This episode was sad. The son couldn’t be saved in the end. The episode ends with the father comforting his son and trying to act as if everything will be okay but they both know it won’t be.
Probably one of the saddest episodes in House. The fact that he gave it to his son as a gift, the son proudly carrying it around. The constant exposure ensured his sons death, no way around it, no miracle against radiation poisoning.
It's the only episode I don't rewatch. Dad wanted the best for his son and inadvertently killed him. Left alone because his wife was dead too. I would just open a vein if I were him. 😢
@@caulkwater In very mild cases, perhaps. But by the time you're this sick, nada. You're this sick because the radiation has already severely damaged or killed all the rapidly dividing cells in your body - the lining of your gut, your bone marrow, blood cells, lymphocytes... The massive cell death releases lots of breakdown products which stress your already stressed liver and kidneys even more as your body tries to deal with it. Your organs are damaged, you can't event absorb nutrients and water properly any more.
@@jirden 🤦 Only idiots that have no clue make this about party politics. There are multiple stories from around the world about, so called, orphaned radioactive sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incidents. Orphaned radioactive sources are not only a major health threat, but also a major national security threat.
Not just a geiger counter, but a full spectrum radiation detector. They made plenty of civilian geiger counters that wouldn't pick this thing up. Source I own one from the OCD.
@@declaringpond2276Oh yeah 1000% unfortunately we live in a world where everday people litter, much less the people who have radioactive material to dump more often than not take cheaper and quicker alternatives to what theyre supposed to do. Keeping checks in place to stop that from happening, at least to me, would be better than just trusting they wont do it anymore.
@@Mctrrt1 Doesnt mean its not the main problem. This is an issue that the responsibility does not fall on the individual, it is up to the government to track radioactive waste.
I'd say having pride in your origins doesnt mean you dont know how people will treat you because of them He placed his sons life over his pride and self worth
@@conradlorgar5508ive always thought from a geographical point of view being prideful of where you was born has never made sense to me you can always appreciate the country’s history etc but to be prideful i think is just the beginning to having a superiority complex and in the end racism
@@asdfqwert7712 remembering where you come from means to not lose touch with who you are and the people and Community who raised you. It means not getting too snooty or uppity with your success and to remain grounded and humble.
@@AmazingAutist i agree with that bro i just mean people who exude pride from where they were born a good example is americans (not all) but alot of them truly believe they are the pinnacle of the human race community is a better word that you used but i just meant being prideful of being born in a certain country i think thats the first stepping stone to having a superiority complex and eventually leads into racism
My man Clifton Powell! I used to mow his lawn weekly in Memphis. Veteran actor, but not a Hollywood guy. Always came out to chat and talk about the minutia of life. Great guy, never knew he was on house.
This episode is based on a true event, the Samut Prakan radiation accident. A family owned a scrapyard and a cobalt-60 rod ended up there, and irradiated the hell out of the owners, and 2 workers.
That's nothing compared to the Goiânia accident. Hospital shutdown, scrapper steal equipment parts, one of the machines was for treating cancer, scrapper opens the capsule container the glowing blue powder, sells to scrap yard, owner then invites whole family over to look at it, gives out samples to friends and family.
As a sanitation employee myself, people dump stuff like this all the time. In the last 5 years it’s increased so much that we all have to wear radiation detectors on our belts at all times. It’s usually low levels of alpha and beta radiation but there has been a couple times where the BIG alarm sounds off and that’s when you know to leave the area immediately lol
Does it stress you a lot or a you... I'm not sure how to say that, confidant I guess, that you aren't worried much afterward? I know its not exactly the clearest sentence ever, but I'm blasted on my meds and can't think straight XD
@@Mangaka-ml6xo It’s definitely sketchy but we have radiation detectors all over the place. We typically know as soon as something irradiated comes in so it’s not too stressful.
@@Mangaka-ml6xo I mean it's like anything with an alarm. Working in a restaurant, they've been installing CO2 detectors near the soda machines, just in case, you know? As long as the detectors are working properly, and they warn you, you can get out before something bad happens.
I work at a steel mill. We have Geiger counters sitting at multiple points in our scrap yard to keep us from melting down old radon watches or medical equipment
This happend I think in Mexico - highly radioactive material was accidentally melted, put into rebars and concrete buildings. They had to tear lot of them down when they found out.
@@Darhhaall yeah, steel mills in the US take that kind of stuff very seriously. I've read our procedures and we have an entire chain of command who is trained for any radiation exposure scenario.
@@Supperdude9 Not necesarily, that concentration did not have to be high when it was dilluted in lot of normal metal - guys who installed it probably couldn't notice without sensitive gGeiger counter. Problem is time. What will do nothing when handled once for a few minutes can be extremely dangerous when you sleep close to it every night.
This show is spot on. My employer did this to me. Had to retire early because I got sick. Nobody knew why. Then a test came back and said I had numbers like people at Chernobyl. Talked with a truck driver who said he had been dumping radioactive stuff next to my work station for years. No lawyer will take my case. Go figure!
😂 You wouldn't be able to type this if you had anything even remotely like what you think you're describing. Educate yourself. Many Chernobyl victims practically liquified, very few remained able to do things like, I don't know...pick up a phone, for more than a day or two. The longest lived of them looked like a ghoul, and hardly seemed to have the energy required to sit up while being prosecuted for being incompetent (basically)...AND, that was after receiving intensive treatment which while it may be easier to aqquire here in modernity, did not exactly leave him in a state to speak properly. Forget typing up sympathy pleas in his local newspaper, or some other equivalent.
@@funiman6783Well, except for having to stand next to your client who has radiation numbers like Chernobyl. I mean, the actual case should be easy enough, but...your best defense is a motion for the defense to be able to step away from the court proceedings because of the radiation levels.
Had something similar happen while working at customs. Some person ordered jewelery from a shop in South Africa. When the box arrived we had to check it obviously for Illegal stuff and yada yada. The Box was WARM to the touch and had a really metallic off smell. We had a Geigercounter in the Equipment locker and going near the Package made it go crazy. Turns out they used highly radioactive material from a millitary scrapyard in South Africa to make the jewelery. Luckily we didnt get much of a dose but we had to visit the Doctors for like 2 Months regularly to be sure :P I feel sorry for the Workers down there though... given that just the 3 pieces of Jewelery where that crazy Radioactive iam sure most of the Workers are dead by now :(
All you people talking about the incident in India, but I'll like to put one in Brazil: the Goiania incident happened in the 80s, caused by a lost source from a radiotherapy device that was stolen and then opened at a junk yard. It contained Cesium 137 powder and due to its blue glow was distributed, sprayed on body and clothes and even accidently eaten. It kill 4 people and left hundreds with injuries to this day. Kyle Hill made a really good video about it.
And mexico. And colorado, of all places. A trashy 1930s geiger sells for 30$... and much like a fire extinguisher it should never be needed, but if you do, it feels worth it.
Yeah, i heard about this. The family who had the blue glowing radioactive stuff also had a party and showed it to everyone. So not only the family was exposed to it but also their neighbors and friends...
yeah, you have to work real hard to get a harmful acute dose. also as long as you can still make out individual clicks on a GM counter, your at most 5 steps from safety.
