Mailbox scare is small potatoes A suspicious...

Mailbox scare is small potatoes

A suspicious white substance found in a home’s mailbox was

determined to be “instant potatoes,” Newport Beach fire officials

said Monday.

The call came at about 3 p.m. on Yacht Mischief, a street in the

Spyglass Hill area. Fire Department officials called the Orange

County Fire Authority’s Hazardous Materials team, which analyzed the

substance and found it was instant potatoes, said Jennifer Schulz,

spokeswoman for the Newport Beach Fire Department.

A boy had dropped the potatoes in the mailbox as a joke without

realizing that it could have been mistaken for a lethal substance,

she said. No charges were filed.