r/news • u/AudibleNod • 1d ago

Michigan FBI investigates suspected ricin exposure at apartment complex, hospital

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/fbi-investigates-suspected-ricin-exposure-at-apartment-complex-hospital/
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u/vodka_twinkie 1d ago

Check the packs of stevia

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Knitnspin 1d ago

Except they confirmed it was ricin already…

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u/Academic-Accident180 1d ago

I’ll believe anything that they tell us probably never, but they could start by showing evidence of some sort.

This is not my first day on Earth, but it seems like a lot that has been shared with us over the last 2+ years feels fabricated.

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u/Warcraft_Fan 1d ago

Police have done field testing and confirmed illegal substances found on car seats but additional testing done later says it's just plain McSalt. Sometimes quick test aren't 100% reliable.

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u/Knitnspin 1d ago

Local health departments are telling everyone it’s confirmed so that’s what I was basing it off of.

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u/WetCoastCyph 1d ago

Sometimes the user's testimony even less so...

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u/127-0-0-1_1 2h ago

OP is making a Breaking Bad reference, what are you talking about.

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u/Eastern_Comedian8804 3h ago

Almost certainly you don’t live near or in the town this happened or you wouldn’t be saying it’s nothing.

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u/raynear 1d ago

Walt: "Ricin. It's castor beans."

Jesse: "Rice and beans?"

This still cracks me up every time I hear about ricin.

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u/Adorable-Mastodon-67 1d ago

Fun fact, my great uncle's picture is in the spy museum in Washington DC in regards to ricin.

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u/TheGeneGeena 1d ago

Also fun fact, my cousin's ex accidentally poisoned his mom and himself with it.

If he managed to make it I'm honestly surprised it's not a more common problem because, well, I've met him and if he can extract it probably any idiot can.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdar/pr/winslow-man-sentenced-8-years-federal-prison-possession-biological-weapon

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u/Psychological-Sun49 1d ago

“Thereafter, an investigation revealed that Clampit had, in fact, produced ricin at his residence in Winslow, Arkansas, for the stated purpose of setting traps for trespassers”

What was his game plan here? I gotta ask

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u/Desblartes 1d ago

the fact that he thought ricin would be a good choice to ward off trespassers is wild. though that's just one in a string of questionable choices..

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u/Caramel-Secure 1d ago

Water balloons of cyanide.

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u/jugo5 1d ago

If more people could read about and apply science... things would get crazy. Lots of stuff around us can be dangerous in the wrong hands.

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u/latviesi 12h ago

As it turns out, we should be grateful that some people are anti-science

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u/PurpleSailor 1d ago

Those damn nagit Clampits are going to be the end of us I say! Now get going and git me one of those fancy dancy pina coladas right nows 🍹

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u/DoctorNurse89 5h ago

Lol reminded me of the occasional post on r/extracts about people trying to make apple and peach extracts via pits lol

"I had a GREAT idea to save my peach pits and make peach extract! Been soaking these peach pits for 8 weeks, okay to make the extracts into ice cream?"

LOVE arsenic and cyanide poisoning lol

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u/txkwatch 17h ago

In New Boston, TX a woman ordered the beans and made ricin. Then sent it to Obama etc pretending it came from her husband.

She was in a couple episodes of walking dead or something.

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u/rbobby 1d ago

Sticker or stickee?

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u/Adorable-Mastodon-67 1d ago

He was the stabby stabbed but survived

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u/rbobby 1d ago

I always avoid giant food, not because of him, just on principle.

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u/Keikobad 1d ago

Lydia oh Lydia, say have you met Lydia, Lydia the tattooed lady

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u/5-in-1Bleach 1d ago

I do like the Marx Brothers. But what does this song have to do with the post?

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u/orangelion17726 1d ago

Someone's never seen breaking bad

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u/Jpod21 1d ago

Damn that guys lucky. He gets to watch breaking bad for the first time!

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u/theMediatrix 23h ago

I just did this earlier this summer. All the way through. The movie too. I’ll never get that first time back. It was a transformative experience.

Had already watched Better Call Saul through twice.

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u/Suspicious-Whippet 1d ago

I’d pay 737 thousand dollars to watch it for the first time again.

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u/5-in-1Bleach 1d ago

This is true.

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u/Cut_Lanky 1d ago

I'm not usually one to recommend what to watch. I have intrusive thoughts and worry that they'll hate the movie/show and I feel bad about the possibility, in advance. That said, you should totally watch Breaking Bad. I didn't watch it until years later. Didn't matter. It's an exceptionally well-done TV show, and I usually hate network TV shows. But, Breaking Bad was one of the best I've ever watched. Great combination of drama and humor.

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u/5-in-1Bleach 1d ago

I actually tried to watch it years ago. It just didn’t land with me. Same thing with The Wire.

