-shaped cookies delivered to the Wake County Board of Elections prompted a hazmat response on Tuesday after election workers raised concerns about a suspicious package mailed from Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are just on high alert with these things automatically,\u201d Wake County elections specialist Danner McCulloh told ABC News, who cited recent incidents of suspicious packages containing powder<\/a> sent to election offices across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Raleigh Police and Fire Departments quickly responded to the incident — which was treated as a hazmat situation — and bomb technicians X-rayed the package, according to Lt. Jason Borneo of the Raleigh Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the package was deemed to not be a threat, officials opened the package to learn it was full of pineapple-shaped cookies from the Honolulu Cookie Company. The package, which was mailed from a Hawaii address, also included a handwritten thank-you note, according to a Raleigh Fire Department spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The operations at Wake County Board of Elections were not impacted during the incident, a county spokesperson said.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to McCulloh, a person who heard a radio story about Wake County decided to send the cookies unannounced to thank election workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was a kind gesture,\u201d McCulloh said, though he recommended against others sending cookies to his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n