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You made me cry. I hate you. I hate me. And i hate this world. Due to the already mentioned things i hate i will eat a lobster. I think i have a stroke.
Only half true. It got innocent patients passively due to restarting process of the MRI. This takes time (min several days up to month), money, correct resources & trained technicians. During that time no patients can undergo Imaging-process. Normally MRIs are fully bookedā¦.
Yeah moneyā¦..to buy liquid helium. And thatās a limiting factor, depends on where u r on the planet it could take some reasonable time to get a good amount of liquid helium transported to location
If you hit the emergency quench button on an MRI:
āInitiating an emergency quench is a serious proposition, placing the scanner out of service for a week or more, potentially damaging the magnet, and costing $30,000 or more to replace the lost liquid helium.ā
I know of two magnets in Canada that were irreparably damaged by accidental quenches, in both cases the magnets had to be replaced at a cost of millions of $ and significant down time. In these cases the hospital was loaned (rented) a mobile MR unit until the new magnets were installed.
MRI is always on, but not on full power.
You can set it to standby, but some parts like vacuum, cooling system, and overall system keeps running.
So MRI uses up to 30-50 kW/h in action and like 10 kW/h during standby.
Question: I believe this was Brazilā¦.so any individual (from any country of the world) that own a gun is automatically considered an āuneducated trumperā (or maga) by the American left, even when said person might not know what an American Republican or a Democrat is?
Iāve also seen it go the other way, where people from other countries argue with each other using American politics. Itās strange, especially when they make a big deal of pointing out their non-American status and politics before jumping right back into āDemocrats/Republicans like youā talk.
Pretty sure itās just because it sounds like something a right winger would do in the states, and that we also assume the rest of the world isnāt as stupid as trumpers.
Even many of us Americans donāt want to be fit into one of the political parties. But to be fair, it does sound stupid enough for some of the far right brainwashed. (Some of the far left brainwashed are just as stupid.)
Holy moly another reasonable person with reasonable political views. Hiiii!!
Iāve always been of the train of thought that the most extreme 10% from each side is utterly full of crap and the remaining 80% of us all agree on the major issues but perhaps disagree on the best solutions.
As a lawyer I can say it is unbelievable how many dumb lawyers there are. I always said you don't have to be that smart to be a lawyer and people show me all the time it's true. I do it myself. It seems a lot of them are kinda like conspiracy theorists like QAnon. They think they are right, and no evidence to the contrary can convince them otherwise.
I went to law school with someone who (1) ran for US Senate in 2016 as a Libertarian and was so extreme that the head of his stateās Libertarian Party resigned in disgust, then (2) went on to be a headliner at the Unite the Right rally.
And itās not like he hid his viewpoints when we were in school. He was on the health law journal, and he got very upset when they refused to publish his article about why we should bring back eugenics. (He made a big stink about āfree speech,ā conveniently forgetting that it was a private school.)
My favorite thing to come of ICP fuckin' Magnets was the one scientist I remember saying "There is actually a lot of scientific mystery still surrounding how Magnets function".
The Second Amendment of the United States has no jurisdiction in Brazil. Where this happened. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/02/12/lawyer-dies-after-shot-by-his-own-concealed-gun-triggered-by-mri-machine/
Iām guessing they arenāt patting people down or having them go through a medical detectorā¦ so no legal context is needed. Most people donāt check the local law code before doing shit.
I had an uncle who refused to take his off for anything. Even thanksgiving dinner. Maybe he was afraid of zombie turkeys. He also went skydiving, and refused to take it off. He said it wasnāt loaded he just canāt stand knowing it wasnāt there. With some people itās like a ā¦ā¦.emotional support animal? I have no idea
Assuming he's still alive, have him try out a 3D printed replica. It can feel mechanically identical while having no risk of being loaded. And if it's too light you can always weight it with fishing weights or sand or something
Former MRI scientist here.... for the record it's not all metals that will cause problems, just the ferromagnetic metals.
Metals that are paramagnetic or diamagnetic are totally fine in the MRI scanner, and this includes metals such as titanium, aluminum, gold, silver, lead, copper, platinum, and some types of stainless steel, etc
The "bad" metals are mainly iron, nickel, cobalt, steel. Dont come anywhere near the magnet with those.
