Ricin: The Perfect Poison

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[zrslugfm]

It’s an honor to be placed on a watch list with you all.

[spacekettle]

"Why did you think it's ricin? That's kind of specific"
"I dunno man, maybe I like, saw a Simon Whistler video on it or something"
- Jesse Pinkman in 2021

[jakebroome]

Clicked this video hoping for Breaking Bad jokes. You guys did not disappoint.

[kaarel]

"3 milligrams, a mere tenth of a teaspoon"
That is one tiny teaspoon 😂

[m.hughmungus]

"Ricin: The Perfect Poison"

*You're god-damn right.*

[PatrickStypinsky]

I’ve survied poisoning by castor beans my parents brought home from a vacation, my liver started to fail, vomit, white poop, fever.. doctors was sure I was going to die when they found the cause, whole family gathered to say goodbye - somehow I came through 🤷🏻‍♂️

[jeremywang]

"About as fun as a porcupine enema" fantastic line, I shall be adding this to my daily vocabulary

[jamiemartin]

It’s so cool that Walter White himself is making a video about ricin

[Gollentar]

I had a couple of geniuses in my class while I was in college. They were weighing castor beans in a biology class for an experiment on variation. The two of them decided to have a competition to see who could eat the most beans whole. The beans were also close to 20 years old, and had been stored alongside mercury. The two of them went up to the teacher at the end of the lesson to complain that they were feeling sick; after they admitted what they'd done, she had them rushed to hospital.

[tinkerlynch]

I've known about castor plants for rodent control since I was very young. My maternal Grandparents would plant them every so many feet in the rows of root/tuber vegetables to kill voles and moles because they would eat the roots of the castor plant on their way to the turnips, carrots, rutabagas, etc. The plants were kept pruned to encourage more root growth, and cut down on seed pods.

[gorilladisco]

".. buying four ton of castor beans is absolutely going to land you on an FBI watch list .."

Castor oil factory owner : *sweat profusely

[DocSunshine]

“This won’t be exhibit A in some federal case”

“If you wanted to blanket a 100 km area...”

[wreckedm]

I once worked at a garden center where we had a couple huge castor bean plants in the raised beds out in front of the shop. One morning we came in and both 5’ tall castor bean plants had been dug up and taken. Needless to say, we reported that one to the police. They seemed to think it was unlikely someone took it to make poison, but idk.

[YouveBeenMegged]

All things aside, are we just going to ignore the fact that he called death “the ultimate side effect”? 😂

[kefeng]

When I was a child, I was warned that castor seeds are poisonous. So I played with the seeds but never chewed it. But I knew that poor families in my village, who could not afford to buy cooking oil, would rub castor seed on woks to release the oil. I never understood how they were not poisoned as they do that everyday. Thank you for your video and some search I finally found the answer. Ricin is destroyed at high temperature.

[keepcalmyouexist]

What an enterpreneur Simon is. One chanel is about killers, another gives you all the advice you need to become one.

[avinashmishra]

I used to play with these seeds during my childhood. In my area these plant used to give seeds in summer. Crushing them gives an oily white paste. We childern used to take collect those seeds.
The game i still remember is that two people take on seed each and try to crush the other. Didn't knew it was that deadly because sometimes we have crused them in our mouth.

[Roman]

"No, we won't get into more details than that"
Me, a biologist: You've already said enough

[davidheagney]

Jesse Pinkman thought Walt was going to poison Gus with Rice ‘n’ beans. Yo.

[IrishMike]

"No, I won't show you how to make ricin...."

Well there goes today's upvote.