Bumbling US cops who raided a medical diagnostics center thinking it was a cannabis farm got a gun stuck to the powerful magnets of an MRI machine, a California lawsuit has alleged.After bursting into the diagnostics center in October last year, the SWAT team found only offices, a single employee and medical devices, including a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, a diagnostic tool that uses high-powered magnets to create detailed scans of a patient's body.

Bumbling US cops who raided a medical diagnostics center thinking it was a cannabis farm got a gun stuck to the powerful magnets of an MRI machine, a California lawsuit has alleged.

The owners of the facility are claiming damages against the Los Angeles Police Department for an operation their lawyers describe as “nothing short of a disorganized circus.”

Their lawsuit details how a SWAT team swarmed Noho Diagnostic Center after the squad’s leader persuaded a magistrate to issue a search warrant.

Officer Kenneth Franco drew on his “twelve hours of narcotics training” and discovered the facility was using more electricity than nearby stores, the lawsuit said.

“Officer Franco, therefore, concluded (the facility) was cultivating cannabis, disregarding the fact that it is a diagnostic facility utilizing an MRI machine, X-ray machine and other heavy medical equipment – unlike the surrounding businesses selling flowers, chocolates and children’s merchandise,” the suit said.

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  • Wilzax@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 months ago

    Could I theoretically make my home immune to guns by surrounding it with kevlar-coated MRIs

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I hope you and anyone in your immediate vicinity don’t value your payment cards or electronic devices.

      • Tja@programming.dev
        5·
        2 months ago

        Payment cards haven’t used the magnetic stripe for ages. At least in Europe. Then again, in Europe I never felt the need of making my home gun proof…

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Do they not have the stripe as a fall back? We use chips here too, but I periodically still have to use the stripe when a chip reader fails repeatedly.

            • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Yeah, it is chip for the most part and some contactless (and some shit holes only do contactless through their phone app), but crappy chip equipment and card issues means I have to use the stripe about every quarter or so.

      • Wilzax@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Who needs credit cards when I’m rich enough to build an above-ground bulletproof bunker powered by supercooled 5-tesla magnets

    • yeather@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 months ago

      If you can afford the machines and the associated power usage, yes. Though the magnets inside are what you really want and would be easier to set in place than the whole machine.