Re[2]: newpaper classified add

["Jim Dunlap" <jim.dunlap@guardian.brooks.af.mil>]

     If the person had refused to remove the sign, by what authority can he 
     be forced to do so?  That is, in what code or regulation is it stated 
     explicitly - not just infered - that posting these under such 
     circumstances is legally prohibited.  I know you are supposed to 
     deface radioactive labels on containers when they no longer contain 
     radioactive material, but we're talking about a house or facility 
     being posted, not a container.  Please be specific.  Thank you.
     
     jim.dunlap@guardian.brooks.af.mil 


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Subject: Re: newpaper classified add
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at guardian
Date:    2/19/99 11:38 AM


 In 1981 while I was working for the PA DEP BRH we received a call from a
newspaper reporter about someone who had posted their hunting cabin and
surrounding property with CAUTION RADIATION AREA signs.  I investigated
and found that the owner's father was a physician at a nearby hospital
who had obtained the sign from the hospital.  They posted after having
had the cabin broken into and vandalized several times.  After the
posting, there were no breakins.  The guy said "It worked, didn't it?"  I
had to agree, but still had to ask him to remove the postings.  His
reasoning:  "There's radioactive material all around here in the ground."
 Unfortunately, the levels weren't high enough to allow a posting. 
 Based on that anecdote, perhaps the owner of the pumpkin may find his
prize returned to his field at some time in the future, unless of course
it was turned into a number of pumpkin pies before the ad became known.

from Bob Scott
Roger Williams Medical Center
Providence, RI
bobscottchp@juno.com

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:37:48 -0600 (CST) Andrew Karam
<akaram@safety.rochester.edu> writes:
>Found in an unidentified newspaper recently (and e-mailed to me).  
>---------------------------------------------
>
>Notice: to person or persons who took the large pumpkin on highway 87 
>near 
>southridge storage. Please return the pumpkin and be checked. Pumpkin 
>may be 
>radioactive. All other plants in vincinity are dead.
>
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