The Thing That Goes Doink

I read this and I couldn't stop myself from giggling a bit.

Especially when I read this bit:

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening.

*Emphasis mine

I just...I laughed and then read it aloud to my husband, who looked at me and went, "Well, good to know that The Doctor is branching out in his aliases."

First U.S. Drinking Water Samples Show Radiation from Japan, Bosie, Richland, Wa.

....

Okay, first of all, the important thing to realize here is that you'd have to drink something like 7000L of the stuff to reach the amount of environmental radiation we're exposed to every day. You'll die of water poisoning before you feel any effects from the radiation.

Second, they might wanna double check their facts, as Richland is southwest of a nuclear power plant (and north of a chemical weapons depot, but that's not important right now). It certainly wouldn't be the first time we've found radioactive isotopes in the drinking water.

Ah well. My sister, who's a rad chemist out on site says it's nothing to worry about. When she starts panicking, then I'll start panicking.

Yeeeeeeesh. Went from the front page of the newspaper to the evening news. Only one of the local stations (the ABC affiliate, I think), but it's possible that the other stations will end up covering us either tomorrow or Sunday.

@_@

We are officially the biggest thing to happen on Halloween in our town. WTF?!

(On the plus side, I'm really hoping that this means that we'll be getting some really good donations for the local food bank. The more publicity we get (via Facebook, me Tweeting, the local newspaper and being on the local evening news), the better the outcome for donations. Over the years our local food banks have struggled to have enough for needy family in the area so I'm really hoping that this will help them out.)