Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan

[FSogol]

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

[vanlassie]

1. His poor mother.

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

[Yonnie3]

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

It is fortunate that no one else was harmed.

[FSogol]

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

[LonePirate]

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

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

[lastlib]

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

Darwin award Committee, you on this?

[Raven123]

5. Another Darwin Award Winner

[azureblue]

6. MRI machines are no joke

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]

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

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]

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

...guns do!

[keithbvadu2]

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

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

[3Hotdogs]

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

the musical.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

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

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.

[RockRaven]

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

[LeftInTX]

16. Yep!

[Aristus]

14. Jesus Christ, asshole! When they tell you to check your heat, check your heat!

Oh right; that's the thing with guns: a teachable moment is usually to teach someone else!

Hope you did the world a favor by failing to procreate.

[pansypoo53219]

15. shit. they made me remove an old cotton bra just in case.

[Kennah]

17. Gonna have to implement searches outside of MRI machines