Who needs those shirts/scarves that reflect back all the light and wash everything out, when you can carry this handy little pill that just renders everyone’s film in a ten foot radius moot.
On 13 September 1999, six people tried to steal 60Co rods from a chemical plant in the city of Grozny, Chechen Republic. During the theft, the suspects opened the radioactive material container and handled it, resulting in the deaths of threeof the suspects and injury of the remaining three. [Wikipedia]
The suspect who held the material directly in his hands died of radiation exposure 30 minutes later.
How long did he hold it!? Nobody at Chernobyl died nearly that fast from acute exposure alone IIRC.
A rod of Cobalt-60, a highly radioactive isotope. There's a reason it says on the side "Drop & run". Its radioactivity is the reason it's messing up the photo- as the energetic radiation strikes the cells in the phone camera, it causes those cells to light up.