Radiation in a cat detected while going 70miles per hour?

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 anyone have first hand knowledge or leads for info on this?  Sounds a little "star trek" like to me, but plausible 
with a stretch I guess....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2004300343_danny23.html

Watch out, you're being watched
 
Danny Westneat

Seattle Times staff columnist

<snip>
....

The unsettling thing about living in a surveillance society isn't just that you're being watched. It's that you have no 
idea.

That's what struck me about a story told last week by a border agent at a meeting of 200 San Juan Islanders. He was 
there to explain why the federal government is doing citizenship checks on domestic ferry runs.But near the end, while 
trying to convince the skeptical audience that the point is to root out terrorists, not fish for wrongdoing among the 
citizenry, deputy chief Joe Giuliano let loose with a tale straight out of "Dr. Strangelove."

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," Giuliano told the crowd. "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 (near the Bow-Edison exit, 18 miles 
south of Bellingham). The agent questioned the driver, then did a cursory search of the car, Giuliano said.

Did he find a nuke?

"Turned out to be a cat with cancer that had undergone a radiological treatment three days earlier," Giuliano said.

...
<snip>

Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 

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