Sometimes reality is more stranger and scary then fiction. I recommend reading everything, not only bolded parts. Hope you enjoy
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SL-1 Accident
The grave of Richard Leroy McKinley:
The grave can be found in Arlington National Cemetery, in section 31, under the plain white headstone pictured here. It looks, on the surface, no different from any other graves around it. However, if you were to dig down, an act made illegal by special order of the Office of the US Adjutant General , you'd come across something strange. Under the first three feet of earth you'd find a concrete slab, one foot thick. Assuming you got through that you'd find metal enclosure that reaches 10 feet into the ground, and then another concrete casing, and finally a metal cascet.
Inside the casket, which is lined in lead sheeting, you'd find a dense wrapping of succesive layers of lead, plasti, and cotton sheeting. If you were to peel all these back you would finally be able to look upon the body of Mr. McKinley. The body you would find would have it's stomach and chest split open and it's organs, along with its left arm and most of its skin removed. Despite the damage, it would appear fresh and unrotted. Because the body is so radioactive that no bacteria or living organisms can survive and decompose him. And as you stood there, examining the body, you would be putting your life in very real danger.
He was a worker at an experimental nuclear plant called ''SL-1''. He died of a massive dose of radiation. But that's not even the interesting part. There was another worker there named Dick Legg who was literally skewered, length wise, in the groin out the neck, with a control rod and pinned to the ceiling.
Some Brasilian guys stole a radiotherapy device in a closed hospital. They opened it and dismanteled it (they wanted to sell it).
They discovered the radiation source, a small capsule emitting a blue glowing light. It was ****ing radiaactive: they instantly fell sick, vomitting, diarrhea, swelling limbs, burns.But they didn't realize it was the item, so they played with it, showed it to their friends, sold it to another guy who tried to cook rice wiht it, they made blue glowing powder...
In a word, they had fun.
After days they realized every person who approached the capsule fell sick. They began to think it was cursed (Idiots) Then someone mentioned the capsule to authorities and specialists found it was the source of everything. Hundreds of person were contaminated, some died.
Let's go over the course of events here:
Two guys steal a radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital. They bring it home in a wheel barrel and start trying to dismantle it. Both immediately start vomitting. THEY KEEPGOING. Their symptoms get worse, eventually leading to a burn on one guy's hand in the shape of the aperture of the machine. THEY KEEP GOING. Eventually they get into the source and scoop some out. THEY THEN TRY TO LIGHT IT ON FIRE. It didn't work so they sold it to a scrapyard; Their shenanigans will cost one guy several fingers and the other his entire arm.
Scrapyard owner notices the fact that the source glows in the dark one night. Immediately brings it into his house because he thinks it has to be either valuable or super natural. He invites all his friends over to see it, one of whom fishes more of the radioactive substance out of the enclosure with a screw driver. This is divided up amongstthe guy and his friends before the enclosure is sold off to another guy. Before it is sold off, more of the dust is scraped out and literally gets smeared all over a 6 year old girl.
The wife of the scrapyard owner is the 1st one to put two and two together that this thing makes everyone near it sick and gets the source from where it has been sold and transports it in a plastic bag ON THE BUS to a hospital, where they figure out what it is.
By the time this is over, the wife and the daughter of the junk yard owner as well as two of his employees, are dead. The junkyard owner himself, despite massive amounts of exposure, survives. He then proceeds to go into a very justified depression and literally drink himself to death.
This is a picture of an object named ''The Elephant's Foot''. It is, perhaps, one of the most dangerous objects in the world. It can be described, without hyperbole as the black heart of the Chernobyl reactor.
During the Chernobyl incident, the reactor melted down, meaning that the nuclear fuel within it actually got so hot via it's own radioactivity that it turned into a thick black lava which ate it's way don through solid concrete and steel, flowing through pipes until eventually coming to rest in a great, slowly cooling mass. That is the elephant foot.
At the time it was first observed, exposure to the elephant's foot was calculated to be fatal within 300 seconds. 30 seconds was enough to give you acute radiation poisoning. Any longer than 2 minutes and your chances of survival dropped below 50%.
The elephant's foot still exists, and what's more it's still hot. And I don't mean just radioactive, I mean so physically hot that it's still eating into the concrete.
(The instantly killing part is a bit reaching, you need to be exposed to it at least 30 secs for that to become a possiblity)
There was another worker there named Dick Legg who was literally skewered, length wise, in the groin out the neck, with a control rod and pinned to the ceiling.
Some Brasilian guys stole a radiotherapy device in a closed hospital. They opened it and dismanteled it (they wanted to sell it).
They discovered the radiation source, a small capsule emitting a blue glowing light. It was ****ing radiaactive: they instantly fell sick, vomitting, diarrhea, swelling limbs, burns.But they didn't realize it was the item, so they played with it, showed it to their friends, sold it to another guy who tried to cook rice wiht it, they made blue glowing powder...
In a word, they had fun.
After days they realized every person who approached the capsule fell sick. They began to think it was cursed (Idiots) Then someone mentioned the capsule to authorities and specialists found it was the source of everything. Hundreds of person were contaminated, some died.
Let's go over the course of events here:
Two guys steal a radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital. They bring it home in a wheel barrel and start trying to dismantle it. Both immediately start vomitting. THEY KEEPGOING. Their symptoms get worse, eventually leading to a burn on one guy's hand in the shape of the aperture of the machine. THEY KEEP GOING. Eventually they get into the source and scoop some out. THEY THEN TRY TO LIGHT IT ON FIRE. It didn't work so they sold it to a scrapyard; Their shenanigans will cost one guy several fingers and the other his entire arm.
Scrapyard owner notices the fact that the source glows in the dark one night. Immediately brings it into his house because he thinks it has to be either valuable or super natural. He invites all his friends over to see it, one of whom fishes more of the radioactive substance out of the enclosure with a screw driver. This is divided up amongstthe guy and his friends before the enclosure is sold off to another guy. Before it is sold off, more of the dust is scraped out and literally gets smeared all over a 6 year old girl.
The wife of the scrapyard owner is the 1st one to put two and two together that this thing makes everyone near it sick and gets the source from where it has been sold and transports it in a plastic bag ON THE BUS to a hospital, where they figure out what it is.
By the time this is over, the wife and the daughter of the junk yard owner as well as two of his employees, are dead. The junkyard owner himself, despite massive amounts of exposure, survives. He then proceeds to go into a very justified depression and literally drink himself to death.
They should make a movie out of this and call it "The Source" or "A Fonte" or something.
Before radioactivity was understood, radium was used in a variety of ways - on watch faces (because it glowed), in kid's toys, in chocolate, toothpaste, even in a jockstrap.
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Originally posted by maiko
I'm sure Greasy knows about Chernobyl, but I can't find much on the Dick Legg account.
These are too old, I don't know tbh. I heard there are documentaries about the accident that mention Dick and the other guy but don't know here you can watch them.
, I've never heard of most of it . Is it just concealed or hard to find ? 
Like, how stupid could they have been?! 
You can read about these Wikipedia, they're real accidents.
I heard there are documentaries about the accident that mention Dick and the other guy but don't know here you can watch them.