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NEWS: New Kuroko's Basketball Threat: Chemicals in Snacks

Unless i'm missing something, this story was already reported last week:

The Sankei Shimbun newspaper is reporting on Thursday that the 7-Eleven convenience store chain and other companies, including Sankei Shimbun, have received new threat letters that said that the sender has put agricultural chemicals in various Kuroko's Basketball confectionery snacks....

On October 15, Sankei Shimbun, Sophia University, 7-Eleven, and several other convenience store companies received threat letters. The letters had claimed that the suspect had poisoned some of the "Voi-Colle Kuroko's Basketball Wafers 2" cookies in 7-Eleven stores....

This ... could be considered a terrorist act now, putting chemicals and poison in food.

Fennekin wrote:

This ... could be considered a terrorist act now, putting chemicals and poison in food.

Terrorism is:
1. violence or threat of violence intended to cause widespread panic
2. perpetrated by an organization (not an individual)
3. against a civilian population
4. in an attempt to extort political, social, or macro-economic change

I'm not entirely convinced that a specific attempt to extort some change is required either. Simply acting out of some grudge seems like it could also count too.

Then again, these kind of incidents seem to water down and trivialize a term that should be a much bigger deal than "butthurt dude says he's poisoning cookies in convenience stores but is most probably lying."

A source in the investigation of the threats said there is a high possibility that the liquid sent to Sophia University (Fujimaki's alma mater) on October 12, 2012 could emit a lethal dose of hydrogen sulfide if vaporized.

unready wrote:

Terrorism is: ...

Where on earth did you dig up this definition? There's absolutely no reason an act must be perpetrated by a group to be terrorism. I mean, was the Unabomber not a terrorist? And it doesn't have to be on civilians either. One can certainly attack a military force too. Granted, if the attackers are themselves part of a standing army it would be classified as an act of war rather than terrorism. But not attacking civilians does not automatically mean something isn't terrorism. It depends on the attacker rather than the attacked. I'm not entirely convinced that a specific attempt to extort some change is required either. Simply acting out of some grudge seems like it could also count too. Although I could go either way here I suppose. You're definitely way off on the other two though.

... Then again, these kind of incidents seem to water down and trivialize a term that should be a much bigger deal than "butthurt dude says he's poisoning cookies in convenience stores but is most probably lying."

Why hasn't the bitter hater just tried to kill the manga ka? You know, instead of attacking merch and doujunishi. Seems rather roundabout.

I've seen a few comments along this line, that this guy is likely just some idiot blowhard making empty threats, but there is something to keep in mind. Some of his/her earlier threat letters contained suspicious powders and liquids. And to quote from this article:

Mad_Scientist wrote:

I've seen a few comments along this line, that this guy is likely just some idiot blowhard making empty threats, but there is something to keep in mind. Some of his/her earlier threat letters contained suspicious powders and liquids. And to quote from this article:

IIRC, the amount of chemicals he sent in all his threat letters was not even remotely enough to kill anyone. That he's using lethal chemicals is not in the question, but I seem to recall that, so far, no one has been in lethal danger from this stupidity

Not entirely sure if this new round of threats are done by the same person or it's a copycat but here is a translation of his 2ch posts to shed some light on why he is doing this.

http://sukikatte.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/naver-matome-updated-1122-kuroko-no-basket-threats-roundup-of-the-posts-by-the-culprit-the-reaper-in-mourning/

There’s only one reason for why I’m doing this!
It’s because I hate Fujimaki Tadatoshi, graduate of Sophia University and now a popular manga artist. Fujimaki took everything away from me. I wanted to take revenge on Fujimaki directly, but unfortunately I don’t know where he stays. I had no choice but to attack his manga.
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What was that liquid you left at Sophia and the powdered substance you sent?

I stuffed a 12 litre toilet detergent bottle full of lithopone at Sophia.... The powder I sent is also lithopone.

Lithopone is a white pigment consisting of a mixture of barium sulfate and zinc sulfide. It is used in interior paints and in some enamels. It is widely used for white paint.... It is a valuable pigment that is brilliant white with fine texture which is advantageous vs white lead.