Radioactive Boar in Germany

[Koeryn]

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/radioactive-boars-on-the-_n_687379.html

So long story short, it goes like this:

Dude goes hunting, bags himself a nice big boar. Before getting it home, it's checked with a Geiger counter and deemed too irradiated to be safe to eat.

This apparently happens a LOT thanks to Chernobyl.

Just thought I'd share. I thought it was pretty interesting, especially since I just recently started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: SoC (which is AWESOME).

So... I guess what are your thoughts? Can't really think of any other discussion value, I'm not as awake as I ought to be.

 

[SnipErlite]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

 

[Polaris19]

He's just training for the future of Fallout...lol.

 

[LWS666]

why did he check it with a geiger counter?

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

He's lucky it wasn't a pseudogiant.

 

[Spudz0r]

Now why does this remind me of Duke 3D?

 

[Scobie]

DELETED

 

[SilentBobsThoughts]

Boarzilla!

 

[Guest_Star]

why did he check it with a geiger counter?

Some places where the fallout was pretty bad, they still check out certain foodstuff with Geiger Counters.
Wild boars eat a lot of mushroom, and since mushrooms can live pretty long, have deep roots and so on, they can still be radioactive.

*edit* Just noticed it even says so in the article.

 

[Verlander]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

This. Gonna get the 60's flower children up in arms all over again. Although they may need to use their zimmerframes

 

[Arikarin Aririkamei]

Another reason why people will be against nuclear power, but this made me giggle, especially as I have recently started playing Stalker: SoC.

 

[Koeryn]

Well, it made me burst out laughing. That's awesome. Thank you. And Call of Pripyat is even better than SoC. Don't get Clear Sky.

I will avoid Clear Sky. -salutes-

 

[Guest_Star]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

This. Gonna get the 60's flower children up in arms all over again. Although they may need to use their zimmerframes

There are loads more ppl than the hippies that are sceptical to nuclear power plants. Especially since recent controls in the EU have shown that the emergency prosedures for dealing with accidents at the plants are severely lacking.

 

[Yagharek]

No awesome mutations? Damn, got my hopes up. Probably as a result of how these things are shown in the media. Still, compared to what I expected this is relatively...boaring.

 

[Verlander]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

This. Gonna get the 60's flower children up in arms all over again. Although they may need to use their zimmerframes

There are loads more ppl than the hippies that are sceptical to nuclear power plants. Especially since recent controls in the EU have shown that the emergency prosedures for dealing with accidents at the plants are severely lacking.

Having been round Sellafield, I'd say we are doing all right. The UK needs another plant, and it will be run by UK guidelines. My best friend is an enviromental scientist and is mega supportive of nuclear power as the only reasonable energy source of the future, so his approval seals it for me.

 

[Sebenko]

Just thought I'd share. I thought it was pretty interesting, especially since I just recently started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: SoC (which is AWESOME).

So... I guess what are your thoughts? Can't really think of any other discussion value, I'm not as awake as I ought to be.

Damn you for mentioning stalker, I was going to post a picture of one of the mutant boar from the game and claim it was an official picture of the beast.

 

[The Paradigm]

If he let the boar bite him, he might become Boar-Man! Except i can't think of one thing about a boar that a person would want. Except maybe tusks...

 

[Soviet Steve]

There are loads more ppl than the hippies that are sceptical to nuclear power plants. Especially since recent controls in the EU have shown that the emergency prosedures for dealing with accidents at the plants are severely lacking.

Which is unsurprising given that any advances in nuclear power since the 70ies go unimplemented because of hippies whineing and the people who take them for experts.

 

[DazBurger]

ITS BOARZILLA!

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Just another story that'll put people off supporting nuclear power now and in the future.

Kinda cool though....radioactive boar. He could fight crime!

Yeah, but... can you imagine being bit by a radioactive boar?

I mean, radioactive spider, we've all seen the films (which are, of course, based on real life). Dude gets bit by a radioactive spider*, gains the power of perfect vision, jumping really high, and shooting massive globules of web fluid from his abdomen... erm... sorry... wrists.

But what the hell does a boar do? It runs fairly quickly on all fours, it has big tusks, and it makes low grunting noises whenever it's aroused. Imagine Peter Parker waking up with THOSE powers!

(*Yes, I know it was technically a genetically modified spider, not a radioactive one, in the films. But come on! The whole "genetically modified" thing just stretches plausibility way too much IMO.)