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Lawyer Dies After Shot By His Own Concealed Gun Triggered By MRI Scanner [forbes.com]

No word on whether gender studies, or naturopathy, were involved.

Don’t bring a gun into a room with an MRI machine. Just don’t.

Otherwise, what tragically happened to a 40-year-old lawyer, Leandro Mathias de Novaes, could happen to you. On January 16, the lawyer allegedly brought a gun concealed on his waist into the room where his mother was going to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the Laboratorio Cura in São Paulo, Brazil. The magnetic field generated by the MRI machine then reportedly caused the gun to discharge a shot right into his abdomen, as described by Folha De S.Paulo. This led to major injuries and his being rushed to the São Luiz Morumbi Hospital. But unfortunately, the damage to his body was already so great that the lawyer ended up dying on February 6.

There’s a reason why you’re told to remove all ferromagnetic metal objects before entering a room where an MRI machine is located. The “M” stands for “magnetic” because the large tube-shaped machine can generate a powerful magnetic field, much more powerful than the fields created by the magnets on your refrigerator door. In fact, an MRI scanner can produce a magnetic field that’s 140,000 times the strength of the earth’s magnetic field, according to GE.

Also no word on how the mother is doing. Brazil can be a dangerous country.

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