[Rockhounds] Radioactive boy scout a la Harpers (was p=holes etc)

[Margaret Malm]

Has anyone checked this tale out on the Urban Legends?

Margaret


Thanks, Pete, for the URLs.

For the rest of us... Read the article.  Right!!!  Not!!!  For  
starters, what's the melting point of barium sulfate?!!! He did not  
do that on the stove top when his mom was out of the house!

Golf Manor, Michigan is not identified by Google maps.

It is informative, though not definitive, to do a search on Ken  
Silverstein in Google.

For this particular article, many scientific details are suspect,  
though I lack the expertise to evaluate them quantitatively.  To me  
this smacks of a clever writer looking for a literary score, which he  
got - I suspect an investigation into his training would reveal  
enough science (or enough friends) to be convincing but not enough to  
be authoritative.  I can well believe that EPA may have come in and  
declared a disaster, but that is a different issue entirely!

By the way, I have two ~5 lb glass bottles of mercury on my desk  
which I use as bookends for my CDs.  But that's not why I wrote this  
note.  In fact, I'll probably get rid of them pretty soon.

And I have some swamp land in New Jersey (elevation 14')  that in a  
few hundred years will be prime beach front property - make an offer.

Pete Richards
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