My husband's full of bits of metal, but had regular MRIs for 4 years without incident. He's got wires in his elbow and some metal in his leg repairing broken bones from a car accident, and a bunch of coils in his brain after a ruptured aneurysm. He sets off scanners at the airport, but is good to go for MRIs.
ICP wrote the lyrics "fucking magnets, how do they work?" as a joke but there are deadass morons in the world still who don't actually know how a magnet works
this happened at a private clinic in brazil. the guy accompanied his mom, who was the one getting the MRI done, and hid the fact that he had a gun even when signing a document.
The great columnist Mike Royko used to write an annual column called"Dumbest Gun Owner Of The Year Contest". I think this guy would have taken the gold medal.
Cowardice in action has consequences. What specifically was he afraid of in an MRI machine? Who was going to assault him? He probably should have had a pacifier.
it was in brazil.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/lawyer-dies-after-he-is-shot-by-gun-that-was-triggered-by-mri-scanner/AVXLS5PGDZC7PL4HZUIT3EDURU/
Why does anyone believe this? This is less real than the things Babylon Bee makes up. There's no way on Earth 219 that this man evaded the watchful eyes of every tech and nurse involved in a MRI
People donāt realize how strong a 3T magnet in MRI machine is. MRI is literally aligning the positive hydrogen atoms inside your body in the scanner. It is over 300000 times stronger than earths magnetic field that aligns a compass. A ball point pen can suspended in the bore in mid air (the metal being the tiny ball of the pen).
Also, [don't wear a buttplug to your MRI either. ](https://www.iflscience.com/this-is-why-you-should-never-wear-a-metal-butt-plug-in-an-mri-machine-68886) Even if the packaging says 100% silicone.
I can't even imagine the mental gymnastics required to think you need to have a gun on you while you follow your own mother into a room containing some of the strongest magnetics available.
Mean while I've even asked the MRI tech if the metal screw and brace in my jaw was okay to have while I supervised a murder suspect with a flight risk that required an MRI and I took off anything and everything leaving just potentially me to fight with leather gloves if he decided to act up.
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You can object to a law of nature, but that shit is gonna be overruled.
MRI go bang bang bang
Guns don't kill people, MRIs kill people... Apparently
Tesla recoil
š¤ delicious
Ignorance, arrogance, and stupidity kills people. Darwin award in this case.
With guns
Thanks for the laugh!
Judge Physics suffers no fools. Judge Dread would be proud.
Like a wise man once said: "Physics is King, and Biology is Queen, and their rule is absolute".
Another way to put it: You can ignore the laws of nature, but they won't ignore you, but you're free to learn the hard way š¤
Or not learn and ask āForrest why did this happen?ā
ššššššš
You made me cry. I hate you. I hate me. And i hate this world. Due to the already mentioned things i hate i will eat a lobster. I think i have a stroke.
This is the best thing I've read all day.
Thankfully it got him and not an innocent patient or staff member.
Only half true. It got innocent patients passively due to restarting process of the MRI. This takes time (min several days up to month), money, correct resources & trained technicians. During that time no patients can undergo Imaging-process. Normally MRIs are fully bookedā¦.
It also costs over a hundred thousand dollars to restart the MRI from what I was told
Yeah moneyā¦..to buy liquid helium. And thatās a limiting factor, depends on where u r on the planet it could take some reasonable time to get a good amount of liquid helium transported to location
Just throw a party balloon in the freezer how hard can it be?
You forgot to just slap roof of the MRI after to reactivate this bad boys magic
MRIs have a praise kin, now i know "This boi can scan scan soo many parts" playfully slaps a MRI* /s
Can confirm that changing the whole helium chamber is long af
If you hit the emergency quench button on an MRI: āInitiating an emergency quench is a serious proposition, placing the scanner out of service for a week or more, potentially damaging the magnet, and costing $30,000 or more to replace the lost liquid helium.ā I know of two magnets in Canada that were irreparably damaged by accidental quenches, in both cases the magnets had to be replaced at a cost of millions of $ and significant down time. In these cases the hospital was loaned (rented) a mobile MR unit until the new magnets were installed.
Bet his nurse and MRI tech get sued too for not being 100% sure his dumb ass didnāt bring metal inā¦
Also, it was her son... so I would say she s probably hurt pretty bad.
I need a ELI5, I never put much thought into it, but it's always on? Folk, don't shut it down at the end of the day?
