DEATH BY... RADIOACTIVE SUSHI

The BBC had just reported that the death of the ex-Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, was believed to have been due to eating sushi in a Picadilly sushi bar that had been poisoned with a radioactive element known as Polonium 210.


The new Russian Roulette - figuring out which sushi on the tray has Polonium 210...

While the doctors, the British government and press are busy speculating as to the reason for the poisoning, who is behind this and most importantly... whether London is safe from radioactive contamination, I just want to know one thing... who on Earth uses Polonium to poison someone?

Polonium is highly radioactive. A single gram of polonium-210 creates 140 Watts of heat energy and is being considered as a lightweight heat source for thermoelectric power for spacecraft. Something so radioactive must be a hassle to carry around, not to mention dangerous.

My knowledge of Chemistry is not all that great but I know that there is a whole list of elements from the Periodic Table that you can choose from as a poison... Arsenic, Mercury, Barium... rat poison...

In fact, why not just slip him a lil puffer fish? It is a sushi bar after all...

So the only conclusion I can come up with is that whoever poisoned this guy must've really hated him. I mean, to want to go through all that trouble to transport Polonium and risk radioactive poisoning on themselves just to poison this guy... he must've pissed someone off bigtime.

Either that or the price of Polonium in the Russian black market is now much cheaper compared to rat poison...

Now that's scary.