Ya know, geeky math types have a reputation for being scatter-brained, but this is just ridiculous. There is a serious Leadership problem out there that somone had better get thier arms around.
According to the article, 'the latest injury occurred Wednesday, two days before the shutdown, when a 20-year-old man suffered eye damage from a laser beam. The man, identified as David Banner, had just finished working on a series of experiments involving a pulsed gamma ray laser, but lingered in the laboratory.'
Half an hour later, he complained of blurry vision in his left eye, and it was discovered that the laser had not been turned off. He suffered bleeding at the back of his eye from a lesion one-fiftieth of an inch wide, and arrangements are being made to fly him to Johns Hopkins medical center in Baltimore for treatment where he turned into a giant green freak and destroyed the building.