@@tehevilengineer7939 sure, depends on how old you are… My dad took us looking for old Uranium mines in the Dark Forest when we were 10 and 8….I had the Geiger counter and we all got excited when it got to beeping real fast… Now that I got I really wonder what the heck he was thinking, leading our growing bodies into this kind of danger…as a physics/maths teacher! 🚨🚨🚨🚨
One thing people don’t understand about radiation poisoning is that the moment you have a lethal dose is the moment you have died. You may be able to walk and talk for a few days, but on a cellular level you are functionally dead. DNA can’t really replicate because it’s been blown to pieces. You spend your last bit of time on earth exactly as you are. No new blood, no new skin, no new anything. It’s a close second to death by rabies in my list of worst ways to die.
The worst part is this story is based on a true story, a salvage yard in india had an old piece of hospital equipment used for radiotherapy, it had radioactive material inside, and the salvage yard owner opened it and contaminated his family and surrounding people with immense levels of radiation
Half life histories by Kyle Hill's channel covers it pretty well. An entire city was irradiated. Schools, hospitals, homes, everywhere was at levels at least 10x the background
"The better my job, the better my son gets treated." Well, I can't speak for other doctors, but that's certainly not true for House. His rule is: The more interesting the disease, the better your son gets treated.
But House is just one person. The system works differently. I heard, if you ignore all the wackiness of Scrubs, it's one of the best shows when it comes to portraying the daily life of a hospital worker and patients with better jobs had preferential treatment.
orphan sources are a real issue and this has happened and will keep happen if you find a rock or metal thats warm to touch/ snow doesnt settle on top of it: do not touch it, do not aproach it. call for help
@@pbe6965 There was an orphan source in Georgia. It wasn't marked in any way and it was hot to the touch. After the source was taken away they searched for more of them. They found 300.
I was about to say, if the rad detector was going off like that then his keychain ornament would be radiating heat like crazy & they should have realized it was radioactive.
@raizahasmath5580 He's saying because of the way the Geiger counter is going off it should be radiating a bunch of heat. They shouldn't need a Geiger counter to know it's radioactive.
He said they BOYS in the lead pajamas, I think he means for them to remove the source of the radiation because lead serves as a protective barrier to certain types of radiation
This actually happens a lot. Some of the worst radioactive disasters outside power plants have been caused by mishandled radioactive material. Kyle Hill has done several videos of this
This has happend a few times in real life. Some construction equipment and medical equipment uses highly radioactive isotopes. It litterally looks like a little vile of metal. The one story that comes to mind they built a apartment building and somehow one of those viles got lost in the wall. Everyone that moved into the apartment died from super rare blood cancers only caused by exposure to radiation. It took out like 4 or 5 family's before it was finally found in the wall. Super messed up, sometimes real life is crazier then fiction.
Yup, happens all the time with other hazardous materials too - thank god radioactives aren't easy to come by or they'd be in every dump in the US. But stuff like asbestos, biohazards, lead paint, etc get thrown into regular garbage all the time because people (and especially people who own businesses) don't want to pay to properly dispose of it. It's how waterways get contaminated and why some dump land can never be reclaimed.
yes thats the Kramatorsk radiological accident. A capsule was originally part of a radiation level gauge and was lost in the Karansky quarry in the late 1970s. The search for the capsule was unsuccessful and ended after a week. The gravel from the quarry was used in construction, the caesium capsule ended up in the concrete panel of apartment in Ukraine, it took out like 4 people, and 17 more had radiation poisoning.
There are so many orphan sources of radioactive material out in the world. Abandoned medical equipment, muclear tests, cores meant to power tiny stations located in the back end of nowhere that never got where they were meant to or had programs pulled. There's a TH-camr called Kyle Hill who does science stuff, and has a series called Half-Life that covers about a dozen nuclear mishaps in history. It's scary how dang common this stuff can be.
well most nuclear tests assuming you mean fission and fusion bombs any radioactive particle that were released like 80% would have decayed almost instantly or been sent really high into the atmosphere and the such, longest lived all of would have decayed by now, as for medical equipment and cores yea those are serious radiological hazards but the medical equipment usually the hazard is sealed, as for reactors the most radioactive part is the spent fuel and fission products, but I’m glad you didn’t say something about the Chernobyl show or saw some dumb shit about radiation, oh and to add to your thing radiation is in everything, everything is radioactive just the elements you see on the periodic table are the stable isotopes we see most commonly but everything has an unstable isotope which is more radioactive
Yep, this reminded me of the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987. Some men scrapped a machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that has caesium chloride int it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137. The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident. In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS. One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed. Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns. 20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people
Shit like this already have happened in Brazil,some men's found an old radiology equipment that contains cesium that is radioactive, a teacher have said that when he walked into the street of the accident his Geiger counter started making that sound if i remember correctly 15 people have died
@@TWEAKLET Including a 6-year-old girl, who thought the blue-glowing stuff was "pixie dust". She was buried in a lead casket and entombed in concrete. ;_;
@@captainsteroid2454 Yeah, it's pretty sad, but this was a long time ago when the "peasants" didn't have access to the internet like we do today. I've seen enough videos online to know if it's something to stay away from.
Reminds me of an old dump in my town that got sold in the 80s. The new owner was going through it and ended up with skin rashes and became ill. A hazmat team was called in and while nothing radioactive was found, it turned out that the previous owners had been accepting industrial waste like PCBs, dioxins and arsenic, but hadn't kept any records and didn't bother telling the new owner.
I don’t understand why almost every episode they doubt Mr. House even though he is almost always right EDIT: Was informed by a comment that that is his JOB. I haven’t actually watched the main show just these clips so I kinda thought the show just did it for no reason. 2nd edit: Turns out house is actually wrong a couple times before he gets it right again thanks guys for clarifying. Also I have started watching the show and it’s pretty good!
If House was always right he’d never need a team to correct him on the times he’s wrong. There’s an episode where House chooses to amputate a girl’s arm and leg to get rid of an infection, Chase figures out that she’s actually allergic to powerful light so she can keep her limbs and just has to control her exposure to light.
Because that is why House hired them. Foreman’s role is to challenge House’s idea from logical stand point of view, Cameron’s role is to challenge House’s idea from moral stand point of view. Chase’s role is supposed to be in middle of them and mediating ideas. It is a brilliant systrm.
Happened in real life quite a few times. Orphan sources are terrifying. Can come from any number of places, but the one that haunts me was from a condemned hospital. Some kids took it for scrap and sold it. Someone opened it, found glowing dust inside, didn't realise what it was because why would THAT be something a pair of kids would bring you. And everyone has glow in the dark magnets, clocks... The dust was spread around, sold, gifted to people... Ended up poisoning and killing dozens. Including the poor lady who realised what was going on and brought the source to be analysed at a hospital. And a little girl who thought it was fairy dust. They weren't stupid, they weren't to blame, they had no way of knowing it was radioactive. They had busy lives, and one piece of metal when you work in scrap doesn't stick in your mind.
I work at a steel mill where we melt scrap metal. We have several radiation detectors throughout our process and intake processes to catch shit like this
Yep, this reminded me of the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987. Some men scrapped a machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that has caesium chloride int it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137. The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident. In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS. One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed. Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns. 20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people died.
