Spokane Official: MLK Day Bomb May Have Been Filled With Rat Poison

[RamboLiberal]

The bomb found along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., may have been packed with a blood-thinning chemical that's found in rat poison in an effort to inflict worse injuries.

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told the Spokesman-Review that the bomb -- which officials have already described as sophisticated, with the potential to be devastating -- had some sort of chemical in it, and authorities have speculated that it may be a chemical found in rat poison. The bomb, which was defused without incident last Monday, has been sent for testing to a lab at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va..

The FBI and other officials have declined to release any information about the bomb's makeup. Knezovich said, though, that the bomb was also packed with shrapnel.

The theory is that someone hit with a piece of shrapnel covered in an anti-coagulant is more likely to bleed to death. Israeli officials have claimed in the past that Palestinian terrorists were using rat poison to make their bombs more deadly.

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[MineralMan]

1. Thank goodness for the sharp-eyed city workers.

Racism is an ugly, ugly thing.

[Warpy]

2. Thank gawd they were stupid and didn't do their homework

because that particular poison acts within the liver and takes about 3 days to kick in, ample time for any injured person to be given vitamin K, the antidote.

They might still have access to strychnine based rat poisons in the Middle East, and that would make things more deadly. Warfarin, not so much.

I just hope they manage to trace some of the components of this one. It was a lot more sophisticated than the usual pipe bombs meth addled wingnuts come up with. Whoever made it needs to be off the street permanently.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Some that would be a Chemical weapon... n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

4. If they bomb a thousand parades, I will STILL celebrate the civil rights movement. n/t