Happened not long ago that, for the same reason, police raided a tomography & XRay clinic. Guess what, an MRI needs serious power to work…
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Dust0741@lemmy.world 5 days ago
In what country can you get raided due to high electricity usage?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 days ago
realbadat@programming.dev 5 days ago
If I remember right, one cop brought his rifle in which got sucked into the MRI machine.
Even the warrant was based on a cop lying iirc. The basis boiled down to something like “energy use and tinted windows”, which, you know… Medical imaging and patient privacy.
Idiots and asswipes.
frezik@midwest.social 5 days ago
And then they hit the emergency shutdown, which is for when people have a plate in their head and they’re stuck to the side of the machine. That one causes all the liquid helium to be quenched, thus needing to be refilled.
There is a slower shutdown that doesn’t do that, but, you know, cops.
Every detail of that story was worse than the last, and it’s 100% on the cops.
Exusia@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A button worth $25,000 on the low end to refill+replace the magnet, a million on the high end if it needs total replacement. It calls to me when I sit with the mri techs. Looking like SpongeBob trying to not push it sitting in the back.
realbadat@programming.dev 5 days ago
Thats right! I forgot about that part.
Cops are nightmarish levels of stupidity.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 days ago
Guns getting sucked into MRI machines is a recurring news story at this point.
SaltSong@startrek.website 5 days ago
So, a moment of curiosity.
If my theoretical pistol did get pulled into am MRI machine, stuck against it by the magnet, and I, for the purpose of scientific inquiry, pulled the trigger, should I expect the bullet to fire more or less as normal, to fire, but the bullet be pulled back to the machine, or for the bullet to not move, or not move more than an inch or so from the barrel?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Damn clinics, always growing weed!
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
SO THATS WHAT THE MEAN BY MEDICAL MARIJUANA!! SEE ITS THE PHARMACYS GROWING WEED, GASP
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
USA
Slovene@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Land of the free
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
they’re so free, kinder eggs were (are?) banned lol
indepndnt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There are “kinder eggs” here now, but they are in no way the kinder eggs that they have in Europe. They’re the same brand, but with a ton more plastic packaging so that we don’t get all confused about what’s chocolate and what’s not.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Land of the fuck I don’t wanna live here anymore
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
California
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 5 days ago
US
Carvex@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A judge would sign a search warrant because of a power bill? Damn
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There might also be a followup examination with a thermal camera of the property, which with a server farm, would also show significantly elevated temperatures.
This is why most of us in the USA live in constant fear that our hobbies of basement aluminum smelting operations will land us on the wrong side of the law enforcement.
gnutrino@programming.dev 5 days ago
While everyone else lives in fear that their basement aluminum smelting hobby will land them in the morgue due to the fumes.
arrow74@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Imagine if growing a plant in your home was legal and the police had to figure out something else to do with their time
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 days ago
I sometimes wonder if really serious reptile hobbyists, the kind that’ll have like a whole room full of terrariums, have to deal with suspicious cops. Reptiles like warmth, heat mats and lamps take power, one of the most popular brands for heat mat thermostats is technically meant for controlling indoor plant heating, and if they want to grow live plants in any of their animals habitats they might need grow lights too.
Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Land of the Free.
Philote@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
America version 86.47 has been rereleased as “Land of the Fee” due to the R being used elsewhere is now.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
judges here will sign warrants for anything. the way their positions are doled out a key qualification to being a judge who signs warrants is intrinsically trusting cops
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Not even a power bill. They have been known to sign warrants for nothing more than an off the shelf infrared scanner/heat scanner showing increased heat from a specific unit in a building compared to the surrounding ones.
Like your house nice and toasty in the winter? That’s a no-knock-raid.
SARGE@startrek.website 5 days ago
A judge would sign a search warrant because a cop pinky swears the target is a black ms13 Muslim antifa commiesocialmarxist.
ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ve had cops come around to check out what they could when I was living with roommates and we had all kinds of equipment that used lots of electricity. We actually got a letter from the power company telling us we were in the 99th percentile of residential power use and to consider how much money we could save with lower power use. I’m sure if the cops saw anything they could construe as evidence when they were snooping around they would then easily get a warrant and do a raid.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 days ago
I wonder how high it needs to be to get to that point.
MightBeFluffy@pawb.social 5 days ago
Depends on how behind the DEA is on meeting quotes