Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt
The 57-year-old woman denied having any firearms before entering the MRI, according to an adverse event report filed to the FDA.
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.
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 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.
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.
You can’t. My guess is, it was a party or off the clock silliness.
You can’t even wear your own clothes in those machines. Hospital gowns couldn’t handle the weight of even the smallest handgun.
The details are purposely scant because it had to be reported but they didn’t want to share what really happened.
I've done MRI 3 times. Wore my own clothes all three times.
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
Firearms should be standard issue for all MRI machines to stop this from happening in the future.
The problem wasn't that she had a gun, the problem was her non-specific mental illness.
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:
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.
Just like religion, it starts with an insane belief and snowballs from there.
You'd think a metal detector would be mandatory in all MRI departments before you enter?
It looks like it is on all new or renovated MRIs, which makes this all the more concerning.
imo you could leave the bullets with the clothes and throw the gun in the toilet or something.
It's bizarre to me that a basic scan with a metal detector wand isn't required before walking into the MRI chamber.
I hope the machine is fine
The machine costs as much as she'll make in 10 years.
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.
In Chemistry (where it originated) it is still called NMR. There is no image produced, but a spectrum (graph).
Ah, the same kind of people who are worried about phone radiation while spending days roasting on the beach every summer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They'd probably still need to turn the machine off because of the incident. That will already cost a lot of money.
Oh this is a take I hadn't considered. If this is the case, everyone would be lucky indeed.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
We're lucky she didn't merge with the gun into a super soldier!
I thought the "M" was for "Magic". Silly me.
They had it set to “M” for magnetic when they should’ve had it set to “W” for wumbo.
The M could have really been for Murder! (Well, probably more like Manslaughter, but close enough.)
With the cost and risks of MRI machines, why aren't there metal detectors at the entrance?
Eek wait until they reverse this. "If you can survive the MRI machine, you can get on the plane." Lol
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
She DID get shot in the butt. It just isn't mentioned whether it's an entry or exit wound
I had a head MRI a few weeks ago. They didn't make me change.
Whoever gave the MRI machine a gun needs to be fired.
a gun needs to be fired.
--The MRI Machine
Guns don't kill people, MRI machines with guns kill people!
Ideally, out of said gun.
It was clearly contraband when we know MRI are supposed to function at the band^width of 1 MHz to 300 MHz
Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt
What's the next line in this lyrics
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)
Woman enters MRI machine with a gun, GETS SHOT IN BUTT
She had it easy else headline would've been, DIES OF VAG SMUT
I'm so tired of these news. The MRI has the right to self-defense!
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with an MRI machine.
as that commonly-repeated defense goes
Gotta be strapped at all times. Liberal doc might give her a covid booster.
you're supposed to swap to your attack dog and wooden baseball bat loadout when you enter an MRI room, dipshit
"I knew I couldn't trust that damn MRI!"
A normal day in usa
There are idiots in this world, and there are bigger idiots, and well, there are American gun owners.
Did this happen again, or is it the same one as before?
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
It was a guy last time
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!
Ye Olde Anal Railgun
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
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.
Wow, amazing! It's basically turning us into a 5G antenna like the conspiratorials always wanted us to avoid!
The only thing that can stop a bad MRI with a gun is a good MRI with a gun.
Even the MRI machines in America are armed
Looks like a bad porn plot.
you can't take away muh gunz
Only in america.
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.
This happened in January of this year. Not the story you mention, but it seems to be happening a bit.
This article mentions a much more interesting (imo) situation:
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?
How did she sneak it in though? Usually aren't you wearing a hospital gown at this point?
Anyone remember the “anal rail gun” from earlier this year? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mri-butt-plug-injuries/
The article fucking uncritically links it. Fuck me but that's not journalism
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.
Such a kind face for a villain.
“Be sure to not have any metal objects”
“Okay, just have my handgun”
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.
On the bright side, she prevented an attack by a gunman in the MRI.
/s
Woman WHAT?
I'm guessing she was there to get an MRI because there was something wrong with her brain.
There are one or two entries on the wikipedia list of unusual deaths like that.
Did anyone else read that as "Woman Enters MRI with a Machine Gun" ?
Guilty
I hear that's the million dollar wound.
Fortunately you don't have to worry about removing bullet fragments
HOW? Also, did she get Darwin award?
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.
As she just injured herself and did not remove herself from the gene pool, she does not qualify.
she's 57, I don't think she's having more kids.
But is the MRI machine OK?
