From: prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 03:37:31 -0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw  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:   
      
      
   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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