Re: Demonstrator died in protest against transport of nuclear waste

[Russ Johnson <rujohnso@nmsu.edu>]

I would say he be nominated for this year's recipient of the Darwin Award. For

those of you not aware, this is a "tongue-in-cheek" award to the person

(read-survivors) who removed him or herself from the human gene pool, due to

extreme stupidity. I think there is a website for this thing?

-Russ



jjcohen wrote:



> I suppose the news media would consider this incident to be further

> evidence of how dangerous nuclear waste can be.

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>

> To: 'RadSafe Listserver (E-mail)' <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 2:39 PM

> Subject: Demonstrator died in protest against transport of nuclear waste

>

> >

> >

> > Franz Schoenhofer

> > PhD, MR iR

> > Habicherg. 31/7

> > A-1160 Vienna

> > AUSTRIA

> > phone -43-0699-1168-1319

> >

> >

> > RADSAFErs,

> >

> > I send an abstract about the news distributed by a trustworthy Austrian

> > on-line newspaper ("Kurier") on an accident occurred during the

> > demonstrations against a shipment of nuclear waste from France to

> > Germany. Another very similar information has been distributed by a

> > second trustworthy paper (Die Presse).

> >

> >

> > According to informations of police on Sunday (Nov.7) a young man has

> > died during protests against the transport of "Castor" containers with

> > nuclear waste from the Cogema company in Normandy to the intermediate

> > storage site of Gorleben (in Germany). The demonstrator had chained

> > himself to the railway tracks close to Nancy (France). Before the

> > incident a man and a woman had chained themselves to the tracks, the

> > train was delayed for two hours until the police had broken the chains.

> > Altogether about a dozen anti-nuclear demonstrators had been at the

> > site. The train was not able to stop in time and both his legs were cut

> > off by the train. Despite desperate attempts of the accompanying first

> > responders his life could not be saved.

> >

> >

> > ANY COMMENTS????

> >

> > Franz

> >

> >

> >

> >

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