Posted on 08/08/2007 8:03:25 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
This was also on an episode of Showtime’s Sleeper Cell.....maybe that’s where he got the idea from.
A book was written about this too, by Michael Silverstein. I am not familiar with that show but I’m sure this is where they got the idea. I’m glad I wasn’t the neighbor near this kid. You should read the article Silverstein wrote for Harpers back in 1998.
Can we speel “acne” ?
Was he ever a boy scout of is this the media’s attempt to make the scouts look bad, again?
I wondered what became of him. I always assumed he went on to become a professional scientist or engineer, but it looks like he wasted his life.
“Was he ever a boy scout of is this the media’s attempt to make the scouts look bad, again?”
Yes he was going for a merit badge and things got out of hand.
According to the article, he was an Eagle Scout.
I thought the same thing.
Sad chapter to a pretty interesting story. It appears the story will end soon as well.
Smoke detectors were what he got his radioactive materials from the first time he got in trouble.
oooooohhh - I see
‘He’s gotta be crazy.’
Ya think?
I think he joined the Navy for awhile. I haven’t read Silverstein’s book, but I think something is really twisted with this guy.
Got any idea why anyone would be so obsessed with this stuff?
He was a scout and I absolutely have no doubt that any of the stuff written on him have anything to do with bashing scouts. It’s just the facts of how he started on his little mission.
It’s a cool story, if nothing else. At least they didn’t throw him in jail for 40 years or some other tradegy. Although his experiments weren’t the safest....
He thinks he’s only shaved maybe 5 years off his life but he’s still young. Wait til he gets leukemia or whatever happens people exposed. What really upsets me is how he exposed his neighbors back in the 90’s.
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