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Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5
Jeff recommends Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat's story from a community meeting with Northwest border control agents. Seems their monitoring for dirty bombs from the median of Interstate 5 caught a car transporting a radioactive cat. "It turns out the feds have been monitoring Interstate 5 for nuclear 'dirty bombs.' They do it with radiation detectors so sensitive it led to the following incident. 'Vehicle goes by at 70 miles per hour... Agent is in the median, a good 80 feet away from the traffic. Signal went off and identified an isotope [in the passing car]. The agent raced after the car, pulling it over not far from the monitoring spot.' Did he find a nuke? 'Turned out to be a cat with cancer that had undergone a radiological treatment three days earlier.'"
OMG! It's a link to FoxNews.com! It must be a lie!
But wait -- it says something Slashdotters want to hear! It must be true!
But it's a lie!
Truth!
Lie!
Truth!
Whatever will the poor Slashdotters do?!
"OTOH, if they decide to screen for GUNS in the US... that's a Second Amendment right we DO have... and whole other issue."
Hell I'm not even American and I know the second amendment is the right to bear 'arms'. So I'll let you keep your 'GUNS' if I can have my nuclear armaments tyvm.