[Jonty30]

Eating somebody’s lunch is very serious with some people.

[Darksheare]

“What was he planning?”
Ishtiaq Ali Saaem

I don’t know, it’s a mystery at the All Ha Snack Bar.

[SaveFerris]

He was gonna some people did something

[jmacusa]

Ricin is one of the deadliest poisons on Earth. A match head of it is enough to kill a person.

[SaveFerris]

Lydia, the cat lady.

Goodbye, Lydia.

(click - well it was a cellphone, so...)

[DesertRhino]

I know pintos etc. but is there any legitimate use of castor beans? Do people grow and eat them or anything?

[Tench_Coxe]

It's sort of pretty, actually.

There has to be more to the story, unless the FBI is monitoring purchases on the internet.

[Mr Radical]

Moslem + Deadly Poison = What WAS he planning?
If the Daily Fail can't work it out by now then they never will.

[Trailerpark Badass]

You can buy the ricin plant, but not pot. Genius.

[WinMod70]

Could be working on a COVID vaccine/treatment that is 100% effective at stopping the virus.

[grey_whiskers]

Dr. Ishtiaq Ali Saaem, 37,

One might be tempted to quip that (buying castor beans),
he might have been planning to put the “Die” in “Diversity”...

[lepton]

Is 800 beans enough to do what they claim with?

I seem to recall that while ricin is a tremendously strong poison, that it takes a lot of castor beans to derive any.

[piasa]

Wonder what Massachussetts biotech firm it was that he worked at?

[piasa]

Also bought Lily of the valley.

[mewzilla]

From a year later...

https://www.biospace.com/article/former-mit-researcher-who-acquired-castor-beans-used-to-make-ricin-spared-prison/

[piasa]

The U.S. Department of Justice sentenced a former researcher with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Broad Institute to three years of probation following a guilty plea to charges he obstructed a federal investigation into his efforts to acquire the deadly toxin ricin.

Ishtiaq Ali Saaem was charged by the Justice Department last year for lying to federal investigators about his 2015 attempts to acquire 100 castor bean packets in order to develop ricin, which is a poison used in bioterror attacks. Saaem received three years’ probation, including six months of home confinement. He has also been ordered to pay a $5,500 fine....

[piasa]

Former MIT rresearcher

https://www.biospace.com/article/former-mit-researcher-who-acquired-castor-beans-used-to-make-ricin-spared-prison

[piasa]

Lily of the valley plants contain convallatoxin. Never heard of it before.

Guy has a special needs kid, and he is looking for tasteless poisons. I wonder if he may have been depressed and had ideas about lifting the burden of taking care of the kid?