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

["Eduardo Tongson" <propolice () gmail com>]

A lolcat incident eh.
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I has isotopez
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:41 AM,  <Blanchard_Michael () emc com> wrote:
>  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
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