The Repo Man Scenario: Stolen car may be leaking radiation on Roslindale/Hyde Park line
By adamg - 6/28/12 - 3:48 pm
Emergency crews are at Collins and Bradlee streets in Hyde Park, where somebody apparently opened up a radioactive package in a stolen car.
UPDATE: The package turned out to be a "nuclear density gauge" used in surveying, not the glowing bodies of aliens. Plus, as you can see in Scott Eisen's photos, the car was not a '64 Chevy Malibu.
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Having been a professional chauffeur for 27 years
I can attest to the fact that the more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
These Repo Man references are
These Repo Man references are making me weep tears of joy. I'd make some crack about J. Frank Parnell or pine tree air fresheners, but I'm just too overcome with emotion.
Amen brother!
I love that movie! Considered painting the junker I was driving when it came out with glow-in-the-dark paint as an homage.
(And btw - God bless Harry Dean Stanton (aka Bud), who I just spotted doing a hilarious cameo in the Avengers movie. Dude fought in WWII and is still making movies!!!)
Ra-di-a-tion!
You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked, goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense!
That's right.
That's right.
Hungry
F this. Let's go eat sushi and not pay.
Radiation?
How much can it really be if it was being transported in an unmarked car? or did the car thief bring his own radiation to this party?
pretty dangerous, actually.
Cesium 137 or Radium is inside.
It works by measuring the amount of transmitted *gamma* radiation between the source probe and detector tubes...through ground or asphalt.
It's possible for an untrained person to directly expose themselves to the radioactive source, and the gauge's source continuously emits radiation (the shielding is not perfect.)
They're dangerous enough that the operating instructions tell you to stand 10+ feet away during measurements.
There are survey instruments which contain radioactive sources that are *very* dangerous. Virtually none of it requires special storage/licensing/transport/etc.
That's intense.
That's intense.
We finally get a superhero.
Perfect setup for creating a new local superhero.
"I can't believe I used to
"I can't believe I used to like these guys"
"Someone piss on the floor again?"
"No beer is needed here!"
And Netflix has just been
And Netflix has just been inundated with requests for "Repo Man" by folks in Boston. Too bad they don't have trending movies by location like Twitter.
Excellent soundtrack too.
"I'm looking for the joke with a microscope."
No one is innocent.
Leila: What if he's innocent?
Agent Rogersz: No one is innocent.