I’ve watched enough movies to know that anybody screwing around with radioactive materials is either some sort of terrorist or they’re trying to get super powers. I’m pegging my man David Hahn (above) as the latter. Hahn became the subject of the book “The Radioactive Boy Scout” after trying to build a nuclear reactor in his shed back in ’94. He says he was trying to produce energy in hopes of earning an Eagle Scout badge.. Of course he was. What happened to knot tying or rubbing two sticks together to make a fire? Smoke detector theft landed David Hahn back in the news.
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.
Hahn learned that a small amount of a radioactive isotope could be found in smoke detectors during his experiments in the 1990s, according to a 1998 article in Harper’s Magazine that later expanded into a book by journalist Ken Silverstein.
David Hahn has to be stopped before he becomes the Victor Conte of the radioactive genetically mutated era. Athletes are always looking to get a leg up on the competition, and with Hahn’s help they’ll be able to get a couple of legs.. or wings. Then we’ll have to go through the whole congressional hearing nonsense when a player will claim that he has never radioactively enhanced his body while his face looks like he’s been making out with a blender. It won’t be all bad news during the X-Era. Having video footage of Bud Selig in a HazMat suit presenting the World Series MVP trophy will make baseball’s deadliest era worth it.
‘Radioactive Boy Scout’ Charged in Smoke Detector Theft. Courtesy of Fox News
Photo: Courtesy of AP
you are hilarious…great writing.