Radiation!
We had a particularly unpleasant crew member once, and on the day he left the boat,he left his luggage on display, to which memebers of the engineering department quickly added large chunks of steel scrap, resulting in a monumental increase in its weight. I happened to be returning from a job whilst this was going on and plopped my waste materials in the bag, amongst which was a faulty fire detector unit. Unknown to me, when X rayed due to there radioactive content (fire/smoke detector units)these create a distinctive bright glow on the display and produce some hysterical x ray operators. Needless to say we were in the US post 911 and this 'security threat' went down like a turd in a swimming pool. What I witnessed still brings me to uncontrolable fits of laughter, I come out of a phone booth to an official telling me the airport is closed, and see this guy being frog marched by 6 SWAT guys in full tack to the security room....made the 6 o clock news and brought all of Miami to a stanstill (sorry)Bet his bum is still sore....
(captainbirdseye, Fri 14 May 2004, 8:49, Reply)