Even that article fails to mention if and when the magnet was quenched.
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I remember that one. The cop was stupid enough to get his gun snatched, and then he was stupid enough to quench the MRI for that!
Here's the docket for the resulting court case. In their response this year the LAPD seem to have summarily denied everything.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnostic-center-inc-v-city-of-los-angeles/
Unless something gets stuck. Then it is shut down and restarted after the thing is removed. Takes hours though, I think the startup was four hours.
They had that happen at the hospital my father worked at, the cleaning lady brought in a stool with steel legs. They tried to remove it by force first, but four men could not do it.
The detector spins around the patient, but does the magnetic field spin too? I though not, but I'm not that certain.
all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength
MRI magnets are electromagnets that are supercooled with liquid helium and take hours to start or stop because of the electrical energy that has to be put in or taken out.
So just having a magnet of equal strengh for idiot defense would be a very significant waste of electricity and helium unfortunately
The argument is utterly stupid.
Ignoring that it is building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.
In that case you can play Witcher 3 instead, I'll allow it
I wonder how betrayed the people in the Appalachian feel when their supposed "own" Vance stood for this.
Yeah I considered the supercooled electromagnert couldn't possibly rotate, but I wasn't sure if it could be modulated to change field directions or something. Didn't seem very likely. Thanks for the confirmation.