Originally published at: LAPD officer demonstrates validity of MRI warnings - Boing Boing
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ACAB
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Bonus:
Van Nuys isn’t a neighborhood of El Lay, it’s a city with its own zipcode and all. Local wags, far from unexpectedly call it Van Halen.
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a process known amongst the nerds as “quenching” (as in: “damn it Sheldon! you quenched the magnet!!”)
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Do cops have to pass a reading comprehension test?
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Some can’t spell cop even if you spot them the C and the O
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There needs to be security footage with yakity sax.The article I read said the rifle wasn’t properly slung and sucked it across the room into the machine.
The plaintiffs say the officers’ behavior was “nothing short of a disorganized circus, with no apparent rules, procedures, or even a hint of coordination.”
A literal clown show!
Did they not think that diagnostic machines might use a shit load of power?
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From TFA:
The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.
I doubt that will stop them from trying to wriggle out; but just leaving a bunch of 5.56 on the floor after your zany magnet adventure seems like it would be hard to sell as in line with training and procedures…
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Let’s cut a bunch of words from your statement and get to the basic truth
THEY NOT THINK
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Important to note that EMS and firefighters responding to an emergency situation (and this was not that) in a similar facility would have known how to enter the room in a non-clown manner.
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Not even considering anything else, this is abhorrent. We are at Peak Helium and we shouldn’t be wasting it on this. Sure, it’s “renewable” but alpha decay of heavy elements isn’t very fast overall.
Only a little in fun, we are running out of He. In support of that our young kaboom-lette eagerly looks forward to hydrogen balloons for her birthday… (not joking, done it, outside of course, and it was awesome!)
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Cops with guns can solve everything.
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Van Nuys is city of LA; council district 6. It has a bunch of zipcodes. And Van Halen is from Pasadena.
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Thanks for that.
Wags still call it Van Halen, tho.
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Wanna see the body cam footage of the cops walking out of the room all talking like Pee Wee Herman.
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“Higher-than-usual energy use” at a medical diagnostic centre? Gee, what could that be?
The dumbasses shouldn’t have raided the facility in the first place. Don’t they have to get a warrant for this sort of shit? Who signed that off on the basis of “higher-than-usual energy use” and somebody saying they smelt weed?
EDIT: Opps, I owe Mr44 a Coke.
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Maybe they were high but the evidence room was getting a bit empty?
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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnostic-center-inc-v-city-of-los-angeles/
- At 5:01 PM, an LAPD Officer was observed standing in front of the MRI office door, reading the sign that read, “Warning. Magnetic Field. High Frequency Yield. Metal Parts and Medical Instruments of All Types prohibited.” Additionally, the warning sign displayed photographs of items prohibited in the room, which included scissors, screwdrivers, keys, watches, and credit cards.
- The LAPD Officer then proceeded to the end of the hallway and returned a few seconds later with another LAPD Officer.
- Said LAPD officer, dangling a rifle in his right hand, with an unsecured strap, approached the MRI Office, glanced at the large warning sign on the door, reopened the door with his left hand and proceeded inside.
- Expectedly, the magnetic force of the MRI machine attracted the LAPD Officer’s loose rifle, securing it to the machine.
- The MRI machine was equipped with a sealed emergency pull button labeled, “Caution, Emergency Use Only.” This button was intended to be activated solely in the event of a genuine emergency, such as a health risk to a patient inside the machine, a fire, or an evacuation situation.
- Rather than seeking assistance from the on-site employee, or waiting for the manager’s arrival, one of the LAPD Officers made the unilateral decision to break the seal and activate the emergency shutdown button, deactivating the MRI machine.
- This action caused the MRI’s magnet to rapidly lose superconductivity, leading to the evaporation of approximately 2000 liters of helium gas and resulting in extensive damage to the MRI machine.
- The LAPD Officer then grabbed his rifle, this time wearing the strap over his shoulder as he should have when he entered the MRI room, and proceeded to walk toward the entrance, leaving the magazine full of bullets on the floor of the MRI office.
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The universe as a whole is about 25% helium by mass and the proportion is slowly going up as stars fuse hydrogen into helium (but most helium was formed early in the Big Bang and fusion has increased that only very slightly since then). It just doesn’t stick around on Earth.
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