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>> At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an
by sandworm101 2y ago
>> At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said. The MRI machine’s magnetic force then allegedly sucked his rifle across the room, pinning it against the machine.
I'd consider it lucky that the rifle didn't discharge. All the safety systems in the world cannot be expected to protect against a random magnetic field doing who knowns what with the internals of a gun while it flies across the room. But this sort of unforeseen situation is why you never walk around with a finger on the trigger.
- woah 2y agoI want to see a slow motion video of what happens when you fire iron slugs past an MRI machine
- wormlord 2y agoYou could probably get them to do a 180-degree u-turn
- nolist_policy 2y agoMight be fun to calculate it on paper if I weren't so lazy.
- Overtonwindow 2y agoMyth Busters missed a good one. Could a bullet do a 180 passed an mri machine.
- floren 2y agoI don't think Mythbusters had the budget to deal with a possible result of "bullet gets sucked directly into the insanely expensive machinery, destroying it"
- stop50 2y agoPlus the danger of fluid helium escaping within seconds.
- calciphus 2y agoI suspect "MRI-strength electromagnet" falls into a different budget category than "medical grade and certified imaging system", including but not limited to "MRI removed from hospital and junked because it's no longer maintained / useful / accurate enough". They are pretty resourceful
- antisthenes 2y agoFinally, something that can curve a bullet.
- darknavi 2y agoI'd also consider it very lucky that the rifle wasn't securely strapped in while it was being pulled across the room.
- bastard_op 2y agoThat was my thought as well. The real farce would have been if were strapped to him and he flew with it like superman. At least he would have been able to get imaging quickly.
- falcolas 2y agoHe's also lucky the chimney for the boiled helium was working properly. Otherwise he (and perhaps some of his comrades) would be dead from asphyxiation. The quenching process isn't exactly something they practice.
- sandworm101 2y agoUnless you are in a closed environment, like a balloon, helium will disapate. Importantly, helium disipates upwards. You pass out, falling to the floor where the incoming air is, but likely will survive.