DOTD (Dumbass of the day)

RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

You look like a monkey and smell like one too
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jeepinmatt said:
Yes, dumb, but I'm trying to understand the mechanics of this. I assume the theory is the magnetic force somehow pulled the trigger?
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My guess is that he realized it was coming free from waistband and grabbed it finger on trigger (poor trigger discipline) and it pulled. His hand was pulling backward to keep it from moving away from him and reflex tripped the trigger. Just a guess. Either way, it's amazing that someone smart enough to go through law school would have a gun in a hospital, let alone close enough to an MRI room.

Something sounds fishy either way.
 
justjeepin86 said:
I bet that bastard was getting HOT too. I remember a metal shaving burning in my hand while I was in an MRI.
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The feild strength increases exponentially (or maybe geometrically) as you get closer to the bore. You have to be pretty close for that to happen.

EDIT - thinking about it, thats not form the static feild that is always on. Its from the excitation of shifting fields from the RF pulse during the imaging sequence.
 
ManglerYJ said:
My guess is that he realized it was coming free from waistband and grabbed it finger on trigger (poor trigger discipline) and it pulled. His hand was pulling backward to keep it from moving away from him and reflex tripped the trigger. Just a guess. Either way, it's amazing that someone smart enough to go through law school would have a gun in a hospital, let alone close enough to an MRI room.

Something sounds fishy either way.
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It seems unlikely something about the RF sequence pulled the trigger or set it off.... I agree it probably started slipping out of his waist, but then it got hung up on something and twisted around. Who knows what since he shouldn't have had a belt w/ a buckle either.
Note a shot to the abdomen means since he was laying down, and presumably it started with barrel towards feet, the barrel was pointing down to the floor (ish) when it went off.
At some hospitals the MRI techs have a wand they'll run over you TSA style just bc people are dumb.
 
RatLabGuy said:
people are dumb.
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My wife always asks people if they have any metal in their bodies before she schedules their MRI. There are always a few people who say no, so she of course does all her due diligence and looks at medical records and finds stuff all the time. "Do you still have that metal rod in your leg?" "Oh yeah, forgot bout that." How do you forget you have a rod in your leg?
 
I've got an MRI coming up in a couple of weeks to make sure my brain isn't leaking out.
Since I have a history of metal work and fab ...... I get to have xrays first.
 
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