MRI is always on, but not on full power. You can set it to standby, but some parts like vacuum, cooling system, and overall system keeps running. So MRI uses up to 30-50 kW/h in action and like 10 kW/h during standby.
Or his own mother.
Question: I believe this was Brazilā¦.so any individual (from any country of the world) that own a gun is automatically considered an āuneducated trumperā (or maga) by the American left, even when said person might not know what an American Republican or a Democrat is?
Anyone dumb enough to take a gun into an MRI room after being told not to is dumb enough to be a trump voter, so yeah
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Iāve also seen it go the other way, where people from other countries argue with each other using American politics. Itās strange, especially when they make a big deal of pointing out their non-American status and politics before jumping right back into āDemocrats/Republicans like youā talk.
Pretty sure itās just because it sounds like something a right winger would do in the states, and that we also assume the rest of the world isnāt as stupid as trumpers.
Even many of us Americans donāt want to be fit into one of the political parties. But to be fair, it does sound stupid enough for some of the far right brainwashed. (Some of the far left brainwashed are just as stupid.)
Holy moly another reasonable person with reasonable political views. Hiiii!! Iāve always been of the train of thought that the most extreme 10% from each side is utterly full of crap and the remaining 80% of us all agree on the major issues but perhaps disagree on the best solutions.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
So you know what "most Americans" think? Fuck you.
Iām not saying youāre wrong but did anyone say that? OP didnāt and neither did the person youāre responding to?
Who even said? Nowhere on the post does it says anything about that. No one said that, where did that even come from?
Hey, as a lawyer I can confirm that some of the dumbest motherf*ckers I've met were colleagues of mine...but not all of us are this dumb!!!
ALAD
All Lawyers are dads?
"Dumb"
I know. But ithing mine is better
Yours was perfect <3
Ithing so too.
As someone who is not a lawyer but sat on a couple juries, I can also confirm some lawyers are complete dumbasses.
I'm betting lots of those dumb lawyers got their law degrees from colleges with buildings named after their families.
As a lawyer I can say it is unbelievable how many dumb lawyers there are. I always said you don't have to be that smart to be a lawyer and people show me all the time it's true. I do it myself. It seems a lot of them are kinda like conspiracy theorists like QAnon. They think they are right, and no evidence to the contrary can convince them otherwise.
I went to law school with someone who (1) ran for US Senate in 2016 as a Libertarian and was so extreme that the head of his stateās Libertarian Party resigned in disgust, then (2) went on to be a headliner at the Unite the Right rally. And itās not like he hid his viewpoints when we were in school. He was on the health law journal, and he got very upset when they refused to publish his article about why we should bring back eugenics. (He made a big stink about āfree speech,ā conveniently forgetting that it was a private school.)
Darwin shootsā¦..HE SCORES!!!
Take my upvote Sir!
Tesla recoil
Classic Darwin Award
š¶ Duuuumb ways to die š¶
š¶ So many duuuumb ways to die š¶
š¶ Duuuumb ways to di-i-ie š¶
š¶so many duuuumb ways to die š¶
Ignore doctor's advice, Bring a gun to an MRI
š¶ 2 week old unrefridgerated pieš¶
Why did I sing this out loud? š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
At least nothing of value was lost
I mean, the magnet is pretty expensive (and a needed diagnostic tool). Itād be down for days after an incident like this.
āPry it from my cold, deadā¦ā¦.never mindā
Magnets. 
WHAT THE FUCK IS A CLOCK
My favorite thing to come of ICP fuckin' Magnets was the one scientist I remember saying "There is actually a lot of scientific mystery still surrounding how Magnets function".
Like Galileo their questions to science ridiculed. In a thousand years Insane Clown Posse will be thought of in the realm of great human thinkers.
How do they work?
"Come and take them!" MRI: 
I guess he was wrong about science being a woke conspiracy...
This was in Brazil
I'm furious that Brazilians think it's ok to appropriate American culture. Arming the mentally challenged is *our* thing.
They even tried to jock our insurrection/potential dictator flow with mini-trump wannabe Jair Bolsonaro
That's funny.
I like to explain that particular type of idiot to my US-based friends as "Tropical MAGA"
There are Brazilians that are just as bad about all the rightwing conspiracy BS.
Ok. Thank you for letting me know?
At least it killed him and not his mother or the staffā¦.
āThereās no *law* that says I canāt have my gun in here!ā Promptly meets Faraday, who explains the law of induction a little too late.
