Wal-Mart's glow-in-the-dark mystery

The Toronto Star ^ | Feb 15, 2009 | Tyler Hamilton

[glorgau]

Nowhere in the article does it mention the half life of radioactive Tritium.

[Balding_Eagle]

One night, at the local Walmart, all of the ‘dividers’ that customers use in the checkout line to mark the end of the itmes of the customers on the checkout conveyor belt dissappeared.

[dynachrome]

Ha. I’ll have to send this to our safety guy at work. I know some libtards I work with that I can panic.

[fight_truth_decay]

Can buy the signs anywhere for public, business, private use
http://www.elights.com/srbledexsig.html

But Wal Mart is Bad!!! Bad!!!

Just think of that UV light bulb/globes in your home..head spins after a while ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVaaibQUHww

[ExSES]

4500 ± 8 days half-life of Tritium. It is in widespread use other than in exit signs...

[fight_truth_decay]

Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: David Hahn Radioactivity

> The piece you allude to was a piece of nonfiction, yes.
>
> Best,
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> * * *
> Rachel A. Monahan
> Assistant Editor
> Harper’s Magazine
> 666 Broadway
> New York, NY 10012
> (212) 420-5784

http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.chem/2004-06/0024.html

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Before investing in ROP paranoria, how do the statistics of missing exit signs compare with missing lamp fixtures and other similar equipment in Walmart? May they get tossed when they break.

[lacrew]

Iran ordered 70,000 of these signs? I’ve never been to Iran; but, I bet they don’t have big box discount stores and fire codes requiring illuminated exit signs....somebody is up to something.

Question - our local Wal Mart has more security cameras than Ft Knox (seriously, I was stationed there). How does one steal the exit signs?

[fight_truth_decay]

Eighth Grader Arrested For Setting Off Soda Bottle-Bomb In School http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7014078669
Feb. 13th.

Springfield, MA (AHN) - A 15-year-old eighth grade student was arrested Friday for setting off a soda bottle-bomb containing acids in a hallway of a school in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Police booked the boy for possession of an incendiary device and disruption of classes at the Chestnut Accelerated Middle School,

Even the kids are making bombs..and he didnt need an exit sign from Wal Mart to do so.

[fight_truth_decay]

...in 1994, an internal Wal-Mart memo stated Wal-Mart parking lot crime, which represented 80 percent of all crimes at Wal-Mart stores, could be reduced to as “low as zero with roving security cart patrols.” In 2000, six years later, Jay Allen, then Vice President of Corporate Affairs, acknowledged 41 percent of Wal-Mart’s parking lots had no surveillance cameras and 83 percent did not have roving security patrols. Mr. Allen’s report served to highlight how little was done to address the public safety concerns raised in the earlier report.

And yet, since 2000, even with horrific examples of violent crimes and even rapes at Wal-Mart stores, Wal-Mart has not publicly adopted a company-wide policy of installing staffed security cameras and instituting roving security patrols at all of its stores.

It was reported that cameras focused more on where workers congregate.’

Source. Wal Mart Crime Reports from Make Walmart Safe
http://walmartcrimereport.com/letter.html?more=1

I saw a flat bed store cart being stolen last night when I drove out of the mall ..kid with his hood up. Staples probably was the place of origin. You know how the economy is and the cost of moving ;)

[CyberAnt]

“... could be used in a dirty bomb.”

Just how would it be used .. and what is the result of such use ..??

Inquiring minds want to know.

[MHGinTN]

Planning on hauling more Heineken when the next strom hits maybe?

[Joiseydude]

Figures.

[Candor7]

Steal our signs and die.

Seems to be some poetic justice in there somewhere.

Anyone know where I can buy these in the USA?

[Raycpa]

Perhaps they were purchased but never delivered and installed. Wouldn’t be the first nor the last fraud.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I saw a gun. I’m offended.

[saganite]

I’m just quoting the article. If you want your question answered ask the author.

[Condor51]

What's the big deal? The half life of Tritium is only 12½ years. So a 'dirty bomb' goes off. You can move back when your kids are ready for High School.

Or... if Tritium is so bad, maybe we should just go back to using Radium for glow-in-the-dark applications. That never hurt anyone and it was much better for watch dials than is used today. On the downside, the most common, Radium 226, has a half-life of 1,622 years so the Greens will never go for that.

Sheesh, ya can't please anyone today. Everyone has to whine about something.

[Erasmus]

So the tritium causes the exit sign to mysteriously disappear?

Yes.

At least, indirectly.

≤}B^)

[Erasmus]

I’m not sure that theey use Tritium in any current bomb design. They make most or all of the needed Tritium at the time of detonation through neutron bombardment of Lithium-6 Deuteride (a solid).