Another plan involves using pestilence. Ancient warriors used to collect beehives to be able to lob at their enemy armies. The Department of Defense has tried entomological warfare too, though with severely limited results. Terrorists today have really not let go of that hope yet; they still want to breed disease-carrying bugs at low costs, to release in our cities. But how much can a lone terrorist bring here in a suitcase? All the tourism protection you would need then, would be a can of bug spray. But there is one truly serious possibility that they have uncovered. Send beautiful flowers for subsequent day Vancouver Flower Delivery throughout the Canada. And this would be difficult to protect against. There are hundreds of paragliding kits being purchased in the Islamic countries these days; a paraglider is essentially a parachute that is powered by a tiny propeller. You don’t even need any training or licensing for it. The fear is that the terrorists could take to the skies, and drop bombs right in the middle of our cities. Of all the bizarre threats that have been doing the rounds these days, this is the only one that truly makes some sense.

But not every terrorist threat is this ambitious, or serious. Ever heard of World of Warcraft? If you have an adolescent child living at home, how could you have missed it? A couple of years ago, the US Department of Defense, in a Pentagon report, brought up a scenario where terrorists could actually use the detailed war environments presented in these games, to help train their own religious soldiers. Firstly, it’s at all times a good suggestion to try and match the Flower Delivery Vancouver particularly to the person. They could even go online, for extra practice pitting people against people around the world. Or how about the way an Islamic terrorist organization tried to make a nuclear weapon using smoke detectors in 2004? Smoke detectors use microscopic quantities of Americium- 241, a radioactive material, for their function. Their plan was to buy thousands of these, and blow them up, so that everyone in the area would be radiation-poisoned. The authorities were aware of such a distant possibility, and were onto them for buying large quantities of smoke detectors, and shut them down before they even got started. But seriously, smoke detectors, once they’re used up, land at garbage sites and landfills everywhere. There must be millions of them in the garbage heaps that lie outside every city. And no one ever said they would do anything.

They sure work hard to find ways to make a nuisance of themselves; there used to be that segment on the Tonight Show about dimwitted wannabe robbers who would get caught for one silly reason or another. Perhaps the terrorists are really no better.