# Al-Queda poisoned our drinking water! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 23, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076 "2003-08-23T02:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/1 "2003-08-23T02:19:57Z")
So my whole town can’t drink the tap water and I’ve decided that this was an act of terrorism by Al-Queda. Anyway, a little background info. About noon today, we got an announcement that we couldn’t drink ANY tap water because it was “contaminated”. That was the whole story for about 3 hours. The people trying to give us the straight dope on the whole thing were quite vague, saying things such as “chemical spill”, “may be corrosive or non-corrosive material” (?) and so on and so forth. So that’s about all we know. I work at a restaurant. Do you have any idea how fucking hard it is to run a restaurant and not be able to use tap water? We had to use bottled water for EVERYTHING, and we had to buy cans of pop because we couldn’t use the fountain. So, for lack of anyone better to blame, I have blamed Al-Queda. Maybe it’s like the anthrax thing. They’ll just randomly pick small, unassuming towns and contaminate their water supply. Bastards! ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/2 "2003-08-23T04:01:06Z")
Nope, Al Qaeda couldn’t have poisoned your water. They were too busy hiding my slippers. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/3 "2003-08-23T04:01:14Z")
If you blame terrorism for everything that goes wrong, the terrorists have already won. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/4 "2003-08-23T04:13:26Z")
In that case, I blame the communists. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/5 "2003-08-23T04:40:54Z")
This is an ongoing terrorist conspiricy that government officials refuse to acknowledge for fear of alarming the populace. Al Queda got to a [Louisiana town](http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/23/drinking.sewage/) over a year before 9/11. The drinking water there was “accidently” contaminated with raw sewage for a period of two months. I’ll bet Osama had a real good laugh over that one. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/6 "2003-08-23T13:59:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Nope, Al Qaeda couldn’t have poisoned your water. They were too busy hiding my slippers. If you ever manage to find your slippers look around for my Colibri lighter that they stole yesterday while I fell asleep on the couch. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/7 "2003-08-23T14:01:55Z")
Al Quaeda is the reason I dated a loser in highschool! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/8 "2003-08-23T14:08:23Z")
Al-Qaeda makes the SDMB run slow! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Pebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Johnny\_Pebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Pebs)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/9 "2003-08-23T14:21:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Al Quaeda is the reason I dated a loser in highschool! \*\* Al-Qaeda is the reason I _ **was** _ a loser in high school! 😃 Pebs ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/10 "2003-08-23T14:28:39Z")
Al-Qaeda makes baby Mohammed cry. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/11 "2003-08-23T14:42:19Z")
Yeah? Well they lost my goddamned cordless phone. And the battery is dead so I can’t page it. Fucking terrorists. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/12 "2003-08-23T14:48:51Z")
You’re all wrong: they’re currently in my neighbor’s garden cutting down trees with the noisiest chainsaw imaginable. Those bastards. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/13 "2003-08-23T14:55:14Z")
Al-Quaeda makes people say “pop” instead of “soda”! ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/14 "2003-08-23T16:05:04Z")
Al Qaeda is the reason the Bears wen 4 and 12 last year! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/15 "2003-08-24T00:45:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Al Qaeda is the reason the Bears wen 4 and 12 last year! \*\* And they’re to blame for **jarbabyj** s’ lost “t”. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/16 "2003-08-24T12:33:48Z")
Unfortunately, a good portion of the water in this country \* is\* contaminated, and we didn’t need any terrorists to do it. We did it ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/17 "2003-08-24T13:08:46Z")
Al-Qaeda is trying to sap my precious bodily fluids! ---
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/18 "2003-08-24T16:52:58Z")
They ate my house! ---
**Author:** ![ForumBot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/19 "2003-08-24T17:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny Pebs \* > \*\*Al-Qaeda is the reason I _ **was** _ a loser in high school! 😃 > > Pebs \*\* Al-Qaeda is the reason I **am** a loser in high school! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076/20 "2003-08-24T17:07:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biotop \* > \*_Unfortunately, a good portion of the water in this country \* is_ contaminated, and we didn’t need any terrorists to do it. We did it ourselves. \*\* Al-Qaeda brainwashed **Biotop**! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-poisoned-our-drinking-water/197076.md?page=2)