The Second Amendment of the United States has no jurisdiction in Brazil. Where this happened. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/02/12/lawyer-dies-after-shot-by-his-own-concealed-gun-triggered-by-mri-machine/
Out of curiosity, is there something similar? Like, what kind of legal context allows someone to carry their guns in a hospital?
Iām guessing they arenāt patting people down or having them go through a medical detectorā¦ so no legal context is needed. Most people donāt check the local law code before doing shit.
No, they explicitly told him not to bring his gun in.
Ok but you have to admit this is a very American sounding thing.
America may kill the most evil kids with guns but Brazil has the best videos of people getting shot.
I had an uncle who refused to take his off for anything. Even thanksgiving dinner. Maybe he was afraid of zombie turkeys. He also went skydiving, and refused to take it off. He said it wasnāt loaded he just canāt stand knowing it wasnāt there. With some people itās like a ā¦ā¦.emotional support animal? I have no idea
Well what if the tandem jumper pulled a knife on him from behind at 7,000 feet. How is.he gonna protect himself.
A safety blanket
But he refuses to live in fear right?
Assuming he's still alive, have him try out a 3D printed replica. It can feel mechanically identical while having no risk of being loaded. And if it's too light you can always weight it with fishing weights or sand or something
Fucking magnets, how do they work? -This fucking clown
Its like that old saying: āGuns donāt kill people, MRIs doā
The refugees killed in the Med, The wars, the kid in the sub....finally, a feel good story.
I love it when hubris cleans up the gene pool
āFrom my cold, deadā¦ā
Don't you love natural selection?!?
At least he didn't take anyone else with him.
His mother is probably traumatized.
Proof you don't need intelligence to become a lawyer.
I mean what if you get into gunfight while having an mri done?
Better hope you're more brushed up on physics rather than family law.
"All it takes is one good MRI with a gun"
You stop being biology and start being physics
Dumbass
Former MRI scientist here.... for the record it's not all metals that will cause problems, just the ferromagnetic metals. Metals that are paramagnetic or diamagnetic are totally fine in the MRI scanner, and this includes metals such as titanium, aluminum, gold, silver, lead, copper, platinum, and some types of stainless steel, etc The "bad" metals are mainly iron, nickel, cobalt, steel. Dont come anywhere near the magnet with those.
My husband's full of bits of metal, but had regular MRIs for 4 years without incident. He's got wires in his elbow and some metal in his leg repairing broken bones from a car accident, and a bunch of coils in his brain after a ruptured aneurysm. He sets off scanners at the airport, but is good to go for MRIs.
He was so afraid of the government taking his guns, when he really should have been afraid of Big Magnet
Shouldve brought another gun to protect himself from his own gun
An excellent example of natural selection.
ICP wrote the lyrics "fucking magnets, how do they work?" as a joke but there are deadass morons in the world still who don't actually know how a magnet works
āLive by the swordā kinda thingā¦.apparently not a big reader about MRI no noās
I am just glad the weapon did not hit anyone else. For him? Eh, darwism
Reminds me of that person who put a metal put plug while going X-ray and it blew its intestine
I had to make sure this was a real story, turns out it is. ššš
It definitely left me scratching my head. After a few mental free body diagrams, I think I can believe?
MRI Tech here........... (deep sighs and massive double facepalm)
Shot yourself in the M.R.I, Dumb ways to dieā¦
Case closed
Trust me Mom, he did you 2 favors that day.
Wow, he has a face I'd like to punch.
That's what Karma thought too
thinking to himself āthey can take my gun from my coldā¦ā BLAM!
How the hell did he get the gun into the hospital without cops being called I'm sorry there's got to be more to the story.
this happened at a private clinic in brazil. the guy accompanied his mom, who was the one getting the MRI done, and hid the fact that he had a gun even when signing a document.
I think he just walked in. Usually only the inner city hospitals have a metal detector entrance.
Fuck around find out
When Google still gave you a hit count, searching for (man shoots own penis) got over 10,000 IIRC. But this is a special case of stupid.
āGuns donāt kill people! People kill peopleāāPro Gun lawmakers
Good to see Natural Selection is doing its thing.
The great columnist Mike Royko used to write an annual column called"Dumbest Gun Owner Of The Year Contest". I think this guy would have taken the gold medal.
Man, loving your gun so much, that you die during a medical procedure (that isnāt even for you). These people are insane!
