Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt
Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt
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Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt
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If only there'd been a another, good MRI machine with a gun present.
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I read this story as the MRI machine being the good guy and successfully defending itself
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Firearms should be standard issue for all MRI machines to stop this from happening in the future.
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The problem wasn't that she had a gun, the problem was her non-specific mental illness.
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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:
- Carry gun around because that's what I always do.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Walk into MRI exam room - had to say "no" about metal on my person. These medical people are overly careful anyways.
- 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.
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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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Just like religion, it starts with an insane belief and snowballs from there.
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You'd think a metal detector would be mandatory in all MRI departments before you enter?
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It looks like it is on all new or renovated MRIs, which makes this all the more concerning.
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imo you could leave the bullets with the clothes and throw the gun in the toilet or something.
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It's bizarre to me that a basic scan with a metal detector wand isn't required before walking into the MRI chamber.
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I hope the machine is fine
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The machine costs as much as she'll make in 10 years.
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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.
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In Chemistry (where it originated) it is still called NMR. There is no image produced, but a spectrum (graph).
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Ah, the same kind of people who are worried about phone radiation while spending days roasting on the beach every summer.
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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.
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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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Your comment started quite the debate here. Everyone needs to slow down and realize there's insurance on the machine and the insurance even covers morons with guns. Might the insurance company go after her? Sure, they'd probably sue her homeowner's insurance, because when in doubt that seems to be what happens. They'd never go after the individual for this, unless it was maybe intentional.
Hospital goers will foot the bill regardless, because that's what we do here in the good old US of A.
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The end of your comment is where I was focusing before. Insurance is a for-profit business. Rates most certainly go up for the hospital, which gets transferred to other patients. Reference: worked with hospitals, medical devices, and insurance.
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If the bullet exited through the opening in the machine then it may not have struck it at all. Typically a waist holstered gun will have it's barrel pointing down, in the general direction of the carrier's feet, which happens to be towards the opening of the MRI. I think it's entirely plausible the machine wasn't damaged.
Of course that means the bullet would have gone sailing into the opposite wall, which is extremely dangerous. Depending on the wall and caliber it easily could have penetrated the wall and injured/killed someone on the other side.
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They'd probably still need to turn the machine off because of the incident. That will already cost a lot of money.
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Oh this is a take I hadn't considered. If this is the case, everyone would be lucky indeed.
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Having her money taken for the rest of her life is not a good response. Ofcourse she's a fucking dumbass, but having her life destroyed because of that one moment is not adequate.
The problem of healthcare in the USA is way more severe than a destroyed MRI machine.
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"Garnished" means to take an amount small enough not to diminish her means of survival. She just wouldn't have her luxuries.
Even in single payer systems, dumbasses should be fined for damages.
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I agree with you. I feel like there is too often a “throw the book at them!” reaction to every wrong or mistake, maybe especially in the US. Which explains the hyper punitive justice system and the highest prison population in the world.
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Where in the article does it say her life is destroyed?
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Oh no! Is the MRI machine okay? The article doesn't say anything about it.
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Lucky it wasn't worse. You can't have any metal on in a huge rotating magnet. Dumb is gonna dumb.
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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.-
A CT scanner is a rotating X-ray device. No rotating magnets here!
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Ah thanks for the clarification! And you are right about torn to shreds. I recommend people go watch those videos that show what happens with metal in MRI machines.
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We're lucky she didn't merge with the gun into a super soldier!
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I thought the "M" was for "Magic". Silly me.
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With the cost and risks of MRI machines, why aren't there metal detectors at the entrance?
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Eek wait until they reverse this. "If you can survive the MRI machine, you can get on the plane." Lol
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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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She DID get shot in the butt. It just isn't mentioned whether it's an entry or exit wound
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I had a head MRI a few weeks ago. They didn't make me change.
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Whoever gave the MRI machine a gun needs to be fired.
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a gun needs to be fired.
--The MRI Machine
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Guns don't kill people, MRI machines with guns kill people!
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Ideally, out of said gun.
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It was clearly contraband when we know MRI are supposed to function at the band^width of 1 MHz to 300 MHz
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Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt
What's the next line in this lyrics
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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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Woman enters MRI machine with a gun, GETS SHOT IN BUTT
She had it easy else headline would've been, DIES OF VAG SMUT
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I'm so tired of these news. The MRI has the right to self-defense!
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The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with an MRI machine.
as that commonly-repeated defense goes
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Gotta be strapped at all times. Liberal doc might give her a covid booster.
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you're supposed to swap to your attack dog and wooden baseball bat loadout when you enter an MRI room, dipshit
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"I knew I couldn't trust that damn MRI!"
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Did this happen again, or is it the same one as before?
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different case from 10 months ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/02/12/lawyer-dies-after-shot-by-his-own-concealed-gun-triggered-by-mri-machine/?sh=f55817568ac5
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It was a guy last time
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A normal day in usa
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There are idiots in this world, and there are bigger idiots, and well, there are American gun owners.
