From the Darwin Awards site


(March 2002, Hungary) I can't name sources for this incident, but the story 
is commonly known among Hungarian border guards who work on the Ukraine border.

Even the smallest border stations have Geiger-Muller detector gates, because 
of the threat of nuclear smugglers from ex-USSR countries. These gates 
resemble empty doorframes, or metal detectors at airports, but instead of 
metal they detect radioactive materials. 

A man with a backpack arrived at the border. He seemed a bit dizzy, maybe 
drunk, but vodka is cheap in the Ukraine and drunken passengers are quite 
everyday in this area. The man was instructed to pass through the Geiger-Muller 
detector gate. He seemed a bit anxious, but finally he obeyed--and the gate 
signaled a red alert! 

A glance at the dosimeter made everyone run for their lives. The man was hot! 

The Hungarian army dispatched an ABC (Atomic-Biological-Chemical) reconnaissance 
vehicle to determine what had happened. The soldiers found the man sprawled 
facedown, dead, a few steps away from the gate. They turned the body over and 
found a large hole burnt into his stomach. The moron had taped a piece of 
plutonium to his body! 

Later they found a discarded nuclear waste canister on the Ukrainian side of 
the border. If the man hadn’t removed the plutonium to hide under his clothing, 
neither the gate nor the border guards would have spotted what he was carrying, 
and he would still be alive today... but perhaps others would not.