All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to read nothing

[j4]

Okay, how precisely would you go about committing an act of terrorism using only a paperback book? For the purposes of the exercise, you have to use the physical object, not its informational contents (so e.g. "Buying a paperback book on how to make bombs and following the instructions therein" would be instantly disqualified). You are allowed to pre-prepare the book using other items, but you'll get bonus points for making suggestions which would work with an unprepared book, e.g. the surprisingly unreadable Dan Brown novel that you've just bought in the duty-free.

My favourite suggestion wins a potentially-lethal pair of nailclippers. (I reserve the right not to award the prize if your suggestions all turn out to be variations on a theme of papercuts, but I trust you'll do better than that, won't you, chaps?)

ObMeta-X-spook: Delta Force Semtex $400 million in gold bullion fissionable arrangements Noriega Honduras Ortega assassination Saddam Hussein Qaddafi explosion Kennedy Nazi World Trade Center

Comments

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

My first reaction was 'what no books?'. How on earth are you supposed to survive a flight without something to read? You'd be forced to talk to the person sitting next to you.

[teleute.livejournal.com]

My husband and I both read the article in some shock. It was only later that I mentioned that this means books would also be banned. When I mentioned it to him he gave me a look of absolute horror, and I would swear he also lost some color.

Shows how interesting my conversation must be ;-)

[lzz.livejournal.com]

And that was just the abstract thought of it. I'm going on an 11-hour flight on Monday :(

Interestingly, my doctor's surgery does run a 'Books on Prescription' scheme with the library where I work...