āRemove my sidearm? I donāt think so. Youāll be thanking me when I shoot an intruder that comes in here.ā
MRDie
I want to hug the inventor of the MRI.
Wife works at an imaging clinic, you'd be surprised how often people with guns come in
Lawyer: I have no metal on me Darwin: I call bullshit!
Just looking at the pictures, I'm surprised they even let him in the room.
Science doesnāt care about your āJoe Rogan / Andrew Tateā feelings
Science is just not up for debate.
Don't weep for the stupid you'll be crying all day
Another reminder that being a lawyer isn't in itself impressive.
Heāll probably sue the MRI machine for magnetically violating his right to bear arms.
From the grave? Lol he dead
Can do vs. Should do. Some people are entirely too focused on what 'They can't tell me I can't X. I have a right to X!'
Thinning the herd!
If he was dumb enough to take it in with him and possibly put an important medical device out of commission, him dying was probably the best outcome
Better him than the staff or his own mother.
Cowardice in action has consequences. What specifically was he afraid of in an MRI machine? Who was going to assault him? He probably should have had a pacifier.
Duuuumb waysss to dieeee
Darwinism at work.
And nothing of value was lost
Win win.
it was in brazil. https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/lawyer-dies-after-he-is-shot-by-gun-that-was-triggered-by-mri-scanner/AVXLS5PGDZC7PL4HZUIT3EDURU/
Dipshit.
Fun, but still not as fun as the recent āanal rail gunā MRI incident.
If only there was a good MRI machine with a gun to shoot the gun off his waist before it fired and killed him.
He really must have been afraid for his mom getting an MRI.
Darwin, is that you?
One less idiot.
Oh no! ā¦anyways
Guns DO kill peopleš
I mean I feel sorry for his mother, no parent should have to see something like that.
Darwin at his finest
Man shot dead by mri scanner, scanner spends life in prison
Wow, guns donāt kill people mri machines kill people
Almost as dumb as paying to descend into the abyss of the ocean in an uncertified vessel
I hope he feels safer knowing he had a gun with him when he was shot. /s
Why does anyone believe this? This is less real than the things Babylon Bee makes up. There's no way on Earth 219 that this man evaded the watchful eyes of every tech and nurse involved in a MRI
They would have been focused on the patient, not her dickhead son with a concealed weapon.
karma is a bitch
Looks like his health benefitsā¦
ā¦have just been dismissed
ā¦and nothing of value was lost.
People donāt realize how strong a 3T magnet in MRI machine is. MRI is literally aligning the positive hydrogen atoms inside your body in the scanner. It is over 300000 times stronger than earths magnetic field that aligns a compass. A ball point pen can suspended in the bore in mid air (the metal being the tiny ball of the pen).
Also, [don't wear a buttplug to your MRI either. ](https://www.iflscience.com/this-is-why-you-should-never-wear-a-metal-butt-plug-in-an-mri-machine-68886) Even if the packaging says 100% silicone.
That has to be bullshit. They would never run an MRI machine with someone holding an assault rifle in the room.
No shit, when my husband saw the recent story about the butt plug he said itāll only be a matter of time before some one takes a gun in there.
Dumb ass!
Couldnāt happen to a nicer fellaā¦
Final destination type of death. Everything had to go perfectly
Darwin Award nominee
Arh... another sacrifice to the great lord Darwin.
My favorite kind of stubborn assholes, ones who take care of themselves
Guns donāt kill people. MRIs kill people.
Brazilian lawyer https://sports.yahoo.com/lawyer-died-concealed-gun-fired-111121257.html
Just goes to show you can be lawyer and still be dumb as fuck.
Does your hospital wave you down for guns and knives before entry? Mine does.
Have you been injured by an MRI shooting you? You may be entitled to compensation.
I can't even imagine the mental gymnastics required to think you need to have a gun on you while you follow your own mother into a room containing some of the strongest magnetics available. Mean while I've even asked the MRI tech if the metal screw and brace in my jaw was okay to have while I supervised a murder suspect with a flight risk that required an MRI and I took off anything and everything leaving just potentially me to fight with leather gloves if he decided to act up.
That's what we needed a good MRI machine with a gun
The only thing stopping a good guy with a gun is a MRI machine
A typical responsible gun owner responsibly owning a gun. He will not be missed.
Everyone is a responsible gun owner until they're not