If you ’ve been on Twitter today , you may have hail across a tweet that made you strain your butthole as closely as it is possible to go .

If you have n’t , here are the basics : Twitter drug user BradiusZero shared a CAT scan which appears to show a butt cud embedded within someone ’s body far higher than a butt plug should be .

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" Greatest personal injury case I ’ve ever heard , " an accompanying screenshot of a direct substance read . " An figure Valley attorney , has picked up a client who is suing a sex miniature party . Said client purchase a butt hack that was push as ' 100 % silicone ' . Client hold out butt stopple to MRI appointment . Much to guest ’s dismay , hind end plug in fact has a metallic core . Butt plug is accelerated at the fastness of strait [ … ] into guest ’s breast cavity . delineate in memoranda as an ' anal track hit man ' . Client survived with major accidental injury . "

While a dismay cautionary tale about the dangers of mix metal buttocks plugs and MRI machines , there are of course reasonableness to be skeptical , given how similar it sound to urban legend formats , and the fact that the scan image first appeared a month ago onReddit , before being deleted .

Nevertheless , it is still a dreadful idea to wear a metallic arse fireplug to an MRI appointment .

MRI machine work out by creating powerful magnetic fields ( and wireless wave ) aim H nuclei ( proton ) in water . As proton are subject to the magnetized airfield ( about athousand timesstronger than a electric refrigerator attracter ) their Axis line up .

" This uniform alignment creates a magnetic vector oriented along the bloc of the MRI scanner , " skill editor in chief Abi Berger explains in theBMJ .

" When extra energy ( in the signifier of a radio undulation ) is added to the magnetic subject , the magnetized transmitter is deflected . The receiving set wave absolute frequency [ … ] that stimulate the H nucleus to resonate is subject on the element seek ( hydrogen in this case ) and the durability of the magnetized subject area . "

" When the radiofrequency source is switched off the magnetic vector return to its resting state , and this causes a signaling ( also a radio wave ) to be emitted . It is this signal which is used to create the MR images . "

While this is big for seeing inside the body – peculiarly gristle and muscles , which other scanning method ca n’t envision as effectively – it ’s not so great if you happen to be wearing metallic element , inside oroutsideyour somebody .