Who or what event is portrayed in this story?
The 1.52mm pellet under the microscope wasn’t larger than a pinhead. Amazing, something so small causing rapid death to a grown man. Robert stood from the microscope and stretched his arms above his head. Brilliant.
A young man in a lab coat entered the room.
“Have we discovered the contents of our little capsule?” Robert asked him. The man nodded and handed him the sheet.
Robert read it. “Brilliant.” Without another moment’s hesitation, headed into the autopsy room.
George, deceased, lay prone on a metal slab. His chest slit in two, ribs spread. Robert stepped closer to the body and peered at the forty-nine year old man who died much too young.
Robert held up the paper. “Ricin.”
Who or what event is portrayed in this story?
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Congrats Laura and Bev Hankins! Another point each.
ReplyDeleteLaura - 17 points
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Let me know if these tallies are off.
And just a hint: Not all names used in the stories will be the right name. Sometimes if I use the right name, it'll be too easy. I can't make it that easy, can I?
Umbrella? No idea on this one!
ReplyDeleteIs it one of these spy things - an assassin set to kill some agitator? Russian? Italian mafia? Oooh!! I sort of know this but I don't! Yay! Take care
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I'm clueless, so I'll just say I never imagined there were so many ways to die! strange for one like me who loved the show SIX FEET UNDER ;)
ReplyDeleteUgh. That is an awful way to die...again!
ReplyDeleteClarissa - I really like the ingenuity of this "death by..." But still, it's pretty horrible and ricin has a lot of terrible associations...
ReplyDeleteOh how dreadful - Ricin! Your death by posts are so intriguing. A great idea!
ReplyDeleteI know this happened in London, but I don't know who it was. Arrgghhh!
ReplyDeleteI heard about the case when millions of people died from Rihanna's UMBRELLA :))
ReplyDeleteDeath by toothpick in the colon and an umbrella and ricin? Yikes. There sure are many ways to die.
ReplyDeleteWOW death by either a falling umbrella or Ricin which have read that poison is worst than strychnine. There was a lot of this after 9/11 but probably not associated with your story.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd seen something about this on TV some time ago, but it had something to do with spies. Makes me think of a man, button-down coat closed, umbrella handle in hand bumping up against another man and planting the pellet in them. Ricin is not good at all. Doesn't that come from like a bean or something?
ReplyDeleteNo idea again.
ReplyDeleteyay I was right about the toothpick!
ReplyDeleteNot a clue today!
ReplyDeleteWhat a small object to be the cause of death. No idea who it is, though. Again. :P
ReplyDeleteAnd wow, a toothpick made it that far through someone's digestive system? I would have thought the wood would dissolve in stomach acid . . . but I guess not!
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The Eagle's Aerial Perspective
I found the answer, thanks to Google: Georgi Ivanov Markov.
ReplyDeleteGeorgi Markov: killed in 1978 by a ricin pellet shot into his leg from the umbrella of a Belgian secret policeman. Sounds like something out of James Bond....
ReplyDeleteGeorgi Markov had a pellet filled with the poison ricin shot into his thigh by an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge London. He died three days later.
ReplyDeleteAs of 2006 the prime suspect, Francesco Guilino, was still alive and well. Creepy thought.
Going from toothpicks to ricin...we are in the high tech category now. But where does the bumbershoot come in??
ReplyDeleteI remember this being all over the news here in London! Georgi Markov, who was killed by someone stabbing him with the tip of an umbrella, embedding a pellet of ricin into his leg. It's rumoured he may have been assassinated by the KGB. Straight out of a spy thriller, this one!
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Yup, I know this one too. Insanity - hard to believe it actually happened! The tabloids went to town on this story!
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