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Three guards suspended for nearly blowing up planet with PSP

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 17th 2009 12:15AM

There's an appropriate time and place for portable gaming. Stuck in a dentist's waiting room? Of course. In the back seat during a lengthy road trip? Go right ahead. Waiting for the movie to start? Acceptable! Working as a security guard stationed in the heart of one of the nation's oldest high-security nuclear weapons plants? No, sir. A thousand times no.

A report from a Knoxville news station turned our eyes to the plight of three security guards who were recently suspended without pay from the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, TN. Their misconduct? They brought gaming devices "with transmitting capability" (the original article specifically mentions the PSP) into the plant's "protected zone," where cell phones aren't even allowed, because THAT'S WHERE THEY MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. We sure hope those brief rounds of Lumines were worth risking nuclear holocaust, you jerks.

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Tags: apocalypse, nuclear, portable, security-guards

Reader Comments (83)

It's all good dude. I know I can be an ass at times. Take it with a grain of salt. 90% of the time I'm just trying to provoke an interesting debate or playing a bit of devils advocate.

And sometimes I'm just an asshole!

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

Thankfully the psp doesn't use blast processing.

Next thing you know we'll be going to war because the enemy has UMDs.

BADABING!!!

...?

I don't understand the confusion.

He doesn't get that UMD is a play on WMD.

Jokes, ahoy!

Good one.

WTF dude?

That was supposed to be a reply to shane86.

I don't know whether to blame Joystiq's reply system or my frenetic mouse clicks.

blow some shit up.hah...
the brain on the ass...

Ok, so this is what happens after midnight. All the crazies come out and comment.
..
Maybe a sign I should go get some sleep.

Or you can just get yourself some popcorn and stick to the screen watching all weirdness coming out.

i love the dust balls the most. i used to love those commercials though.

and this line made me laugh HARD. "You get him pussy!" "I sure will!"

This is one of the reasons why I've lost faith in humanity.

the dustball pursuit force commercial was the best FOR SURE.

as the black eyed peas would say BOOM BOOM POW!!!
that would totally rock the psp... ROFL.
Thinking about nuclear holocaust, I wonder if it would've go off and blown (if possible) it would be the start of judgment day... TERMINATOR style. xDDD :P

I live 18 miles away from Oak RIdge's Y-12 plant. This story is hilarious! Even though there wasn't any actual danger of anything blowing up. :P

There's an easy way to avoid this kind of problem:

*stop manufacturing nukes*

Perhaps you'd like us to defend ourselves from other countries nuclear weapons with rainbows.

Gosh, wouldn't that be swell? I bet you could play your PSP at a rainbow manufacturing plant.

HIPPIE!

Transmissiting capabilities aren't because they could "accidently" blow something up. Nuclear weapons have more security checks than those *rolls eyes*. They're so people can't take photos of materials, production, processes and SEND them outside of the facility.

Chris

transmitting*

Nuclear holocaust? Must have been using the gold PSP.

This is the funniest story I've heard in a while.

Maybe playing their PSP's is more important to them than anythin else. We all know they've got plenty of time for it now.

I think a "Please use the portable power of the PSP responsibly" public service ad campaign could be kind of cute.

Wait a minute, the U.S. is allowed to MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Why? For what?

Contrary to popular opinion, nuclear weapons also have something called an "expiration date". The weapons factory basically produces the next-gen nukes that replace the previous generation's nukes.

I still don't understand why the U.S. can make nuclear bombs, yet no other country can.

Everyone has the right to bear arms.... except you?

Yucatan Crater says hi!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater#Impact_specifics

why were they creating nukes in the first place is it war time, it would have been nice if it exploded, teaching them a lesson about creating deadly weapons

Woah. I live in Oak Ridge. That Y-12 plant isn't too far off from where I am right now, actually.

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