There's a report for an incident in peru where a worker puts a canister of uranium, used in mine prospect equipament in his pocket for a couple of hours. The photos are really gruesome and they had to remove all of his right leg.
Radiation is so scary. If any of you are interested. Something horrible happened in Goiania Brazil in 1987. It's known as the Goiania Accident. It might be what they based this episode on. The power of radiation is astounding and terrifying. Something the size of a marble could kill you horrifically if you held it for more than a day. Slowly and painfully, and there is no cure.
Ive been talking about this indident in many of the comments above. That incident was terrible. People's curiosity and wonder of a pretty substance that glowed blue and shimmered in the sunlight (the radioactive material was caesium chloride, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium, called caesium-137)wound up leading to over 1000 people becoming exposed, 249 suffering from serious exposure that caused various ailments such as vomiting and diarrhea to skin lesions and burns, 20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people died.
Reminds me of a story I heard about a welder who picked one of these up off the ground and stuck it in his back pocket, by the time they’d tracked him down and gotten it back his leg had to be amputated from the hip down due to the amount of radiation it had received
There are lots of stories of salvage yard workers coming across radioactive devices. Some of the worst ones are from improperly disposed radiotherapy machines.
This is why giving your kid a random piece of metal isn't such a great idea. Sure people aren't supposed to dump hazardous materials, but people absolutely do. I used to volunteer for a charity and people would sometimes decide that instead of paying to get their stuff disposed of properly they'd dump it on us. We had to pay to have mercury disposed of a couple of times.
That's why if you're dealing with metal OR porcelain items from unknown sources, perhaps of unknown age, having a Geiger counter is an absolute MUST. That includes all second-hand stores - charities or for-profit. Yard sale items, or antique/used items sold online should also be checked before acceptance or use.
This would be considered an orphan source and one to four dangerous emitters go missing every single day. If you ever find a random piece of metal and it's unusually warm or hot, drop it,run like hell and call the authorities.
I was exploring an abandoned hospital in Detroit with a couple friends. One of them is a cardiologist so when we came across these cylindrical containers in the radiology department he educated us that they may or may not still contain radioactive isotopes and said DO NOT OPEN THOSE. There were also tons of sample packs of psych meds everywhere. Even found some vials of testosterone and tons of medical equipment was left behind too.
There was a similar story that happened in Brazil a few years back. Radioactive pellets used for medical devices were improperly disposed of and a salvager found them and gave them out to his kids to play with because they glowed blue in the dark. The kids took them to school and got a bunch of other kids deathly sick. It’s actually the most deadly radioactive incident in history after Chernobyl.
Well, the material is supposedly licensed to companies and operators who are supposed to manage and dispose of them. Should be able to estimate when it left its service life from the half-life of the material and from that compare it to any gas wells done in that timespan and within a certain distance from the salvage yard. So maybe? Non-zero chance at least.
In the two most infamous cases where this happened in real life they were able to determine where the source came from and how it ended up in the scrapyard.
Here in the U.S., radioactive isotopes are heavily regulated; I'm an industrial radiographer. All of our exposure devices (cameras) have the source serial number on record and must keep a record of it every time we transport it to a job site. Should the radiographer actually do the paperwork correctly (everyone at my office does thankfully), it can be traced from where it last was used.
I do scrap metal on the side and because of stuff like this I have a Geiger counter and check most metals before handling them. You would be surprised how many piles of scrap metal I gotten higher reading than background.
Reminds me of the Goiania incident in 1987 where a bunch of salvagers stole an Xray cylinder containing Caesium-137 and took the glowing powder, causing several radiation sickness deaths
In Brazil.....a lead and stainless steel canister ....that housed cesium....was stolen and breached .....several people were radioactive poisoned.....a little girl played with the glowing blue powder and suffered severely as well as her family....very sad.
This reminds of the story I heard about a couple of hikers who were lost in I believe Siberia or somewhere in Russia and they found these canisters that were giving off heat and melting the snow around them so they took them back to camp and slept near them for warmth. These turned out to be nuclear batteries or something like that and it didn't turn out well edit: this did indeed happen in Russia and the element was strontium-90
A decent enough Geiger counter costs 50-150 bucks. Get one if youre working with scrap metal. People are regarded, and while it's not a regular occurrence, it happens that dangerously radioactive stuff gets illegally dumped even in the first world
Worked doing non destructive testing and x-ray , they paired me with one dude that took short cuts cause he never wanted to stay late and constantly kept exposing himself to radiation from the source to readjust the film, wouldn't understand he wasn't just risking himself but others still didn't care . I quit soon as i found another job
This is my number one argument against widespread use of nuclear power. Not so much orphan sources, but improper waste disposal. Hospitals are already creating tons of low level waste that has to be securely stored.
No orphan sources in history came from nuclear power. They're from nuclear medicine, industrial applications, measuring devices, etc. Nuclear power waste has its own issues, but they're pretty centralized with good oversight and don't shed a few grams of highly radioactive material here and there. Are you suggesting we discontinue medical and industrial applications of radionuclides? Let millions die so that tens could be saved? Or is your logic that we should discontinue nuclear power which doesn't cause orphan sources in a sort of sacrifice to the universe so it would protect us from orphan sources?
Radiation poisoning is a hellish way to die. A poor Japanese scientist got fully irradiated by an exposed reactor and he suffered greatly until he passed.
This is an actual story, over in Russian-Mexico(I don’t remember which country) 3 men bought an mri machine(not really but something close I’m not a doctor just an inquisitive mind) and they brought it back to their families scrapyard for where about a month multiple crews tried to break open the device for it’s valuable materials and like 7 people were exposed to radiation poisoning
Theres a story where an Indian Scrap yard, unknowingly bought a radiation machine after someone illegally sold them, when it was supposed to be scraped properly. They broke the thing into pieces and in the upcoming days, suffered from the Cesium poisoning. Soo radioactive they had to create an exclusion zone and a robot just to grab the thing. They also found the dude who sold them it and charged him. The cesium was also containted in a thick container covered by concrete iirc
Unrealistic. I havent been to any scrap yards that don't some kind of radiation measurements. Handheld is a must, a full radiation detector are not uncommon. And these are scrap yards from 3rd world countries, not America.
Youre smoking crack, right? I mean, there are numerous documented cases of terrible orphan source cases where medical equipment that contained radioactive materials were scrapped. People find the radioactive material and pass it around to people and either get them sick or kill them. Look up the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987. Some men scrapped a machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that has caesium chloride int it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137. The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident. In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS. One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed. Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns. 20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people died. So, in the future, how about you think before you comment?
Have not seen ANY radioactive detector at any scrapyard in my town. And... Chornobyl NPP is in 400 km distance. Some people are really stupid and greedy.
House, MD Good show. A little over the top. Exaggerate medical procedures and likelihood of disease. A lot of seasons. Good overall story. The ending isn't bad.
@@troyhenry6111I’d say as far as dramatization goes for medical shows it’s pretty accurate. Of course it’s ALWAYS fringe cases that would rarely happen irl and not as realistic as code Black but still a great show. My grandma is a NICU nurse and likes watching it and guessing the illness before house lol.
