I don't get why I come across these kind of stories once in a while.
Surgeons Find Knife, Nails in Stomach
A team of surgeons in western Serbia earlier this week took out eight nails, a knife, a pen, a screw, a spoon, a clothes-peg and other, smaller objects, from a young man's stomach, one of the doctors said Wednesday.
"We were astonished," said Dr. Maja Gulan, who helped perform the operation Monday in Uzice, 70 miles southwest of Belgrade.
"We have seen people swallow various things, but never this many," she added.
The identity of the patient has not been revealed. The doctors said he had suffered no major damage to his internal organs, and was successfully recovering.
The case was initially reported by a concerned relative who saw him swallowing the objects, doctors said.
I think it's really weird that this guy didn't get internal injuries from all the stuff he stuck in his body.
You'd think the knife, at least, would have sliced a little.
So, what possesses people to swallow odd objects, anyhow?
Has anyone reading this swallowed any weird things? And, if so, why?
Serious, why?
And, no, I don't want to hear about things you stuck UP places.
Ew.
UPDATE: It seems that Dave D. of The Waterglass has a hairy experience of his own to share with us.
"I didn't ever expect to be asked about it, but I have to admit that I once swallowed Lani Guinier's head.
It was about fifteen years ago, before she was noticed by President Clinton. I was working a fourteen-hour shift as a waiter at Gavin's Place, an upscale steakhouse in downtown Washington D.C. The tips were spotty, but they let us eat anything we wanted once the busboys brought the dirty plates back to the kitchen and had had their fill. The busboys were running the place, I'll tell you what. Big, strapping, intimidating young men from Spuj, an Eastern European offshoot of Czechoslovakia they were, those busboys...
Anyway, I was carrying a round of Tom Collinses (or is that Toms Collins?) to a table of drunken policy wonks when two distracting things happened, one after the other. The first one was the fake-boobed bimbette wife of a junior Congressman from Texas hitting the bottom of a bottle of Heinz ketchup so hard that the thing flew from her hand, followed by a gush of catsup like an arterial spray. After that, she let out such a shocked gasp that her fantastically-siliconed breasts leaped out of her sequined top like they were trying to do synchronized jumping jacks. Still walking, I turned to look with my mouth wide open in surprise.
Not seeing where I was going, I slipped headlong on the spilled ketchup spray, tray and drinks flying, and landed near the bar. Unfortunately for both of us, Ms. Guinier had stopped in for a Cosmopolitan and, well, you can guess the rest.
It was pretty bad. I was choking up little gobs of her hair treatment for weeks afterward, and I was told that she still has nightmares about my epiglottis.
So yeah, I swallowed something weird, once."
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