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Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "The Washington Post reports that the carjackers who set off international alarm bells by absconding with a truckload of highly radioactive cobalt-60, used in hospital radiotherapy machines, most likely had no idea what they were stealing and will die soon from exposure. The robbery occurred as the cobalt-60 was being driven from a public hospital in the border town of Tijuana to a storage facility in central Mexico. While waiting for daybreak at a gas station in the state of Hidalgo the drivers were jumped by two gunmen who beat them and stole the truck. "I believe, definitely, that the thieves did not know what they had; they were interested in the crane, in the vehicle," says Mardonio Jimenez, a physicist with Mexico's nuclear safety commission. The prospect that material that could be used in a radioactive dirty bomb had gone missing sparked an urgent two-day hunt that concluded when the material, cobalt-60, used in hospital radiotherapy machines, was found along with the stolen Volkswagen truck. The cobalt-60 was found, removed from its casing, in a rural area near the town of Hueypoxtla about 25 miles from where the truck was stolen. Jimenez suspects that curiosity got the better of the thieves and they opened the box. So far the carjackers have not been arrested, but authorities expect they will not live long. "The people who handled it will have severe problems with radiation. They will, without a doubt, die.""
Apparently the "RADIOACTIVE YOU'LL DIE IF YOU OPEN THIS!!!" markings aren't that universal (fortunately).
Now if only we could put more cobalt 60 into those drug shipments and clean out the cartels in such a tidy manner.
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Yea, let's just ignore all the systemic factors that lead to crime and write those guys off as "less scum to worry about".
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Going by statistics you're a 20 something white male whose only contact with hoodrats comes from movies and what you see on worldstarhiphop. It's easy from your cozy perch 50 miles away to say what you said. Go live in the hood for a year or two, I guarantee you'll be singing a different tune. ;)
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