Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home.

[:1]Arresting the poor guy for having a hobby?


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Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden when police showed up and arrested him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material.

The 31-year-old Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.

Only later did he realize it might not be legal and sent a question to Sweden's Radiation Authority, which answered by sending the police.




Ok, a pretty dangerous hobby. On the other hand, I think he should get some points for contacting the authorities himself.

Now if he'd found a way to fuse atoms at home, that'd be another story.|||First you have Norwegians shooting people and now you have Swedes building nukes at home?

Them Scandinavians... |||I can't wait for what we Finns will come up with.|||People shouldn't get arrested when they're contacting the authorities to check if what they're doing is legal. They should just get the proper information, maybe someone come over to inspect what you're doing.

If they keep doing it after you told them not to, *then* enforce it.

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People shouldn't get arrested when they're contacting the authorities to check if what they're doing is legal.




'Hello, police? I'm smashing my wife in the head repeatedly with a blunt object, and she says it's illegal. Is that true?'

'Yes, that is true, sonny. Thanks for calling, and the next time we're going to arrest you.'|||rofl... I should try that|||Good point, MV, good point |||It's dangerous, but I think a little slack-cutting may be in order for the way he went about reporting it.|||While it's kinda cool that the guy tried doing this it's probably a good thing he was stopped (I don't think getting arrested was necessarily warranted however). What happened if something went wrong and you had fallout all over the neighborhood. There's (normally) safety procedures and inspectors to insure that the proper amount of safety is in place to prevent bad things from happening.|||In unrelated news, Iran slows down it's nuclear program until further notice, claiming the Swedish "do-it-yourself" kit does seem to have some flaws...