It looks like his skin grew back.
Posted on 10/04/2007 12:03:14 PM PDT by Westlander
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man who tried to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager will be assessed by doctors before starting a 90-day jail sentence for stealing smoke detectors.
David Hahn, 31, was sentenced Tuesday in Macomb County Circuit Court on attempted larceny from a building. He was arrested in August after a maintenance worker saw him steal a smoke detector from his Clinton Township apartment complex. Police later found 15 other smoke detectors in his apartment.
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He’ll probably only do a half-sentence.
Radioactive Boy Scout? Weren’t they a garage band in Boston in the early ‘80s?
MI ping
He’s after the Americium in the smoke detector. It can be used as an exciter in a nuclear reactor. He’s trying to build another reactor. I wonder if his mother’s potting shed is still radioactive from his last attempt?
I think a lot of fire departments do smoke detector giveaways from time to time. That's what he should have done instead of stealing them. Well, he really shouldn't being building reactors and other dangerous toys, but that's a different matter.
“I wonder if his mother’s potting shed is still radioactive from his last attempt?”
We’ll never know - that shed is 1 mile deep somewhere in Nevada.
Well, he really shouldn't being building reactors and other dangerous toys,
Everyone wants to take the fun out of being a boy
I remember reading this article a couple of years ago on here and being amazed. Now I think this guy is just an idiot. Why not go to college and learn these things instead of breaking the law to build another reactor to put people in danger. He is lucky some Fed doesn’t send him to Guantanamo.
David held a series of after-school jobs at fast-food joints, grocery stores and furniture warehouses, but work was merely a means of financing his experiments. Never an enthusiastic student, he fell behind in school, scoring poorly on state math and reading tests (he did, however, ace the test in science).
This is the type of individual who wants to learn what he wants to learn and is bored to tears by structured learning.
He is a Edison type of guy. His only problem is what he has decided to toy with is high dangerous and regulated.
One hundred years ago he would have no problems.
Everyone wants to take the fun out of being a boy
Wow! I remember (and had some of) the chemistry sets, but never saw that one, thanks! Amazing.
An MD in the 1920s was experimenting, probably with radium, in his practice.
Homer Simpson bought his tomacco seeds from her. Now we know how they developed.
Wow. One of those recently sold for nearly $8000 in an auction.
The 'Home Reactor' was something covered by science and hobby magazines decades ago. Maybe he just believed what he read in Popular Science?
He may be an "idiot" but he's on a good track.
Is an exciter like a French tickler? What does it do in a nuclear reactor?
You can go to jail for setting off smoke detectors?
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