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On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 03:37:31 -0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw <
mshaw@panix.com> wrote:
According to a poster on another social network platorm, Israel
has started (or at one time had had a plan to, or did) put bags of
pig blood on transit buses, the effect being that suicide bombings
by Islamist terrorists immediately ceased.
My bullshit alarm rang right away, of course, and googling[tm]
around I found nothing other than a Snopseian debunking of a similar
claim involving lard.
Anyone ever heard of this one before?
(N.B. not looking for a debunking; I already disbelieve it, just
for discussion. But a clear debunking would also be welcome for an >appropriate response over there on the other social network platform)
As you looked without results, I searched using German search terms, hoping for different results. Viola, found something:
Austrian (the one with no roos) news: <
https://newsv1.orf.at/060103-95073/94781txt_story.html>
There it sez: A Las Vegas company "Susblood Labs Terror Prevention Technologies"
is offering a Terror Prevention pen, called "Infidel's Revenge", filled with pig
blood plasma. The idea, as presented, is that blowing a carrier of such a pen up
would contaminate the blower-up.
Searching led me to a patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130047879 which includes the following: "Even if the terrorist's remains are subjected to contact with pig or monkey blood after death, that person will fall out of heaven. The inventor learned this from extensive travels, including travel to many Middle Eastern countries." So, looks like an idea and a patent based on an urban legend? As it seems to have been dreamt up by one guy, with only his expectations of cultural reactions driving the idea.
Patent listed as abandoned, website links defunct.
Nowhere a mention of Israel.
It could work in Israel -- where both observant Jews and observant Muslims might
avoid a bus so prepared. I'd assume an emptier bus would be a less attractive target... like making public transportation buses run on time by not taking on any passengers.
Thomas Prufer
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