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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
mailing anthrax.
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Anthrax is a very productive way of venting anger indeed. There was this one time that I mailed anthrax to the wrong person and it got scanned by the Chile police. Their guard dogs caught it and back traced the package, and came to me thinking I was a hater. So away to Chile prison I went (Canada allows stuff like that to happen on the odd occasion). Anyway, back to my tale, they started to seeeee me. They looked at me in the eye and vented:
"This is....not a game. This harms your fellow people"
But really, I didn't know what to say because I was aware of what he was saying, and I had no proper logical retort back to him. So he explained it to me.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium
Bacillus anthracis when they are exposed to infected and and is highly lethal in some forms. Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic ruminants, but it can also occur in humansanimals, tissue from infected animals, or high density of anthrax spores. Anthrax cannot spread from human to human. Anthrax infection is extremely rare in common domestic pets (dogscats) with only one documented case in the USA in the last 15 years. The word
anthrax is derived from the Greek word
anthrakis, or "coal", in reference to the black skin lesions victims develop.
So I then realized how I was harming people, and became AWARE of what it can do to my fellow people. So it was the last time I sent anthrax out without permission from a local authority.