Guns don't kill people, MRI scanners do.

I just can't see the attraction.

It was magnetic 🧲

What quaint writing style the journalist has - 'it went off, shooting him in the tummy'

The magnetic field of those scanners are lethal

A boy was killed because he was allowed into the room with a steel oxygen cylinder. The magnetic pulled the cylinder across the room and into him

the picture is just to die hire strong the field is

What quaint writing style the journalist has – ‘it went off, shooting him in the tummy’

Yes it sounds like something John Craven would have said on Newsround.

The most extreme example I've seen of someone being triggered.

Magnetism not his field of expertise I guess.

If only there had been a good MRI scanner with a gun to shoot the bad one.

We need more MRI scanners clearly.

How iron-ic

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with an MRI

Better to have an MRI scanner and not need one than to need an MRI scanner and not have one

Will the scanner be charged with involuntary manslaughter?

A 3 Tesla magnet array will find anything metallic.

Darwin nomination from me.

What quaint writing style the journalist has – ‘it went off, shooting him in the tummy’

is this maybe a telltale for an AI written or translated story do you reckon?

I can't look at that picture without saying 'nom nom nom'.

The best thing about MRIs is when they play Smoke on the Water.

Magnetism not his field of expertise I guess.

Very good.

Intelligent enough to be a lawyer, nowhere near smart enough to pay attention to clear instructions from staff. Perhaps he thought because the gun was concealed, a magnet wouldn’t affect it.
Darwin Award winner, I think. Trying to think of a lawyer joke that might be appropriate.

No thoughts of sympathy or empathy given he arrived with his mother, an elderly woman who then received such terrible news.

Let's hope she doesn't post on here.

Perhaps he forgot given his other concerns. I have a fine scan of my cycling tools in my back pocket after my accident. They came running in to cut off the back of my jersey after seeing the image. It looks like I’d eaten a CO2 canister, a phone, coins, and a multi-tool. Fortunately I was not killed by a multi-tool!

Given he wasn’t the person being scanned why was he in the room? I’m pretty sure there weren’t even staff in the room while I’ve had MRI scans, let alone spectators

Perhaps he forgot given his other concerns

As well as his loaded pistol he had an extra 30 rounds on his belt, he was clearly prepared for a protracted gun battle, should the need arise.

I can understand the automatic and subconscious measures people take to deal with possible punctures before a bike ride, but it hard to understand why the deceased lawyer had taken such precautionary measures when accompanying his old dear to an MRI scan.

Had he run out of ammunition in previous gun battles during a hospital appointment?

I’m pretty sure there weren’t even staff in the room while I’ve had MRI scans, let alone spectators

Yep, they have nurses in there to get you in / out and tell you to get in the right position etc.

Nuclear warfare, given that it's actually an nMRI scanner (they dropped the n because it's a scary word).

Had he run out of ammunition in previous gun battles during a hospital appointment?

Now picking masticated mixed nuts out of keyboard. Thanks Ern!

The magnetic field from the MRI scanner pulled the pro-gun lawyer’s weapon from his waistband and it went off, shooting him in the tummy.

Is it just me or does using the word 'Tummy' somehow seem a bit infantile and/or flippant when you're reporting someone's death?

Is it just me or does using the word ‘Tummy’ somehow seem a bit infantile and/or flippant when you’re reporting someone’s death?

Its really quite technical terminology - a specific area of the puddings, just above the down-belows.

I can’t look at that picture without saying ‘nom nom nom’.

The best thing about MRIs is when they play Smoke on the Water.

I find MRIs strangely relaxing and I request no music and pretty much fall asleep whilst having mine. Depending on what's being ordered by the Doc I can be in there for almost an hour.

I find MRIs strangely relaxing and I request no music and pretty much fall asleep whilst having mine.

I find absolute cacophony weirdly sleep inducing too. I've got a CNC plasma cutter in my studio- which means there's a big compressor running pretty much continuously which I guess is a similar sort of aggressive buzz to an MRI - and a and the plasma arc cutting through steel and exiting into a water bath below - so whooshing air, vaporised steel, bubbling water, steam, sparks. Should all be very exciting - And I have to try and watch the machine like a hawk because as sometimes components when they're cut will tip up and the cutting head will crash into it, shift the plate and everything there after will be out of register and a few hundred quids worth of steel will be scrap

The trouble is - the noise of it all it really makes me want to sleep - I really struggle to keep my eyes open

I have fallen asleep in an MRI scanner despite the fact that someone was shooting my hand with a frickin' laser at the time.

I've not had an MRI scan but I got a few CAT scans in the '90s and I remember nearly dozing off in them too. I think that the instructions to breathe in, hold your breath and breathe out in a steady manner are pretty similar to standard relaxation techniques so that may have been something to do with it.