British Airline Bomb Threat Foiled!

Authorities Find "sticky Bombs" Made from Diet Pepsi and Mentos Candy Mints

London – British authorities announced yesterday that they had successfully thwarted an attempt by terrorists to detonate dozens of “sticky bombs” constructed from 2-liter bottles of diet Pepsi and Mentos candy mints, preventing what could have been the messiest attack on U.S. air carriers in aviation history.

Scotland Yard first became aware of the threat after observing a number of men of Middle Eastern descent carrying cases of the popular drink onto six different planes. “At first, we were focused on what was in their carry-on luggage,” said Henry Wilkinson, Scotland Yard’s Chief of Domestic Terrorism. “We were looking for mainstream explosives like jelled nitroparafin, metal perchlorate and nitroglycerin. It never even dawned on us to look at the soda.” Security officials at Heathrow Airport let the men breeze right through the screening stations, completely unaware of the threat they represented.

The bombs were made from a number of very simple, yet deadly components. The men, all in their early twenties and members of the radical “al-Quesadilla” extremist group, first became aware of the soda’s volatile nature after watching “Steve Spangler, the Science Guy” explode liters of diet Coke by dropping packages of Mentos mints into them on NBC’s The Today Show. “The diet Pepsi idea was brilliant,” said Wilkinson. “They knew that they could easily smuggle the Mentos on board by hiding them inside of box cutters. All they had to be concerned with was getting past security with the twelve cases of soda without calling attention to themselves. Assembling the bombs while on board would be simple.”