'Radioactive Boy Scout' Charged in Theft

[Rhino]

'Radioactive Boy Scout' Charged in Smoke Detector Theft
Saturday, August 04, 2007

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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.

A district court clerk on Friday said Hahn did not have an attorney. The Associated Press called the jail in an effort to speak to Hahn, but a sheriff's spokesman said the jail does not give messages to inmates. His preliminary examination was scheduled for Aug. 13.

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....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292111,00.html

[DoctorDoom]

He's gonna need a truckload of detectors to get enought Americium-241 (as americium oxide) to do anything useful with it. Each detector has 0.2 milligram. It would require over a hundred of them to accumulate a mass of Am-241 equal to the weight of an aspririn tablet.

The dude needs serious help.

[Riverboat]

That face looks a lot like the ones warning the public about the dangers of meth. Somebody better check his medicine cabinet.

[DeclinetoState]

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The Associated Press called the jail in an effort to speak to Hahn, but a sheriff's spokesman said the jail does not give messages to inmates.I wouldn't be surprised if the policy about messages was implemented about the time this chap became an inmate. If I were jail staff, I'd find any reason stay the hell away from him.

[dPrasse]

A quick search on the net led me to this ...

One gram of americium oxide provides enough active material for more than 5000 household smoke detectors

He needs to rob a wharehouse or a factory ... 16 will only get him some free room and board at the local pokey ...

[DesertFox]

Either smallpox is making a comeback, or the dude forgot to pop his pimples before shaving.