Several decades ago somebody tried to extort money from NYC by threatening to put plutonium or something like that in the water supply. I forget how much money they wanted, but I'm sure it was a lot. The city ignored the threat, and when the deadline passed, they tested water samples from all over the city. Dozens, if not hundreds of samples. All of the samples tested normal except for one neighborhood that had an off the charts level of radiation in the water. So the city officials mixed all the samples together, the radioactive batch along with all the good samples, and measured that, which then only had slightly elevated radiation levels. They declared the threat to be a hoax and assured everybody the water was safe to drink.
Several decades ago somebody tried to extort money from NYC by threatening to put plutonium or something like that in the water supply. I forget how much money they wanted, but I'm sure it was a lot. The city ignored the threat, and when the deadline passed, they tested water samples from all over the city. Dozens, if not hundreds of samples. All of the samples tested normal except for one neighborhood that had an off the charts level of radiation in the water. So the city officials mixed all the samples together, the radioactive batch along with all the good samples, and measured that, which then only had slightly elevated radiation levels. They declared the threat to be a hoax and assured everybody the water was safe to drink.
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