Curiously enough, this one doesn’t appear to have explicit religious whackitude attached to it.
Seattle Gay Bars Receive Threatening Letters
Text of the letter appears at the end of the article.
Well, it’s hardly indiscriminate, then, is it?
I hope that law enforcement is all over this.
It’s unnerving, but I don’t think it’s anything to get really worried over. Some asshole crank wrote threatening letter, but won’t bother to act on it.
I really hope I’m right.
I hope so, too. I also hope that the police are able to track the letters and arrest the asshole responsible.
Comments about “what happens to guys like you in prison” would probably be redundant, as the letter writer is no doubt already obsessed with the mental image.
Am I a bad person for being less offended by the letter/threat than I am annoyed by the atrocious spelling on the sign posted with the article?
The grammar is pretty bad, too.
On the other hand, the layout is quite funky.
It is, overall, about the worst sign ever. Horrible even by gay bar standards.
ETA: Anybody else parse the line “If you have abandon” as the reckless kind? That big space kind of throws me off.
5 clients is targeting pretty discriminately, especially considering that 67 grams is enough to kill a couple of hundred people (I think).
Try a few thousand–it’s estimated that 500 micrograms of ricin is enough to be lethal. The delivery system can be a bit tricky. Still, I’d watch out for umbrellas if I were one of those five.
He meant 5 random clients. In other words, having blonde hair or driving a Ford or talking without a lisp isn’t going to save you. It’s a terroristic threat.
Yes, indeed. So when is Homeland Security going to get involved? Or does this not count, because it’s fags?
You don’t want Homeland Security to handle this. You want an organization which can actually do something effective, like actually capture the offender.
It might be less scary if it did have some religious whackitude. Does anybody know how to intrepret this bit?
The Seattle PD claims that the FBI is involved.
And from the Dept. of Curiouser and Curiouser, part of the text of the threat letter is copied from a poem by a gay writer.
Thanks, Hunter Hawk. You added a whole new layer of weird for me. The link to poet’s statement includes a link to the poem in it’s entirety.
Does anybody know where to get tippy cups that are not pastel-colored or decorated with duckies?
Hmmm, so he knows some obscure gay poetry from almost 15 years ago . . . I’m going to make 2 guesses.
-He’s a regular gay dude with no ricin and a REALLY twisted sense of humor
-He’s a “former” gay dude who was “cured” by some whacko church
Given the precision and exactitude involved in producing ricin (with lethal doses measured in less than a milligram), I noticed this part of his threat “approximately 67 grams”.
Somehow that approximation doesn’t fit. It just makes me more convinced that this is a nutjob making empty threats.