I read a posting about this years back. Back when the government's "Oh my Christian God, every citizen is a terrorist!!" approach to domestic policy was still encountering a decent, respectable amount of backlash from the masses.
From everything I read, he is a real person and went on to have a career. A career and only slight regrets about the # of years he most likely subtracted from his life during youth. But yeah, sources say it was entirely radiation experiments that caused everything. (Well, that and his parents were divorced - social factors.)
I did not know there was a mugshot, though. Hmm. If he really was radioactive, couldn't they have gotten a much more surreal shot by leaving him in a darkened room with an exposed photoplate?
This is recent news and presumably a recent mugshot, necessitating recent sources. He was caught stealing smoke detectors from his apartment complex. Since this is not in itself a super-serious crime, the media is playing up the "irradiated freak" angle. The response from the blogosphere is that it looks more like very poor hygiene and/or scratching your face off while on meth.
Wait, so this kid is another radioactive boyscout? Seriously? Because I have a webpage from years ago "The Radioactive Boyscout" about a kid who was building a breeder reactor and everything. So is he a copycat, or is there some kind of "underground munitions production" merit badge which is routinely being sought now?
Are you sure this is not just old news being presented as recent news?
I find it hard to believe there have been two boyscouts gathering up smoke detectors and old radium paint.
Huh. So.. this is probably a mental case. Because he does seem compelled to try to assemble his own reactor. He has knowledge, but little to no aptitude for planning (apparently). I would think he would just try to get his mitts on some MUFF and quit going for small fish. Plus, what's with the stealing? That's a new wrinkle.
A bio would hopefully lend insight. And entertainment value!
OK, I've been trying to figure out if "MUFF" is some acronym for yellowcake or something, or if you're suggesting that he needs to get some pussy. Google hasn't helped. Please clarify.
That may be my part, as I may have mis-remembered the acronym entirely. But perhaps you can remember it from the montage of stock video footage from Metal Gear Solid. Remember when the director is explaining nuclear material, early on in the game? (I think the "prison break" portion.. before that guy has an induced heart-attack.)
So far as either nuclear waste or perhaps un-enriched nuclear fuel, the acronym I'm looking for (which, of course, Snake needed explained to him as well) stands for something like missing/unreported fissile fuels. Or something. Essentially missing nuclear materials which left one place, and somehow never reached their destination.
From everything I read, he is a real person and went on to have a career. A career and only slight regrets about the # of years he most likely subtracted from his life during youth. But yeah, sources say it was entirely radiation experiments that caused everything. (Well, that and his parents were divorced - social factors.)
I did not know there was a mugshot, though. Hmm. If he really was radioactive, couldn't they have gotten a much more surreal shot by leaving him in a darkened room with an exposed photoplate?
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Are you sure this is not just old news being presented as recent news?
I find it hard to believe there have been two boyscouts gathering up smoke detectors and old radium paint.
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Old news: tries to build a breeder reactor in mom's shed; turns backyard into Superfund clean-up site.
New news: boy has grown up; steals smoke detectors, presumably for americium.
Seriously, Troma Films should do a bio-pic of this guy.
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A bio would hopefully lend insight. And entertainment value!
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So far as either nuclear waste or perhaps un-enriched nuclear fuel, the acronym I'm looking for (which, of course, Snake needed explained to him as well) stands for something like missing/unreported fissile fuels. Or something. Essentially missing nuclear materials which left one place, and somehow never reached their destination.
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It's "MUF": Material Unaccounted For.
Thx.
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