I’d only heard of this happening once before, several years ago. But it seems it’s happened since. And now again.
Lawyer dies three weeks after MRI machine’s magnetic field triggers his hidden gun to go off while taking his mother for a routine medical visit at a Brazilian lab
Mathias, a married father-of-one, was accompanying his mother to an appointment at Laboratorio Cura and forgot to remove his 9mm weapon from his waistband after entering the imaging room, according to Brazilian news outlet G1.Police said that the MRI machine’s magnetic field pulled the concealed gun away from his waist.
The gun hit the machine and the impact caused it to discharge one bullet that struck him in the abdomen.
Yes, he was told to leave his possession behind before entering the room, and specifically metal objects.
He “forgot.”
Yes, the magnetic field from a magnetic resonance imager is strong enough to grab objects a few feet away.
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Most MRI suites in America now mandate the operator use a wand to screen people prior to allowing them into the actual MRI room. People forget…. even when told repeatedly to remove ALL metal from their body. So you wand them to be sure.