Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI 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.
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.
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...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.
The technician let him in. There was an oversight somewhere but we don't really know the details. Was the necklace under his shirt, was the receptionist on break, etc etc
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So, an all aluminum chain then?
#Fashion
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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.
Edit:
Better source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/20/health/mri-machine-death-long-island
Even that article fails to mention if and when the magnet was quenched.
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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.
Do not forget it was LI was basically kkk hq for a while.
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Let people enjoy the bling they earned.
He can enjoy it at home. He could if he were still alive I guess.
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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/
In typical cop fashion
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The detector spins around the patient, but does the magnetic field spin too? I though not, but I'm not that certain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Nope, the detector is separate from the magnet - the magnet encircles the patient completely, and doesn't move. I'm sure the magnetic field is affected slightly by the rotating machinery, but that should be consistent and predictable, and would be accounted for in the imaging algorithms.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You absolutely can turn it off - it's called quenching the magnet, and the tech absolutely should have been trained to do that in an emergency. There was no way in hell they were physically pulling him off. It's obviously that they did eventually, but the article doesn't say how long it took
️ to be fair, I'd bet that basically all of the damage was done up-front, regardless - MRI magnets are so much stronger than most people realize. -
the answers to all your questions lie in the article you didn't read
Great! Could you kindly extract them to further our article-non-reading habits?
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As if my claustrophobia wasn't enough reason to irrationally strongly dislike the idea of needing to get an MRI again...
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Who cares about a moron who needs a 9kg necklace, how's the MRI machine?
It was for weight training
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It was for weight training
Yes, I remember the part in Pumping Iron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, where he was using a 9kg necklace in preparation for his role in The Terminator.
This is stupid. He knew his wife was getting an MRI. He was an irresponsible ass and ignoramus. What was more important? His wife's MRI or his precious necklace weight training, at 61 no less?
And he had multiple heart attacks? The picture of health.
And now a MRI machine is out of order, how many people's tests have to be rescheduled for one 61 year old's fantasies of being a weight training badass? Your wife needed an MRI, put the high school jock nonsense aside for an hour or two.
"It was for weight training". Fuck me.
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Yes, I remember the part in Pumping Iron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, where he was using a 9kg necklace in preparation for his role in The Terminator.
This is stupid. He knew his wife was getting an MRI. He was an irresponsible ass and ignoramus. What was more important? His wife's MRI or his precious necklace weight training, at 61 no less?
And he had multiple heart attacks? The picture of health.
And now a MRI machine is out of order, how many people's tests have to be rescheduled for one 61 year old's fantasies of being a weight training badass? Your wife needed an MRI, put the high school jock nonsense aside for an hour or two.
"It was for weight training". Fuck me.
Why are you being this way
