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Sounds like a horror movie plot.

Early news reports were terrible. I couldn't understand how this man
ended up in the scanning room while the MRI machine was in operation by accident. Aren't these rooms locked during tests?

But the wife, undergoing the scan, requested that her husband help get
her off the table, so the technician summoned him into the room. He
entered during the scan. The man was wearing a heavy chain around his
neck for weight training.

The accident occurred Wednesday 7/16/2025; he died Thursday.

Man dies after heavy weight-training chain around neck pulls him into
MRI machine
AP
Updated 2:12 PM CDT, July 19, 2025 https://apnews.com/article/mri-machine-long-island-chain-necklace-4126620d358e3d6b73d145d32ab72852
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In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Early news reports were terrible. I couldn't understand how this man
ended up in the scanning room while the MRI machine was in operation
by accident. Aren't these rooms locked during tests?

It seems pretty clear that the MRI operator intentionally turned on
the magnet knowing that this guy would be working with his chain
nearby. I hope he is arrested and brought to justice.
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J.D. Baldwin <news@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Early news reports were terrible. I couldn't understand how this man
ended up in the scanning room while the MRI machine was in operation
by accident. Aren't these rooms locked during tests?

It seems pretty clear that the MRI operator intentionally turned on
the magnet knowing that this guy would be working with his chain
nearby. I hope he is arrested and brought to justice.

If you hadn't cut the quote, I wouldn't have needed to repeat what
news reports stated.

The victim wasn't a workman but the patient's husband. The technician
had already seen the man wearing the chain for muscle-building purposes
and had commented on how heavy it was.

The scan was already in progress. The patient requested her husband. The husband was the victim. The technician called the husband into the room.
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In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote,
quoting me:

Early news reports were terrible. I couldn't understand how this man >>ended up in the scanning room while the MRI machine was in operation
by accident. Aren't these rooms locked during tests?

It seems pretty clear that the MRI operator intentionally turned on
the magnet knowing that this guy would be working with his chain
nearby. I hope he is arrested and brought to justice.

If you hadn't cut the quote, I wouldn't have needed to repeat what
news reports stated.

What can I say ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXYndNL4Mu8
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In article <105opuh$5rb$1@reader1.panix.com>,
J.D. Baldwin <news@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:
...

If you hadn't cut the quote, I wouldn't have needed to repeat what
news reports stated.

What can I say ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXYndNL4Mu8

Good one! I must say I didn't expect that.

But, yeah, it does look to me like you're pretty eager (*) to inject criminality into what is plainly a tragedy. Assuming this is just an
accident, I seriously doubt any charges will be filed. The tech will
almost certainly never work this sort of job again; if he isn't fired, I'd imagine he'd voluntarily leave and find some other way to make a living.

Absent any indication of some sort of intent, I can't imagine charges being even considered. Now, that all said, this might make a kewl plot for some
TV crime show, if it did actually turn out that the tech and the patient
were secretly lovers and that they hoped to run away together once hubby
was out of the picture...

(*) Both here and in the e-bike/chain case.
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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

J.D. Baldwin <news@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:

...

If you hadn't cut the quote, I wouldn't have needed to repeat what
news reports stated.

What can I say ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXYndNL4Mu8

Good one! I must say I didn't expect that.

But, yeah, it does look to me like you're pretty eager (*) to inject >criminality into what is plainly a tragedy.

In two threads in a row

In a single-car accident, the tree clearly committed an intentional
homicide.

Assuming this is just an accident, I seriously doubt any charges will
be filed. The tech will almost certainly never work this sort of job
again; if he isn't fired, I'd imagine he'd voluntarily leave and find
some other way to make a living.

Absent any indication of some sort of intent, I can't imagine charges being >even considered. Now, that all said, this might make a kewl plot for some
TV crime show, if it did actually turn out that the tech and the patient
were secretly lovers and that they hoped to run away together once hubby
was out of the picture...

(*) Both here and in the e-bike/chain case.

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