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How can someone just dump a highly radioactive (at short distances) source in a scrap yard? Gee, some people... I bet the guy who did it is dead now. This reminds me of this list: http://listverse.com/2011/08/07/10-more-cases-of-deadly-radi... and how most people should never be trusted with something that can affect thousands of other people...

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> How can someone just dump a highly radioactive (at short distances) source in a scrap yard?

"I could pay a few thousand dollars to properly dispose of this, or I could throw it over the fence of the local junkyard."

although usually those who own the equipment containing the radioactive material usually have a financial incentive to dispose it properly. The doctors owning the medical device in the Goiania incident were essentially fined to bankruptcy for their mistake.

> although usually those who own the equipment containing the radioactive material usually have a financial incentive to dispose it properly.

Only if you get caught.

Or I can pick up the phone and have the yard pay me and send over guys who can't read long words like "radioactive" to pick it up.

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