That being said....sometimes my job kicks ass. Like when I get to spend the day at Great American Ballpark watching the ultimate LARP.... A terrorist attack on the Reds featuring: 7 explosions and 1 dirty bomb, 500 "victims", firefighters, military, bomb squads, and the SWAT team. I got an all access pass to the event and took a ton of photos.
The bomb guys who set this off call themselves "Fire Artists" (their words, not mine). They run a fireworks company.
Victims were instructed to act out a designated set of symptoms.
Cinci's Analytical Response Team....Scientists with rubber clothes on. They go in contaminated areas to determine what chemical or biological threats have been released.
Bomb Squad... you know what they do.
Bomb Robot...it does the bomb squad's job.
Mobile Decon shower tents. Quite possibly sponsored by Sbarro. There were 4 of these.
Inside the 1st stage of the decon tent. this guy has been exposed......to shaving cream...thats what was used to ID victims who were exposed to the dirty bomb. He is about to take his clothes off before he hits the shower.
It turns out that shaving cream is a good surrogate substance to use for decon showers. Who knew?
2nd Stage of a decon tent...the shower. The third stage is where people put on clean clothes. You really don't want to see those photos.
Stay vigilant America, lest you to endure the humbling act of stripping your clothes in exchange for 2 free Reds tickets.
Labels: LARP, redlegs, science
posted by Anonymous @ 7:38 PM
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Praise be to you, sir. Thank you so much for this excellent photo essay on the Great Day at Great American.
is there an offical definition for the term 'dirty bomb'? I mean, I get the idea, but I've always wondered how it is really defined.
a dirty bomb is also called a radiological dispersal device (RDD). it is a conventional explosive mixed with a small amount a radioactive materials. when a RDD goes off casulties/physical harm are caused by the explosion itself, not by the radioactive materials. The radiological materials are added to incite psychological harm (mass panic,"terror") among the population at large. In a sense these devices get their name b/c those who use them are "playing dirty" but also b/c a decontamination/cleanup of affected people and areas must take place. The "dirty" area must be cleaned up.
Next.... a lecture on Anthrax Inceration using Thermal Treatment in a Rotary Kiln then sodas.
Brad, I feel safer with you on the job. Excelsior to you, sir!
Were there people assigned to play the terrorists? Was there any material dispersed that might have made you love/hate America more? Did anyone think it was wierd that you were taking pictures of all this shit?
Was all of this a front for Sbarro to sell more pizza and stromboli?
Do you, by chance, have some cool topsecret secure name, like 'cutscientist'?
thanks for the definition...very informative... I want more pictures of non-violent explosions. Can that happen?
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