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DETROIT — A man who became the subject of a book called “The Radioactive Boy Scout” after trying to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager has been charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors. Police say it was a possible effort to experiment with radioactive materials.
David Hahn, 31, was being held Friday on a $5,000 bond in the Macomb County Jail after he was arraigned Thursday on felony larceny charges. Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle said Hahn denied the charges.
Investigators say Hahn was arrested Wednesday after a maintenance worker saw him stealing a detector from a ceiling in an apartment complex where he lived. They later found the other detectors in his apartment in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township. Police say that Hahn’s face was covered with open sores, possibly from constant exposure to radioactive materials.
| They say this guy is extremely intelligent but I don’t think so. Apparently he’s not very careful when handling radioactive materials. |
They say this guy is extremely intelligent but I don’t think so.
I would say that he’s intelligent but careless. He’s too eager to get things together that he don’t care for his own safety.
American ingenuity at it’s finest. Need a better poster boy though.
They didn’t have a merit badge in nuclear fusion when I was a scout. I feel cheated.
In need of some psychiatric intervention.
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ha..ha!
RTaylor nailed it… he has some serious mental issues. Anyone with a room-temperature IQ and the most superficial knowledge of things nuclear knows that radioactivity is not their friend.
Tries to build a reactor – and lets himself get radiation burns… Crikey!
He’ll be dead of some horrible form of cancer before he’s 40, whaddaya wanna bet?
The guy is an imbecile.
Well if he keeps this up he be sterile thank God no stupid offspring
Is chemotherapy now a treatment for acne?
Sure those sores on his face aren’t from METH?
http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/sheriff/faces_of_meth.htm
Cheers
He’s probably a smart guy, but with no concern to his own health he needs to see a doctor obviously.
My guess is he was probably working on cold fusion without the proper equipment and lab to work in for personal safety precautions.
SAFETY First …!
Sheds should be outlawed so that people will come out and do things out in the open.
STOP sheds.
All my cats shed.
You can read about Hahn’s misadventures in the 90’s here:
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
#11 My thoughts, exactly.
I have heard stranger tales than nuclear physics to explain away drug symptoms. Hell, I’ve used better ones myself, as a teenager.
His face looks like it was stomped with golf shoes.
In the former Soviet Union, smoke detectors used to contain Plutonium. Maybe he thought American made smoke detectors contained that too?
Ionization detector – This type of detector is cheaper than the optical detector, however it is sometimes rejected for environmental reasons. It can detect particles of smoke that are too small to be visible. It includes a tiny mass of radioactive americium-241, which is a source of alpha radiation.
From Wikipedia.
yup – this guy should be applying for a job at a nuclear power plant outside of this country, obviously he’s skilled *snicker*
very ugly face :