Showing posts with label Chernobyl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chernobyl. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

New tourist stop in Russia shines

Well, maybe it "glows".
Tourists are flocking to Chernobyl to see the aftermath of nuclear disaster despite lingering levels of dangerous radiation.
Radiation is ~32 times normal and you can't stay long but the draw is in seeing an area and a town locked in stasis since the 1986 disaster occurred.
Tourists explain that visiting the site is no different than visiting Auschwitz or the Colosseum in Rome because of the large number of deaths that happened there.
You can't be too curious or lazy when visiting the site as signs remind you not to touch anything or even sit down.
I'm sure the tourists leave with a certain "glow".

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Ted should hunt in Germany

Ted Nugent got busted for taking an underage buck in California after baiting it.
If he hunted wild boar in Germany he might be able to spot it after dark by the glow.
The pigs in Europe have been multiplying quickly due to warmer weather and increased food, but their eating habits apparently expose them to greater levels of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster.
German hunters have had to burn and dispose of pigs after Geiger counters prove they carry excessive amounts of radioactivity.
The government actually pays hunters who bring boars in for testing if they fail testing.
You can snag 100-200 euros depending on the size of the boar.
It is thought that you can actually profit more from bagging radioactive pigs than by selling the meat of those that pass the tests.