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Chemotherapy Patients Set Off Subway Alarms
dave writes "Recently, cities such as New York and elsewhere have been installing radiation detectors in subways as an anti-terror precaution. However, as reported in New Scientist, patients who are undergoing radiation treatment are setting off the alarms. From the article, "a 34-year-old patient who had been treated with radioactive iodine for Graves disease, a thyroid disorder, returned to their clinic three weeks later complaining he had been strip-searched twice in Manhattan subway stations.""
I think I'll buy an unmarked box of Fire Detectors and leave them in the subway... Fun...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Yeah. And we here at Slashdot keep a close eye on the only person in the world capable of holding enough material in his rectum for a good dirty bomb...