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FSogol

(46,726 posts) Thu Feb 9, 2023, 03:50 PM Feb 2023

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan

A lawyer was accidentally shot by his own gun after he failed to remove it before going into hospital MRI scanning room.

Leandro Mathias de Novaes took his mother for a scan at Laboratorio Cura in São Paulo, Brazil, on 16 January, Jam Press reports.

The 40-year-old is said to have failed to tell hospital workers that he had a gun on him after being told to remove all metal objects before entering the scanning room.

The magnetic field from the MRI scanner pulled the pro-gun lawyer’s weapon was pulled from his waistband and went off, shooting him in the tummy. He passed away on 6 February after battling for his life in at the São Luiz Morumbi Hospital.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawyer-brazil-gun-mri-death-b2279282.html

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Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan (Original Post) FSogol Feb 2023 OP

His poor mother. vanlassie Feb 2023 #1

He took his own life via idiocy or perhaps hubris Yonnie3 Feb 2023 #2

Exactly, the journalist had little sympathy for him: "shot in the tummy." n/t FSogol Feb 2023 #8

Idiotic gun culture has infected Brazil just like it has the US. LonePirate Feb 2023 #3

That'll learn 'im, durn 'im. lastlib Feb 2023 #4

Another Darwin Award Winner Raven123 Feb 2023 #5

MRI machines are no joke azureblue Feb 2023 #6

I think it was a House episode... canuckledragger Feb 2023 #12

Proof positive that people don't kill people... GreenWave Feb 2023 #7

When you pry my gun from my cold, dead waistband... keithbvadu2 Feb 2023 #9

Cue: "I Just Fucking Shot Myself," 3Hotdogs Feb 2023 #10

There's all kinds of wrong in this sentence... Whatthe_Firetruck Feb 2023 #11

Article:..."shooting him *in the tummy*..." Me: "WTF is this?... Oh, a British paper, nvm." RockRaven Feb 2023 #13

Yep! LeftInTX Feb 2023 #16

Jesus Christ, asshole! When they tell you to check your heat, check your heat! Aristus Feb 2023 #14

shit. they made me remove an old cotton bra just in case. pansypoo53219 Feb 2023 #15

Gonna have to implement searches outside of MRI machines Kennah Feb 2023 #17

vanlassie

(5,900 posts)

1. His poor mother.

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 03:52 PM

Feb 2023

I wonder how many times she said “That boy will be the death of me.” Thank goodness he wasn’t.

Yonnie3

(18,197 posts)

2. He took his own life via idiocy or perhaps hubris

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 04:08 PM

Feb 2023

It is fortunate that no one else was harmed.

FSogol

(46,726 posts)

8. Exactly, the journalist had little sympathy for him: "shot in the tummy." n/t

Reply to Yonnie3 (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 05:07 PM

Feb 2023

LonePirate

(13,918 posts)

3. Idiotic gun culture has infected Brazil just like it has the US.

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 04:11 PM

Feb 2023

Maybe this is just another example of evolution and nature thinning the human herd.

lastlib

(24,986 posts)

4. That'll learn 'im, durn 'im.

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 04:22 PM

Feb 2023

Darwin award Committee, you on this?

Raven123

(6,154 posts)

5. Another Darwin Award Winner

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 04:31 PM

Feb 2023

azureblue

(2,325 posts)

6. MRI machines are no joke

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 04:44 PM

Feb 2023

I thought I had completely emptied my pockets but there was a very small paper clip deep inside my front pocket and the pull was really strong. The techs warn several times about how strong the machine's magnetic field is..

canuckledragger

(1,992 posts)

12. I think it was a House episode...

Reply to azureblue (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 10:02 PM

Feb 2023

Where they were giving an MRI to a convict and the machine was tugging at the metal-based prison tattoos he had.

I know it's just a TV show, but probably quite a bit of truth to that scene.

GreenWave

(9,442 posts)

7. Proof positive that people don't kill people...

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 04:51 PM

Feb 2023

...guns do!

keithbvadu2

(40,500 posts)

9. When you pry my gun from my cold, dead waistband...

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 06:11 PM

Feb 2023

When you pry my gun from my cold, dead waistband...

3Hotdogs

(13,561 posts)

10. Cue: "I Just Fucking Shot Myself,"

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 06:12 PM

Feb 2023

the musical.

Whatthe_Firetruck

(605 posts)

11. There's all kinds of wrong in this sentence...

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2023, 06:19 PM

Feb 2023

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

Somebody above mentioned it saying tummy instead more serious words like stomach or midriff.

Pulled is used twice when only once should have been done. "the scanner pulled the pro-gun's lawywe weapon from his waistband" or "the pro-gun lawyer's weapon was pulled from his waistband (by the scanner), but this somehow tries to have it both ways.