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GUTHRIE, Okla.
Guthrie police had quite the surprise when they pulled over a car with an expired tag the car turned out to be stolen, and police said they found a canister of radioactive uranium, a rattlesnake, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey.
According to Guthrie police, an officer was patrolling the area of the 300 block of Viking Drive on June 25, when he noticed a car with an expired tag. The officer pulled over the car and spoke with the driver, later identified as 41-year-old Stephen Jennings.
Police said Jennings drivers license was suspended, and the car he was driving had been reported stolen. He reportedly told officers that he had a firearm in the center console, and there was a timber rattlesnake in an aquarium in the back seat.
Jennings has been charged with a felony count of possession of a stolen vehicle, and misdemeanor counts of transporting an open container of liquor, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended drivers license and failure to carry security verification form. His passenger, Racheal Rivera, is charged with possession of firearm after a former felony conviction.
https://www.koco.com/article/man-caught-driving-stolen-car-filled-with-radioactive-uranium-rattlesnake-whiskey-guthrie-police-say/28366458
Chuuku Davis
(564 posts)That guy
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)Just mumble and recite prayers all day long and be a good boy.
underpants
(182,281 posts)Paaaaarteeee!
melm00se
(4,974 posts)to hit all the check boxes is a Confederate flag.
hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)At the university where I studied, there was a research-center nearby and both cooperated on lots of projects. The research-center was originally, when it was founded way back, about studying radioactive materials and so it retained a department studying radioactive materials even though the overall interest broadened into other fields as well.
There was this employee.
He was a kleptomanic.
He stole small bits of radioactive material. (For research-purposes, radioactive materials are stored sealed in tiny glass tubes.)
He eventually had a nice collection of different materials... which he stored at home... in a cheap high-rise flat... under his bed... in a metal-sheet box.
He eventually got cancer and when the doctors heard where he worked, they checked him for radiation and guess what they found.
A special team entered his flat and they found that the whole apartment was radioactive.
They didn't even bother trying to decontaminate it. They put metal-sheets over the windows and doors and welded everything shut and that's it.
UpInArms
(51,253 posts)David Hahn, also known as the Nuclear Boy Scout or the Radioactive Boy Scout, was an American who came to everyones notice after building a nuclear reactor in his backyard. In 1994, the 17-year-old irradiated his mothers house and the neighborhood with his breeder reactor. A chance encounter with the police brought his experiment into the limelight. Soon, FBI, EPA, and various nuclear agencies got involved followed by a Superfund cleanup of the property. Keep reading to learn more about David Hahn, the 17-year-old who built a backyard nuclear reactor.
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Believing the toolbox to be an atom bomb, the police had the car towed to the police headquarters. There it was discovered that Davids toolbox indeed contained radioactive materials. The Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan was implemented, and many government agencies sprang into action including the FBI and the NRC. Davids backyard laboratory was sealed and a Superfund cleanup took place. The potting shed was dismantled, and its remains were dumped into a facility in the middle of the Great Salt Lake Desert.
More at link
edbermac
(15,919 posts)Thats intense!
underpants
(182,281 posts)Repo Man
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)underpants
(182,281 posts)Your mischievous scheme to make a nuclear powered gun totin liquor snake will have to wait for another day.
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)It would appear that's no real danger.