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This may be of passing interest to anyone that is fascinated by technology.
The other day i was on a coach coming from France through Dover. As we left the ferry and continued around the customs obstacle course we were marshalled aside and penned in. The customs officer came over and informed us that a "radio active substance" had been detected on our coach as we passed the sensor. We had been travelling at say 20mph as we passed more or less everything there was to pass to that point. When an elderly lady on the coach overheard this she got up in a panic and told the officer she had had a radio active fluid injected into her to have a scan made of her heart. This was over a week previous. The officer said regardles of this he would have to follow a set procedure and we were escorted into a room. Someone arrived with a geiger counter and we were all scanned, the old lady being the one that set the geiger counter off as expected.
The officer then told her what she had been given, when and what dose she had had. They duly let us carry one with our journey.
This all surprised me i can say!!
The other day i was on a coach coming from France through Dover. As we left the ferry and continued around the customs obstacle course we were marshalled aside and penned in. The customs officer came over and informed us that a "radio active substance" had been detected on our coach as we passed the sensor. We had been travelling at say 20mph as we passed more or less everything there was to pass to that point. When an elderly lady on the coach overheard this she got up in a panic and told the officer she had had a radio active fluid injected into her to have a scan made of her heart. This was over a week previous. The officer said regardles of this he would have to follow a set procedure and we were escorted into a room. Someone arrived with a geiger counter and we were all scanned, the old lady being the one that set the geiger counter off as expected.
The officer then told her what she had been given, when and what dose she had had. They duly let us carry one with our journey.
This all surprised me i can say!!
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Aparently this is quite common
If you can catch one - and my experience in the local Post Office is that this won't be easy - an average radioactive little old lady will power a portable TV and reading lamp for approximately one cup of horlicks an hour.
Throw in a few beef paste sandwitches (or even better ... tell her it's a bring and buy sale) ... and she'll bring her friends. You'll then have the option of hooking in a full size TV a reading lamp as well as a DAB rdio (radio 4 only)...
If you can catch one - and my experience in the local Post Office is that this won't be easy - an average radioactive little old lady will power a portable TV and reading lamp for approximately one cup of horlicks an hour.
Throw in a few beef paste sandwitches (or even better ... tell her it's a bring and buy sale) ... and she'll bring her friends. You'll then have the option of hooking in a full size TV a reading lamp as well as a DAB rdio (radio 4 only)...
I was almost afraid to go down this path but seeing as you have bought it up lads, we have now contracted said old lady to irradiate rancid chicken livers at our local poultry offal repository.
She has also been contacted by our regional probation service to assist with a forced sterilization of offenders programme, heaven knows how she will get access to the reproductive parts of teenage shoplifters but as we have seen technology has no bounds!
She has also been contacted by our regional probation service to assist with a forced sterilization of offenders programme, heaven knows how she will get access to the reproductive parts of teenage shoplifters but as we have seen technology has no bounds!
It's just dawned on me ... how embarrassed she must have been ... I bet her face was glowing ....
Wide ... I can well believe it's true
I was lucky enough to need a heart scan last year ;-(
and was injected by a lead clad nurse
in that department they do all things radioactive ... and some of the tests involve a strong barium meal ... patients can't leave until they have been to the loo to "dump" as much as they can .... and the loo contents are disposed of using lead lined containers (not just flushed)
Mine was a minor dose ... but even I was told (just out of interest) that I'd be producing mildly radioactive pee for a couple of days - it didn't glow (yes I looked!!) -
I suppose most Russian spies would be trained to notice when they were being peed on by a little old lady ....(lets not go there (shudder!!) - so She'd pose little or no threat to national security
and remember ... human x-ray machines (until very recently) relied on being able to fog photographic film - the airport scanners rely on penetrating luggage .... and NOT fogging film ... they are incredibly sensitive to low dose.
Wide ... I can well believe it's true
I was lucky enough to need a heart scan last year ;-(
and was injected by a lead clad nurse
in that department they do all things radioactive ... and some of the tests involve a strong barium meal ... patients can't leave until they have been to the loo to "dump" as much as they can .... and the loo contents are disposed of using lead lined containers (not just flushed)
Mine was a minor dose ... but even I was told (just out of interest) that I'd be producing mildly radioactive pee for a couple of days - it didn't glow (yes I looked!!) -
I suppose most Russian spies would be trained to notice when they were being peed on by a little old lady ....(lets not go there (shudder!!) - so She'd pose little or no threat to national security
and remember ... human x-ray machines (until very recently) relied on being able to fog photographic film - the airport scanners rely on penetrating luggage .... and NOT fogging film ... they are incredibly sensitive to low dose.
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