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| Attempted Poisoning At Starbucks |
| 2013-05-02 |
| A woman arrested after she allegedly tried to sneak tainted bottles of orange juice into a refrigerator at a Starbucks coffee shop in San Jose was a trained chemist, officials said. A customer reported seeing the woman remove two bottles of orange juice from her purse and place them in a refrigerated display case at the store, the Mercury News reported. When the customer alerted store staff the woman fled. After examining the bottles and detecting what they described as a “toxic smell,” store employees called 911. Police tracked 50-year-old Ramineh Behbehanian to her home about five miles away after a witness provided her license plate number. She was arrested on suspicion of felony poisoning. Tests revealed she had mixed rubbing alcohol with the juice, police said. Investigators said they did not have a motive. Authorities told the San Francisco Chronicle that she used a "lethal quantity" of the rubbing alcohol. The paper also reported she held graduate degrees in chemistry from Lehigh University. |
| Posted by:Grunter |
| #15 I keep a smallish bottle, it burns, and I use it for running a small, model Stirling Engine, i own. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-05-02 23:14 |
| #14 I keep a bottle in my office - kept off to one side so I don't unknowingly sip it instead of pop while deep in a coding session. Good for cleaning. Hey! This Dr. Pepper tastes funny.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-05-02 15:18 |
| #13 Might be toxic to drink, but it's great at removing pine sap from hunting clothes. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2013-05-02 14:58 |
| #12 Where i work we use lots of Isopropyl Alcohol to clean things for use in a clean room and our safety guy streat it as a hazardous substance when spilled. Yes they tend to overdo things but still. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-05-02 14:54 |
| #11 The ones which can brew tea, as in Tea Party...I knew it! /reid |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-05-02 14:45 |
| #10 A one-off, isolated incident of workplace violence perpetrated by a frustrated microbiologist No clear and evidence-laden pattern of prior behavior, unlike that of a certain and currently incarcerated Army shrink. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-02 14:32 |
| #9 A one-off, isolated incident of workplace violence perpetrated by a frustrated microbiologist. I blame the spread of Keurig Platinum B70 home units. No need to dig further. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-02 13:55 |
| #8 #7 - seems the most likely |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-02 13:46 |
| #7 Two possibilities: Make it three. Try "potential lawsuit for contaminated product". |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-02 12:36 |
| #6 I think her linkedin account is Romi Behbehania Six Sigma Black Belt Principal Scientist/Engineer with 15 + years of experience in pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device industries with expertise in the areas of: • Drug delivery & controlled release technologies. • Formulation, process and product design, development, testing, piloting, scale up. • Process, equipment, product validation, & documentation. • New products development from concept to design to commercialization. • Raw materials, formulation & process characterization, and specification generation. • Design of experiment (DOE), gauge R&R, variance analysis, statistical process control. • Project management, outsourcing, contract negotiation, and technology transfer. • Problem solving, root cause analysis, design control. • Cross functional collaboration & leasership. |
| Posted by: bernardz 2013-05-02 12:19 |
| #5 Doesn't a certain amount of Isopropyl Alcohol cause blindness? I believe Dukakus's wife drank it after he lost the presidential election and became blind. Grain Alcohol (booze) on the other hand might have the opposite effect - making people look good as the evening wears on and it gets closer to closing time. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-05-02 11:10 |
| #4 Two possibilities: 1. Nutkase hater. 2. Deliberate assassin. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-02 11:00 |
| #3 According to the wikipedia Isopropyl alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol#cite_note-16 Around 15 g of isopropyl alcohol can have a toxic effect on a 70 kg human if left untreated. You think she knew what she was doing as she has a masters degree in chemistry |
| Posted by: Bernard Z 2013-05-02 09:22 |
| #2 I believe it. I've had their coffee... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-05-02 01:23 |
| #1 Isopropyl alcohol is not all that lethal. Some online estimates give a dose of 250 ml (about 8 oz) as lethal for humans. A concentrated amount smells to high heaven. ? a practice run? Possible her Facebook page with a photo from a couple of decades ago. Of interest, using Facebook's own search engine, finding her page was not possible using the name "Ramineh Behbehanian" Google found the Facebook page that Facebook couldn't, or wouldn't, find. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-02 00:21 |