Lithuanians hunt radioactive $100

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Check your wallet lately?


VILNIUS, Lithuania (Reuters) -- Lithuanian officials warned the country's 3.5 million citizens on Friday to be on the lookout for a missing radioactive U.S. $100 bank note.

Officials in the ex-Soviet state say they do not know how the note became radioactive, but one theory is that it could have come somewhere in Eastern Europe that still has a high level of post-Chernobyl contamination.

It was discovered in September when it set off alarms at an airport checkpoint and was quarantined in a safe room.

But the bank note was reported missing -- probably stolen -- on Tuesday just before it was due to be shipped to a nuclear power plant to be destroyed.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/05/lithuania.radioactive.reut/index.html
Edit: fixed link

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1. I didn't realize paper money could retain significant radioactivity

Especially dangerous levels of it.

Great. Just one MORE thing to worry about!

[Mikimouse]

2. Mr. Crab strikes again!

n/t

[Rush1184]

3. I can see where this is going...

Wait till Aschroft uses this as an excuese to ban paper money... credit cards for all! (And paper trails to keep the governmet happy)

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5. Can't happen...

...until we all get those '666' tatoos on our foreheads.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Gives new meaning to the expression

"hot money."