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Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic
18kt gold is an alloy with 75% gold and other metals that may be magnetic. I wouldn't trust a gold chain around my neck with an MRI.
So, an all aluminum chain then?
#Fashion
9kg of gold is worth close to $1mill. Mr T is baller enough to do that
IIRC Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains because he came to feel that they were tone deaf.
Apparently the chains started when he was a bouncer. Sometimes people would lose them, while getting kicked out. He would wear them, so that had to come and ask him politely for them. His collection built when they were either too scared, or too egotistical to ask for them back.
That's the story he told the news in the 80s after he was famous....
If you don't think Mr T was playing Debo, I don't know what to tell you.
it mustve been ferrous material, because gold isnt super magnetic. like steel or iron.
The best part about Mr. T's gold necklaces is that he got the idea from working a bouncer. The man became a literal living mannequin, holding onto people's gold chains like some kind of ass-kicking coat check.
Moving fields, eddy currents still apply.
Copper isn't magnetic either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1uRvErM80
Well, TIL. There goes my hopes of showing up to the MRI room with a giant gold necklace
Ehh, if you're gonna go, it'll at least be memorable :) I suspect we'll both pass without even a lemmy shitpost.
Easier solution: take off your damned metal necklace.
I believe it can still get hot
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.
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.
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.
They come with an emergency stop button
Can you imagine watching your loved one suffer and die in front of you? It sounds extremely brutal