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Old Nov 3, 2019 | 10:40 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by nancypants
when I was in Israel literally everything in my bag tested “positive”, such that it all had to be split into smaller packages, boxed and flown in a reinforced compartment on a cargo plane instead of in the belly of my plane (El Al). I’d been living on an army base at the time with my ex so I concede it’s possible there were minute traces from environmental contamination but half the stuff that came up positive had been bought in Israel
Wouldn't be the first time that living with someone who deals with explosives was enough to cause a false positive.
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