Saturday I attended the NASCAR Sprint cup race at the Bristol Motor Speedway and my wife was thrilled, her driver (Kyle Busch) won the race.
Heading to the track Saturday afternoon with my wife, her brother and his son, I noticed a TN Highway Patrol vehicle on the right hand shoulder. Traffic was bumper to bumper, but after we passed them, they proceeded to pull up beside us. This happened a couple of more times till they ordered us off the road in front of them. At this point, we didn't know what was up, possibly a random DUI checkpoint? The officer approached my window and asked if anyone in the vehicle had recently had a medical procedure. At this point we are all confused, wondering what was going on. My brother-in -law Scott had just been released from the hospital the day before and he said he had. By this time a guy with a small hand held detector came up to Scott's window and asked him what he had been in the hospital for. Scott told him he had a stress test, at this point the guy goes that explains it. Explains what we are wondering and what's with the machine in his hand. The machine had picked up the radiation in the dye they shot into Scott prior to his stress test. Homeland Security was on the lookout for anyone trying to smuggle any kind of radiation into the track. The machine even told us what they used in the dye...WOW!!!
Let me say this, I'm thankful that they are looking out for anyone trying to smuggle radiation into the track and I'm thankful my brother-in-law isn't a terrorist, although I already knew that!!! We were also stopped once more at the track by officers and we enjoyed a good laugh after explaining to them our earlier stop. The officers in both situations were very nice and I salute them for the work the are doing.
Feeling safe at BMS...brian
