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posted by martyb on Sunday May 07 2017, @01:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the disarm-the-terrorists dept.

Leprosy is bacterial. In addition to curing leprosy with antibiotics, we also have anti-biotic resistant leprosy. What prevents a terrorist from deliberately infecting themself with leprosy and then engaging in promiscuous activity? How would a city like San Francisco, Washington DC, Paris or Berlin react to leprosy? When leprosy has a long incubation period, are we certain that leprosy isn't spreading already?

martyb: I was debating whether or not to run this story; from the Wikipedia page, "Contrary to popular belief, it is not highly contagious." But, there is more to this than just antibiotic-resistant leprosy. It invites discussion as to other agents with delayed response that could be employed. In addition, given a terrorist's intention to affect some other group, what options do they have which would affect that group without also adversely affecting their own group? How many of their own group are people willing to "harm" in the pursuit of harm to another group?

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday May 08 2017, @12:45AM (1 child)

    You can make the suicide bomber's favorite detonator out of Ortho Snail And Slug Death, hydrogen peroxide antiseptic or hair bleach, any flavor of Kool-Ade Mix other than lemon, a spaghetti strainer, two coffee filters, a large bowl, a cup a spoon, a box of table salt and a bag of party ice.

    A while back I called up the Portland FBI to tell them about it. "But what can just one person do?" replied the obviously frightened agent.

    (I got busted for making HMTD in my dorm room at UCSC.)

    If you use lemon kool-ade, the result won't be explosive but it is quite fucking funny.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by justinb_76 on Monday May 08 2017, @12:06PM

    by justinb_76 (4362) on Monday May 08 2017, @12:06PM (#506303)

    nice try, FBI - now what did you do with MDC's body?