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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Flying Objects

Photographs of various objects which have flown into MRI machines: chairs, gas bottles, floor buffers, filing cabinets. Every time I've been near an MRI room (in a professional capacity, I go into clinics, hospitals, and such quite frequently), they've been fanatical about making us remove ALL metal before we go to survey the space: keys, rings, belt buckles, etc. I can't even take a pencil inside to make my sketches. They provide us with special writing instruments to use while in the room.

Even if an object is nominally non-ferrous (a gold wedding band, for example), mere trace amounts of iron in an object can be a problem. One tech told me of a woman whose finger was ripped by off by a "solid gold" ring her boyfriend had given her, which she refused to remove. Turned out it was steel with gold plating. Well, you didn't need that finger anyway, honey...

I simply don't understand people who walk into a room containing A GIANT FUCKING MAGNET carrying metal objects. Pretty sure there's a Darwin Corollary at work there.

posted by Jar(egg)head at 16:51

1 Comments:

Blogger davis14633 said...

Never, I mean NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the general public. First of all, no one ever reads signs. Just watch an entrance where a "use other door" sign is posted and see how many idiots tug on the wrong door a few times before they try the other one.

Then lets not forget the "elites" who think the rules are for everyone else. 10 items or less, well I just have 15 thats close enough. Stay behind the red line? That is for the "Other" people, not me.

Then there are the carbon dioxide machines. The ones you wonder how in God's creation they have made it to adulthood with all of their limbs and with a pulse. Most teenage boys fit this description at least once in their life, but some are in their 30's and still like this.

Lastly, there are the ones who are the "experts" they know better and are "smarter" than the average bear. These are the ones you see driving into moving water during floods, filming tornadoes outside their door, and doing 65 mph in a 35 mph zone when there is an inch of ice on the road, but they have four wheel drive and are from "up North" and know how to drive in snow. THIS AIN'T FUCKING SNOW YA MORON! It's ice ya dipshit and you might as well put your Escalade on a skating rink and steer at speed.

Ok, calming down. Taking blood pressure medicine. See, all better now. Have a nice weekend...I know I will.

06:51  

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