Well, he obviously shouldn’t have been carrying the rifle into the MRI room at all. If he had been wearing the strap then he would have been yanked across the room and stuck to the machine along with the gun, maybe even pinned between the gun and the machine.
Admittedly that would be kind of hilarious.
It’s California- I doubt there’s anywhere short of being 3 miles out into the Pacific where you don’t smell the Devil’s Lettuce. 
So now older MRI room employees will have a story to tell their newer colleagues about why there’s a picture of a gun on the “prohibited items” sign next to keys, watches, and credit cards?
MRI machines are no fucking joke.They are some of the strongest magnets in the world. People have been killed by standing near a MRI machine when a flying object crushed them.
They can suck in a paperclip that’s some 10 feet away. What do you think they can do with a larger concentration of ferrous metals?
Excellent and appropriate usage of the word expectedly
I’m surprised that guns were not already included.
Safety signs are written in blood… and memes.
Yup; the Helium’s got places to go, other atoms to see, and other atoms to fuse with. Ain’t got time to dick around on this ball of dirt. /silly
Like “DO NOT LOOK INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE”, “NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU, BUT IT WILL HURT THE ENTIRE TIME”, and my favorite “NOT TO BE OPERATED BY FUCKWITS”.
(It’s friday, and my brane is coasting for the large part.)
“IF YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO READ THIS, WE WILL HAVE TO NOTIFY YOUR NEXT OF KIN.”
Tangent: I have a friend that worked for a chemical supply company and had to do hazmat training for some of the stuff that was on the site he worked at. The trainer was talking about one of the nastier things (arsine, I think), and said “If you can smell a garlic or fish odor around the area where it’s stored, you are dead, you just haven’t stopped moving yet.” Definitely on the list of Things I Won’t Work With.
Reminds me of a story from one of my lecturers (who’d got his PhD under one of the inventors of the MRI) about a senior surgeon who’d come into the see their new MRI machine. He listened condescendingly to the warning about ferrous objects, (after all, he was a senior surgeon), and walked up to the machine.
The scalpel he’d left in his top pocket was ripped out, went right through the machine, rebounded, shot past his shoulder, and embedded itself in the wall.
MRI machines don’t give a fuck about your job title.
These kinds of stories make me wonder why it isn’t standard practice to position a metal detector at the entrance to the MRI area instead of depending on the honesty and intelligence of everyone who enters the room.
Too expensive? Too cumbersome? Or maybe just that it could create a false sense of security for anyone carrying an amount of ferrous materials too small to set off the sensors?
Are senior surgeons expensive/prestigious enough to get away with that sort of damage to MRIs?
I’ve read that used prices on lower field strength gear with smaller imaging volumes have really come down(the teeny ones that chemists are still honest enough to call ‘NMR’ might even be very loosely described as ‘affordable’); but taking out an MRI suite until the vendor can do a service call seems several notches higher than harassing junior staff in terms of things that would disincline management to cover for you.
This would have been one of the first MRI machines installed in a hospital, (and I suspect the story has gained the odd detail in the telling.) But yes, in those days a senior surgeon could practically get away with murder.
At least those days are over, oh wait:
To be fair, if this was a surgeon as in “cuts people open”, he probably thought a “ferrous object” was some sort of confectionery like a Rocher or something.
Probably because for the metal detector to be effective at deterring bringing in metal object, it would be too close to the MRI to be functional.
I’m almost positive the idea isn’t to put the metal detector right next to the honkin’ huge magnet.
Just outside the projectile zone at the perimeter of the controlled access area should do nicely.
For some reason the BBS won’t let me upload pictures right now; hopefully I can add them later.
Anyway, the MHRA guidelines (which were the first I could grab at a pinch) give a concise and practical overview. Since the physics behind them are universal the technical aspects should be transferable, local legal frameworks not withstanding.
Source:
Thing is, nothing ever is truly idiot proof, and in my experience1) giving idiots guns will make them dumber, not smarter.
1) National service. And with artillery at that.
ETA:
I love the term “safety event”. For me it implies that there will be cake and a bouncy castle.
And how are the police getting that information? Did they request it for that specific location, or do they get mass dumps from the power company, then try to spot the outliers? (Without bothering to look closer for reasons of higher than normal use.) Is there a warrant involved?
Somehow I doubt a patrolman goes around the back to read the meter.
“I smelled pot” is always wonderfully hard to prove as a lie in court.