This has happened in Thailand after the demolition of an old hospital, yep, radio active "scrap" made the workers curious about the stainless steel and lead encased object. Three died from exposure.
This happened in real life in thailand An old CT Scan machine was thrown out and a small salvage shop looking to sell the scrap metals busted open the lead box containing super radioactive material that just looked like a lump of metal rolled out and started irradiating everyone in the shop for a couple weeks I think nearly everyone died pretty horribly. A couple of the guys touched the metal and the their cells immediately died and their skin turned black.
Yeah, not only did he lie because he thought a better job ment better care. Hes the whole reason his son is in the hospital. Dad of the year over here.
I knew an older gentleman in SD, who lived west of Hot Springs. He said he had a box of rocks under his bed that glowed at night. Later, he was diagnosed with cancer - we always suspected it was the rocks that got him. They used to mine for radium in that area.
This episode was an emotional rollercoaster. One second the kid looks like he recovered and is eating well then he gets sick again only to be discovered that he got radioactive poisoning 😔
Similar story happened in real life in South America. Medical device (MRI machine I think maybe) got left behind in an old hospital that was shit down. Guys went in and scraped it. Saved some of the “neat looking” radioactive material from it. Took it home and played with the mysterious glowing material. Gave it to some people, including a child. Bunch of people got sick, some of them died. Very sad.
Yep, this reminded me of the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987. Some men scrapped a radiotherapy machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that had caesium chloride in it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137. The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident. In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS. One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed. Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns. 20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people
A Geiger counter going crazy has to be one of the scariest sounds in the world.
Even more inside a hospital.
You would like the Stalker game series then
I wondered why we needed a Geiger counter… then it clicked (I’ll get my coat)
@@istvantoth3775can't wait for stalker 2 in a few months.
@@istvantoth3775and the Chernobyl show, when those three soviets went into the water. Terrifying
This episode was sad. The son couldn’t be saved in the end. The episode ends with the father comforting his son and trying to act as if everything will be okay but they both know it won’t be.
That's very sad
For all the crazy (often hilarious) scenarios this show comes up with, it really knows how to give a decent punch in the gut from time to time 😢
What is the name of the show
@@flamingskull4859 House s2e5
happens alot at hospitals
Probably one of the saddest episodes in House. The fact that he gave it to his son as a gift, the son proudly carrying it around. The constant exposure ensured his sons death, no way around it, no miracle against radiation poisoning.
It's the only episode I don't rewatch. Dad wanted the best for his son and inadvertently killed him. Left alone because his wife was dead too. I would just open a vein if I were him. 😢
Idk I heard Probiotics helped with radiation poison
@@caulkwater And in the 90s they said mangos cured cancer. It's a load of bullshit, don't listen to it.
@@caulkwater In very mild cases, perhaps. But by the time you're this sick, nada. You're this sick because the radiation has already severely damaged or killed all the rapidly dividing cells in your body - the lining of your gut, your bone marrow, blood cells, lymphocytes... The massive cell death releases lots of breakdown products which stress your already stressed liver and kidneys even more as your body tries to deal with it. Your organs are damaged, you can't event absorb nutrients and water properly any more.
@@caulkwaterI sincerely hope this is sarcasm. If it is well done! 😆
I’m a dumpster diver. It’s insane how many companies illegally dump products and chemicals. Yes there’s laws, but no one is enforcing them. 😢
Thank a republican!
@@jirden#myFreedums
if u report, they have legal team to sue u.
@@jirden 🤦 Only idiots that have no clue make this about party politics.
There are multiple stories from around the world about, so called, orphaned radioactive sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incidents.
Orphaned radioactive sources are not only a major health threat, but also a major national security threat.
@@jirdendoesn’t matter the political party. There would be no feasible way to catch people doing it
And this is why you should always have a geiger counter in a scrap yard or a salvage yard it could save your damn life
Not just a geiger counter, but a full spectrum radiation detector. They made plenty of civilian geiger counters that wouldn't pick this thing up. Source I own one from the OCD.
Or you know, not dump radioactive waste in public.
@@declaringpond2276 people do it nonetheless
@@declaringpond2276Oh yeah 1000%
unfortunately we live in a world where everday people litter, much less the people who have radioactive material to dump more often than not take cheaper and quicker alternatives to what theyre supposed to do. Keeping checks in place to stop that from happening, at least to me, would be better than just trusting they wont do it anymore.
@@Mctrrt1 Doesnt mean its not the main problem. This is an issue that the responsibility does not fall on the individual, it is up to the government to track radioactive waste.
You know it's scary af when the geiger counter is peaking out nearly steady tone.
It's really not - the levels of radioactivity to make those counters sound like that are fairly low.
I've been to chernobyl before and the amount of radiation I got dosed to was fairly low but I still got a low sickness from it.
@@GaiusCaligula234Oh shut up. The sound is still scary.
Regardless, it's the same sound of "definitely shouldn't hang out here"
@@PopsiCOLE nope
cut out the best bit
"So he can remember where he comes from."
"And lie about it later."
Oh damn, great writing XD
I'd say having pride in your origins doesnt mean you dont know how people will treat you because of them
He placed his sons life over his pride and self worth
@@conradlorgar5508ive always thought from a geographical point of view being prideful of where you was born has never made sense to me you can always appreciate the country’s history etc but to be prideful i think is just the beginning to having a superiority complex and in the end racism
@@asdfqwert7712 remembering where you come from means to not lose touch with who you are and the people and Community who raised you. It means not getting too snooty or uppity with your success and to remain grounded and humble.
@@AmazingAutist i agree with that bro i just mean people who exude pride from where they were born a good example is americans (not all) but alot of them truly believe they are the pinnacle of the human race community is a better word that you used but i just meant being prideful of being born in a certain country i think thats the first stepping stone to having a superiority complex and eventually leads into racism
My man Clifton Powell! I used to mow his lawn weekly in Memphis. Veteran actor, but not a Hollywood guy. Always came out to chat and talk about the minutia of life. Great guy, never knew he was on house.
That’s awesome ! Been watching him since I was a child and such a great actor .
He’s so grossly underrated as an actor!
It's pinky
This episode is based on a true event, the Samut Prakan radiation accident. A family owned a scrapyard and a cobalt-60 rod ended up there, and irradiated the hell out of the owners, and 2 workers.
Uhh I assume you meant "Irradiated" instead of "Irritated"?
@@anon-2927 whoops, good catch
@@anon-2927 I'd be pretty irritated if someone dumped radioactive material on me, to be fair
That's nothing compared to the Goiânia accident.
Hospital shutdown, scrapper steal equipment parts, one of the machines was for treating cancer, scrapper opens the capsule container the glowing blue powder, sells to scrap yard, owner then invites whole family over to look at it, gives out samples to friends and family.
unfortunately, there were a couple similar incidents
This is why you don’t lie to doctors. Because the very information they need to save your life. Is the very information you’re not giving them
3 people you never lie to, your lawyer, your doctor, your mother.
