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[camwyn]

Dammit, Sweden, I expect this kind of crazy from American Boy Scouts, not you.

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby...

grumble mumble mutter when is the real world going to stop sounding like Fallout? Huh?

Comments

[aduial-peredhel.livejournal.com]

Get a freakin' physics degree if you're so interested in splitting atoms.

His neighbors cannot be pleased.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Why does that sound like something out of comics also? Darwin Award Man or something.

I'm curious as to how he got the radioactive material in the first place.

[camwyn]

Americium, at least, is relatively easy to obtain. Smoke alarms. They all contain a very small amount of the stuff. You have to buy several hundred to come up with enough to do anything, but....

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Ah yes...I remember Ray doing just that in Bar. = ]

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Maybe he'd just seen "Young Einstein" and was trying to split the beer atom?

[ymfaery]

Maybe an ancestor of his had been a Boy Scout? Or the Swedish version of one.

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

This story has a bit more info: http://www.thelocal.se/35306/

He did, in fact, obtain some of his material from smoke detectors.

[caira.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I read he was trying to do it in his kitchen and I really, really hoped he was thinking a sufficiently sharp steak knife would do the job . . .

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Maybe Fallout should stop sounding like the real world?