Posted on 05/14/2012 7:14:13 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
“The life of a repo man is always intense!’’.
Meh, just another old beeber stuning incident as far as I can tell.
Paul Rodgers ping. Was that off Outrider? I have it somewhere, but don’t recall.
actually, the first reports of this happened shortly after 911, when those who got radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer were searched in NYCity...one doc wrote a medical journal about this, and then we started hearing about those who got SPECT SCANS and other scans that used larger doses of radiactive isotopes setting off alarms.
most docs now just give them a letter to carry, just in case.
actually, the first reports of this happened shortly after 911, when those who got radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer were searched in NYCity...one doc wrote a medical journal about this, and then we started hearing about those who got SPECT SCANS and other scans that used larger doses of radiactive isotopes setting off alarms.
most docs now just give them a letter to carry, just in case.
I did some work near a place where they were testing the sensors years ago. I had a vague idea of what was going one, but not really.
This guy kept getting into his car (his personal beater) and driving it through the gate. Then he’d go back into the little building, come out and do it again. I got a glimpse as I was closer and he had a Dixie cup in his hand as he went to his car.
When he returned I was at a spot where I could ask him what he was doing. “Oh - just testing the response as we go lower and lower in the radiation dose”. He was wearing his street clothes with the Dixie cup in the car’s cup holder.
I was impressed!
“The bad guys now know that to transport bad stuff will need a lot of radiation shielding.”
The bad guys can guess that the CT cops can’t screen out medical isotopes (patients) from threats. In other words, no gamma spectrometer, and they come in very small packages these days.
They also learned that a piece of paper with the right words will get them by a traffic stop, as long as rad levels are what you’d expect from a patient.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.