Drone with radioactive material found on Japanese Prime Minister's office roof

[IDemo]

Source: CNN

Tokyo (CNN)A drone carrying small traces of a radioactive material was found Wednesday morning on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office, police said.

A member of the Prime Minister's staff spotted the four-propeller, 50-centimeter wide drone and alerted authorities, Tokyo Metropolitan Police said.

The drone was equipped with a small camera and a plastic bottle containing small traces of a radioactive material, police said.

The material was cesium, a soft metal, and what was found was harmless to the human body, police said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/22/asia/japan-prime-minister-rooftop-drone/index.html

[Helen Borg]

1. They are tagging things...

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. What does that mean, "tagging things"? pls. n/t

[GoneFishin]

2. If they use this as an excuse to impose some draconian security regulations I am going to be

skeptical about the origin of that drone.

[Larry Engels]

3. The symbolic purpose is obvious.

But I'll explain it anyway. Someone is telling the PM to do something about Fukushima.