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Man dies after being pulled into MRI machine while wearing metal chain: Police (abcnews.go.com)

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A 61-year-old man who suffered critical injuries after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain has died, police said Friday.

The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Westbury, New York, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

Officers responded to Nassau Open MRI following a 911 call and were informed that the man "entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress," the police department said in a statement.

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[–] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The language here is really confusing and the link to the police statement is broken for me. When they say and unauthorized MRI room do they mean he was unauthorized to enter or something about the MRI room being unauthorized, like a backroom dodgy deal sort of thing?

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 51 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I found a NY Times article, which starts out:

A man who entered an M.R.I. room during a scan in Westbury, N.Y., on Wednesday was pulled into the machine by his chain necklace and was hospitalized in critical condition, the authorities said.

The man, who is 61, was wearing a “large metallic chain” around his neck when he entered the room at Nassau Open MRI around 4:34 p.m., according to the Nassau County Police Department, on Long Island. The man, whom the police did not name, did not have authorization to enter the room, the authorities said.

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[–] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The former. He was never meant to enter that room while the MRI was being conducted for another patient.

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[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's a hell of a chain. I'd be interested to see how big it was and what his injuries were

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

Was it Flava Flav?

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They check your nipples, penis, vagina, belly button and ears for rings. Specially rings attached to them, which could be potentially awful to see after the MRI.

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