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  • 7/18/2025
Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a man in Long Island who was critically injured after walking into an MRI room while wearing a metal chain. Dave couldn't stop himself from singing a 'Platinum Blonde' song called 'Situation is Critical', all because he heard the phrase situation critical when referring to the man's injuries.

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00:00it sucks to be old it sucks to not listen okay an old guy what wearing a big thick chain
00:19okay cool very cool was told not to enter the mri room oh no is it not
00:29not this room not this don't go don't go in there don't go in don't go in there
00:39a guy in his 60s yep involved in a freak accident that's no good on long island
00:47long island why does it have to be the world's thickest and strongest chain
00:52because you're on long island oh yeah you're probably an old italian guy oh no no classes
00:57so you're gonna have to take that chain off it doesn't come off it never will come no no no
01:01sir you're not taking it off so you can uh take it sir you cannot i'm fine i'm going in you cannot
01:10enter the waiting with the chain on fly across the room i'm sure i would have right right i'm sure
01:17that's fly right across the room like a like he had a collar on and it was being pulled
01:23his injuries are described as critical well yeah probably snapped his neck right
01:31you know i mean situation critical yeah well i just always assume it's trying to pull whatever
01:39it is like right through you you know i'm fighting the urge not to sing that song situation critical
01:46what song situation situation critical whoa whoa whoa it's critical whoa i have no idea
01:55he said that urge did not last long
02:00yeah he cracked he cracked who let him blood oh my god canadian canadian rockers platinum
02:08blonde yeah real bad band yeah but unfortunately played a ton during hair metal time yeah
02:16it well you're right did absolutely
02:28look at this man
02:30you don't know these guys please i know i know the name i just yeah i know it
02:46it wasn't them a lot
02:55jesus huh you feel better yeah i got it out okay good i got it out good because it was bubbling
03:00were they like canada's answer to duran duran mixed well like they were supposed to be more rock but
03:06they were supposed to be more rock right but as you can see what they had a big song did they have a big
03:13song yeah probably that people would know i guess i don't know what they're doing now oh i mean
03:23who cares well true
03:28doesn't really matter i don't know i don't know that seems to come up at the top crying over you standing in
03:36in the dark
03:38jeez huh i don't need to hear anymore i know the name of the band but i just don't know what
03:43me too and i grew up in canada it's crazy to be talking about a man in critical condition and then
03:49i don't know what the hell is he singing i'm dying here
03:58i'm dying like there's no one else no one poor man no situation is critical no it's got to be doesn't
04:08really doesn't really matter we got a biggest hit in the u.s i don't remember it but i don't
04:12i don't know god they were ugly people
04:30oh i had that jacket no you did not i did not no i did not yeah but i would i wish i had it now i
04:37don't know that song i don't actually i don't know that song no i don't either that's
04:42so i i felt like they had a song that everyone knew but standing in the dark not in love crying
04:48over you i look back at platinum blonde yeah come on down in years in decades
04:57my neck is snapped
05:02oh my god oh well you know what can you do oh it doesn't take yeah when you put in platinum
05:09blood you just get a bunch of hot are they on tour yes of course there will be a 2025 tour of
05:16course they're still performing huh they are get a get a gander get them now yep oh my god they are
05:26four old men that's it situation is critical i mean it was 1984 oh my god look at that is wild
05:34like that's the last time i've seen them is here yeah and now they're here yeah oh four really old
05:43guys situation they look better well they gave up that you know it was a different time i know
05:51time you know yeah time is crazy time is nuts oh wow look at that look at that
05:58oh my goodness oh my goodness it's critical
06:06situation is oh oh now we lost one oh god now there's it's a threesome
06:16canadian rockers platinum blonde still rocking in their 80s good for them anyway back to the
06:25critical man right back to the old guy yeah back to me yeah there he is he had a chain on and got
06:32sucked into an mri machine because he wouldn't take it off is he gonna make it oh that's good how
06:39critical is the situation fox 5 has the story here nassau open mri was open on thursday morning
06:46but patients with appointments tell fox 5 they were being turned away they said a machine was broken
06:52and they was getting somebody who could sit investigators say a 61 year old man wearing
06:56a large metal chain was hospitalized following a freak accident i'm just surprised that they
07:03they didn't happen now nassau county police say a man walked in to assist the patient getting
07:08out of the mri against the discretion of the tech those who work in the area say lights and sirens
07:13followed soon after in the back of the building what i saw was the smoking coming out orlando hernandez
07:20works across the street that's uh fame that should never happen you know it has to be someone
07:27responsibility signage inside the building warns people not to enter investigators are working to
07:33figure out how and why this happened they did people we spoke with are wonderful
07:38man in the bathings who works at a car wash so it makes sense hello how are you hi can you talk to
07:43us about the old guy that was sucked into the mri machine sure i can i was just standing across the
