Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
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MRI’s are still plenty dangerous when they aren’t scanning(“on”). The magnets don’t ever turn off unless you release all the helium which is typically a last resort. They can do it slowly for servicing but it’s costly or rapidly for emergencies but it usually trashes things.
Seems like the simplest solution is having a locking observation booth. Family can watch from the booth or go to the waiting room. This doesn’t prevent staff from responding to anything and actually keeps the family out of the way if there is an emergency. No high tech gizmos required. Are they go to like it? Probably not. Then off to the waiting room.
Thanks for the info!
Honestly tho, it's pretty crazy they let dude roam around a hospital with 20lbs of chain around his neck. That's literally a deadly weapon.
I don't care what story he gave, he should have been told to leave it in his vehicle.
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Not all of them have MRI machines, and regardless of its cheaper than repairing them.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hundreds probably do though. I don't know. I've never heard of anything like this happening. I think it's probably exceedingly rare. I had an MRI and the number of times I heard and read the warnings about metal was exhausting. It feels almost impossible that someone could not know about that specific danger.
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I... want to see that 9 kg necklace. I mean, sounds like it's just a big-ass chain, but if so, how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.
According to the article, it was a weight training chain
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So, if the MRI spins at 12 RPM, does the dude also spin at 12 RPM?
Asking for a friend.
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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”
This trend spreads by chain letter.
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It really sucks, but of course it was an idiot from Nassau county
For anyone who might not know the area, Nassau County is the place that gave us George Santos. It is burgundy-red, only bested in racism by Suffolk county. The police departments are notoriously racist and will pull you over and interrogate you just for driving a beater. This was one of Trump's favorite police departments during his first term, he infamously told them to bash people's heads against their cop cars when arresting them.
Sadly there are many very left leaning people trapped on Long Island, unable to leave because LI is an employment wasteland. It's not cheap to live on LI either.
Anyways, an idiot from Nassau won't be missed.
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You could spend billions to implement crazy solutions for every possible scenario.
Or you could just tell the guy not to go in there.
You can idiot proof anything but the world just makes better idiots
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It really sucks, but of course it was an idiot from Nassau county
To be fair this seems like a honest oversight
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What does it mean to have a "series of heart attacks"
Anyway I wouldn't wish this on anybody. It is also terrible for the wife who had to watch her husband die.
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Better source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/20/health/mri-machine-death-long-island
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how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.
He wasn't allowed in the room.
His wife panicked in the MRI, he charged into the room he was told not to go Into.
The wife asked to see her husband. I don't think the blame rests solely on the couple. The nurse should've stepped in. I'm also not sure why there wasn't a emergency stop button.
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Was the necklace even related to the death? It says he had a "series of heart attacks" which doesn't sound like something caused by being pulled toward the machine.
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So, if the MRI spins at 12 RPM, does the dude also spin at 12 RPM?
Asking for a friend.
I imagine his head was plucked like a ripe tomato in the garden.
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Was the necklace even related to the death? It says he had a "series of heart attacks" which doesn't sound like something caused by being pulled toward the machine.
If the necklace impeded blood flow or even put a lot of strain on his circulatory system then it could have caused his heart attacks.
Sounds like it wasn't him being pulled towards the machine that killed him, it was being pinned against the machine for a prolonged period of time.
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I imagine his head was plucked like a ripe tomato in the garden.
I doubt it, obviously depending on the applied force.
Skin is rather tough to rip with a blunt tool so yeah, maybe the head was disconnected from the spine immediately, making him look like a giraffe spinning at 12 RPM round and round.
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The wife asked to see her husband. I don't think the blame rests solely on the couple. The nurse should've stepped in. I'm also not sure why there wasn't a emergency stop button.
wrote last edited by [email protected]There was on one that I've been in, not sure about this one.
From my understanding, when an MRI is emergency stopped it doesn't stop immediately, and it causes a lot of damage, so staff are less likely to use it in an emergency. Stupid, yes. But when you're worried about getting fired for hitting a button, you're less likely to think of a situation as an emergency. You would think "chain strangling a man" constitutes an emergency though...
As for the staff not stopping the guy making a beeline for the door with more than just words, I'm not sure. I would prefer staff tackle me to the floor rather than let me blithely walk to my doom. Of course I'm only in my 30s...
The hospital is absolutely partly to blame, especially if they didn't properly convey the danger beforehand. All 3 hospitals I've recieved an MRI from have been pretty insistent about making sure I have no metal on or around me before I go in the doors though.
I'd say it's about 60/40 on the hospital.
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If the necklace impeded blood flow or even put a lot of strain on his circulatory system then it could have caused his heart attacks.
Sounds like it wasn't him being pulled towards the machine that killed him, it was being pinned against the machine for a prolonged period of time.
yeah what annoyed me was the Lady asking to just turn it off like you can just turn it off. i know she is desperate to undo her and her husband's stupidity but the article framing those quotes like the tech was incompetent is bad journalism.
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Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic
Moving fields, eddy currents still apply.
Copper isn't magnetic either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1uRvErM80
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9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!
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Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic
Easier solution: take off your damned metal necklace.
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Dude was wearing a 20lb chain while his wife was getting an MRI.
She freaked, and yelled for him, and he ran into the room while the machine was still on and fucking died.
This is 100% their fault, I could almost see an argument that the door needs a lock to prevent idiots with 20l s of metal around their neck from running in, but you don't want to lock everyone out in case there's an issue.
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.