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With all of the police at any given hospital, it's interesting that this woman wasn't arrested and charged. Discharging a concealed handgun in a hospital? Just American things!
Also, I love how she lied about having a gun, apparently not understanding that they're about to walk into the most dangerous place on Earth to possess metal. Remember the buttplug MRI story? Like, these damn libruls are going to take my gun away if I tell them about it!
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Ye Olde Anal Railgun
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Directly from the wiki entry=
MRI was originally called NMRI (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging), but "nuclear" was dropped to avoid negative associations.[2] Certain atomic nuclei are able to absorb radio frequency (RF) energy when placed in an external magnetic field; the resultant evolving spin polarization can induce a RF signal in a radio frequency coil and thereby be detected.[3] In clinical and research MRI, hydrogen atoms are most often used to generate a macroscopic polarization that is detected by antennas close to the subject being examined.[3] Hydrogen atoms are naturally abundant in humans and other biological organisms, particularly in water and fat. For this reason, most MRI scans essentially map the location of water and fat in the body. Pulses of radio waves excite the nuclear spin energy transition, and magnetic field gradients localize the polarization in space. By varying the parameters of the pulse sequence, different contrasts may be generated between tissues based on the relaxation properties of the hydrogen atoms therein.
Fucking incredible.
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Wow, amazing! It's basically turning us into a 5G antenna like the conspiratorials always wanted us to avoid!
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Welcome to Costco. I love you.
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The only thing that can stop a bad MRI with a gun is a good MRI with a gun.
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you can't take away muh gunz
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Even the MRI machines in America are armed
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Looks like a bad porn plot.
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Only in america.
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This article mentions a much more interesting (imo) situation:
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Ok so time and place no? Like both of these stories are just why? Why do you need either of those things on or in you when going for a MRI?
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How did she sneak it in though? Usually aren't you wearing a hospital gown at this point?
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Sadly this isn't the first time. Years ago I read a story about a man who took his mother to get an MRI. While he was there his gun went off and killed her.
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This happened in January of this year. Not the story you mention, but it seems to be happening a bit.
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“Be sure to not have any metal objects”
“Okay, just have my handgun” -
Anyone remember the “anal rail gun” from earlier this year? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mri-butt-plug-injuries/
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The article fucking uncritically links it. Fuck me but that's not journalism
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Reminds me of The One:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-NppFUWG9k&t=2m0s-
That movie goes hard for a 12 year old boy looking for something to try and be as cool as the matrix.
Plus all the wonderful, beautiful songs picked for the soundtrack.
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Such a kind face for a villain.
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On the bright side, she prevented an attack by a gunman in the MRI.
/s
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Saw a similar case this year here in Brazil, earlier in february. A pro-gun lawyer was accompanying his mother on a MRI. Once the thing started, his gun, a 9mm pistol, was sucked and shot once it got stuck on the MRI, hitting the man in the belly. He died 21 days later.
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Woman WHAT?
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I'm guessing she was there to get an MRI because there was something wrong with her brain.
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There are one or two entries on the wikipedia list of unusual deaths like that.
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Did anyone else read that as "Woman Enters MRI with a Machine Gun" ?
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Guilty
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But is the MRI machine OK?
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I hear that's the million dollar wound.
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Fortunately you don't have to worry about removing bullet fragments
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HOW? Also, did she get Darwin award?
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As she just injured herself and did not remove herself from the gene pool, she does not qualify.
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Sorry, but Darwin awards are for people who improved the gene pool by removing themselves from it. I know anal is popular, but I don't think that's how you make babies.
Now, she could get an honorable mention for the attempt.
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she's 57, I don't think she's having more kids.
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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?
A liberal might make her gay when she least expects it!
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.
They turned me into a newt.
No one's giving her 5G on her watch!
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.
People shouldn't have guns. Simple as that.
Who the hell decided allowing every civilian a fully functional firearm is a good idea
People who need guns in order to feel safe live in a shithole.
This is such a weird take, but I hear it a lot. Many of the people I work with carry and very few of them are like that.
I think there are cultural differences, though. City people are more likely to be that way, but for the more rural or country guys it's the same as me carrying a knife all the time. It's just something that's done.
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.
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.
"Freedom".
But the MRI confiscated my gunz! What part of, "shall not be infringed" does it not understand?!
amurica at it's finest
Freedumb!
To own the libs, duh
Own the libs, shoot your own butt!
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.
They don't do that in the States. Well, at least half of them.
Had an MRI a couple of weeks ago. Wore my own clothes. Tech did say I should lower my trousers to my knees when I pointed out that there was a fly zip, but didn’t seem too bothered.
I've done MRI 3 times. Wore my own clothes all three times.
I had a head MRI a few weeks ago. They didn't make me take off my clothes, they just triple checked I had nothing metal on me or inside me by asking me several times.
There don't need to be additional details. She snuck a gun into the MRI room and found out why you shouldn't do that.