A quiet little news story involving RADIATION IN THE MAIL

In the Dallas Morning News's adjunct "easy reader" newspaper, Quick, about a month ago, a story appeared.

Origins of Radiation Package a Mystery

Dallas FBI agents were trying to determine yesterday who mailed an envelope emitting an unusually high level of radiation to a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building on Stemmons Freeway. The envelope was postmarked from Turkey, but had an Arizona return mailing address. No one was hurt.

Okay...that's the complete story as it appeared in the newspaper. I never saw anything about it on the news...even locally.

Doesn't that seem like it should have been a bigger story?

I'm guessing that it really wasn't a very big deal since Dallas is still here.

But wouldn't there be an increased cancer risk for the postal employees who handled the letter in question.

Shouldn't there have at least been a mention of something like this on the national news? It amazes me that local news is so much "human interest" that they can't afford to report on real news even when it happens in our own backyard.

It just blows my damned mind.

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