Woman Arrested for Trying to Poison Orange Juice at Calif. Starbucks
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/NATL-BAY-COPY-Woman-Arrested-at-SJ-Starbucks-for-Potential-Orange-Juice-Poisoning-205443031.htmlA 50-year-old woman was arrested Monday night after police say she put two bottles of orange juice — which they say were filled with rubbing alcohol — on a refrigerator shelf at a Starbucks in California.
San Jose police took Ramineh Behbehanian into custody on an attempted murder charge, because the orange juice she had removed from her bag and put in the fridge contained what police said were lethal quantities of isopropyl alcohol. She is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
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Authorities are still not sure why she would have allegedly mixed rubbing alcohol with some orange juice in the afternoon, left the bottles in the refrigerated section alongside some yogurt and milk and left the store about 3:30 p.m. local time.
What. The. Fuck.
Much more at the link.
PB
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8 years ago the finger in the chili. Now this. 
...temper your fears: That's not likely to happen.
I know this sounds strange but it's true. It's really not likely to happen. When the original anthrax letters were going out after September 11th attacks, some California newspaper did a piece on how a single person with a prop airplane (like a Cessna) could spread enormous amounts of weaponized anthrax over a city like (I believe their example was) San Francisco.
It would sicken, injure and kill hundreds if not thousands or more people.
Also, a little more realistically, I think it's that al-Qaeda guy Adam Gadahn (aka "Azzam the American"
indicated that al-Qaeda operatives in America should simply purchase firearms and literally take potshots at people. Just covertly snipe people indefinitely. That would be incredibly "easy" to do. Shit, that's what we've almost got with just regular Americans and guns, anyway. Point is, it's not happening. The last time there was any kind of sniping incident was the DC Sniper and that was not related to al-Qaeda.
I think it's arguably self-evident that, while it's true that there are people who would like to destroy America, kill Americans, etc., that there aren't (for whatever reason) enough people who are in America who are actually interested in doing such a thing.
Yes, someone could do what you said with ricin. It's a real possibility. There are also lots of other things which are equally "easy" which would sow panic and death.
Interestingly, in the whole history of America (pre and post 9/11), those things are exceptionally rare. The acts that do occur are much more likely to be motivated by personal reasons than ideological ones.
Just sayin'
PB
