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"Radioactive Boy Scout" Gets 90 Days
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| 10-4-2007
| Associated Press
Posted on 10/04/2007 12:03:14 PM PDT by Westlander
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To: Westlander
He’ll probably only do a half-sentence.
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:04:08 PM PDT
by
gridlock
(C'mon people now / Smile on your Brother / Everybody get together / Try to love one anoth-kaBOOM!)
To: Westlander
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:04:23 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Westlander
Radioactive Boy Scout? Weren’t they a garage band in Boston in the early ‘80s?
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:05:33 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: grellis
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:08:40 PM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(stop repeat offenders- don't re-elect them!)
To: Westlander
It looks like his skin grew back.
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:10:54 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
(Lumen me regit)
To: Westlander
He’s after the Americium in the smoke detector. It can be used as an exciter in a nuclear reactor. He’s trying to build another reactor. I wonder if his mother’s potting shed is still radioactive from his last attempt?
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:13:17 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
To: gridlock
LOL.
I think a lot of fire departments do smoke detector giveaways from time to time. That's what he should have done instead of stealing them. Well, he really shouldn't being building reactors and other dangerous toys, but that's a different matter.
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:16:10 PM PDT
by
BearCub
To: Swordmaker
“I wonder if his mothers potting shed is still radioactive from his last attempt?”
We’ll never know - that shed is 1 mile deep somewhere in Nevada.
To: BearCub
Well, he really shouldn't being building reactors and other dangerous toys,
Everyone wants to take the fun out of being a boy
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:28:08 PM PDT
by
grjr21
To: Westlander
I remember reading this article a couple of years ago on here and being amazed. Now I think this guy is just an idiot. Why not go to college and learn these things instead of breaking the law to build another reactor to put people in danger. He is lucky some Fed doesn’t send him to Guantanamo.
To: CollegeRepublican
From the article linked to in Post # 3.
David held a series of after-school jobs at fast-food joints, grocery stores and furniture warehouses, but work was merely a means of financing his experiments. Never an enthusiastic student, he fell behind in school, scoring poorly on state math and reading tests (he did, however, ace the test in science).
This is the type of individual who wants to learn what he wants to learn and is bored to tears by structured learning.
He is a Edison type of guy. His only problem is what he has decided to toy with is high dangerous and regulated.
One hundred years ago he would have no problems.
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:46:40 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(uNFORTU)
To: grjr21
Well, he really shouldn't being building reactors and other dangerous toys,
Everyone wants to take the fun out of being a boy
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:47:59 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: Dumpster Baby
Wow! I remember (and had some of) the chemistry sets, but never saw that one, thanks! Amazing.
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posted on
10/04/2007 12:55:31 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This post sold by weight, not volume. Content may have settled during shipment.)
To: Pontiac
I think there's a townhouse in Philly that's still a radiological hazard.
An MD in the 1920s was experimenting, probably with radium, in his practice.
To: Swordmaker
Homer Simpson bought his tomacco seeds from her. Now we know how they developed.
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posted on
10/04/2007 1:03:08 PM PDT
by
em2vn
To: Dumpster Baby
Wow. One of those recently sold for nearly $8000 in an auction.
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posted on
10/04/2007 1:09:51 PM PDT
by
BearCub
To: CollegeRepublican
People deal with hazardous, even lethal substances on a routine basis. In every case transport, containment, handling and disposal methods have been developed which allows them to be safely used in everyday applications. If he could come up with a simple, cheap and safe design for a small scale reactor he'd have made quite an accomplishment, not to mention one with quite a lucrative future. For all we know he could have been making a low-output proof-of-concept reactor. He's obviously a backyard tinkerer yet in an area no one else goes near. Hence the notoriety.
The 'Home Reactor' was something covered by science and hobby magazines decades ago. Maybe he just believed what he read in Popular Science?
He may be an "idiot" but he's on a good track.
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posted on
10/04/2007 1:18:33 PM PDT
by
Justa
(Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
To: Swordmaker
Is an exciter like a French tickler? What does it do in a nuclear reactor?
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posted on
10/04/2007 1:27:47 PM PDT
by
bagman
To: Westlander
You can go to jail for setting off smoke detectors?
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posted on
10/04/2007 1:38:13 PM PDT
by
G8 Diplomat
(Know thy enemy. Learn Farsi.)
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