07:48street yes so you know everything that happened basically oh basically like anything well so i was a
07:54cleaning i was a wet and then all of a sudden we saw the smoke pretty wild looks like those swim trunks
08:02are a bit too snug for you now all i could get on a little way back to the story during the same i
08:12think that they should have had better precautions like how that even happened how do you even get to
08:16that point um it's really unfortunate melanie longacre oversees operations across several hospitals in the
08:23northwell health system we went over guidelines for mri safety the entire circle you see there
08:29it's called the gantry the magnet is inside there it's huge it's a big size as you can see and it's
08:36very very powerful longacre says the department is one of the most secure and potentially the most
08:42dangerous employees undergo intensive annual training and follow a strict multi-zone protocol
08:48before anyone gets near the machine zone one is just for awareness that there's an mri in the vicinity
08:55zone two is a patient screening zone where they get screens zone three is post screening zone zone
09:02zone four is the actual magnet room it's very very important to be educated and be safe with them
09:08police haven't identified the victim and when contacted by fox5 about the incident nasa open mri
09:15said no comment in westbury long island jody goldberg fox5 so i go to the mri thing with
09:24probably like my wife or something like that i'm a 61 year old guy she's in there getting stuff done
09:31i hear them say or wrapping it up and then i'm like i'm just going in to help her get up
09:37he just walks in you just walk in and you've got like they're not screening you you're not the patient
09:43right they don't look at your stuff they're not making sure you don't have metal clasps on your
09:48pants or anything like that in the waiting room you should that's exactly where he should be i don't
09:53get that i don't either and i mean it's gonna get you it is it's gonna get you that's the force
10:00that just your necklace yeah around your neck will pull you will fly you into that machine yeah the
10:08thing what is shocking to me is how strong this chain was right that it didn't just bust off his
10:15neck you know because people grab a chain and pull it off people's necks i'm all the time italian guy
10:20chains i know i've seen some clasps that are ridiculous because i tell you what i i had an mri
10:26done a couple years ago and i i said on the show like the guy asked me about four times you're sure
10:30you don't have anything in your crotch you sure that's not a metal zipper you're positive there's no
10:35metal there i think he just wanted to really examine your crotch i'm just like he what is that
10:40thing what am i staring at he went over it time and time again we're like all right dude relax yeah
10:45i'm positive yeah anytime i've had an mri they're super cautious and careful and all the protocols
10:51yeah but you don't expect in your body someone who's not getting the mri to walk into the room right
10:56right no and i didn't know that the magnet is always on i guess i didn't know it was always
11:04on i i i sort of thought like it powered up like maybe it's always magnetic but
11:12it could have still been slowing down who knows who knows and as for the old guy all we know is
11:18his situation is critical oh oh it's critical ow ow
11:31hope it's all right oh yeah we send him our best strange that that song popped in your head oh
11:37that's safe i i feel like if you look back at the video you'll see me trying to fight it
11:42it was almost like oh it was yeah you couldn't know you had you like blurted it out
11:46i'm no but that was like literally it took 30 seconds oh for him to be an internal battle yeah
11:52yeah yeah yeah you were like and the situation you could you you can't what is that yeah i
11:58don't know it's i'm fighting it i'm fighting it i won't sing the i have i have some i'm maybe
12:03it's a touch of the tism i don't know maybe i have a touch of the tism i don't know i mean it
12:11is something it's something right we don't know what it is it'll be studied one day it is something
12:15because you gotta like complete you gotta complete the circuit i do that's like you
12:19don't just say the word you gotta do like the whoa whoa whoa everything and then like
12:28uh there was a song called situation critical by a canadian rock band called
12:33platinum blonde anyway let's move out let's move on no he's like platinum blonde
12:39yeah i would have thought i would have recognized any of those songs i really don't
12:48i really really don't no it's too it's unfortunate for them yeah actually the their current status is
12:54unfortunate well to be honest i think they always were touring i i feel that's why i've heard their
13:00name so much that's it yeah yep you know used to used to get like a newspaper type thing and it would
13:06show you like the concerts that were coming to town you know what i mean you know the newspaper
13:10you know the newspaper thing i'm talking about i don't know if it still exists i can't remember
13:14the name of it but metro yeah yeah yeah yeah so you'd get that you'd like flip through the back
13:19and i can always remember seeing the they were always platinum blonde was always coming to town
13:25they were always coming to town with billy idol always billy idol always coming to town
13:31yeah there's a big difference between billy idol and oh of course big difference they got some live
13:39stuff from 2023 he probably invites them on tour because of the platinum blonde name oh oh yeah
13:46likes the plat it's the blonde tour yeah exactly the blonde boys oh well oh again we wish that
13:54situation critical man all the best and platinum blonde we wish them the best they are all very old now
14:01yeah very super duper wish them the best duper old

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