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Article: RANDOM ACT EXPOSES NUCLEAR NUISANCE
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- December 28, 1997
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JEFF PILLETS, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
12-28-1997
RANDOM ACT EXPOSES NUCLEAR NUISANCE -- NON-ELECTRIC EXIT SIGNS GLOW BY RADIOACTIVITY
By JEFF PILLETS, Staff Writer
Date: 12-28-1997, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
On the day before Halloween, a 14-year-old boy at the Arthur
Brisbane Child Treatment Center went into a rage and began tearing up a
recreation room at the Monmouth County psychiatric hospital.
At the height of his rampage, the troubled teenager ripped an
emergency exit sign off the wall, flung it to the floor, and stomped it
into a mass of twisted metal and shards of red plastic.
In a few minutes, the frightening scene was over.
But the ...