It's all fun and games until they have to call the hazmat team

From the crime blotter in the February 4 edition of the Albany Student Press:

SAFETY/HEALTH/HAZMAT INCIDENT
1/27/1008
State Quad - Whitman Hall
Report of personal hygiene items placed on exterior suite door and
door handle. Environmental Health and Safety notified to sanitize
area.

The door needed to be sanitized? What kind of "personal hygiene items" are we talking about here?

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