Pulled out the jammy, he thought it was a joke
The trigger I pulled, his face, the yolk
Speaking of egg on one's face, remember this classic bit from the golden era of foreign media panic-casting of the nuclear crisis in Japan? Good old Fox News weighed in with a report that Japan's nuclear power plants included not only Fukushima, but Tokai, Ongawa, Hamaoka, and... Shibuya Eggman!
Perhaps nobody was as surprised by the revelation as Shibuya Eggman itself, which isn't powered by nuclear fission but rather ROCK 'N ROLL. It's a music club in a rather upscale section of town. How it made it onto Fox's list is anyone's guess.
Thanks to a geiger counter loaned to me by the fine folks at Safecast, I made the "dangerous" journey downtown, deep into darkest Shibuya, where I gingerly approached the complex to make my measurements. The result, I am happy to report, is that Shibuya Eggman is safe -- for one's body, at any rate. Can't speak to those eardrums, though.
On a serious note, 0.13 microsieverts/hr is pretty much par for the course in downtown Tokyo. As for a comparison, the average background radiation in America is 0.34 microsieverts/hr.
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