Oh well, I've been shooting blanks for the last five years anyway.

there are alot of deadasses at the 'tort...

There is a lot of dead brained ones too.

and brain dead also.

"Tests of the metal brackets showed their radiation level at about 0.02 millirems per hour. Americans receive about 300 millirems a year from naturally occurring radiation sources. At that level, the brackets would emit the equivalent of a chest X-ray -- about 20 millirems -- every 1,000 hours."

"In the end, none of the 1,000 tainted chairs had yet left warehouses, and Monroe, Mich.-based La-Z-Boy recalled all of them, Bowser said."

BIG news item for sure.

So that's what's wrong with my teeth.

This couldn't be more of a non-story.

Whoa this report has such earth shattering significance I'm not surprised it made the DR front page. Where the hell is the large font headline it deserves rcade?

Whoa this report has such earth shattering significance I'm not surprised it made the DR front page. Where the hell is the large font headline it deserves rcade?

#8 | Posted by Gimme_a_Scotch

He's reserving the space for a Levi Johnston update.

There's a lot of concern about this in general today. Lots of metals get melted down in places with no scruples, regulation or anthing else (coughCHINAcough). Mixing steel with radioactive isotopes, which then get made into stuff that comes back to the US.

No wonder my wallet glows in the dark.

Finally, I have an explanation for my dad.

If you go to major metal recycling centers these days, many have delivery trucks pass through radiation detectors. Maybe it should be done routinely with portable geiger counters.
This happened before when lawn furniture in the 1980's or 90's triggered alarms at Los Alamos when a trucker pulled in to ask directions. It turned out radioactive pellets from discarded medical machines had been used in the furniture manufacture.
No small problem this stuff! I wonder why this story did not receive larger attention.

A mild mannered teevee watcher buys a radioactive La-Z-Boy recliner and after sitting in it continually fer an entire weekend developes special mutant powers?

Kewl!

BIG news item for sure

Intreresting story dfefinitely.

Spud found the story within th estory o be more worthy of note.

The La-Z-Boy case was one of 333 incidents in Indiana in which radioactive metals have turned up in scrap yards, trash dumps and manufactured goods, according to NRC reports analyzed by Scripps Howard News Service. The cases are compiled in the national Nuclear Material Events Database, a little-known library of 18,740 radioactive incidents, the vast majority since 1990.

"Every year we find stuff," Bowser said.

333 indcidence of radioactive metals being discovered in Indiana alone?

18,740 similar incidents over the last twenty years?

Yipes!

Be Well.

/Kinda here and as always entering the Drudge Retort
stage left

"This couldn't be more of a non-story."

Then sit in a Lazy-Boy, Briwo. I will not complain.

"This couldn't be more of a non-story."

Then sit in a Lazy-Boy, Briwo. I will not complain."

#15 | Posted by Diablo at 2009-08-12 03:58 AM | Reply | Flag: Funny

Diablo:

You owe me a monitor cleaning.

Okay, MTW, I will. Bring it to NJ and we can "cold pasturize" it. (i.e. irradiation of foods lest I have to post eight more times to deflect insinuations of my words.)

The levels of radioactivity seem fairly low, and none of the chairs made it to market.

Airbags, though, will kill you. Some of the first airbags had a considerable amount of sodium azide in them as a propellant. Imagine cyanide that can mutate your DNA. LD50 is tens of milligrams per kilogram... there is over a hundred grams in some airbags. When the thing deploys, it's burned, but it makes you wonder whats going to happen to the airbag propellant in all those "clunkers" that are set to be scrapped.

333 indcidence of radioactive metals being discovered in Indiana alone?

18,740 similar incidents over the last twenty years?

More reasons not to go dumpster diving.

I smell a class action.

"Tests of the metal brackets showed their radiation level at about 0.02 millirems per hour. Americans receive about 300 millirems a year from naturally occurring radiation sources.

#5 | Posted by KBM

And the allowable dose for a rad worker is? Last time I looked at the DOE standards it was 5 rem. Lets see, there a 1,000 mr in a rem. That would take a lot of chair time.

That would take a lot of chair time.

The aricle was posted for 101's benefit. When Liberry chairs turn up radioactive, aflac will be the guy hiding under his bed.

My guess is that this is in the news because Lazy-Boy hasn't given the DNC enough gelt, or won't go along with some arm twisting by ACORN, or other such wannabe be neo-communist ilk ...

So that's what's wrong with my teeth.

They're all missing?

There's a lot of concern about this in general today. Lots of metals get melted down in places with no scruples, regulation or anthing else (coughCHINAcough). Mixing steel with radioactive isotopes, which then get made into stuff that comes back to the US.
#10 | Posted by unklegwar at 2009-08-11 11:10 PM

Agreed - every single Chinese cargo container should be examined. Less than 1% are bothered with, and BushCo made sure that US dock workers do NOT get that job.