Who the fuck lies to their doctor lmao
@@mucicafrajer9882 you would be surprised the things people are willing to keep secret even if it affects their own health and safety
@@mucicafrajer9882 you will be surprised what people are willing to keep secret, even if it affects their own health and safety
Irl yes but if people didn't lie in this show, the show wouldn't exist💀💀
"Everybody lies"
As a sanitation employee myself, people dump stuff like this all the time. In the last 5 years it’s increased so much that we all have to wear radiation detectors on our belts at all times. It’s usually low levels of alpha and beta radiation but there has been a couple times where the BIG alarm sounds off and that’s when you know to leave the area immediately lol
Does it stress you a lot or a you... I'm not sure how to say that, confidant I guess, that you aren't worried much afterward?
I know its not exactly the clearest sentence ever, but I'm blasted on my meds and can't think straight XD
@@Mangaka-ml6xo It’s definitely sketchy but we have radiation detectors all over the place. We typically know as soon as something irradiated comes in so it’s not too stressful.
@@NewVegasNoob33 That's good to know! Just work safely and things should go well, at the very least I wish it to you!
@@Mangaka-ml6xo I mean it's like anything with an alarm. Working in a restaurant, they've been installing CO2 detectors near the soda machines, just in case, you know? As long as the detectors are working properly, and they warn you, you can get out before something bad happens.
damn, the house doesn't always win.
For those that don’t know, the actor that played the father in this scene is the same actor that plays Big Smoke in GTA: San Andreas
What!!! That's awesome
All we had to do, was take proper care of the salvage yard, my son!
I work at a steel mill. We have Geiger counters sitting at multiple points in our scrap yard to keep us from melting down old radon watches or medical equipment
This happend I think in Mexico - highly radioactive material was accidentally melted, put into rebars and concrete buildings. They had to tear lot of them down when they found out.
@@Darhhaall yeah, steel mills in the US take that kind of stuff very seriously. I've read our procedures and we have an entire chain of command who is trained for any radiation exposure scenario.
@@Darhhaall radioactive rebars... Taiwan had it too
@@Darhhaall Oh gosh. Man that sounds horrible, especially for the guys who installed that rebar.
@@Supperdude9 Not necesarily, that concentration did not have to be high when it was dilluted in lot of normal metal - guys who installed it probably couldn't notice without sensitive gGeiger counter. Problem is time. What will do nothing when handled once for a few minutes can be extremely dangerous when you sleep close to it every night.
This show is spot on. My employer did this to me. Had to retire early because I got sick. Nobody knew why. Then a test came back and said I had numbers like people at Chernobyl. Talked with a truck driver who said he had been dumping radioactive stuff next to my work station for years. No lawyer will take my case. Go figure!
I’m sorry.
Bro that would be such an easy case tho
😂 You wouldn't be able to type this if you had anything even remotely like what you think you're describing.
Educate yourself. Many Chernobyl victims practically liquified, very few remained able to do things like, I don't know...pick up a phone, for more than a day or two.
The longest lived of them looked like a ghoul, and hardly seemed to have the energy required to sit up while being prosecuted for being incompetent (basically)...AND, that was after receiving intensive treatment which while it may be easier to aqquire here in modernity, did not exactly leave him in a state to speak properly. Forget typing up sympathy pleas in his local newspaper, or some other equivalent.
@@funiman6783Well, except for having to stand next to your client who has radiation numbers like Chernobyl.
I mean, the actual case should be easy enough, but...your best defense is a motion for the defense to be able to step away from the court proceedings because of the radiation levels.
this describes a level 2 or 3 INES event and would involve regulatory intervention.
Had something similar happen while working at customs. Some person ordered jewelery from a shop in South Africa. When the box arrived we had to check it obviously for Illegal stuff and yada yada. The Box was WARM to the touch and had a really metallic off smell. We had a Geigercounter in the Equipment locker and going near the Package made it go crazy. Turns out they used highly radioactive material from a millitary scrapyard in South Africa to make the jewelery. Luckily we didnt get much of a dose but we had to visit the Doctors for like 2 Months regularly to be sure :P
I feel sorry for the Workers down there though... given that just the 3 pieces of Jewelery where that crazy Radioactive iam sure most of the Workers are dead by now :(
All you people talking about the incident in India, but I'll like to put one in Brazil: the Goiania incident happened in the 80s, caused by a lost source from a radiotherapy device that was stolen and then opened at a junk yard. It contained Cesium 137 powder and due to its blue glow was distributed, sprayed on body and clothes and even accidently eaten. It kill 4 people and left hundreds with injuries to this day. Kyle Hill made a really good video about it.
And mexico. And colorado, of all places. A trashy 1930s geiger sells for 30$... and much like a fire extinguisher it should never be needed, but if you do, it feels worth it.
Yeah, i heard about this. The family who had the blue glowing radioactive stuff also had a party and showed it to everyone. So not only the family was exposed to it but also their neighbors and friends...
Every time I hear a Geiger counter it sends shivers down my spine, radiation poisoning is definitely one of the worst ways to go
K-19 Widowmaker is a heck of film
yeah, you have to work real hard to get a harmful acute dose.
also as long as you can still make out individual clicks on a GM counter, your at most 5 steps from safety.
Insert image of SpongeBob scared on the kiddy roller coaster.
@@tehevilengineer7939 sure, depends on how old you are…
My dad took us looking for old Uranium mines in the Dark Forest when we were 10 and 8….I had the Geiger counter and we all got excited when it got to beeping real fast…
Now that I got
I really wonder what the heck he was thinking, leading our growing bodies into this kind of danger…as a physics/maths teacher!
🚨🚨🚨🚨
One thing people don’t understand about radiation poisoning is that the moment you have a lethal dose is the moment you have died. You may be able to walk and talk for a few days, but on a cellular level you are functionally dead. DNA can’t really replicate because it’s been blown to pieces. You spend your last bit of time on earth exactly as you are. No new blood, no new skin, no new anything.
It’s a close second to death by rabies in my list of worst ways to die.
The worst part is this story is based on a true story, a salvage yard in india had an old piece of hospital equipment used for radiotherapy, it had radioactive material inside, and the salvage yard owner opened it and contaminated his family and surrounding people with immense levels of radiation
Brazil*
Yeah, the magic glowing material. It's crazy because he passed it out like candy.
No, it's from Thailand.
Typical India lol. They poop in the streets too
Half life histories by Kyle Hill's channel covers it pretty well. An entire city was irradiated. Schools, hospitals, homes, everywhere was at levels at least 10x the background
"The better my job, the better my son gets treated."
Well, I can't speak for other doctors, but that's certainly not true for House. His rule is: The more interesting the disease, the better your son gets treated.
And since he lied about his job, it cost his son his life.
@@andrew_4747 if I'm correct...it wouldn't have mattered anyway, since he already got enough radiation that he wasn't gonna make it anyway
I mean sadly irl that's usually how that happens
Dr House is also a fictional doctor.
But House is just one person. The system works differently.
I heard, if you ignore all the wackiness of Scrubs, it's one of the best shows when it comes to portraying the daily life of a hospital worker and patients with better jobs had preferential treatment.
"I know how things work" is usually a sign the person don't know how anything works.
orphan sources are a real issue and this has happened and will keep happen
if you find a rock or metal thats warm to touch/ snow doesnt settle on top of it: do not touch it, do not aproach it. call for help
The "drop and run" sign was invented for this very reason, but there are still lots of old unmarked stuff that could end up in landfills.
