The paranoid funny guy, the preachy crunchy, and the...Robot?

[Bliss]

Meh, the computer possition in one of my rooms is near the electrical tubes in the wall so two times of every three, when I turn on the monitor I need to manually degauss it.

[IT Grunt]

Reminds me of a call I got from the storeroom once.

SR: "Hey, our computer monitor's gone really funky. It's like, all different colors and stuff."
Me: "Have you turned it off and on."
SR: "Yah, didn't do any good."
Me: "Ok, I'll have a look."

I go down, and find a large electric motor sitting right next to the monitor. I pull the magnet away, degauss it, problem solved.

SR: "Whoa... motors can, like, do that to a monitor?"

I spent the next 10 minutes explaining magnets and their various effects on computer equipment.

[the lawsmeister]

I had a metal rod put in my leg to fix a broken bone. It was really disappointing to find out it was titanium not steel and magenets wouldn't stick to it. :-(
It didn't even set off metal detectors at the airport.

[JustADude]

Hey, it's lighter and more like bone, so you don't notice it as much... plus the compression from having the magnets and stuff on there would be harmful to the tissue between the two (see that earlier link about magnet implants).

[Andara Bledin]

Depressingly enough, a young child died when two weak magnets that had come from a toy were swallowed and stuck together inside his intestines.

There's another story I know of where a guy got a very small, lowgrade magnet put into his fingertip. He's just fascinated by the way he can now feel magnetic fields around him.

^-.-^