From: Buck & Rami Sharp (bls@inebraska.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 19:34:43 PDT
hope your little smokey dont fall off or you grow any weird extra body parts
maby they hauled stuff around in it that wasnt that big of a deal unless it
got set off like a small bomb? just guessing hope its not still radioactive
is there any other numbers on it that could lead to an explination to what
it was used for??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Beattie" <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 9:31 PM
Subject: [MV] RADIOACTIVE stenciled on S250
> I have a very nice S250. The radios were taken out, but the condition
> inside and out
> is almost like new. In fact, I dought if it ever saw any duty at all. I
> have had it for
> about 4 years now, and although I knew there was some stenciled letters
> on the back,
> they had been sprayed over by DRMO so I never really paid that much
> attention to it.
> I was more interested in setting it up as a camper.
>
> One day a complete stranger walks by and asks what it is, and I tell
> him it's a Radio
> Teletype, and then have to explain what that is. Then he asks me why
> there is this
> stenciled on letters 1 inch high that spells RADIOACTIVE? I snapped
> around and duh,
> there it is hiding under a few splotches of spray paint, but none the
> less quite ledgible.
>
> Any idea what was going on with this unit that they would put that
> on it?
>
> The irony of this whole thing is that Bezerkeley is one of those places
> that has declared
> themselves a nuclear free zone. I never did understand that either,
> since I never met a
> bomb that could read and obey instructions from the ground.
>
> So there is your Friday night puzzle.
>
> Bruce MVPA 23824 (Starting to glow in the dark)
>
>
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