let's play "nuclear power station"

peasant

Two six year old kids in germany got some old computer parts, stuck on a sticker with the radioactive symbol and played "Atomkraftwerk" by the side of the road.

At some stage they they went home for a bit and when they came back to continue their play, the whole area was cordoned off, lots of police and fire fighters and they weren't let through any more.

So they went back home and played something else. Meanwhile the police was doing radio broadcasts to warn people not to leave their houses. A passer by had noticed the bits with the sticker on and alarmed the police who went throught the very big programme.

The kids parents heard about the whole thing later on the internet and only then informed the police about the harmlessness of it all.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,632027,00.html

Big Knox

Crazy Germans

Dartz

/me turns down his backyard reactor... just in case the RPSI notice.

Apparently, it's not illegal to do it. And if it is... I'll build one anyway for the lulz. They won't put a person in prison for doing something so goddamned awesome as building a working nuclear reactor in their shed, would they?

peasant

Dartz wrote: »

/me turns down his backyard reactor... just in case the RPSI notice.

Apparently, it's not illegal to do it. And if it is... I'll build one anyway for the lulz. They won't put a person in prison for doing something so goddamned awesome as building a working nuclear reactor in their shed, would they?

sure, go ahead !

If it goes wrong it's only 5000 euro or one year in prison max

http://www.labour.ie/press/listing/12106773802394427.html

mike65

That story peasant links to remains the win.

Wibbs

peasant wrote: »

sure, go ahead !

If it goes wrong it's only 5000 euro or one year in prison max

http://www.labour.ie/press/listing/12106773802394427.html

Oh. My. God. :eek: That is too scary to contemplate. They drew up a bill and it passed the round table talking stage and not one of the utter morons spotted that this part may be a bit, I dunno, daft? Either that or nobody read it as they were too busy burning up their expense accounts. Jesus.

stevenmu

Dartz wrote: »

/me turns down his backyard reactor... just in case the RPSI notice.

Apparently, it's not illegal to do it. And if it is... I'll build one anyway for the lulz. They won't put a person in prison for doing something so goddamned awesome as building a working nuclear reactor in their shed, would they?

You wouldn't be the first person either:
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=340

Riamfada

Yeah but if anyone dies you would be charged with multi accounts of murder and a nuclear bomb might top the odd codger.

Really... omfg like 1 year for blowing up a nuke. That is like fo fckin crzy nd scry!!!1!

Adamcp898

Dartz wrote: »

/me turns down his backyard reactor... just in case the RPSI notice.

Apparently, it's not illegal to do it. And if it is... I'll build one anyway for the lulz. They won't put a person in prison for doing something so goddamned awesome as building a working nuclear reactor in their shed, would they?

Not so much illegal to build one so much as it is EXTREMEMLY illegal to own the yellowcake urnaium needed to run it

rmacm

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Not so much illegal to build one so much as it is EXTREMEMLY illegal to own the yellowcake urnaium needed to run it

You mean Uranium Dioxide......yellow cake is just an intermediate step and not in itself used as a fuel for reactors.

waitinforatrain

You could even say, he over-reacted......
:pac: eh eh? :pac:

komodosp

Love the google translation of that story!

Children's nuclear power play

Almost like Christmas in Hoppenstedt: Two boys have a pile on a Oelde pavement structure - and a large deployment of police and fire triggered. For her game, the six year olds so real-looking nuclear gebastelt that a pedestrian chose the emergency.

Oelde - your blossoming imagination was two boys from Oelde fatal: The six-year-old had police records show that a "nuclear reactor" from a computer chassis and built on its side panel stuck a sign that warns against radioactivity.

The character had previously printed from the Internet. When the Knirps their game for a short stay at home broke, a passer-discovered the supposedly radioactive object on the sidewalk and alerted the fire brigade.

Policemen and firemen then locked the discovery in the district from Stromberg widely. About the local radio, local residents were asked a precaution, the houses not to leave. Radioactive radiation firefighters could not be measured.


It later emerged, had meanwhile the boys to their "nuclear" to return, but were on the fence has been returned. Her parents initially believed to a major exercise of the fire brigade. It was only later they learned on the Internet from the background of the use - and then reported to the police from the game to their sons.

Joycey

Big Knox wrote: »

Crazy Germans

Indeed. Take a look at this genius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1nzEFMjkI4