Charlie StrossFeb 10, 2023

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room:

It's a superconducting electromagnet, mate. The metal detectors on the door aren't there for your explodey penis substitute, they're there because ferrous metals go ZOOOOM if they get too close to the high-Tesla field!

It's like the dipshit ignored the pre-MRI fact sheet/briefing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-lawyer-death-mri-gun-b2279514.html

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan in Brazil

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room

The Independent
Show threadOriel Jutty 
@cstross "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." Who proofread this?
Feb 10, 2023 at 1:40pmWeb
Show threadRenéeFeb 10, 2023
@barubary Also, "tummy"?? did they adapt this from a "toddler shoots self with parent's gun" story? I mean the similarities are striking, but ... @cstross
Show threadJdeBPFeb 10, 2023

@reneestephen @barubary @cstross @jkcheney @Sonikku

Some of the Brazilian news reports wrote "abdômen", which means what you think it does. But some used "barriga", which as Wiktionary shows is translated less formally. This was likely translated from one of the latter.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barriga#Portuguese

barriga - Wiktionary

Show threadGirlCrooshFeb 10, 2023
@reneestephen @barubary @cstross I had the same reaction. Tummy?!?
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Feb 10, 2023
@barubary @cstross it's either an AI or a Child that wrote this.
Show threadAngry CentristFeb 11, 2023
@Lazarou @barubary @cstross Probably machine translation from Portuguese, considering the context.
Show threadGen X-WingFeb 11, 2023
@barubary @cstross Difficult to proofread when all that schadenfreude hits you.