how does an Elvis impersonator get ricin?

[Enrique]

don't they do background checks?

No offense to any Elvis Impersonator DUers.

[veganlush]

1. I don't know, but when he gets it,

he says: "thank you, thank you very much"

[JoePhilly]

2. In the Ghetto?

Or maybe at the Heartbreak hotel.

[SummerSnow]

7. The ghetto?

[JoePhilly]

12. I really have to explain that reference?

"In the Ghetto" was a popular Elvis Presley song.

[RZM]

15. I would guess from a contact at a military bio lab

Perhaps a Colonel.

[JoePhilly]

16. LOL!!

[Tanuki]

3. After I read your question, it took me 1 minute on Google to find out how to make it

http://how-to.ask.com/make/how_to_make_ricin

It is crazy how simple it is to get access to making weapons of mass destruction nowadays

[justiceischeap]

4. Apparently it can be created from Castor beans

so, all one has to do, is get hold of a plant or some seeds and grow the castor beans and you can create ricin. At least that's what they kept saying on the news yesterday.

[dballance]

8. Um, not Trying to be Snarky - But the "Seeds" for a Bean Plant are the Bean Itself

Is it just that it might be easier and less suspicious to get a few beans and grow plants to produce quantities large enough to make Ricin? Will trying to buy enough castor beans to make ricin get you on a watch list? Are they even available to the general public?

On Edit: I just googled "castor beans." Looks like they're pretty easy to buy online.

[justiceischeap]

10. I think I heard that the beans aren't available, or aren't supposed to be available

at local greenhouses/nurseries. That doesn't mean someone can't get hold of them and create enough to be a nuisance.

[slackmaster]

18. You either think wrong or heard wrong. Castor bean plants are widely available.

They're ridiculously easy to grow, and if you happen to live in a place with mild winters they can naturalize in your yard.

A plant can grow up to about 12 feet tall in a season, and produce thousands of seed pods.

[justiceischeap]

19. I was working and listening to MSNBC yesterday

and thought I'd heard them say that it was illegal. I probably heard wrong.

[slackmaster]

20. It's quite possible that someone on MSNBC gave incorrect information.

That happens a lot.

[TexasProgresive]

24. Yeah got it from CNN

[bigtree]

9. more likely

. . . the castor beans were crushed and used to produce a false positive on initial tests. That's about the extent of the ability of the average joe . . . it's also a known tactic of letter terror individuals.

[justiceischeap]

11. That's what I'm thinking too. nt

[jberryhill]

5. It's about as difficult as making hummus

[Yo_Mama]

6. It's not clear that it actually was ricin

Maybe it was just castor flour.

But apparently you can make this stuff at home. Like pipe bombs.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. He worked at a hospital

This is apparently his site


Let the record show that on this date, March 05, 2008, I, Paul Kevin Curtis, being of sound mind, am attempting once again to expose various parties within the government, FBI, police departments, legal & healthcare systems, etc. that a conspiracy to ruin my reputation in the community as well as an ongoing effort to break down the foundation I worked more than 20 years to build in the country music scene, began on the day I accidentally discovered a refrigerator full of dismembered body parts & organs wrapped in plastic in the morgue of the largest non-metropolitan healthcare organization in the United States of America, AKA

North Mississippi Medical Center where I was employed from 1998 until March of 2000.


His story goes on
its just plain weird.
https://sites.google.com/site/paulkevincurtis/


The poison is easy to make
with some knowledge.

[bushisanidiot]

21. what the hell?

the government is trying to destroy his country music career because he accidentally found body parts in a refrigerator in a morgue? he is insane.. criminally insane even. which means he needs to be on medication and be supervised.

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. He threaten a judge back then yes

His authentication of his experience is bizarre. especially the body part storage. Just scroll down for his photos and letters.

[Myrina]

14. Has it been confirmed that it WAS ricin?

[snooper2]

17. I guess you start with a 240 SX or an Integra?

[Erose999]

23. Because he lives a double life as a member of a biker gang with ties to the IRA?