NYC wants to ban geiger counters and air pollutant monitors

[Throckmorton]

http://www.villagevoice.com/ne...,thompson,78873,2.html

...he and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have asked the City Council to pass a law requiring anyone who wants to own such detectors to get a permit from the police first. And it's not just devices to detect weaponized anthrax that they want the power to control, but those that detect everything from industrial pollutants to asbestos in shoddy apartments. Want to test for pollution in low-income neighborhoods with high rates of childhood asthma? Gotta ask the cops for permission. Why? So you "will not lead to excessive false alarms and unwarranted anxiety," the first draft of the law states.

How are New Yorkers supposed to find dirty bombs now?

http://blog.makezine.com/archi...wning_a_geiger_co.html
That guy has a USB geiger counter. Possibly this?
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/GM/geiger_counter.html

 

[jagec]

WTF, stupidest rule EVER.

 

[novasatori]

god forbid people ask what someone is doing with something before they start freaking out

GG

 

[BigJ]

Bloomberg is an idiot. This is nothing new.

 

[redly]

thanks for the link OP....I remember seeing the site with the USB geiger counter a while back, then lost track of it.

They also have a radon gas detector/recorder for $69.
I live in a high risk county for radon, and have an older house. single tests cost $30+, so this could come in very handy if it's worth a crap.

 

[Nitemare]

Yeah hasn't the rate of cancer and other illnesses near the WTC exploded since 9/11

 

[Squisher]

If thermometers stopped at 75F it would stop people from complaining about the heat in the summer too.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Squisher
If thermometers stopped at 75F it would stop people from complaining about the heat in the summer too.

GREAT IDEA, RUN FOR MAYOR!:thumbsup:

 

[paulney]

A good geiger counter will cost around $300 (can't find a link to the one I wanted to buy at some point). It was a digital, and had everything including a mica window for measuring gamma-radiation.

Russian-made ones, like this are quite good.

This one isn't worth the metal it's made of. When it measures something, it means a nuke went off.

 

[FoBoT]

nice, i gotta buy me one of these

Vaseline Glass Test Source
Need a safe way to test out your geiger counter? Try our vaseline glass bead. Vaseline glass is a type of glass with a small amount of uranium oxide added, which makes it glow under ultraviolet light (also called depression glass). This also makes it slightly radioactive. With the GM-10, we get about 200 CPM with the bead directly in front of the detector window, or about 0.2 mR/hr.

The bead is available for just $9.99, and may be ordered online or you can order by mail We're having a special right now, you can get 5 beads for just $39.99!

This item is safe to handle, and legal to own.