THE RADIOACTIVE BOY SCOUT: THE TRUE STORY OF A BOY AND HIS BACKYARD NUCLEAR REACTOR

Christian Science Monitor ^ | Tim Rauschenberg

[cinFLA]

This story seems far too strange to be true. I have got to get this book. Absolutely remarkable and fascinating.

Stop and think about what you said. This is all hype designed to sell a book! There was no reactor; just a stupid kid caught stealing tires off of cars.

[ActionNewsBill]

An overhead satellite that measures radioactivity measured extremely high levels of radioactivity emitting from his mothers garden shed in a little village in Michigan.

CinFLA:
Actually, the were called to investigate possible auto theft and found a toolbox marked as radioactive in his trunk.

Sadly, most on the Left don't think that individuals should be allowed to sacrifice their own years for their own passions.

CinFLA:
Unfortunately, the kid was a dangerouse idiot consumed only with his misdirected passion.

It was small and would never create an appreciable amount of fissionable fuel, but by the time David disassembled the runaway experiment in 1994, his Geiger counter was detecting radiation from several houses away.

CinFLA:
We only have the boy's word for it. A boy that flunked out of Jr. college and is a deck-hand in the Navy. What a bunch of crock!

I think David Hahn should have gotten a medal from the President.

CinFLA:
Why? For flunking out of jr college and becoming a deck swab in the navy?

Trolling again, or just starved for attention?

[cinFLA]

I see you are taking xrp's mode of operating and following me around.

[cinFLA]

I see you attack me but you can't refute the facts of my post. Typical liberal.

[ActionNewsBill]

I see you are taking xrp's mode of operating and following me around.

Actually, I clicked on this thread because I thought it might be interesting, and you just happened to be making some wonderful comments displaying the depth of your knowledge.

You are quite a piece of work.

[Travis McGee]

ping

[Petronski]

What's with the vendetta against this book? Do you know this kid? Did he beat you out in the big science fair way back when? Did he shoot out your porch light?

[ActionNewsBill]

Typical liberal.

Thank you.

[Steely Tom]

As an expert in pattern recognition, you should have been able to recognize this as pure hype designed to sell a book.

You've got me there. It didn't make me want to go out and buy the book; as I have already stated, I was turned off by the author's attitude toward David Hahn. At the time, it was just another article in Harper's.

I'm only interested in patterns that are really there. For example, I believe see a pattern in your posts.

(steely)

[cinFLA]

Actually, I clicked on this thread because I thought it might be interesting, and you just happened to be making some wonderful comments displaying the depth of your knowledge.

You attack me but not the facts of my post. Seems you are the a little shy of a full deck.

[ActionNewsBill]

I see you attack me but you can't refute the facts of my post.

Not attacking you, pardner, just asking a simple question.

If you have any "facts" to back up your opinions, please post a link to those "facts".

Thank you.

[cinFLA]

What's with the vendetta against this book? Do you know this kid? Did he beat you out in the big science fair way back when? Did he shoot out your porch light?

Apparently you are favoring the hype over the truth.

[cinFLA]

If you have any "facts" to back up your opinions, please post a link to those "facts".

Duh! Why don't you require that of the author. He has NO facts other than what he and the kid made up. There was no reactor.

[cinFLA]

Not attacking you, pardner, just asking a simple question.

Here is your simple question.

Trolling again, or just starved for attention?

[Constitution Day]

[Petronski]

In my first post I asked 'can this be true?'

Do you know the story to be false? Please link the proof or post it here.

[cinFLA]

Do you know the story to be false? Please link the proof or post it here.

Let's see. We have a mop-pusher in the navy that flunked out of jr college that was caught stealing tires off of cars telling us about a nuclear reactor that he built. Please post any evidence that there was a nuclear reactor.

[Petronski]

But I am not claiming it is true. I take no position on its veracity.

You claim it is some kind of hoax, but offer no documentation.

[cinFLA]

The link was posted early in the thread.

At 2:40 a.m. on August 31, 1994, Clinton Township police responded to a call concerning a young man who had been apparently stealing tires from a car. When the police arrived, David told them he was meeting a friend. Unconvinced, officers decided to search his car.

They opened the trunk and discovered a toolbox shut with a padlock and sealed with duct tape. The trunk also contained foil-wrapped cubes of mysterious gray powder, small disks and cylindrical metal objects, and mercury switches. The police were especially alarmed by the toolbox, which David said was radioactive and which they feared was an atomic bomb.

The discovery eventually triggered the Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan, and state officials would become involved in consultations with the EPA and NRC.

At the shed, radiological experts found an aluminum pie pan, a Pyrex cup, a milk crate and other materials strewn about, contaminated at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation. Because some of this could be moved around by wind and rain, conditions at the site, according to an EPA memo, "present an imminent endangerment to public health."

[cinFLA]

You claim it is some kind of hoax, but offer no documentation.

You should be asking the author for some documentation. He has NONE. No reactor, nothing.