Bomb on board the ferry? Nope, it's just Charlie

Bomb on board the ferry? Nope, it's just Charlie

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It begins during a trip to the cardiologist one afternoon last week. Young, a retired Boeing engineer, was on a treadmill, an IV in his arm injecting him with radioactive isotopes as part of a test to check a stent that had been put in his heart a year earlier.

Jump forward a few hours to Young sitting on the Kingston-Edmonds ferry, surrounded by State Patrol troopers and Coast Guardsmen slowly moving toward his seat.

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Wow.
It doesn't say it in the story, but I know that they were able to follow his radiation trail and pinpoint him in a seat on a crowded ferry.

If we can do this, ther is no way a nuke device should be able to be smuggled into the country. That is, unless "they" allow it to happen. I know the shipments coming into the ports are largely unchecked, but if the technology is this sensitive, couldn't we just post it at the gate that the trucks leave the port through?

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