@@pbe6965 There was an orphan source in Georgia. It wasn't marked in any way and it was hot to the touch. After the source was taken away they searched for more of them. They found 300.
I was about to say, if the rad detector was going off like that then his keychain ornament would be radiating heat like crazy & they should have realized it was radioactive.
@@Crazy_Gamer_OGThey didn't have Geiger counter at the scrapyard. They didn't have the knowledge.
@raizahasmath5580 He's saying because of the way the Geiger counter is going off it should be radiating a bunch of heat. They shouldn't need a Geiger counter to know it's radioactive.
'boy in the lead pajamas' is WILD
*boys he means hazmat to clean up you dunce
These AI comments are WILD.
@@JJH0326they might’ve assumed it was a reference to the boy in the striped pajamas
@@JJH0326 You think it's AI, because you are too stupid to understand the joke.
He said they BOYS in the lead pajamas, I think he means for them to remove the source of the radiation because lead serves as a protective barrier to certain types of radiation
This actually happens a lot. Some of the worst radioactive disasters outside power plants have been caused by mishandled radioactive material. Kyle Hill has done several videos of this
He's my boy!
The channel 'Plainly Difficult' also covers these sorta radioactive incidents among all sorts of other disasters. Like Kyle Hill a great channel!
I worked in a scrap yard. It’s pretty standard routine to check the steel for radiation as it comes in
This has happend a few times in real life. Some construction equipment and medical equipment uses highly radioactive isotopes. It litterally looks like a little vile of metal. The one story that comes to mind they built a apartment building and somehow one of those viles got lost in the wall. Everyone that moved into the apartment died from super rare blood cancers only caused by exposure to radiation. It took out like 4 or 5 family's before it was finally found in the wall. Super messed up, sometimes real life is crazier then fiction.
FYI. Vial = container. Vile = disgusting and evil.
Yup, happens all the time with other hazardous materials too - thank god radioactives aren't easy to come by or they'd be in every dump in the US. But stuff like asbestos, biohazards, lead paint, etc get thrown into regular garbage all the time because people (and especially people who own businesses) don't want to pay to properly dispose of it. It's how waterways get contaminated and why some dump land can never be reclaimed.
yes thats the Kramatorsk radiological accident. A capsule was originally part of a radiation level gauge and was lost in the Karansky quarry in the late 1970s. The search for the capsule was unsuccessful and ended after a week. The gravel from the quarry was used in construction, the caesium capsule ended up in the concrete panel of apartment in Ukraine, it took out like 4 people, and 17 more had radiation poisoning.
*Vial, not vile though.
There are 3 kinds of people you do not lie to, under any circumstances: Medical Professionals, your Lawyers, and your Taxman.
*your lawyers
Taxman lol ?
lol and none of the people in those professions that i have met really deserve respect or trust.
@@notastone4832 the ones that work for you. Not the others.
@@HarpaxA referring to tax preparer not tax man.
There are so many orphan sources of radioactive material out in the world. Abandoned medical equipment, muclear tests, cores meant to power tiny stations located in the back end of nowhere that never got where they were meant to or had programs pulled. There's a TH-camr called Kyle Hill who does science stuff, and has a series called Half-Life that covers about a dozen nuclear mishaps in history. It's scary how dang common this stuff can be.
well most nuclear tests assuming you mean fission and fusion bombs any radioactive particle that were released like 80% would have decayed almost instantly or been sent really high into the atmosphere and the such, longest lived all of would have decayed by now, as for medical equipment and cores yea those are serious radiological hazards but the medical equipment usually the hazard is sealed, as for reactors the most radioactive part is the spent fuel and fission products, but I’m glad you didn’t say something about the Chernobyl show or saw some dumb shit about radiation, oh and to add to your thing radiation is in everything, everything is radioactive just the elements you see on the periodic table are the stable isotopes we see most commonly but everything has an unstable isotope which is more radioactive
Yep, this reminded me of the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987.
Some men scrapped a machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that has caesium chloride int it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137.
The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident.
In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS.
One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed.
Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns.
20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people
"I know the way things work"
Then he should’ve know the dangers of his salvage yard.
i’m just saying if it wasn’t for corporations dumping radioactive material like that him lying wouldn’t have mattered
@@mushypiIt's usually not corporations, but people working for them who decide to cut corners.
@@mushypi"if everyone else in the world was perfect, him not being perfect wouldn't have mattered."
@@godlikemachine645cutting corners gets you promoted. Those people at the top promoted them
Shit like this already have happened in Brazil,some men's found an old radiology equipment that contains cesium that is radioactive, a teacher have said that when he walked into the street of the accident his Geiger counter started making that sound if i remember correctly 15 people have died
if you mean the Goiânia accident 4 people died 249 contaminated
@@TWEAKLET Including a 6-year-old girl, who thought the blue-glowing stuff was "pixie dust". She was buried in a lead casket and entombed in concrete. ;_;
@@captainsteroid2454 Yeah, it's pretty sad, but this was a long time ago when the "peasants" didn't have access to the internet like we do today. I've seen enough videos online to know if it's something to stay away from.
Reminds me of an old dump in my town that got sold in the 80s. The new owner was going through it and ended up with skin rashes and became ill. A hazmat team was called in and while nothing radioactive was found, it turned out that the previous owners had been accepting industrial waste like PCBs, dioxins and arsenic, but hadn't kept any records and didn't bother telling the new owner.
Imagine the pain that father felt from that, this isn't entertainment. This is tragedy.
I don’t understand why almost every episode they doubt Mr. House even though he is almost always right
EDIT: Was informed by a comment that that is his JOB. I haven’t actually watched the main show just these clips so I kinda thought the show just did it for no reason.
2nd edit:
Turns out house is actually wrong a couple times before he gets it right again thanks guys for clarifying. Also I have started watching the show and it’s pretty good!
If House was always right he’d never need a team to correct him on the times he’s wrong. There’s an episode where House chooses to amputate a girl’s arm and leg to get rid of an infection, Chase figures out that she’s actually allergic to powerful light so she can keep her limbs and just has to control her exposure to light.
Ikr...it's almost like it's scripted....like a TV show or something...weird
Because that is why House hired them. Foreman’s role is to challenge House’s idea from logical stand point of view, Cameron’s role is to challenge House’s idea from moral stand point of view. Chase’s role is supposed to be in middle of them and mediating ideas. It is a brilliant systrm.
@@seabard77 ohhhhhhhhhhhh tbh I’ve never watched the show just these clips….Thanks for clarifying bro :3!
Also because he is a huge narcissist with the ego of the size of the solor system nobody likes an insufferable know it all
This episode is one of the saddest episodes of any TV show, breaks my heart.
This one and the infected bra episode.
What are the episodes called?
@@nubreed13what episode is that
@@adibaruch6112 the infection episode is called "house training" the radiation episode is "daddy's boy"
This episode is called "Daddy's boy" episode 5 of season 2
Happened in real life quite a few times. Orphan sources are terrifying. Can come from any number of places, but the one that haunts me was from a condemned hospital. Some kids took it for scrap and sold it. Someone opened it, found glowing dust inside, didn't realise what it was because why would THAT be something a pair of kids would bring you. And everyone has glow in the dark magnets, clocks...
