Now That’s a Power Drink
The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera.
ABC News has learned exclusively that the plotters planned to leave the top of the bottle sealed and filled with the original beverage but add a false bottom, filled with a liquid or gel explosive. The terrorists planned to dye the explosive mixture red to match the sports drink sealed in the top half of the container.
The Telegraph U.K very thoughtfully points out how to make a ‘liquid/sports drink bomb’ and some of the pitfalls inherent in manufacturing ‘liquid/sports drink bombs’, as does Sky News. The one pseudo safeguard they’re talking about…
Measures introduced at UK airports included specific restrictions on taking liquids on board, prompting speculation that evidence had been uncovered of a plot to smuggle liquid explosive devices onto flights.
Passengers travelling with infants were being asked to taste baby milk they intended to carry on their journey in front of security staff.
…is a no go right off the bat, even if the Presbyterian East Asian Criminal doesn’t have a false bottom in his pop, and I have personal knowledge of the lengths people will go to. Let me share a dark chapter of my history.
Once upon a time, ths was a youngish Marine Corps Sgt., stationed in her birthplace ~ Iwakuni, Japan ~ for a 6 month long deployment. One of the advantages/disadvantages of that particular slice of Occidental heaven is the fact the it’s so God awful far from civilization. It sucks not to have a city close-by, but it’s wonderful if you’re into spending time in truly rural Japan. Rural as in isolated villages, people unjaded by the average Japanese reaction to gaijiin, sustenance fishing, farming and…raising koi. Yes, the flashy fish.
I had a young LCpl K working for me who’d had a fish fetish before he hit Iwakuni, so you can imagine his ecstacy when he stumbled across an ancient fellow raising world champion koi during a backroads bike trip. He and the old man soon became fast friends, and he’d pedal out to help him every break he had. When it came time for us to rotate back to the States, the old man gifted him with two very small, future champion fish ~ worth at least a couple grand at the sardine size they were at the moment. LCpl K was beside himself with joy. Until he realized getting them home would be a smuggling job of epic proportions between customs, the Air Force and a 25+ hour flight.
Enter the Japanese penchant for gadgets of the miniscule variety. He’d canvassed the ginza for something, anything, to keep his scaley friends alive during the trans-Pacific passage. As luck would have it ~ on his last free day ~ he stumbled over a mini, battery operated aquarium pump. Coupled with an Igloo half gallon insulated jug, he had himself a fishy hide away. After a few dry(!) runs for battery life, the covert koi were tucked into the Igloo with water, food and pump, and boarding the plane for home.
It all went well, as they sailed through every obstacle until about 20 hours later when, at that one last customs hurdle in Anchorage, the officer asked “What’s in the jug?”
“Water for the trip!” LCpl K chirpily replied.
“Then you won’t have any problem taking a big swig.”
GULP. “No, sir.”
“Well…?”
GULP. He thought about it for a second and a half and then he gulped 20+ hour old fish water. On terra firma eons later in California, it turns out it had all been for naught. He didn’t die from the water, but the fish had. And been dead for God knows how long.
Desperate people will do anything.
Update: We got IslamoSpam in the comments!
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That is freaking hilarious. Beats smuggling out a Soviet uniform interspersed in my dirty underwear.
John… eww.
The problem, gorgeous, is that you folks like to bury the heads in the sand…and the bodies somewhere else.