Last Time I Travelled I Lost My Favorite Pair Of Earrings…
so I understand how upsetting it is to lose something you treasure.
Some poor Baptist preacher apparently left a bag of the deadly toxin, ricin, in a Las Vegas hotel room.
Police in Las Vegas, Nevada, are investigating the discovery of what they said is the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room.
No one has shown symptoms of ricin poisoning after the toxin was found Thursday at a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel.
Authorities were called to an Extended Stay America hotel around 3 p.m. PT Thursday after a man brought a bag with a small container to the manager’s office. The man said he found it while retrieving items from a hotel room.
The substance is “100 percent ricin,” said Capt. Joe Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. “We don’t know who [the ricin] belongs to or why it would be here at this time.”
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said Friday there does not appear to be a link to terrorists.
See, I woulda thought it was terror related, because what else do you do with ricin but kill people? Apparently you can use it to make really cool decoupage pictures and give them away as April Fool’s gifts. It is also nice in soups.
Here’s what the CDC says about ricin:
Ricin is a poison that can be made from waste left over after processing castor beans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The toxin can come in the form of a mist or pellet and can be dissolved in water or weak acid, according to the CDC. The agency also said the toxin works by getting inside the cells of a person’s body and preventing the cells from making the proteins they need.
As little as 500 micrograms — an amount the size of the head of a pin — can kill an adult.
- Aggie