The dust was spread around, sold, gifted to people... Ended up poisoning and killing dozens. Including the poor lady who realised what was going on and brought the source to be analysed at a hospital.
And a little girl who thought it was fairy dust.
They weren't stupid, they weren't to blame, they had no way of knowing it was radioactive. They had busy lives, and one piece of metal when you work in scrap doesn't stick in your mind.
I work at a steel mill where we melt scrap metal. We have several radiation detectors throughout our process and intake processes to catch shit like this
Saddest part is that this actually happens for real.
Yep, this reminded me of the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987.
Some men scrapped a machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that has caesium chloride int it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137.
The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident.
In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS.
One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed.
Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns.
20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people died.
Radiation in general is horrifying
The sad part of this is that this sort of thing has happened more than once in real life. One time a whole city block of people were exposed.
Comrade found an artefact and now his son is lost to the zone 💀
There's a report for an incident in peru where a worker puts a canister of uranium, used in mine prospect equipament in his pocket for a couple of hours. The photos are really gruesome and they had to remove all of his right leg.
Radiation is one of those things you can’t just reverse
This episode is one of the saddest, the kid does not survive.
Radiation is so scary. If any of you are interested. Something horrible happened in Goiania Brazil in 1987. It's known as the Goiania Accident. It might be what they based this episode on. The power of radiation is astounding and terrifying. Something the size of a marble could kill you horrifically if you held it for more than a day. Slowly and painfully, and there is no cure.
Ive been talking about this indident in many of the comments above.
That incident was terrible.
People's curiosity and wonder of a pretty substance that glowed blue and shimmered in the sunlight (the radioactive material was caesium chloride, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium, called caesium-137)wound up leading to over 1000 people becoming exposed, 249 suffering from serious exposure that caused various ailments such as vomiting and diarrhea to skin lesions and burns, 20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people died.
How else am I going to get superpowers....
Reminds me of a story I heard about a welder who picked one of these up off the ground and stuck it in his back pocket, by the time they’d tracked him down and gotten it back his leg had to be amputated from the hip down due to the amount of radiation it had received
There are lots of stories of salvage yard workers coming across radioactive devices. Some of the worst ones are from improperly disposed radiotherapy machines.
Based on a real incident that happened in Mexico with an old MRI machine. It poisoned thousands and cost a small fortune to clean up.
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) does not use radiation for imaging. It's just a big magnet basically.
My favorite house episode. The guy who plays the father did an amazing job.
What's the episode?
"So what I lied, I'm Pinky nukka" 😂
I wish doctors were like him in real life
This is why giving your kid a random piece of metal isn't such a great idea. Sure people aren't supposed to dump hazardous materials, but people absolutely do.
I used to volunteer for a charity and people would sometimes decide that instead of paying to get their stuff disposed of properly they'd dump it on us. We had to pay to have mercury disposed of a couple of times.
That's why if you're dealing with metal OR porcelain items from unknown sources, perhaps of unknown age, having a Geiger counter is an absolute MUST. That includes all second-hand stores - charities or for-profit. Yard sale items, or antique/used items sold online should also be checked before acceptance or use.
This would be considered an orphan source and one to four dangerous emitters go missing every single day.
If you ever find a random piece of metal and it's unusually warm or hot, drop it,run like hell and call the authorities.
Run like your life depends on it (it does)
I never forget this one, kid has no hope, radiactive damage = no fix
radioactive damage can heal ......... but he wore a highly radioaktive piece around for days
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and the doc had no clue
I was exploring an abandoned hospital in Detroit with a couple friends. One of them is a cardiologist so when we came across these cylindrical containers in the radiology department he educated us that they may or may not still contain radioactive isotopes and said DO NOT OPEN THOSE. There were also tons of sample packs of psych meds everywhere. Even found some vials of testosterone and tons of medical equipment was left behind too.
There was a similar story that happened in Brazil a few years back. Radioactive pellets used for medical devices were improperly disposed of and a salvager found them and gave them out to his kids to play with because they glowed blue in the dark. The kids took them to school and got a bunch of other kids deathly sick.
It’s actually the most deadly radioactive incident in history after Chernobyl.
The incident in this episode was inspired by was the one in Brazil in 1987, though a different orphan source incident happened in Brazil in June 2023
I wonder in this situation would you be able to trace where the radioactive piece came from?🤔
Well, the material is supposedly licensed to companies and operators who are supposed to manage and dispose of them. Should be able to estimate when it left its service life from the half-life of the material and from that compare it to any gas wells done in that timespan and within a certain distance from the salvage yard. So maybe? Non-zero chance at least.
@@BrendednShould be a serialized piece for tracking purposes.
In the two most infamous cases where this happened in real life they were able to determine where the source came from and how it ended up in the scrapyard.
Here in the U.S., radioactive isotopes are heavily regulated; I'm an industrial radiographer. All of our exposure devices (cameras) have the source serial number on record and must keep a record of it every time we transport it to a job site. Should the radiographer actually do the paperwork correctly (everyone at my office does thankfully), it can be traced from where it last was used.
Carter's cousin 😂😂😂😂😂
No sound better mimics the steady approach of death than a solid tone from a geiger counter.
I do scrap metal on the side and because of stuff like this I have a Geiger counter and check most metals before handling them. You would be surprised how many piles of scrap metal I gotten higher reading than background.
If only doctors cared this much
Welp, that's definitely an orphan source. Been many of accidents revolving around similar incidents.
Reminds me of the Goiania incident in 1987 where a bunch of salvagers stole an Xray cylinder containing Caesium-137 and took the glowing powder, causing several radiation sickness deaths
In Brazil.....a lead and stainless steel canister ....that housed cesium....was stolen and breached .....several people were radioactive poisoned.....a little girl played with the glowing blue powder and suffered severely as well as her family....very sad.
This reminds of the story I heard about a couple of hikers who were lost in I believe Siberia or somewhere in Russia and they found these canisters that were giving off heat and melting the snow around them so they took them back to camp and slept near them for warmth. These turned out to be nuclear batteries or something like that and it didn't turn out well
edit: this did indeed happen in Russia and the element was strontium-90
A decent enough Geiger counter costs 50-150 bucks. Get one if youre working with scrap metal.
People are regarded, and while it's not a regular occurrence, it happens that dangerously radioactive stuff gets illegally dumped even in the first world
This is a real issue too, and the fact its based off a true story is really depressing
The irony about the gift he gave him to "always remember where he came from" left him traumatized enough so surely he'll never forget it.
That black guys character can be summed up by “you’re right 95% of the time but there is zero chance you’re right”
He just likes to argue with House
House usually has 2-3 incorrect diagnoses per episode, so he’s really running with only a 25-30% accuracy rate.
"Don`t open it it`s radioactive."
proceeds to open it in the mittle of the hallway.
He opened it in radiology which should have lead shielding in its walls to contain radiation.
@@Excalibur1201 Why did he say "Don't open it" then? Or did i miss a cut?
@@Gaara-oy5kv Yes, he said "get it to radiology", then it cut to "don't open it", then it cut to the radiology room where he opened it.
