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[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 182 points 1 year ago

Why would you try to sneak a gun into any medical test area? Even if you didn't know an mri will fuck with a gun, what is the motivation to try to sneak a gun into a medical test room?

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 193 points 1 year ago

A liberal might make her gay when she least expects it!

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

Holy shit I had a conversation the other day with a dude who said, "democrats just want to touch children and change their genitalia"

He went off about how democrats want to change pedophile name and be more accepting. I told him people don't say that. Only pedophiles do. He went off about how democrats are pedophiles.

He went off about how schools, doctors, and liberal agenda is allowing the mutilation of children's genitalia.

Taking something he says is fact and blowing into the massive majority of all Democrat fundamentals.

[-] 50gp@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago

ask him what he thinks of circumcion without consent at young age and I bet he will defend that without hesitation

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 34 points 1 year ago

In that situation, the best thing to do is agree with them and then start telling them about how voting is a way for the goverment to track you and/or .. plant .. fucking alien brocolli seeds in your brain or something, so never ever vote

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[-] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 30 points 1 year ago

They turned me into a newt.

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

No one's giving her 5G on her watch!

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[-] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cowardice. People that think they need a gun on them at all times are paranoid cowards... Which also makes them the last people who should be able to own a gun.

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[-] Zak@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Routinely carrying a concealed handgun can create considerable difficulties when a person unexpectedly ends up somewhere they can't do so. Leaving it in a car is a significant risk for theft (and stolen guns get used for bad things). Leaving it with medical staff isn't great. Leaving it unattended outside an exam room presents obvious dangers to anyone who might happen upon it.

It's hard to find yourself in an MRI room without adequate warning that anything magnetic will become a projectile though. I think most places give the patient both written and verbal warnings, and the article here says this patient was warned about metal and specifically about guns.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

They literally give you a locker when you go in for an MRI because you have to spend so long naked. This was never a problem for her. She's just stupid.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Facilities vary. I didnt have secure storage when I got an MRI, but I didnt bring a gun or anything else unreasonable to leave unattended.

The question wasn't whether she's stupid (clearly she is), but why someone would bring a gun into a medical exam.

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[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Is this different in the states? In Germany every time I had to enter one of those I had to put away every single metallic item on me, including piercings and shit. They warn you very thoroughly that you cannot bring metal objects with you because of the high magnetic forces of the machine.

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[-] foyrkopp@lemmy.world 144 points 1 year ago

If only there'd been a another, good MRI machine with a gun present.

I read this story as the MRI machine being the good guy and successfully defending itself

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

I can see the thinking that lead to this. But in my mind, it boils down to one bad decision after other, concealing the firearm because each step forward carries worse consequences. It's basically the clown-makeup meme:

  1. Carry gun around because that's what I always do.
  2. Walk into hospital - whoops, I'll just keep it concealed so I don't get in trouble. Can't hand it over to someone either, or leave it in my car; that's a felony.
  3. Check in for appointment - can't back out now, it took forever to get this appointment and there's a penalty for a no-show.
  4. Change clothes for MRI - can't leave my gun lying around, that's also a no-no and someone could get hurt. I'll just tuck it... somewhere.
  5. Walk into MRI exam room - had to say "no" about metal on my person. These medical people are overly careful anyways.
  6. Actively getting an MRI - what's the worst that could happen?

Do we need airport-style backscatter x-rays prior to MRI procedures now? In hindsight, it seems like cheap insurance.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the hypothetical explanation. I was utterly unable to figure out how something so insane actually happened. This at least makes some sort of sense.

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[-] JTheDoc@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

You'd think a metal detector would be mandatory in all MRI departments before you enter?

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[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago

I hope the machine is fine

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 1 year ago

A bit of trivia: it used to be called NMRI, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. They dropped the N after it became clear people didn't want to go in the machine because they were afraid of radiation. That's why it's called MRI now.

[-] dfense@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

In Chemistry (where it originated) it is still called NMR. There is no image produced, but a spectrum (graph).

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As she was about to enter the machine, the gun was attracted to the powerful magnet inside it and fired off a single round into and through her right buttock. Luckily, the bullet barely penetrated her skin and the doctor on site described her entry and exit wounds as “very small and superficial.”

There is no way the MRI wasn't damaged. Other hospital go'ers will be footing that bill. She should be garneshed wages for the rest of her life until those repairs are paid.

"Lucky" would be the bullet being lodged in her body, doing no further damage except to her idiot self so she would learn her lesson without impacting others.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

This person took a loaded gun into a hospital, and then into the giant magnet room. Not sure they're capable of learning any kind of lesson.

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[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Maybe next time dont lie to medical staff.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

To quote Gregory House, everybody lies.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

"IDK how this gun ended up inside my butthole. I must have fallen on it."

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[-] helmet91@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Oh no! Is the MRI machine okay? The article doesn't say anything about it.

Lucky it wasn't worse. You can't have any metal on in a huge rotating magnet. Dumb is gonna dumb.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh no. ~~A CT scanner is a giant rotating electromagnet~~. An MRI is a giant quantum electromagnetic tube. It’s so, so much worse. It is literally unpredictable as to what might happen with metal inside of it. She’s lucky she wasn’t literally torn to shreds.

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago

With the cost and risks of MRI machines, why aren't there metal detectors at the entrance?

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[-] marshadow@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Weird that they didn't have her change into a gown first. Or maybe they did, in which case where did she put-- you know what never mind that's enough internet for today

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[-] Dieinahole@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

Pounded in the Butt by My Own Gun

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

She got off way easier than the metal butt plug guy. This one was just a flesh wound.

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Whoever gave the MRI machine a gun needs to be fired.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a gun needs to be fired.

--The MRI Machine

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[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Muricans and science don´t mix ...

[-] bedrooms@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

I'm so tired of these news. The MRI has the right to self-defense!

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt

What's the next line in this lyrics

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun,

(Gets Shot in the Butt)

She been a dumbass since a teen, you know she dat one,

(Face like a mutt)

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[-] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago

Gotta be strapped at all times. Liberal doc might give her a covid booster.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

"I knew I couldn't trust that damn MRI!"

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

you're supposed to swap to your attack dog and wooden baseball bat loadout when you enter an MRI room, dipshit

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Did this happen again, or is it the same one as before?

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago
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