Lawyer killed when MRI machine fires his concealed weapon

Damn... I took my kid in for an MRI a couple weeks ago. I sat in the room with her while she was being scanned.

Really glad I left my handgun in the car (which I wouldn't usually do)...
 
Tim said:
dude....lawyers aren't supposed to be idiots.
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Lawyers are some of the biggest idiots I've ever known.
We had one play Edward 40 hands at the Christmas bar party. How do I know those morons posted pictures on Facebook. He then got a DWI about 3 hours after the picture. Like I said some of the dumbest people on earth.
 
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An MRI will yank a steel O2 bottle off a cart coming into the room. I saw the damage it did to the machine after it hit. I have a dial watch I forgot about one time and it stopped while I was in the room. The second hand would pause at the same location afterward. You can measure the magnetic field with a gauss meter about 2 blocks away.
Nothing to fool with.
 
Before my first MRI I was asked if I had ever done any metal grinding and if so, had I always used eye protection. Of course, I answered yes, I always wear eye protection, I'm not an idiot. The tech said good because if I hadn't, they'd need to Xray my eyes first for metal shavings because the MRI would rip them out if there were any present. I told the tech we may want to do the Xray first because I may have forgot the eye pro once or twice. :rolleyes:
 
You know what's NOT supposed to be anywhere NEAR an MRI machine when a scan is about to take place?

Any stray metal objects.

AT ALL.

I'm not talking about just magnetic alloys, either. Non magnetically permeable alloys are a no-no, too.

If they are KNOWN and part of the individual, then the scans will account for that. Such as artificial joints, for example.

The intense magnetic fields can act forcefully on magnetically permeable alloys (steel, for example), they can heat various metal alloys, including non-magnetically permeable alloys (copper, brass, etc.), and induce electrical currents in conductors.


This says it all right here:

"Staff had reportedly asked the pair to remove all metal objects before entering the MRI room, as is protocol at hospitals due to the device's powerful magnetic field. However, Novaes decided to go in sans announcing his concealed weapon."
 
I have a BB deep in my thigh since I was a teenager. Uncle Sam did several MRI's but no civilian facility will let me near an MRI machine.
 
The small animal 7T MRI i worked on wasn't a huge threat, because it was such a small bore.
But if you left a your keys in your pocket, or you leaned over too far and your belt got close... you knew about it in a hurry.
Even our stainless tools that wouldn't draw a normal magnet would start floating away if you weren't careful.
Loads of fun. Of course I never had to worry about my gun because I was never carrying. never.
 
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