Anyway, they have his signature on the forms acknowledging that if he was in the room he had to be metal free. He chose to disregard it. He chose poorly.
“I’ll give you my gun when you MRI it out of my cold, dead hand.”
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–Carlton Heston (no relation)
Yep. Maple syrup with chicken is nice, but not with potatoes!
I’ve had a number of MRI’s I was told once that it is always on/powered because it’s a big deal to shut it down. But that might just be the way you should treat them. No ferrous metals in the room at any time. Or just like treat every gun as if it where loaded.
I also wonder if the shootee fucked up when he started feeling it pull on his gun, tried to grab it and shot himself. I think that’s a real possibility. But who knows how an MRI would treat the internal workings of a handgun. Other than “That’s mine”.
I know one gun that was.
I imagine he had been told he couldn’t bring it in the room, and thought, “Fuck them. They’re not taking away MY gun,” and proceeded to hide it.
hopefully somebody more authorative than me can confirm this:
I understand that the MRI will be “idling” for as long as it is turned on (basically 24/7) - but the extremely strong magnetic field will only be generated, if you hit the green “scan” botton - and then the whole e-magnets in the donut start spinning at high speed.
(should make sense, to not expose technicians, staff and cleaning personnel etc… to magnetic fields for hours on end.
but - again - I am eager to learn more
Can you imagine how bad he’d have felt if the bullet would have injured his mother instead?
Yeah, me either.
A certain amount of collateral damage is deemed acceptable by the gun crowd.
Mom was likely inside the machine and therefore protected from her idiot son.
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Collateral damage is only deemed acceptable outside of friends and family (and other groups of peope, most often to be defined ad-hoc).
“Have you never read the holy bible?”
Maybe we should ask the mods to rename it “Omnibus Hungry MFers on the SDMB thread”.
I mean, it is called The BBQ Pit, after all…
Our best current understanding is that the magnetic field part of the MRI at the levels they typically use don’t have any significant biological consequences even after several hours of daily exposure. There’s also an RF component, but that’s non-ionizing.
Maybe there’s a long-term effect that we haven’t been able to suss out over the last century, but it couldn’t be something very common at this point.
By far, the primary risk of MRIs appear to be projectiles, as that poor, dumb bastard found out. Though usually not that sort of projectile.
The discussion of MFers in the news is now only being hijacked by people griping about how the discussion is being hijacked.
So the guy who claims to have run the computer repair shop where Hunter Biden allegedly took his laptop, says that he thinks the Bidens will try to kill him soon. Especially since Hunter already had a bouncer killed for kicking him out of some club.
The thing that gets me is… Why the fuck do you need a firearm for your mother’s MRI? Why the fuck?
The same reason you wear one to get a cup of coffee. You wear a gun because what is the point of having the privilege to carry one if you don’t do it?
(Note that I have a gun and don’t carry it anywhere because I find that argument silly.)
I was going to note that every hospital I’ve been in (in GA, MA, MD, and NV) prohibits firearms, but then I saw that this happened in Brazil. I can’t say I know anything about gun culture and gun rights in Brazil. Was this guy violating the hospital’s rules by bringing in his gun (which I presume was concealed, or else the hospital employees would have noticed it)?
I don’t either. I checked and they generally have strong gun control laws (though as a lawyer, the person in this story might have been able to have permission to carry) and recent president Bolsonaro weakened gun laws significantly during his term. (I’ve heard him described as the Donald Trump of Brazil, as his awful Covid response hurt his county immensely, and he fled to Florida after losing the election, and his followers tried to instigate a coup by attacking government buildings.)
In fact, here’s an article about Bolsonaro’s son posing with a gun while his dad was in the hospital, so I guess it’s a thing?
It’s hijacks all the way down, young man!