RADIOACTIVE

Police in Auckland were deeply alarmed to discover that someone had broken into the National Radiation Laboratory and stolen a container of radioactive material that just happened to be lying around. The radioactive material was - and still is - lethal, and at first, police were concerned that the break-in might have been the work of terrorists. They took a different view, however, when they were informed that the radioactive material was being stored in a lead container weighing over 500 pounds. From that moment on they went searching the local scrap yards trying to find someone who had brought in a large quantity of dodgy lead, but to no avail. Eventually, they received a phone call from the mother of a couple of small boys who said that she had found her sons trying to make lead weights for fishing from a large block that had been dumped in her garden at some time in the night.

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