1 working day without a nuclear security breach
I don't know if you saw this story yesterday, and I haven't done any followup, but the short version is two men drove into a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania to pick up tools, set off a security alarm, were questioned then released, only to be stopped by the state police with $500,000 small bills.
Where the money came from, whether they knew about it, is unimportant. Effectively these guys smuggled a large dufflebag full of cash past the security of a nuclear plant going both in and out. It could've been anything.
UPDATE: dqueue posted a link to this, which highlights many more variations in the story, and also points out the possibility that the $500K in small bills could have been a bribe or nuclear "buy money." No proof for the latter, but an intriguing possibility I left out. Thanks, dqueue.
Where the money came from, whether they knew about it, is unimportant. Effectively these guys smuggled a large dufflebag full of cash past the security of a nuclear plant going both in and out. It could've been anything.
UPDATE: dqueue posted a link to this, which highlights many more variations in the story, and also points out the possibility that the $500K in small bills could have been a bribe or nuclear "buy money." No proof for the latter, but an intriguing possibility I left out. Thanks, dqueue.
posted by mikevotes at
4:47 PM
4 Comments:
I suggest taking a look at Jeff Wells, a compelling Canadian blogger. He also links into a sizable thread on DailyKos.
Good stuff...
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Anonymous, at 10:42 PM
How do you know they had it going in?
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Praguetwin, at 2:42 AM
What gets me is that they were stopped, searched and discovered by police. during my 10 or so years of driving all over the USA I have only been stopped two or three times and never searched. However, let me add that that is a good thing not something I want to change. It's just a bit suspicious that the police often know exactly who to stop and who to search.
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Justin, at 4:37 AM
Good point Praguetwin. I didn't mean to imply that, just sloppy writing on my part.
Justin, they were stopped because plant security called the cops after letting them go.
And, thanks, Dqueue, that's a really good link. That's more than I've got. I'll put it up as an update.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:22 AM
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