Posted on 05/30/2016 4:38:22 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
DELTA, Pa. (AP) — A couple who got lost in Pennsylvania while driving to New York entered the property of a nuclear plant by cutting a chain at a gate, apparently in a quest to get back on the right road, authorities said.
The Chesapeake, Virginia, couple were driving from Baltimore on Friday night when they got onto an access road at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, owned by Exelon. The driver told police he didn’t see two “No trespassing” signs when he cut the chain on the gate, The York Daily Record (http://bit.ly/27XVuF5) reported.
Exelon spokeswoman Krista Merkel said the couple never posed a threat to the plant and security was monitoring them the entire time they were on plant property.
“It seemed they inadvertently made it to our property and were trying to find their way back out,” Merkel said. “They thought the only way they could get back was to cut the fence.”
Police initially said, after consulting with security staff, that the man and woman appeared to have made it to “a highly security sensitive area where radioactive material is transferred from the main power plant. If the couple had gone inside a nearby outbuilding, the plant would have been placed on lockdown and there was a “possibility of lethal force being used,” authorities said in court documents.
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mug shots at second link
Well, I guess I’ll retract my comment also...
Maybe they were just not very smart or observant...
I think they are just stupid.
Well, after viewing their mug shots, My “not very smart” comment will stick....
Great security when you can’t even keep out two stoned rednecks.
Could have been innocent undocumented tourists from Meh-e-coh who no understand language of the indigenous natives!
Doesn’t everyone have a pair of bolt cutters in their car?
It should have been a clue when Google Maps said to bring bolt cutters.
Wow she should have stayed asleep.lol
ping
Scully, there’s something peculiar about this . . . .
Why didn’t he use a thermite grenade to melt the chain? Doesn’t everyone here carry one of those in their emergency road kit?
Imagine some day when lost people will have a mobile phone to use to call for help.
Because everyone carries bolt cutters in case they find a restricted area along their route.
LOL!!!
Yeah, I always find the access roads on to major highways pass through nuclear plants with locked gates... Funny design that.
So when will we find out anything more about this pair??? Never?
Which one is the guy .???
Are these people stoned or drunk?
Any property with a fence and a closed/locked gate is the no trespassing sign.....
You can’t fix stupid
Both identify as methheads.
Still a plausible deduction.... Islam has many more converts than just Arabs. They are from every race. Another possibility is that someone could have paid them oodles to do what they did.
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