For the first WNW of the year, we’ve got some fun articles floating around.
First, an amateur scientist claimed on his blog that he had been experimenting with a man-made radioactive element and had successfully developed a component used in nuclear weapons. When officials came to take away his gear, they found his claims unsubstantiated, and fortunately, his experiments hadn’t exposed his neighbors to any dangerous levels of radiation. In fact, it wasn’t necessarily the project he was working on that got his lab confiscated, but the fact that his parents, with whom the 22-year-old man was living at the time, contacted authorities and asked them to remove the equipment from their property. Classic.
Then there’s this guy, who tried to get through airport security dressed as a priest while carrying several kilos of “holy sand.” Ahem. Cocaine. Yes. Police are still uncertain whether the man is actually a member of the clergy or not, but the packets he had strapped to his body definitely didn’t come from the riverbed of the Jordan.
Lastly…well, you should just read this one.
Teen derails tram after hacking train network
That’s the weird news for this weekend. I wonder what else will happen this year. I’m sure it’ll be a boring one, the way things are going, right?
I see that smile.
That last one–about deraling trains–sounds like a scene out of Live Free of Die Hard. They messed with the transit system too. Amazing in a movie … not so cool in real life.
And what do you do with your son when he’s messed with an entire transportation system? Ground him for a month?