Man idk what’s more sad this episode or the fact that something like this happened irl in Thailand
Worked doing non destructive testing and x-ray , they paired me with one dude that took short cuts cause he never wanted to stay late and constantly kept exposing himself to radiation from the source to readjust the film, wouldn't understand he wasn't just risking himself but others still didn't care . I quit soon as i found another job
is it just me or is the actor who plays the father a better actor than the rest of the cast?
Clifton Powell. He's really good.
As someone who was exposed to radiation. The feeling sucks
Hopefully you got better and don't have lasting effects
you get exposed to radiation every single day.
This is my number one argument against widespread use of nuclear power. Not so much orphan sources, but improper waste disposal. Hospitals are already creating tons of low level waste that has to be securely stored.
No orphan sources in history came from nuclear power. They're from nuclear medicine, industrial applications, measuring devices, etc. Nuclear power waste has its own issues, but they're pretty centralized with good oversight and don't shed a few grams of highly radioactive material here and there.
Are you suggesting we discontinue medical and industrial applications of radionuclides? Let millions die so that tens could be saved? Or is your logic that we should discontinue nuclear power which doesn't cause orphan sources in a sort of sacrifice to the universe so it would protect us from orphan sources?
Radiation poisoning is a hellish way to die. A poor Japanese scientist got fully irradiated by an exposed reactor and he suffered greatly until he passed.
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This is an actual story, over in Russian-Mexico(I don’t remember which country) 3 men bought an mri machine(not really but something close I’m not a doctor just an inquisitive mind) and they brought it back to their families scrapyard for where about a month multiple crews tried to break open the device for it’s valuable materials and like 7 people were exposed to radiation poisoning
The son died. Radiation poisoning is one of the most brutal ways someone can die. Brutal stuff
Theres a story where an Indian Scrap yard, unknowingly bought a radiation machine after someone illegally sold them, when it was supposed to be scraped properly. They broke the thing into pieces and in the upcoming days, suffered from the Cesium poisoning. Soo radioactive they had to create an exclusion zone and a robot just to grab the thing. They also found the dude who sold them it and charged him. The cesium was also containted in a thick container covered by concrete iirc
Unrealistic. I havent been to any scrap yards that don't some kind of radiation measurements. Handheld is a must, a full radiation detector are not uncommon. And these are scrap yards from 3rd world countries, not America.
Youre smoking crack, right? I mean, there are numerous documented cases of terrible orphan source cases where medical equipment that contained radioactive materials were scrapped. People find the radioactive material and pass it around to people and either get them sick or kill them.
Look up the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987. Some men scrapped a machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that has caesium chloride int it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137.
The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident.
In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS.
One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed.
Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns.
20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people died.
So, in the future, how about you think before you comment?
Have not seen ANY radioactive detector at any scrapyard in my town. And... Chornobyl NPP is in 400 km distance.
Some people are really stupid and greedy.
It… happens all the time? This is inspired by several real life events.
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Good show. A little over the top. Exaggerate medical procedures and likelihood of disease.
A lot of seasons. Good overall story. The ending isn't bad.
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Seriously, who doesn't know House?
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@@troyhenry6111I’d say as far as dramatization goes for medical shows it’s pretty accurate. Of course it’s ALWAYS fringe cases that would rarely happen irl and not as realistic as code Black but still a great show. My grandma is a NICU nurse and likes watching it and guessing the illness before house lol.
This has happened in Thailand after the demolition of an old hospital, yep, radio active "scrap" made the workers curious about the stainless steel and lead encased object. Three died from exposure.
Yeah, the Gehenna Greys are probably the hardest puzzles in all of TTP1, aside maybe from the Storm Chase.
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It's from the House MD tv show, season 2 episode 5.
I'll unrecommended every channel I come across that uses this brainless overused song In the background. So damm annoying.
It's a song on a list that is royalty free so the video doesn't get taken down.
That's how you spend your time? Sad.
You do that buddy. You do that.
This isn’t an airport, you don’t have to announce your departure
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Look up Fiesta ware plates also they used to make clock with Uranium paint to make the numbers glow in the dark.
This episode really got me. I felt so sorry for that dad
That is how alot of radioactive disasters happen - especially in asia where they aren't many regulations
This happened in real life in thailand An old CT Scan machine was thrown out and a small salvage shop looking to sell the scrap metals busted open the lead box containing super radioactive material that just looked like a lump of metal rolled out and started irradiating everyone in the shop for a couple weeks I think nearly everyone died pretty horribly. A couple of the guys touched the metal and the their cells immediately died and their skin turned black.
Yup and that's why it has pictures now that make it clear to get away.
It did say "drop and run" in English but nobody could read it.
Yeah, not only did he lie because he thought a better job ment better care.
Hes the whole reason his son is in the hospital.
Dad of the year over here.
Never lie to your lawyer. Never lie to the IRS. Never lie to your doctor.
Your dedication and hard work are paying off.
“You lied!”
Dad: “whatchu talkin bout NUCCA!!”
This was the saddest episode 😢
People would be absolutely horrified if they knew the extent of illegal dumping of hazardous materials in and around their hometowns.
I knew an older gentleman in SD, who lived west of Hot Springs. He said he had a box of rocks under his bed that glowed at night. Later, he was diagnosed with cancer - we always suspected it was the rocks that got him. They used to mine for radium in that area.
I love how he tells them both to leave. Chase leaves immediately. Foreman stands there to argue with House that he's wrong.
This episode was an emotional rollercoaster. One second the kid looks like he recovered and is eating well then he gets sick again only to be discovered that he got radioactive poisoning 😔
"call the boys in the lead pajamas." Is fire
Similar story happened in real life in South America. Medical device (MRI machine I think maybe) got left behind in an old hospital that was shit down. Guys went in and scraped it. Saved some of the “neat looking” radioactive material from it. Took it home and played with the mysterious glowing material. Gave it to some people, including a child. Bunch of people got sick, some of them died. Very sad.
Yep, this reminded me of the Goiania Accident. Brazil, 1987.
Some men scrapped a radiotherapy machine that had been used in a cancer treatment center that had been abandoned. A guy tore it open and found a cannister that had caesium chloride in it, which is made from a highly radioactive isotope of caesium called caesium-137.
The caesium chloride was emitting a faint, blue glow. It quickly broke down into a powder and people literally took the powder and sprinkled it all over sht. From clothes, to beds, to their own bodies, etc. One guy took it and drew a cross on his chest. Once little girl sprinkled it on her arms and hands, then ate with it still on there. That little 6yo girl began throwing up only 10min later, and she would be one of the people who would lose their lives from this accident.
In the end, it wasn't until 10 days after the initial exposure before someone took some of the powder to a doctor in the city because she knew that the issues with people was being caused by the powder. Other doctors had blamed the skin lesions, burns, and sickness on flesh-eating jungle diseases and other BS.
One doctor finally realized what it was, and by that time over 1000 people had been exposed.
Over 1000 people had suffered doses that were equivalent to 1 year worth of background radiation. 249 people had suffered from serious exposure, which caused various ailments from vomiting and diarrhea, to skin lesions and burns.
20 people suffered from acute radiation poisoning, and 4 people