Radiation Patrol
Mike Smith
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In a land filled with many unique and often threatening denizens including Giant Owls, Bigfoot, Religious Fanatics, Cabbits, Ghosts, Aliens and Grandfathers who punish you for being bad, it would only be natural to become more observant, more aware of your surroundings and the creatures that inhabit your world. And when your own eyes aren’t enough to give you warning you might employ the use of a device that would notify you of trouble and help keep you safe. A device such as a radiation detector…
Radiation Detectors = Fruit, Flowers & Happiness!According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, Border Patrolmen in New Mexico wear “personal protection devices to let them know if something is radioactive.” For Alamogordo Native Bud Hertzner it meant a shocking interview when returning home from a doctor’s visit in El Paso. Hertzner said, “I pulled up in the station at 70, and the guy had a thing on (his) belt like a cell phone. It was blinking.”
He was immediately asked to provide paperwork that he had been to a doctor as well as identification. “Sharon and I looked at each other like, ‘What’s going on here?’” His medical stress test in El Paso had used nuclear medicine. As a result Hertzner was actually just a little bit radioactive and he had set off the Border Patrolman’s radiation detection device. Although his car warranted a glance, after handing over the appropriate documents, Hertzner was waved along. “I’m glad they are searching… just a shocker for me… a first time experience.”
As explained by Regional Border Patrol public information officer Joe Romero officially one of the Border Patrol’s “…goals is to detect or apprehend potential weapons of terror.” But perhaps in this land filled with such mysterious and strange creatures, the devices may unofficially be protecting their officers against the ravages of the unknown.
—Megan Walker
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