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In article <mastalerCr08As.64s@netcom.com>, mastaler@netcom.com (Jason R. Mastaler) writes:
|> 	I heard this strange story froma friend the other day, and was
|> hoping to hear some other opinions on it.  I am not even sure it it is true,
|> but it was apparently in the paper a while ago.

|> 	Apparently a hospital in Texas had a unit that was used to give
|> radiation treatment to cancer patients.  It was a large metal machine, and
|> the source of the radiation was hundreds of Cobalt-64 pellets.  For whatever
|> reason, the hospital decided to discontinue use of the machine and store it 
|> in the large basement underneeth the complex.  Years went by, and eventually 
|> the hospital was scheduled for demolition.  During that process, the basement 
|> was cleaned out, and whoever was in charge of the project didnt realize what 
|> the machine was, or how dangerous it was.  It was carted off to a junkyard 
|> just over the border in Mexico.  More years went by, and the machine was
|> then sold to a company based out of Chicago for $10 to be used for scrap 
|> metal.  It was loaded up and sent on its way to the windy city.  During the
|> trip, the truck carrying the contaminated machine passed through New Mexico 
|> and managed to show up on radiation sensors from Los Alamos National Labs, 
|> which was 50 miles away. Upon arrival in Chicago, the machine was scrapped 
|> and used to make construction beams, as well as table bottoms for Wendy's 
|> Restaurants.  These table bottoms ended up in Atlanta, because apparently this
|> metal company was Atlanta's sole distributer of such metal products.  At this 
|> time, there are still beleived to be tables in local Wendy's restaurants
|> with dangerously high radiation content.  

|> 	It was finallly discovered that the metal was radioactive when
|> children from that Mexican villlage started to come down with lukemia and 
|> throatdisorders in record numbers.  Researchers found the Cobalt pellets in 
|> the houses of the villagers and under beds of these children.  Tracking the 
|> route of the machine is what led them to the fact about the Atlanta
|> Wendy's.  Again, I am not sure about the validity of this story,
|> but maybe others have heard about it too.  Well, see you at Wendy's!