"M-R-Ouch!", Way to Die #485, is the first death to be featured in "Up With Death", which aired on December 16, 2009.
Plot[]
Chelsea was a beautiful female nurse at a local hospital in Peoria, at midnight she was sorting out paperwork and getting ready for the next day, this was her favorite time, just her and the stillness of the empty clinic.
But then Chelsea heard glass breaking and knew that she was not alone, Chelsea began to check, wondering if there was anyone and upon entering a room she found Ned, a desperate drug addict with a gun and Ned told Chelsea to shut up, that moment was difficult, but Chelsea didn't have to be scared, she was a former Army nurse and she had been in the line of fire, Ned told her to give him the medications to use them as drugs and Chelsea gave him the keys to look for them.
The brave nurse told him where to look, Ned grabbed painkillers to calm down and Chelsea was more than happy since she could knock him out, as soon as the first hit of narcotics took effect, Ned turned his attention to Chelsea, he tried to rape her, he put her against the tomograph and threatened her, fortunately, Chelsea knew what to do, Ned was high on the drug and Chelsea just needed a little more time for him to fall, Chelsea put her combat training into action.
She started flirting and took off her dress, leaving herself in her underwear, she knew that the tomograph had an electromagnetic force 5 times stronger than a junk magnet, then Chelsea turned on the tomograph and the electromagnetic force took the gun away from Ned, but then something happened that surprised even Chelsea, the gun was not the only thing attracted to the tomograph, it also attracted Ned, he was flawed as he had a steel plate in his head. Ned was too drugged to resist the electromagnetic force and he flew towards the tomograph, hitting his head which caused swelling, hemorrhage and brain death.
Transcript[]
Narrator: Chelsea was working late at the urgent care center. She often burned the midnight oil, sorting through files and prepping for the next day's patients. This was her favorite time. Just her and the calm quiet of the empty clinic. But tonight, she wasn't alone
Chelsea: Hello? Someone there? Hello? Hey! What are you doing here?
Ned: Stop! Right there! Stop! Shut up!
Narrator: A desperate drug addict with a gun. Tough situation, but Chelsea was an ex-army nurse. She'd been in the line of fire.
Ned: I need the drugs! Where's the drugs?!
Chelsea: They're right here.
Ned: Open it! Get the key!
Dr Alex Yufik: If it's a drug dependence that he's developed, physiological dependence on the medication, he actually needs to have regular infusions of the substance to maintain that equilibrium.
Chelsea: What do you need?
Ned: I need something to calm down.
Dr Alex Yufnik: You can even say the person is incapable of rational decision-making process, because they're entirely focused on where is their next hit going to come from?
Narrator: The ballsy nurse was more than happy to load him up on painkillers, hoping to knock him out.
Chelsea: Let's sit you down, okay?
Narrator: Once the first rush of narcotics hit him, he turned his attention to Nurse Chelsea.
Ned: You got what I want!
Chelsea: Just relax. I know what you want. Just put the gun down
Narrator: The dope was making him dopey. Chelsea just needed a little more time before he dropped.
Chelsea: Is this what you want? Yeah
Ned: Oh my
Chelsea: Okay
Narrator: Chelsea's combat training kicked in. She knew the MRI machine had an electromagnetic force, five times greater than a junkyard scrap metal magnet.
Chelsea: My legs.
Narrator: It could pop the buttons right off the junkie's jeans. She hit the "On" button.
(Ned's gun flies out of his hand and towards the MRI machine)
Narrator: But then something happened, that surprised even Chelsea.
(Ned flies headfirst at the MRI machine, because he has a steel plate in his head, and the head on collision gives him swelling, hemorrhage, and finally brain death which kills him)
Narrator: Turns out our drug addict was damaged goods.
Narrator: He had a steel plate in his head. Too doped up to resist, the MRI drew him into its magnetic fields and he went from bad guy to dead guy.
Dr Leslie Kobayashi: Head slamming onto the machine could basically be like someone hitting your head with a bat. It may cause both injury from the brain hitting that metal MRI, and then injury from the brain sloshing back and hitting the back of the skull, causing brain swelling or bleeding and leading to brain death eventually
Narrator: This could have had a much different ending, but Chelsea was cool as a cucumber... with a hot jalapeno body.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Joni Kempner - Nurse Chelsea (lead)
- Dan Wells - Ned/Drug addict (lead: intended victim)
- Dr. Alex Yufik - Clinical/Forensic Pyschologist
- Dr. Leslie Kobayashi - Trauma Surgeon
Trivia[]
- In 2001, Michael Colombini, who was American boy from Croton-on-Hudson, New York, was struck and killed at Westchester Regional Medical Centre, by an oxygen tank when it was pulled into the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine while he underwent a test. He had begun to experience breathing difficulties while in the MRI and when an anesthesiologist brought a portable oxygen canister into the magnetic field, it was pulled from his hands and struck the boy in the head but this death due to reasons was portrayed by a desperate drug addict instead of an innocent 6-year old boy.
- This is one of the deaths where the victim was unnamed but according to IMDB, the victim is named Ned.
Gallery[]
Foreign names[]
- Tomografiado (Tomographed) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Por atracción fatal (By fatal attraction) - Spanish dub
- Lobotomografia (Lobotomography) - Polish voice-over