Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
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And if it's an African swallow?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not covered in the film and I refuse to get my information anywhere other than Monty Python. The mass of an african swallow is therefore unknowable.
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You could put an airlock like metal detector door that only opens the second door, if the first door is closed and there's nothing magnetic inside. People could still go in quickly in emergencies, but nothing that makes it worse can enter.
Nah, let them stupids die. I don't want to risk non idiots lives for the chance of saving a moron.
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What kind of hospital let him get near the room with that kind of metal around his neck? I've had to be in several hospitals recently for different imaging issues and every time the MRI is a thing I have to remove everything metal to go past a certain door (escorting my daughter and son for medical reasons). I don't know who let him anywhere near the room with something that large.
Edit for Clarity:
I've had to be the one removing all metal even though I'm not the one being scanned. For me to progress beyond a certain part of the hospital toward the MRI I needed to get rid of everything. My children were being scanned, not me. So, I'm not sure what hospital system allowed this man with a 9kg chain get this far deep into the imaging area.He wasn't supposed to be in the room. There was a scan in progress when he entered.
Seems to me all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength placed opposite of, and perhaps a bit closer to the doorway, to pull intruders away from the MRI room.
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Not covered in the film and I refuse to get my information anywhere other than Monty Python. The mass of an african swallow is therefore unknowable.
It's a fair cop
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He entered the imaging room unauthorised. It was an honest Darwin Award
Wearing a NINE kilogram necklace.
That's like approaching a campfire with clothes made out of tinder after soaking in some gasoline and drinking alcohol.
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Yeah, there was a guy in my town who would run around with one of these around his neck. Similar type of idiot. He would actually run by the strength training gym and gloat to us that we were wasting our time lol, insisting that all we had to do was run around with a big chain.
Hearing about this news story now I wonder if some influencer somewhere started a trend. People love feeling like they found “the secret”
Would Piccolo qualify as an influencer?
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Who cares about a moron who needs a 9kg necklace, how's the MRI machine?
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So tragic, jesus. Also, it was obviously stupid, but in his defense he probably went into fight or flight and wasn't thinking. Unfortunately he paid for it with his life.
He went in to help her stand up from the machine.
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It appears you're right. But appears the LAPD has had this happen to them as well in a bungled cannabis raid
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He wasn't supposed to be in the room. There was a scan in progress when he entered.
Seems to me all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength placed opposite of, and perhaps a bit closer to the doorway, to pull intruders away from the MRI room.
wrote last edited by [email protected]His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him.
Whole thing is heart breaking all around. I feel for the technician who made an honest but very serious mistake. And I'm sure the wife will spend her days regretting asking for help. Just a fucking tragic situation.
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He wasn't supposed to be in the room. There was a scan in progress when he entered.
Seems to me all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength placed opposite of, and perhaps a bit closer to the doorway, to pull intruders away from the MRI room.
Maybe lockable doors
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Can you convert that to tennis balls? I can't do this math on my own
I used robots and the answer was 160 tennis balls, which is actually much less than I expected.
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He wasn't supposed to be in the room. There was a scan in progress when he entered.
Seems to me all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength placed opposite of, and perhaps a bit closer to the doorway, to pull intruders away from the MRI room.
all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength
MRI magnets are electromagnets that are supercooled with liquid helium and take hours to start or stop because of the electrical energy that has to be put in or taken out.
So just having a magnet of equal strengh for idiot defense would be a very significant waste of electricity and helium unfortunately
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So, if the MRI spins at 12 RPM, does the dude also spin at 12 RPM?
Asking for a friend.
The detector spins around the patient, but does the magnetic field spin too? I though not, but I'm not that certain.
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He entered the imaging room unauthorised. It was an honest Darwin Award
...someone probably should've stopped him
You don't know what you don't know. He probably wasn't even thinking about how MRI machines work.
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Just for your information, the machine, meaning the magnet, is ALWAYS on.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Unless something gets stuck. Then it is shut down and restarted after the thing is removed. Takes hours though, I think the startup was four hours.
They had that happen at the hospital my father worked at, the cleaning lady brought in a stool with steel legs. They tried to remove it by force first, but four men could not do it.
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It appears you're right. But appears the LAPD has had this happen to them as well in a bungled cannabis raid
wrote last edited by [email protected]I remember that one. The cop was stupid enough to get his gun snatched, and then he was stupid enough to quench the MRI for that!
Here's the docket for the resulting court case. In their response this year the LAPD seem to have summarily denied everything.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnostic-center-inc-v-city-of-los-angeles/
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all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength
MRI magnets are electromagnets that are supercooled with liquid helium and take hours to start or stop because of the electrical energy that has to be put in or taken out.
So just having a magnet of equal strengh for idiot defense would be a very significant waste of electricity and helium unfortunately
But it would be funny
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I’m just thinking about the poor woman. She’s forever going to be haunted with the knowledge that she was the one who called him into the room, and thus led to his death. His decision to come in wasn’t thought out, but that probably won’t relieve her feelings of guilt for having called him in. Such a tragic story.
Uh she was in the room likely still on the bed laying down considering the story given. So like she'll have some rowdy memories of dude getting mushed into a machine a speed then slowly suffocate if they weren't lucky enough to hit their head really really fucking hard.
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Who cares about a moron who needs a 9kg necklace, how's the MRI machine?
Let people enjoy the bling they earned.
