With both of those, the people drilling into and roughly disassembling this equipment mystifies me. I can't imagine the thought process that went into it. I mean, I'm not a 'professional' scrapper either. But I'd like to think that if I were, I'd stay away from pieces of medical equipment of unknown purpose, not try really hard to crack it open like a walrus with a shellfish.

And that's assuming that there were no big fat yellow radiation warnings anywhere on this equipment. Which even in 1977 equipment I find hard to believe.

To put these people into context - at the time of this incident, there were newborns being called Ge and Siemens because that's the name of the equipment that aided their births. This is to say, they weren't familiar with most medical equipment, and almost certainly did not have a clue as to how it worked. All they saw was some good loot with some yellow stickers on top.