Louisiana Students Mystery Field Trip Skin Burn *Updated

[jus_the_facts]

Run time: 01:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQyBLrbaeQ   Posted on YouTube: February 13, 2011 By YouTube Member: AnotherBrotherMark Views on YouTube: 339   Posted on DU: February 14, 2011 By DU Member: jus_the_facts Views on DU: 1267

 

Around two-dozen high school students come home, in the middle of winter with what looks like... Get this--- a sunburn.
Now, parents and teachers want to know how this happened.
It's a mystery in the community of Hathaway and it has people burning to know the answers.
"We don't know what caused it," parent, Donald Demary said.
"We just kept trying to find answers," Hathaway High Principal Mona Miller said.
On Wednesday, about two dozen Hathaway High School students came back from a field trip with what appears to be a sunburn.
The mystery is, students and teachers don't know what caused it.
"We have no idea," Principal Miller said.
"It's very bizarre." Demary says, "it's something we need to be very concerned about."
"We're grasping at straws." Miller says, "trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together."
The first stop on the field trip was a school conference in Rayne at the Civic Center; but only Hathaway High students have these burn symptoms.
"It looked more like a flash burn." Miller described, "or something someone would experience inside a tanning bed."






:wtf:

Mobile Z-Backscatter X-Ray System?

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3072

American Science and Engineering, Inc., Billerica, Mass., is being awarded a $61,277,418 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ordering quantity of 52 Z-Backscatter X-Ray Systems and associated manuals, spares and field support. The initial delivery order of $38,695,288 is for 32 of the 52 Backscatter Systems available on the contract. Work will be performed in Billerica, Mass., and work is expected to be complete by August 2006. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This contract is a sole source award to American Science and Engineering, Inc., the sole manufacturer of the Z-Backscatter X-Ray System. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-05-D-5168).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray

The "Z Backscatter Van" from AS&E is a mobile backscatter X-ray machine in a van which "from the outside looks like an ordinary delivery van, allowing it to blend in to urban and other landscapes". It is being promoted as a means of examining the contents of vehicles, containers, and dumpsters.<11>

[Lochloosa]

1. Corexit?

:shrug:

[crim son]

2. Do x-rays burn?

Whatever, I'd be very disturbed if I were a parent of one of those kids.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Looks like they were on US 10 to get to Rayne & Crowley & return.

They are near but not on coastal La.
I had to look up the area on Google maps.

Back scatter possible. Did bus driver get exposed?