Tuesday, November 15, 2011

It's Uh.... Bleach- I Swear!!!

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...

4 comments:

Eric Rose said...

When you tried to explain to them what it was all they would have heard was cyanide. How do you like Cuba BTW ......

Stan B. said...

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

Eric Rose said...

It could be because it never happened.

Stan B. said...

Yup- just like this never happened...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident