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[Suikoguy]

I just watched a news story on 60 mins while I was eating at my grandmothers house about Chemical Plants.
Did you know that there are over 60 chemical plants, unguarded (no security seen), unlocked (gates you can just open with no alarms or locks) that a single person could walk into, plant a small explosive and kill or injure millions of people in the vicinity?
Yet, we are more worried about Iraq, which has virtually nothing to do with terrorism?

Unsurprisingly, when someone tried to introduce a bill that would put plan security into government hands, it was shot down quickly.


Why are we so stupid?


Here is a link to the web form of the story.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/13/60minutes/main583528.shtml

 

[SD-Ness]

That was a rerun. They aired that around 8 months ago for the first time, lol.

But, yes, it was a pretty alarming investigation.

 

[Suikoguy]

yeah, I noticed
at the end of the article

"About the only thing that has changed since 60 Minutes first aired this report is that, two weeks ago, Greg Lebedev resigned as president of the American Chemistry Council.

Legislation that would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to set federal security standards at chemical plants has been languishing in the Senate for more than a year. That bill, however, does not give Homeland Security any criminal enforcement powers if a company refuses to comply."

 

[White Man]

Back in good ol' PA, there was a miscellaneous chemical plant outside my small, rural town. It was accessible only by dirt roads and a few mountain paths.

Lots of big, stereotypical big chemical tanks and filthy streams could be spotted there. The most interesting thing? Next to the plant there were the ruins of the plant's original location. Concrete ground, lots of cool inclines: we naturally turned it into a haunt for skateboarding. A bunch of punk ass kids skateboarding next to this intimidating, faceless chemical plant.

I vivisected a frog there once while wasted. The patient stayed alive through a good portion of the procedure, but then I got scalpel happy. I was a horrible adolescent. <sigh> Good times.

Eventually, they used a mountain spring to create a manmade lake, flooding over the ruins. That was when our whole scene strated to fall apart for a variety of reasons. Always wanted to write a story about it.