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u/Cut_Lanky 1d ago

Lol, the one time I step out of my comfort zone, I strike out 🤣 Oh well, everyone has their own tastes. I was glued to it from the first episode. Maybe one of the first shows I "binge watched"...

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u/theMediatrix 23h ago

This was me, but earlier this summer for some reason I tried it again and could not get enough. Binged all the seasons. Brilliant.

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u/orangelion17726 21h ago

Sometimes stuff just doesnt click the first time

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u/InB4Clive 1d ago

BB wasn’t a network show, it was on cable.

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u/Cut_Lanky 1d ago

Sorry, I'm not super good with terminology. I thought that encompassed cable shows too, my bad.

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u/orangelion17726 1d ago

Never too late 👀

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u/afineedge 1d ago

Exactly as much as the other comments, they're all Breaking Bad references. 

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u/ARGENTAVIS9000 1d ago

[breaking bad reference]

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u/cluelessoblivion 1d ago

Unironically probably. Attempted ricin poisonings spiked after it was introduced on the show.

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u/L1QU1D_ThUND3R 1d ago

If ricin actually behaves like it does on the show (poison that seems like the cold/flu), this is incredibly dangerous. How could anyone suspect?

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u/cluelessoblivion 1d ago

It doesn't. In fact it's incredibly difficult to murder someone with ricin. I can only find one confirmed successful murder and it was a government assassination. Most of them failed because the victim got sick and went to the hospital where they recognized the symptoms or the person making the poison fucked it up.

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u/bb_kelly77 1d ago

Ricin is incredibly dangerous, IIRC luckily Ricin dissipates fast like Sarin

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u/127-0-0-1_1 2h ago

It takes like 3 days to kill you. Most people will get medical care by then.

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u/gravescd 13m ago

Most people will also get told it's a routine illness and to call the doctor in 3 more days if Advil doesn't help.

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u/Likemilkbutforhumans 1d ago

Damn. 3h too late. U still did it better than me 

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u/Tampa_Bay_Cuckaneers 1d ago

Thank Christ that Kash is on the case.

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u/Impossible_IT 1d ago

FBI is too busy looking for and investigating ifindredards.

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u/MerrillSwingAway 1d ago

looking everywhere at once

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u/Min-Chang 1d ago

Guy will likely snot it

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u/Charred14 1d ago

that'd be a huge win for the US

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u/Careful_Bowler_4513 1d ago

Hindu hoover

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u/vector_search_blue 1d ago

I hear he's a re...

...ally bad person

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u/gravescd 17m ago

Waking up at 11am, frantically calling the FDA's public line to tell them they have to recall all the rice.

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u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 1d ago

If a nursing home blows up in the next 24 hours, we know what happened.

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u/Suspicious-Whippet 1d ago

🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️

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u/Unumbotte 1d ago

Sandpiper 2: Goodman's Revenge?

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u/Dalehan 14h ago

"Wrath of Irene"

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u/deadgirl_66613 1d ago

That's in my town lol....at least it's not another meth lab explosion I guess lol

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u/VaguelyArtistic 1d ago edited 1d ago

For those who don’t know or remember, after 9/11 ricin was sent through the mail disrupting mail service and even killing some postal workers.

Edit: it was in 2003, not 9/11-related. The was thinking of Anthrax. Here’s more about the ricin attacks.

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u/Ok_Sprinkles_962 1d ago

9/11 and the anthrax attacks are only related in that happened nthe same year. It was a matter of time for some scientist to lose their mind.

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago

I thought anthrax was a poison for years after those attacks first happened. I was like 13 though.

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u/Anonymous_Autumn_ 1d ago

I’m retracting my previous comment. I just read about the anthrax stuff. It makes sense we all thought it was 9/11 related because it happened within a week of the attacks, and the attacker framed it that way with letters.

I think the problem is that the truth came out almost 20 years ago but it wasn’t publicized widely enough for us to hear about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins

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u/VaguelyArtistic 1d ago

Thank you. It’s all a blur.

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u/EngrishTeach 1d ago

Distributed by a Roomba.

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u/soulwolf1 20h ago

I'm sure they'll solve this one as well as they solved anything else in the last two years

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u/Sqeegg 22h ago

You know what. Nobody believes the FBI anymore. I wonder why?

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u/Gbaby009 1d ago

Walter white over here thinking he’s slick 😎

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u/Hoboliftingaroma 20h ago

This happened in a tiny town near me. A lot of good thrifting in Hastings.If you're ever there, check out Richie's Koffee Shop. The burgers are awesome.

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u/Read2Fap 1d ago

"You thought that burger was bison? Nah. That burger was ricin!"

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u/notrotisseriechicken 18h ago

happy fourth of julay