Raise your hand if you have ever seen sodium?
It’s not salt!
It’s an extremely dangerous metal.
Drop a pea sized piece of sodium in a glass of water and BANG! A very high intensity fire breaks out - in the glass of water.
So what exactly is your point?
It appears you think the man deserves to be in prison because he sold something that is potentially dangerous, even though it's perfectly legal to do so. It’s extremely dangerous stuff!
“So what exactly is your point?”
Most people have never seen sodium. I merely am explaining what it is.
He SHIPPED it illegally.
No he went to jail for shipping the sodium via air. Would you want your family on an aircraft that was transporting sodium? BTW he needs to sue UPS if indeed the packages were labeled correctly. EPA and DOT rules and regulations make it the shipper’s responsibility to insure no violations occur but UPS seems to be at fault if they didn’t inform him that aircraft would be used in “ground” shipments. More behind the story stuff:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=17088
It appears to me he was just adding some facts that many of us did not know. We have many experts or just people with unusual experience among us who give a lot of background on subjects that come up. It s one of the great things about FR.
While true; dihydrogen monoxide has killed a LOT more people.
Airlines make note of this fact and search all passengers for any of it trying to be smuggled aboard planes!