And no, it's not the kind I'd use to overtake the cockpit by threatening to discolor passengers' clothes!!!
On my recent trip to NYC, I had all my Tri-X in old metal and black plastic canisters. What I didn't know was that I had accidentally included a canister that I had long ago filled with potassium ferricyanide. Just imagine the scenario at the airport had security chosen to inspect that particular canister, only to find it filled with a bright, reddish orange powder inside- and I (already looking every bit the terrorist suspect- as my wife is needlessly fond of reminding me) would have been instantly surrounded by a cadre of: TSA, FBI, police, Homeland Security and a varied assortment of armalites...
On my recent trip to NYC, I had all my Tri-X in old metal and black plastic canisters. What I didn't know was that I had accidentally included a canister that I had long ago filled with potassium ferricyanide. Just imagine the scenario at the airport had security chosen to inspect that particular canister, only to find it filled with a bright, reddish orange powder inside- and I (already looking every bit the terrorist suspect- as my wife is needlessly fond of reminding me) would have been instantly surrounded by a cadre of: TSA, FBI, police, Homeland Security and a varied assortment of armalites...
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When you tried to explain to them what it was all they would have heard was cyanide. How do you like Cuba BTW ......
Ironically, an anti-Castro, Cuban CIA operative and terrorist responsible for the bombing and destruction of a Cuban commercial airliner with all hands on board has never been prosecuted for such by the "anti-terrorist" USA in all the many years he's lived here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/us/30posada.html?pagewanted=all
It could be because it never happened.
Yup- just like this never happened...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
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