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An amusing (if it doesn’t happen to you) story here about folks being treated with radioisotopes being strip searched<\/a> by Geiger counter-wielding transit authority cops in New York. Talk about invasive treatment …<\/p>\n

On the one hand, it’s interesting (and even heartening, I supposed) that there is some sort of checking going on for folks carrying radioactive materials in this context. On the other hand, the Law of Unintended Consequences keeps rearing it’s ugly jack-booted head (to mix my metaphors), as in this case. Things are never quite as simple as they seem they would be sitting around a conference table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An amusing (if it doesn’t happen to you) story here about folks being treated with radioisotopes being strip searched by Geiger counter-wielding transit authority cops in New York. 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